All Episodes

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?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 191:Answering Those Who Try to Live by the Golden Rule

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 190: The Lunar New Year Animals: A Christian Examination of the Chinese Zodiac

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 189: Medieval Christians and Evangelism

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 188: Why Christians Should Observe the Christian Calendar?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 187: The Church with No Foundation: Evaluating the Teachings of Pastor Andy Stanley

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 186: Logical and Biblical Defeaters of Reincarnation and Karma

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 185: Walking with Christ Through Grief

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 184: What’s Your Sign? Horoscopes, Astrology, and the Zodiac

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 183: John Chrysostom: The Golden-Mouth Preacher

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 182: The Historical Uniqueness of Jesus Christ Among the Founders of the World’s Major Religions

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 181: Defending the Biblical View of Sexuality: A Socratic-Question Approach

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 180: That Sounds Really Hard: Assessing the Theology of Peter Enns

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 179: Did the Universe Really Have a Beginning?-

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 178: Has Science Swallowed the Myth of Jonah’s Whale?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 177: Why We Cheat

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 176: Blaise Pascal: Three Misconceptions and the Truth

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 175: To the Cancel Culture: “We Respectfully Decline”

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 174: In Defense of the Church’s Traditional Doctrine of Hell

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 173: From Beauty to the Beatific Vision: Recovering the Argument from Beauty

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 172 I’ll Start My Diet Tomorrow: A Christian Makes a New Year’s Resolution

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 171: Sharing the Gospel with People from Broken Homes

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 170: Is Everybody Traumatized, and Do We All Need Therapy?

Christian Research Journal Reads 169: The Man and the Monster: A Review of Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 168: Is Good Christian Parenting a Myth?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 167: Kwanzaa: More than a Cultural Celebration

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 166: The Dark Side of Eternity: Hell as Eternal Conscious Punishment

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 165: Examining ‘Wicked’ and ‘Wicked: For Good’ Through Varied Perspectives

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 164: Pop Culture’s Idea of Shame and Spirituality: A Review of ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 163: Behind the Crystal Ball: The Spiritual Risks of Seeing Psychics

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 162: How Unanswered Prayer Grows Faith, Hope, and Love

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 161: Making a Case for the Historicity of Moses

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 160: For Our Lamps are Going Out: Gaslighting in the Age of Social Media

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 159: A Christian Exploration of the Baha’i Faith

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 158: God’s Other Book: What It is and How to “Read” It

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 157: Should We Continue to Use the Term Sexual Purity?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 156: Merely Human: The Problem of Recognizing Chimpanzees as Persons

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 155: Why People Stop Believing

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 154: Confessions of an Evangelist: Stereotypes Don’t Always Have To Be True

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 153 The Loneliness Crisis in America and How the Church Can Help

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 152: Are Pastors and Church Government Biblical? Authority and the Church in the New Testament Era

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 151: The Theological Legacy of Rachel Held Evans

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 150: Crystals: Vibrations, Energy, and Healing Power?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 149: Ghost Hunters and God: Reasoning through the Pursuit of the Paranormal

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 148: Is It true That There Are Good Non-Christians?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 147: Atheism and the Burden of Proof

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 146: The Work and Worldview of Brené Brown

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 145: The Theological Mess in the Moxie of Jen Hatmaker

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 144: Near Darwin’s Portrait In The Biology Building, Whispers About The Creator: Deceived by a Fals

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 143: In Search Of The Sacred: Evangelicals on a Quest and Why it Matters

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 142: The Human Embryo: Potential Person or Person with Great Potential?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 141: Witnessing to a Wayward Child

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 140: Missing the Signposts: A Review of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 139: Sunni-Shi’a Split

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 138: Christian Idolatry? Evaluating Bethel Church and Bill Johnson

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 137: Blades, Spirits, and the Sacred: Encountering Shintoism in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 136: Islamic Sharia and the Mistreatment of Women

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 135: Is It Possible for Humans to See God?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 134: Comic Cons, Geek Culture and the Mission of Christ

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 133: Is It Abusive to Teach Children about Hell

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 132: Does God Have A Spirit Body?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 131: How Was Orthodoxy Established in the Ecumenical Councils

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 130: Is The Black Man God? Challenging the Central Claim of the Nation of Islam

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 129: Answering The Objection, “All Religion Is Manmade”

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 128: Despair and Hope in the Anglican Communion

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 127: Consciously Dreaming: A Look at Lucid Dreams

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 126: Family First: A Film Review of ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 125: The Internal Testimony of the Holy Spirit: How Do You Know That the Bible Is God’s Word?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 124: Why Youth Are Walking Away from Biblical Sexuality and What Parents Can Do about It

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 123: Thinking Through Mindfulness: Psychology, Religion or Both?

