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Recovering Evangelicals is a religion podcast hosted by Luke Jeffrey Janssen. It has 200 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

A podcast for people who were once very comfortable in their Christian faith … until the 21st century intruded and made it very hard to keep on believing.And for those who are intrigued by science, philosophy, world history, and even world religions …. and want to rationalize that with their Christian theology.And for those who found that’s just not possible … and yet there’s still a small part of them that … … won’t let it go.

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#207 – Defense and attack strategies

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#206 – Ancient Christianities

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#205 – Beyond Deconstruction: building a more expansive faith

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#204 – Putting God in a box?

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#203 – the evolution of religious belief and atheism (part 2)

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#202 – the evolution of religious belief and atheism (part 1)

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#201 – A theist and an atheist compare notes

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#200 – What do we now do with Philip Yancey’s books?

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#199 – Season Seven’s scandalous opener!

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#198 – Peter Enns: How we got the Old Testament

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#197 – updating the Exodus and Christian faith

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#196 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 2 (re-release)

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#195 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 1 (re-release)

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#194 – The three existential threats of Dispensationalism

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#193 – The word that most have never heard of, but that could end up destroying our planet

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#192 – Looking back at S6 (and forward to S7?)

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#191 – A more human (and relatable) Jesus

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#190 – Theological anthropology updated

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#189 – Human morality has been evolving upwards!?

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#188 – Human evolution is just like the evolution of English

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#187 – Adam had ancestors!?

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#186 – Christian theology and our hominid cousins

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#185 – Science education / science denial

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#184 – Brian McLaren’s journey

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#183 – The paranormal and psychic phenomena

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#182 – Why religion went obsolete !?

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#181 – Peter Enns and the control of orthodoxy

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#180 – A Christian Nationalist pastor encounters Jesus on “the slippery slope”

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#179 – Humans can believe some pretty crazy things!

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#178 – What do you mean the Dark Ages never happened?

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#177 – The Conflict Thesis fooled the world for 150 years!

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#176 – Scott: “What I believe (for now)”

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#175 – A liberal scholar critiques our liberal theology

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#174 – A conservative scholar critiques our liberal theology

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#173 – My liberal Christian worldview

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#172 – Constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing a Christian worldview

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#171 – Season Six!

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#170 – Putting together a new Christian worldview

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#169 – Life starts shape-shifting

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#168 – Life from non-life?

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#167 –  Fine-tuning without a “Tuner”

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#166 – What it takes to make a LIVING universe

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#165 – What it takes to produce a universe

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#164 – Fine Tuning: getting the pencil to stand on its tip!?

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#163 – Evolution, a “good” creation, and the problem of pain

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#162 – Bending the arc of the moral universe

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#161 – Human evolution, morality, and our ultimate purpose

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#160 – Richard Dawkins v. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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#159 – Answers-in-Genesis are getting a new leader …. and a Tower of Babel theme park!?

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#158 – A clash of wills in a Young Earth Creationist school system

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