All Episodes

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode The Backrooms of Faith: Liminal Spaces, Lost Futures, and the Christian Imagination

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 290: Celebrity Death and the Meaning of Life

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 289 Apologetics, Truth, and Humility

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 288: Lessons in Salvation from Disenfranchised Grief

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 287: Reaching African American Men with the Gospel

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 286: Bertrand Russell: An Atheist Philosopher Christians Should Know

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 285: A Story of Modern Unhappiness:David Foster Wallace’s Something To Do with Paying Attention

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 284: Honor–Shame Culture And The Power Of The Gospel

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 283: Atheism’s Desecration of Man A Review of The Desecration of Man: Carl R. Trueman

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 282 Suffering and Apostasy in Shusaku Endo’s ‘Silence’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 281 Field Notes on the Current State of Science and Faith Discourse

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 280: The Teaching of Preston Sprinkle, Biblical Sexuality, and the LGBTQ Conversation

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 279: KJV Only Debate: Is Your Modern Translation Corrupt?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 278: AI and the Eclipse of the Author: The Image of God and Biblical Ethics

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 277: Are Magic Mushrooms Spiritual? A Christian Response

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 276 The Gods and Monsters of the ‘Odyssey’: A Scriptural Framework

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 275: Divine Impassibility: Why it is Impossible for God to be Passible

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 274: When Someone You Love Says, “I’m Gay”

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 273: K-pop: On the Altar of Excellence and Belonging

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 272: The Pathos of the Reflective Naturalist: Meaning, Happiness, and Eternity in our Hearts

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 271:What Does the World Look Like Without God? Deconstruction and Unanswered Prayers

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 270: Taoism: The Way to Ultimate Reality? A Christian Response

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 269: A Practical Guide to Teaching Students Apologetics

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 268: Why Is the Redefinition of Marriage So Crucial to the Woke Revolution?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 267: Science, Spirituality, and C. S. Lewis: An Analysis of the Space Trilogy

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 266: Mythicism and the Public Jesus of History

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 265: Mockery in Apologetics

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 264: Seven or So Exhortations to College-Bound Students

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 263: What Are the Characteristics of C-U-L-T-S Such as Eastern Lightning?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 262: Odysseus and the Golden Rule: Deconstructionism and Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’

CChristian Research Journal Reads Episode 261: God the Author: The Christian Imagination and the Problem of Horrendous Evil

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 260: A Christian Response to the Hindu Concept of Spiritual Quest

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 259: Effective Evangelism with Gen Z Women in the Age of Social Media Influencers

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 258: How Does the Soul Come to Be

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 257: David Hume’s Fatally Flawed Arguments against Miracle Reports

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 256: God and Our Ignorance

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 255: Athanasius A C.S. Lewis of the Early Church

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 254: Genuine Temptation and the Character of Christ

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 253: The Christian Self for Troubled Times: From Random to Redeemed

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 252: Faith, Fact, and Reason: Ingredients for Knowledge

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 251: The Christian Citizen

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 250: Faith of Our Fathers: Were the Early Christians Jehovah’s Witnesses? Parts 1 and 2

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 249: Did Eve Have Sex with Satan? The Serpent Seed View of Genesis 3:15

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 248: Changing Attitudes Toward The Resurrection Of Jesus

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 247: American Alien: The Mythology of ‘Disclosure Day’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 246: Swimming Upstream: Why the Natural Law Resists Totalitarianism

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 245: Was There A Jewish Temple in Ancient Jerusalem? Exposing Islamic Ahistoricism and Mythicism

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 244: Three Ways to Teach Your Kids Apologetics (Without Them Realizing It)

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 243 The Beauty of Worship: Aesthetics And Truth

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 242: The Justice of Hell?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 241: By the Power of Nostalgia: ‘Masters of the Universe’ and the Haunting of Popular Culture

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 240: Deconstructing Faith and Marriage when a Spouse Comes Out: A Review of ‘Beard: A Memoir

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 239: Marriage in Mid-life: How Disappointment Helps Us Become More Christlike

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 238: The Man Beneath the Beskar: Fatherhood and Masculinity in ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grog

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 237: G.K. Chesterton’s ‘Orthodoxy’ and Christian Enchantment

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 236: Does Jesus Condone Self-Mutilation in Matthew 5:29-30?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 235: Election and Evangelism: Is Calvinism Anti‑Evangelism?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 234: Lessons for Today’s Church from the Life of the Early Church

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 233: Bearing Witness to Christ Among Internationals

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 232: Spirituality in Modern Hip Hop: The Theology of Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 231: Grand Cosmic Resonance: How Structure & Comprehensibility of the Universe Reveal Mindful Maker

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 230: Channeling the Dead—A Christian Response to Mediums

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 229: Before Baker Street: An Evaluation of Amazon Prime’s ‘Young Sherlock’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 228: Adamic Denial and Distortion

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 227: Unhindered Leadership of Jen Hatmaker

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 226: Come On, Get Happy: A Cultural Reflection on Apple TV’s ‘Pluribus’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 225: Hope for the Suffering Caregiver—Union with Christ

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 224: This is the Way…Or is It?: Thinking About Religion in The Mandalorian

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 223: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Anselm: In Defense of Greatest Being Theology

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 222: The Incredulity of Yuval Noah Harari: Evaluating the World’s Foremost Big Story Historian

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 221: Humanity’s Ascension: Assessing the History Channel’s New Age, Time Travel Guru David Wilcock

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 220: Why You Should Trust the New Testament: Reasons for Reliability

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 219: Virtue, Human Nature and the Quest for Happiness

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 218: Amaze Amaze Amaze Grace! ‘Project Hail Mary’ and the Stories We Can’t Stop Telling

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 217: Understanding Nicene Trinitarianism

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 216: The Death of Credentials: How Social Media Influencers Dumbed Us Down and Made Everything Wor

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 215: Who Was Adam? A book review of In Quest of the Historical Adam

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 214: Youth, Suicide, and Our Success-Centered Culture

Christian Research Journal Reads 213 Episode The Use and Misuse of Testimony: A Stealth Strategy for Effective Dialogue with Mormons

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 212: Loving God and Others in the Midst of Suffering

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 211: Unexplaining the Mormon Priesthood Ban on Blacks

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 210: No More Desires: Ian Fleming, James Bond, and Acedia

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 209: Aristotle And C.S. Lewis on Virtue

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 208: Lessons Learned (and Not Learned) from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 207: Sex, Slavery, and Sin: Is the God of the Bible Really That Different from the God of Islam?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 206: Thomas Aquinas’s Five Proofs for God Revisited

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 205: How We Lost the Universities and How to Reclaim the Voice of Christ

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 204: Virtual Violence, Video Game Addiction, and the Kingdom of God

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 203: Responding to Evil Christianly

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 202: Critical Race Theory: An Introduction and Critique

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 201: History’s Bloody Mess: Why Marxism (and Socialism) Always Fails

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 200: Creeds: Relics or Relevant?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 199: Irenaeus and Christian Orthodoxy

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 198: How the Church Can Address the Crisis of Identity and Belief Among Gen Z Women

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 197: Human Flourishing and the Myth of Religious Neutrality

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 196: Redeeming Princess Culture

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 195: Kindergarteners Need Apologetics, Too

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 194: Who’s Afraid of HAL? Why Computers Will Not Become Conscious and Take over the World

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 193: An Ethic of Instagram

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 192: What’s the Problem with LBGTQ Conversion Therapy?