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A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar — 156 episodes
Live Laugh Love
Faith and Unbelief
Prayer After Certainty
Sacred Play: Exploring Music, Sports, and Spirituality with David Gungor
Republicans Want to Win. Democrats Want to Be Right.
Pastor As Gardener (Part 2)
Is Pastoring More Like a Startup or a Garden?
Why Preston Sprinkle Changed His Mind On Women Pastors
Trump, Iran, and Where This All Might Be Headed: A Conversation With Mike Madrid
Thinking About Nature With Brian McLaren
Bart Ehrman: Is Jesus Responsible for Our Moral Common Sense?
Human Is The New Vinyl: Micah Voraritskul
A Live Conversation on the Church, Healing, and Truth-Telling With David Gushee and Keri Ladouceur
Backyard Update
Power, Love, and What God Can’t Do: More on Omnipotence With Tom Oord and Chris Lilley
Motives, Meaning, and the Enneagram with Jeff Cook
Miroslav Volf: How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse
How Latino Voters Are Reshaping American Politics
What Conservative LGBTQ+ Christians Can Teach Us About Love
Deconstructing the Culture Wars with Laurie Johnson
Reframing the Bible with Zach Lambert
Do You Still Pray?
Gender, Faith, and Privilege after Transitioning: Paula Stone Williams
Adding to the Good Pile: Women's Ordination and the Role of the Pastor's Wife with Beth Allison Barr
Sexual Ethics, Queer Theology, & Responding to Critics: Matthew Vines (Part 2)
Pope Francis' Legacy: A Global Church in Transition
Does the Bible Affirm LGB Relationships? Interview with Matthew Vines (Part 1)
We Need to Talk About It
Re-Release - Outrage Porn, Echo Chambers, and the Seduction of Clarity: Interview with C. Thi Nguyen
What Happens When You're Done with Religion Altogether?
Unpacking Open and Relational Theology: Interview with Tom Oord
Will Deconstructing End My Marriage? A Conversation with Keri Ladouceur
When Seeking Jesus Drives You Out of the Church: Interview with Scot McKnight & Tommy Preson Phillips
Nicholas Ma on Division, Vulnerability, and Doing What You Can
Re-Release - Holy Balls: Power, Masculinity, and the Making of White American Evangelicalism with Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Brian Zahnd on The Brothers Karamazov
Jonathan Merritt on Family, Evangelicalism, and Children's Books
Chatting about Church with Brian McLaren and Tim Whitaker
Q&A Bonus Episode: The Soul
Kristin Kobes Du Mez on Her New Film For Our Daughters
Evolution + Christianity, Part II: An Interview w/ Dr. Jim Stump
Evolution + Christianity, Part I: An Interview w/ Dr. Jim Stump
Sarah McCammon on Exvangelicals
The Book of Belonging: An Interview w/ Mariko Clark and Rachel Eleanor
The Bible, Evangelicalism, and Propaganda with Scott Coley
Pastors Behaving Badly with Sheila Gregoire
God, Goodness, and Choice: A Conversation with Bruce Reyes-Chow
Q&A Bonus Episode: Corporate Deconstruction
Recovering Enchantment in a Secular Age: Interview with Richard Beck
Is American Democracy in Danger? Interview with David Gushee
Making Sense of Negative Theology: Peter Rollins, Part 2
Disillusionment, Pyrotheology, and the Death of God: Peter Rollins, Part 1
Is Your Theology Too Small? A Conversation with Trey Ferguson
Is There a Soul?
Randy Quit
Changing Our Mind with David Gushee
Philosophy in the Wild: Aaron Simmons
After Evangelicalism with Keri Ladouceur
William Paul Young & Brad Jersak: Judgment, Wrath, Hell, and the God Who Is Love (Re-Release from S01E11)
The Other Side of Advent with Brian Zahnd
Theology, Race, and Inclusion: An Interview w/ Dr. Willie James Jennings
Theology from the Margins: An Interview w/ Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Q&A Bonus Episode: The Problem of Evil
How Liberals, Progressives, Feminists, and Black and LGBTQ People Got Kicked Out of Evangelicalism
The Problem of Evil (Part 2)
The Problem of Evil (Part 1)
Q&A Bonus Episode: AI and God
The AI Takeover: A Conversation w/ Dr. Derek C. Schuurman
Q&A Bonus Episode: Evangelicals, Nationalism, Guns, and Masculinity
Christians and Guns: A Conversation with Rob Schenck (Part 2)
Abortion and American Nationalist Religion: A Conversation with Rob Schenck (Part 1)
January 6, White Christian Nationalism, and How We Got Here, with Bradley Onishi
The Meeting That Changed the Church
Arguing About the Enneagram
Why the Church Should Be LGBTQ+ Affirming With Tom and Alexa Oord
Is God All Powerful? A Conversation with Thomas Jay Oord
Certainty, Hell, Evil, and Universalism: A Conversation with Keith DeRose
Rescuing Sex and Raising Girls: Sheila Gregoire
How the Brain Constructs Reality: Interview with Andy Clark
Redeeming Revelation w/ Scot McKnight
Not Your Typical Easter Podcast
Is Hell Real?
