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A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar — 148 episodes

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1

Trump, Iran, and Where This All Might Be Headed: A Conversation With Mike Madrid

2

Thinking About Nature With Brian McLaren

3

Bart Ehrman: Is Jesus Responsible for Our Moral Common Sense?

4

Human Is The New Vinyl: Micah Voraritskul

5

A Live Conversation on the Church, Healing, and Truth-Telling With David Gushee and Keri Ladouceur

6

Backyard Update

7

Power, Love, and What God Can’t Do: More on Omnipotence With Tom Oord and Chris Lilley

8

Motives, Meaning, and the Enneagram with Jeff Cook

9

Miroslav Volf: How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse

10

How Latino Voters Are Reshaping American Politics

11

What Conservative LGBTQ+ Christians Can Teach Us About Love

12

Deconstructing the Culture Wars with Laurie Johnson

13

Reframing the Bible with Zach Lambert

14

Do You Still Pray?

15

Gender, Faith, and Privilege after Transitioning: Paula Stone Williams

16

Adding to the Good Pile: Women's Ordination and the Role of the Pastor's Wife with Beth Allison Barr

17

Sexual Ethics, Queer Theology, & Responding to Critics: Matthew Vines (Part 2)

18

Pope Francis' Legacy: A Global Church in Transition

19

Does the Bible Affirm LGB Relationships? Interview with Matthew Vines (Part 1)

20

We Need to Talk About It

21

Re-Release - Outrage Porn, Echo Chambers, and the Seduction of Clarity: Interview with C. Thi Nguyen

22

What Happens When You're Done with Religion Altogether?

23

Unpacking Open and Relational Theology: Interview with Tom Oord

24

Will Deconstructing End My Marriage? A Conversation with Keri Ladouceur

25

When Seeking Jesus Drives You Out of the Church: Interview with Scot McKnight & Tommy Preson Phillips

26

Nicholas Ma on Division, Vulnerability, and Doing What You Can

27

Re-Release - Holy Balls: Power, Masculinity, and the Making of White American Evangelicalism with Kristin Kobes Du Mez

28

Brian Zahnd on The Brothers Karamazov

29

Jonathan Merritt on Family, Evangelicalism, and Children's Books

30

Chatting about Church with Brian McLaren and Tim Whitaker

31

Q&A Bonus Episode: The Soul

32

Kristin Kobes Du Mez on Her New Film For Our Daughters

33

Evolution + Christianity, Part II: An Interview w/ Dr. Jim Stump

34

Evolution + Christianity, Part I: An Interview w/ Dr. Jim Stump

35

Sarah McCammon on Exvangelicals

36

The Book of Belonging: An Interview w/ Mariko Clark and Rachel Eleanor

37

The Bible, Evangelicalism, and Propaganda with Scott Coley

38

Pastors Behaving Badly with Sheila Gregoire

39

God, Goodness, and Choice: A Conversation with Bruce Reyes-Chow

40

Q&A Bonus Episode: Corporate Deconstruction

41

Recovering Enchantment in a Secular Age: Interview with Richard Beck

42

Is American Democracy in Danger? Interview with David Gushee

43

Making Sense of Negative Theology: Peter Rollins, Part 2

44

Disillusionment, Pyrotheology, and the Death of God: Peter Rollins, Part 1

45

Is Your Theology Too Small? A Conversation with Trey Ferguson

46

Is There a Soul?

47

Randy Quit

48

Changing Our Mind with David Gushee

49

Philosophy in the Wild: Aaron Simmons

50

After Evangelicalism with Keri Ladouceur

51

William Paul Young & Brad Jersak: Judgment, Wrath, Hell, and the God Who Is Love (Re-Release from S01E11)

52

The Other Side of Advent with Brian Zahnd

53

Theology, Race, and Inclusion: An Interview w/ Dr. Willie James Jennings

54

Theology from the Margins: An Interview w/ Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim

55

Q&A Bonus Episode: The Problem of Evil

56

How Liberals, Progressives, Feminists, and Black and LGBTQ People Got Kicked Out of Evangelicalism

57

The Problem of Evil (Part 2)

58

The Problem of Evil (Part 1)

59

Q&A Bonus Episode: AI and God

60

The AI Takeover: A Conversation w/ Dr. Derek C. Schuurman

61

Q&A Bonus Episode: Evangelicals, Nationalism, Guns, and Masculinity

62

Christians and Guns: A Conversation with Rob Schenck (Part 2)

63

Abortion and American Nationalist Religion: A Conversation with Rob Schenck (Part 1)

64

January 6, White Christian Nationalism, and How We Got Here, with Bradley Onishi

65

The Meeting That Changed the Church

66

Arguing About the Enneagram

67

Why the Church Should Be LGBTQ+ Affirming With Tom and Alexa Oord

68

Is God All Powerful? A Conversation with Thomas Jay Oord

69

Certainty, Hell, Evil, and Universalism: A Conversation with Keith DeRose

70

Rescuing Sex and Raising Girls: Sheila Gregoire

71

How the Brain Constructs Reality: Interview with Andy Clark

72

Redeeming Revelation w/ Scot McKnight

73

Not Your Typical Easter Podcast

74

Is Hell Real?