Episode 122: Up, Up, and Away (Again): A Review of Superman (2025)

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 121: Cream or Sugar: Fostering Authentic Community in the Expanding Age of Social Media

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 120: Did David Rape Bathsheba?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 119: (AI) The Virtualization of Culture and the Need for an Embodied Christian Alternative

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 118: Film Review of ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 117:The Jesus of Mormonism: Differences That Make a Difference

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode Episode 116: Jesus in Islam

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 115: Death of Moses in Deut. 34 and Authorship

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 114: Single in Christ and a Sexual Being

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 113: Does the Old Testament Justify War Against Civilians?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 112:Why Read Books

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 111: Non-Christians, Death, and Comforting the Bereaved

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 110 Evangelizing the Cultural Christian

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 109: The Apologetic Value of Coincidences in New Testament Reporting

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 108: A Film Review of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 107: Is Divine Determinism Biblical?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 106: Family, Faith and Father

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 105: Can a B.A. in Liberal Studies Get Me a Job?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 104: TV Review of Andor

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 103: Murder by Medicine in Canada and the Threat to America

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 102: Can Science and Technology Save Us? The False Gospel of Transhumanism

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 101: Begotten of the Father before All Ages

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 100: Jainism: India’s other Religion

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 99: How Greek Myth, Tragedy, And Philosophy Point to Christian Truth

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 98: Was Ayn Rand Right? Capitalism and Greed

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 97: The Age of Opportunity: How the Bible Gives Hope for Aging

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 96: Fear, Loathing, and Deconverting from the White Evangelical Church: A Review of ‘The Exvangelic

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 95: A Review of Andor

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 94: When Physical Therapy Gets Spiritual: Should Christians Avoid Holistic and Alternative Medicine

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 93: Identity and Obedience in Revoice

Christian Research Journal Reads 92: The New Religion In Public Schools: Progressivism and the Trojan Horse Called SEL

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 91: Is the Pope Infallible?

Christian Research Journal Reads 90: Was Hitler a Christian?

Christian Research Journal Reads 89: Seeing Red: The Handmaid’s Tale, Human Dignity, and Hope

Christian Research Journal Reads 88: A Question Mormons Can’t Answer

Christian Research Journal Reads 87: Christian Parenting and the Peril of Public School Education

Christian Research Journal Reads 86: A More Unconditional Love: Modern Iterations of Platonic Marriage

Christian Research Journal Reads 85: I Believe…In the Resurrection of the Flesh

Christian Research Journal Reads 84: Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood Transfusions: Their Use of Scripture in Their Blood Doctrine

Christian Research Journal Reads 83: Humanity Crucified: Hemingway and the Human Condition

Christian Research Journal Reads 82: Just So Science

Christian Research Journal Reads 81: Problems with the Gold Plates of the Book of Mormon

Christian Research Journal Reads 80: ‘Am I Racist?’ Reveals DEI’s Counterfeit Redemption

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 79: Jonathan Cahn’s American Revelation

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 78: The Adoption of God (Evangelism to Those who were Adopted)

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 77: Sexual Sanity for Women in a World Gone Mad

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 76: Advice from a College Student: Go to Church

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 75 The Problem with Improving Abortion

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 74: Haven’t We All Sacrificed Enough: A Christian Tries to Observe Lent

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 73: Why Did God Let that Child Die?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 72: Gender Ideology, Metaphysical Rebellion, and Reality’s Last Stand

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 71: Leaving Church, Finding A Platform: A Look at the Content of Rev Karla

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 70: Mormonism, the Afterlife, and Striving after Godhood

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 69: C.G. Jung’s War on the Christian Faith

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode: 68 Of God and Dogs, With Constant Reference to Sunny

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 67: The Antidote To FOMO (And FOBO)

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 66: Searching for God’s Grace in Squid Game’s Bloody Violence

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 65: A Review of ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 64: Richard Hays Changes His Mind About Sexuality and God: Review of The Wideness of God’s Mercy

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 63: Review of ‘Gravity Falls’ and ‘The Book of Bill’:

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 62: Solo Sex and the Christian: Is Masturbation Permitted?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 61: A Christian’s Response to Pastor Lawson’s Moral Failure

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 60: Paul, Second Adam, and Theistic Evolution

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 59 Five Apologetics Lessons from the Writings of Martin Luther King Jr.