Science and Religion Walk Into a Bar
Broken Brains and Alternative Facts
Reconstruction: An Interview with Brad Jersak
Stay Humble
Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview: Interview with Randy Woodley
What Is Truth: Wrestling with Absolutism, Relativism, and Alternative Facts (Re-Release from S01E21)
Christmas, Empire, and Context: Discussing Advent with Kelley Nikondeha
Growing Into Freedom: A Conversation with S. David Lutz
Exvangelicals and Parenting: An Interview with Bekah McNeel
Why Conservatives Should Be Against Christian Nationalism: Conversation with Paul D. Miller
Transforming: Gender, Trans Identity, and the Church with Austen Hartke
The Error of Biblical Inerrancy
Bonus Episode: Bourbon Tasting with the Power of Bourbon YouTube Channel
How to Inhabit Time with James K.A. Smith
A Conversation with Stanley Hauerwas
Creation, Inspiration and the Hebrew Scriptures: An Interview with Dr. John Walton
What Bar Culture Can Teach the Church: Patreon Bonus
Deconstructing Deconstruction
Do I Stay Christian with Brian McLaren
Translations and Gender, Part II w/ Beth Allison Barr and Scot McKnight
The Truth Will Set Us Free: An Interview w/ Lisa Sharon Harper
Miracles and Unanswered Prayers with Craig Keener
Understanding Unconscious Bias: Interview with Jessica Nordell
Oceans of Problems: Hillsong Exposed Exposes Us All
When Pastors Critique Scholars: An Interview with Scott Coley
A Rabbi, A Pastor, and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar
What Pastors Wish They Could Say
LGBTQ Christians, Shame, and Love: Interview with Dawne Moon and Theresa Tobin
Heavy Burdens: Interview with Bridget Eileen Rivera (Part 2)
Heavy Burdens: Interview with Bridget Eileen Rivera (Part 1)
LGBTQ, the Church, and Why We're Affirming
Porn, Games, and Echo Chambers: An Interview with Dr. C. Thi Nguyen
Subversive Witness: An Interview with Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Self-care, Mental Health, and COVID-19 - Interview with Jenny Heckman (Re-Release from S01E03)
Shane Claiborne on How to Be a Christian in America
Theology From the Margins: An Interview with Kat Armas
Converging Traditions, Toxic Environments, and Healthy Spiritual Practices: An Interview with Aaron Niequist
How to Be Happy: A Conversation with Frank Schaeffer
Shoutin' in the Fire: Interview with Danté Stewart
What Happens When We Die?
Two Pastors and Two Philosophers Walk Into a Bar
Prey Tell: Silencing or Believing Women in the Church with Tiffany Bluhm
Reparations, Hot Dogs, and Owning Our History: An Interview with Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson
The End of Reason: Thinking about Faith with Kierkegaard
The Only God Ordained Podcast Episode on the Internet: An Interview with Pete Enns
Biblical Translations, Agendas, and Gender Bias with Beth Allison Barr and Scot McKnight
Incarnation, Unity, and the Femininity of God: An Interview with C. Baxter Kruger
Why the World Will End on September 23, 2̶0̶2̶3̶ 2̶0̶2̶4̶ 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026
Deconstructing Salvation with Megan Westra
A Catholic and a Protestant Walk into a Bar: Interview with Shaun Blanchard
A Philosopher and a Philosopher Ruin Your Theology: Interview with Nick Oschman
Complementarian Cemeteries and Smashing the Patriarchy: An Interview with Beth Allison Barr
What Is Truth: Wrestling with Absolutism, Relativism and Alternative Facts
Faith After Doubt: An Interview with Brian McLaren
Feminist Pentecostalism: It's a Thing - Interview with Cheryl Bridges Johns
Tov or Toxic Church? An Interview with Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer
An Ash Wednesday Gift - Mark Werner and Contemplative Spirituality
The B-I-B-L-E, Part II
The B-I-B-L-E
Holy Balls: Power, Masculinity, and the Making of White American Evangelicalism w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Revelation, America, and Bob Dylan: Interview with Brian Zahnd
Evolving Creationism
William Paul Young & Brad Jersak: Judgment, Wrath, Hell, and the God Who Is Love
Cheap Whiskey and the Atonement
Prayer, Activism, and Racial Justice: Interview with Lisa Koons
Evangelicalism. Ugh.
How to Survive Thanksgiving Dinner: Interview with Dr. Jim Vining
Proud to Be an American?
Love and Truth: Interview with Jared Byas
How To Disagree
Self-care, Mental Health, and COVID-19: Interview with Jenny Heckman
I Kissed Fundamentalism Goodbye
This Is Us
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