75

Science and Religion Walk Into a Bar

76

Broken Brains and Alternative Facts

77

Reconstruction: An Interview with Brad Jersak

78

Stay Humble

79

Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview: Interview with Randy Woodley

80

What Is Truth: Wrestling with Absolutism, Relativism, and Alternative Facts (Re-Release from S01E21)

81

Christmas, Empire, and Context: Discussing Advent with Kelley Nikondeha

82

Growing Into Freedom: A Conversation with S. David Lutz

83

Exvangelicals and Parenting: An Interview with Bekah McNeel

84

Why Conservatives Should Be Against Christian Nationalism: Conversation with Paul D. Miller

85

Transforming: Gender, Trans Identity, and the Church with Austen Hartke

86

The Error of Biblical Inerrancy

87

Bonus Episode: Bourbon Tasting with the Power of Bourbon YouTube Channel

88

How to Inhabit Time with James K.A. Smith

89

A Conversation with Stanley Hauerwas

90

Creation, Inspiration and the Hebrew Scriptures: An Interview with Dr. John Walton

91

What Bar Culture Can Teach the Church: Patreon Bonus

92

Deconstructing Deconstruction

93

Do I Stay Christian with Brian McLaren

94

Translations and Gender, Part II w/ Beth Allison Barr and Scot McKnight

95

The Truth Will Set Us Free: An Interview w/ Lisa Sharon Harper

96

Miracles and Unanswered Prayers with Craig Keener

97

Understanding Unconscious Bias: Interview with Jessica Nordell

98

Oceans of Problems: Hillsong Exposed Exposes Us All

99

When Pastors Critique Scholars: An Interview with Scott Coley

100

A Rabbi, A Pastor, and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

101

What Pastors Wish They Could Say

102

LGBTQ Christians, Shame, and Love: Interview with Dawne Moon and Theresa Tobin

103

Heavy Burdens: Interview with Bridget Eileen Rivera (Part 2)

104

Heavy Burdens: Interview with Bridget Eileen Rivera (Part 1)

105

LGBTQ, the Church, and Why We're Affirming

106

Porn, Games, and Echo Chambers: An Interview with Dr. C. Thi Nguyen

107

Subversive Witness: An Interview with Dominique DuBois Gilliard

108

Self-care, Mental Health, and COVID-19 - Interview with Jenny Heckman (Re-Release from S01E03)

109

Shane Claiborne on How to Be a Christian in America

110

Theology From the Margins: An Interview with Kat Armas

111

Converging Traditions, Toxic Environments, and Healthy Spiritual Practices: An Interview with Aaron Niequist

112

How to Be Happy: A Conversation with Frank Schaeffer

113

Shoutin' in the Fire: Interview with Danté Stewart

114

What Happens When We Die?

115

Two Pastors and Two Philosophers Walk Into a Bar

116

Prey Tell: Silencing or Believing Women in the Church with Tiffany Bluhm

117

Reparations, Hot Dogs, and Owning Our History: An Interview with Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson

118

The End of Reason: Thinking about Faith with Kierkegaard

119

The Only God Ordained Podcast Episode on the Internet: An Interview with Pete Enns

120

Biblical Translations, Agendas, and Gender Bias with Beth Allison Barr and Scot McKnight

121

Incarnation, Unity, and the Femininity of God: An Interview with C. Baxter Kruger

122

Why the World Will End on September 23, 2023

123

Deconstructing Salvation with Megan Westra

124

A Catholic and a Protestant Walk into a Bar: Interview with Shaun Blanchard

125

A Philosopher and a Philosopher Ruin Your Theology: Interview with Nick Oschman

126

Complementarian Cemeteries and Smashing the Patriarchy: An Interview with Beth Allison Barr

127

What Is Truth: Wrestling with Absolutism, Relativism and Alternative Facts

128

Faith After Doubt: An Interview with Brian McLaren

129

Feminist Pentecostalism: It's a Thing - Interview with Cheryl Bridges Johns

130

Tov or Toxic Church? An Interview with Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer

131

An Ash Wednesday Gift - Mark Werner and Contemplative Spirituality

132

The B-I-B-L-E, Part II

133

The B-I-B-L-E

134

Holy Balls: Power, Masculinity, and the Making of White American Evangelicalism w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez

135

Revelation, America, and Bob Dylan: Interview with Brian Zahnd

136

Evolving Creationism

137

William Paul Young & Brad Jersak: Judgment, Wrath, Hell, and the God Who Is Love

138

Cheap Whiskey and the Atonement

139

Prayer, Activism, and Racial Justice: Interview with Lisa Koons

140

Evangelicalism. Ugh.

141

How to Survive Thanksgiving Dinner: Interview with Dr. Jim Vining

142

Proud to Be an American?

143

Love and Truth: Interview with Jared Byas

144

How To Disagree

145

Self-care, Mental Health, and COVID-19: Interview with Jenny Heckman

146

I Kissed Fundamentalism Goodbye

147

This Is Us

148

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