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Please Be Reasonable

by Please Be Reasonable

Did you grow up in the conservative christian sub-culture? us too. We wanna talk about the things this niche cultural experience made it hard to talk about

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Episodes

  1. Season 1 Announcement

    A quick announcement about the show and the summer.

  2. #27 Sitting Under Authority

    Kim Tunnell joins us for part 2 of our discussion on women and the evangelical church. Listen to us go on and on about Beth Moore, femininity, and immigrants.

  3. #26 What Does Built Mean?

    Listen to part 1 of our discussion on women and the conservative evangelical church. Kim Tunnell joins Josh and Sam to talk about Paige Patterson, the SBC, and women.

  4. #25 Its The End Of The World

    Listen to Josh & Sam go on and on about the end times, bad christian music, Left Behind, and Underoath.

  5. #24 Boom Boom Pow Pt 2

    Pt 2 of our discussion of Christianity and guns. Also some stuff on Will Reagan's music...

  6. #23 Boom Boom Pow Pt 1

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk about guns, guns, and more guns!

  7. #22 Cash Dollars $$$

    Listen to Sam & Josh ramble on about prosperity gospel, theology of money, poverty, and heavy metal

  8. #21 The Moral Decay of Merica

    Listen to Josh & Sam go on and on about viral Youth Pastor videos, domesticated dinos, cultural moral decay, and C.S. Lewis.

  9. #20 Going Green

    listen to Josh & Sam talk about logical fallacies, the environment, the late great planet earth, and good hip hop.

  10. #19 Basic Insructions Before Leaving Earth

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk about reading the Bible, bad science fiction, and the benefits of sound boards

  11. #18 Yes That's The Book For Me

    Listen to Josh & Sam talk about being rude to parents of new borns, teaching your children about dinosaurs, and how to read the Bible

  12. #17 Evil-Lution Strikes Back

    listen to Josh and Sam ramble about dinosaurs, evolution, the Simpsons, and good music

  13. #16 #blazeit

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk about drugs, and science fiction, and Rob Bell.

  14. #15 Dirty Hippies

    Listen to Josh & Sam talk to Addison & Matt (from Give That Some Thought) about hippie communes, conspiracy theories, Christians cussing, and drug use...

  15. #14 People Suck Generally

    Agnostic Andy is Back! Listen to Josh and Sam talk to Andy about morality and people's propensity toward awfulness

  16. #13 Its Good to be Good

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk about dinosaur feathers, drinking, cussing, and Alexander Hamilton...

  17. #12 The Truth Is Out There

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk about dino foot prints, aliens, good music, and N.T. Wright...

  18. #11 The Good, The Bad, And the Moral

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk about spiders, stealing avacados, morality without God, and hip-hop scripture reading...

  19. #10 I Kissed Courtship Goodbye

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk to Josh's wife Emily about her experience in the christian courtship culture, Joshua Harris, smart phones, and LotR

  20. #9 Apologetics & Agnostic Andy

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk to their agnostic friend Andy about faith, deconstruction, apologetics, simulations, and conservative christian schools. Connect with us at [email protected] @pbrcast on Twitter or @joshuahedlund ‏ @Samtunnell

  21. #8 Hell is Terrible (Pt 2)

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk about Hell again, whether or not people have eternal souls, what the bible says about hell, and cheesy Christian video games

  22. #7 Hell is Terrible (Pt 1)

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk about Hell, the justice of God, toddlers eating poop, good hip hop, and also Josh says 'penis'

  23. #6.5 Cardin Full Interview

    Listen to Josh's full (unedited) interview with Cardin about his experience as a refugee.

  24. #6 Refugees

    Listen to Josh and Sam talk shop about loving the neighbor and the refugee, the story of a refugee named Cardin, and a terribly sad video game

  25. #5 Faith Healing (Pt 2)

    Listen to Josh and Sam continue their talk about faith healing, a theology of suffering, cheesy sound FX, and Dr. Suess' political leanings

  26. #4 Faith Healing (Pt 1)

    Listen to Josh & Sam start a discussion on the theology and reasonableness of faith healing. There's also something boring about an old tree in there...

  27. #3 Evil-Lution

    Listen to Josh and Sam go on about George Takei, Chic Tracks, Darwin's Theory of Evil-lution, and bananas...

  28. #2 Old Earth Creationism (Pt 2)

    Listen to Josh & Sam continue their discussion of OEC by talking about scriptural support. They also get a little into politics and the Simpsons... Send comments, compliments, and complaints to @pbrcast or [email protected]

  29. #1 Old Earth Creationism (Pt 1)

    Why does Sam call himself a pastor? Why does Josh read old-earth creationist books from the 1800's? Does the Bible actually say no animals died before Adam and Eve sinned? Why don't bad memes about evolution convert atheists? Why are there no basketball courts in Forest Park? We can't promise…

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Did you grow up in the conservative christian sub-culture? us too. We wanna talk about the things this niche cultural experience made it hard to talk about

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