Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#148 – Brian MacLaren: Life After Doom
Brian takes an entirely new and unexpected direction in this latest book: it’s not enough to talk about bringing heaven down to earth, we have to st…
2 years ago
#147 – The “personal relationship” with the divine
A social anthropologist, with decades of scholarship on people striving to connect to another dimension, gives us her perspective on the Evangelical…
2 years ago
#146 – Hell? or Purgatory?
We trace the evolution of the human construct “Hell” (Sheol; Hades; Gehenna; Dante’s Inferno), then talk about how hell may not be a place of etern…
2 years ago
#145 – Grieving the loss of faith
David Morris, with a PhD in psychology and theology, tells us about the psychology behind forming a spiritual/religious worldview, and then rejectin…
2 years, 1 month ago
#144 – Giving up God – a personal story
For Sarah Henn Hayward, reading a few too many books, meeting a few too many beautiful non-Christians, and asking a few too many questions, was just…
2 years, 1 month ago
#143 – Season 5 opener
Setting the stage for the next season of episodes, and how we want to move beyond merely “dancing in the ruins” of a deconstructed faith
We’re bac…
2 years, 1 month ago
#142 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 6)
A brief retrospective on Season 4, and a longer one on the journey that the podcast has taken us on through Christian belief.
Well, we kept it goi…
2 years, 5 months ago
#141 – The Teleological Menace: Why Biology (Still) Requires God
Biology is unique among the sciences in its apparently absolute dependence on language that implies a goal, direction, or intention. Does this mean …
2 years, 5 months ago
#140 – LTEE shows evolution in real-time!
The details behind the story of how bacteria mutated in order to grow bigger and better by eating oranges, instead of sugar.
Last week, we talked …
2 years, 5 months ago
#139 – The Long-Term Evolution Experiment – not “just breaking genes”
Two very different interpretations of the same set of data: one from Creationists and ID proponents, and the other from the scientists actually doin…
2 years, 6 months ago