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 58 Marriage Is about the Gospel: Clarifying the Boundaries of Christian Orthodoxy

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 57 The Star of Bethlehem: Light from Heaven

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 56: Strange Happenings in Utah: The Phenomenon of Skinwalker Ranch

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 55: ‘Heretic’ The Gospel According to Mr. Reed

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 54: ‘Conclave’ Film Review: Identity Politics and Doubt Comes to the Sistine Chapel

Christian Research Journal Episode Episode 53-Take Joy: Santa, St. Nicholas, and Jesus

Christian Research Journal Episode Episode 52: The Subtle Art of Corruption in the Sophomore Season of ‘The Rings of Power’

Christian Research Journal Episode 51: Am I a Bad Christian for Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies?

Christian Research Journal Episode 50: Creation Accounts and Ancient Near Eastern Religions

Christian Research Journal Episode 49: Divination and Contemplation-Tarot’s Impact on Culture and Christianity

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 48: Refuting The View: Religion Is A Myth, But Science Is The Truth

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 47: Infiltrated: Recognizing and Responding to Occultism in Your Church

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 46 #Witchtok-Sorcery at Your Fingertips

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 45: In Defense of Zionism: Hagee’s Mandate for Supporting Israel

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 44: How Truth Works

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 43: A String of Losses for the Pro-Life Movement and Our Message of Hope

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 42: An Eternal Perspective on the Losses of Aging

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 41: Who’s Been Left Behind?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 40 Consciousness, AI, and the Imago Dei

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 39: The Roots of Planned Parenthood

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 38 How Traditional Are Tradwives: Evaluating the Social Media Movement

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 37 : “Alien: Romulus”, Risk Aversion, and the Parable of the Big Bad Company

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 36: Faith, Family, and Fear: The Films of M. Night Shyamalan

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 35: Blessings and Liberty: The Politics and Religion of David French

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 34: Corey Goode: Time-Traveling Secret Space Program Whistleblower

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 33 Marketing An “Almost” Jesus—Evaluating The “He Gets Us” Campaign

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 32: Trusting Jesus in a Universe That Doesn’t Have Your Back: A Christian Looks at Manifesting

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 31: Responding to the Mormon Missionary Message

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 30: Enhancing Your Energy the New Age Way: Understanding Auras, Chakras, and Qi

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 29 Who May Come To The Lord’s Table—Eucharistic Welcome And Warning

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 28-Can a Christian Attend a Gay Wedding? Alistair Begg and the Bad Pharisee

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 27 Judith Butler’s Theory of Gender Performativity: A Christian Response

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 26 ‘Furiosa’, ‘Mad Max’, and the Modern Apocalyptic Myth

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 25: Cult of Wokeism JOURNAL Selected Articles

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 24: ‘Ancient Aliens,’ Pyramids, and the Great Sphinx of Giza: Testing the Television Show’s Claims

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 23: Review of “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” and the Mythologizing of Evolutionary Humanism

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 22 Just War 5.0: On the Evolution and Application of Just War Doctrine in the Modern World

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 21 The Troubling Truth About Bonhoeffer’s Theology

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 20 The Jewish Talmud And Its Use For Christian Apologetics

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 19: Should Christians Be Rebaptized?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 18: Edgar Cayce: The Would Be Sleeping Prophet

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 17 A Christian Response to Scrolling and Doomscrolling

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 16 ‘Dune: Part Two’ Film Review: We’re All Mad Down Here: Religious Fundamentalism in ‘Dune: Part T

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 15 The Origin and Insufficiency of the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode Episode 14 Wrestling With The “Gay Christian” Label

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 13 Who Are the Sons of God in Genesis 6?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 12 He Descended to Hell: An Investigation of the Harrowing of Hell in the Apostles’ Creed

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 11 Dake’s Dangerous Doctrine

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 10 Fire from the Gods: How ‘Oppenheimer’ Mythologizes Twentieth Century America

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 9 ‘Escaping Twin Flames’: Why People are Falling for the Love Cult

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 8 Four Types of Divine Hiddenness of God

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 7 Making Sense of Ezekiel’s Temple Vision

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 6 The Most Overlooked Aspect of the ‘Barbie’ Movie

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 5 Does Galatians 5.19-21 Forbid the Use of Medicine?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 4 Did Pope Francis Authorize Priests to Bless Same-Sex Couples?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 3 What Does the Bible Teach about the Cannabis Plant?

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 2 Carlton Pearson’s Gospel of Inclusion

Christian Research Journal Reads Episode 1 Is Dispensationalism Indispensable?

Christian Research Journal Reads Introduction