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Faith Seeking Understanding: A Podcast on Christian Faith and 21st Century Life — 177 episodes
Believing Is Seeing: Sacred Ground, Open Sky
Calmly Considered: Socialists, Communists, and Leftists, Oh My!
Calmly Considered: America at 250 - Promises and Problems
Quick Take: Temporary Protected Status - Answering Objections
Word Revisited: Did the Apostle Paul Know John's Gospel?
Calmly Considered: Which Political Party Is Worse for the Economy?
Believing Is Seeing: Love-Centered Theology
Short Take: What Does the Bible Say about Government and Social Welfare?
Short Take: Who are the Nephilim?
Undoing Manifest Destiny and Exposing American Mythology: An Episode of Courageous Conversations
Short Takes: Reading Scripture Through the Jesus Lens
Short Take: The SAVE Act - Is It Needed? Is It Necessary?
Calmly Considered: Donald Trump and the Epstein Files
Short Takes: The New Testament and Judgment-- By Faith? On Works?
Short Takes: Immigration Myth - Open Borders
Calmly Considered: Ken Burns' American Revolution
Short Takes: Romans 13 and the Governing Authorities
Courageous Conversations: What Is Protestant Libertarianism?
Calmly Considered: 2025 Year in Review
Calmly Considered: Why Due Process Matters
Believing Is Seeing: Between Cross and Flag - The Christian’s Citizenship Dilemma
Calmly Considered: Political Violence in America
Courageous Conversations: The Church and Worldly Power
Courageous Conversations: Christians and Corrupting Power
Calmly Considered: Trump Economics
Courageous Conversations: Power Corrupts - Abuse, the Church, and Politics
Calmly Considered: Whose History Is It Anyway?
Courageous Conversations: What the Heck Is Up with Hell?
Calmly Considered: Will Donald Trump Fail?
Calmly Considered: Staying Sane in the Age of Trump
Calmly Considered: Year in Review 2024, Ahead to 2025
Believing Is Seeing: Does Doctrine Matter?
Calmly Considered: The Electoral College and Election Predictions
Believing Is Seeing: Living in Ordinary Time
Calmly Considered: Is Democracy in Trouble?
Calmly Considered: The Decline of the Church
Courageous Conversations: Seeking Justice in the Justice System
Believing Is Seeing: Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection?
Calmly Considered: The Silver Tsunami
Calmly Considered: Why Ukraine Matters
Word Revisited: The Bible, Politics, and Imagination
The Wesleyan Way: Our Holiness Heritage
Believing Is Seeing: Speaking Christian in Today's World
Calmly Considered: The Year in Review 2023
Word Revisited: The Apostle Paul-- Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity?
Calmly Considered: The Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Believing Is Seeing: Is God All Powerful?
Calmly Considered: Does Character Count? Does Virtue Matter?
Believing Is Seeing: Christian Faith and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Legacy (Episode 15)
Calmly Considered: The Supreme Court-- Guardians of the Constitution or Judicial Legislators?
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Scripture (Episode 14)
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Life Together (Episode 13)
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer-- Who Is Christ for Us Today? (Episode 12)
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Cost of Discipleship (Episode 11)
Calmly Considered: Managing Tensions, Or How to Keep from Making Stupid Arguments
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Letters and Papers from Prison (Episode 10)
A Prophet with Honor: Bonhoeffer the Assassin? (Episode 9)
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity (Episode 8)
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church (Episode 7)
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Harlem (Episode 6)
Calmly Considered: A Discussion on Deconstruction
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in America (Episode 5)
Courageous Conversations: Immigration, the Bible, and Current Realities
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 1938-1945 (Episode 4)
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 1933-1937 (Episode 3)
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 1906-1932 (Episode 2)
Calmly Considered: The Mainstream Media-- Purveyors of Truth or Peddlers of Propaganda?
A Prophet with Honor: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Post World War I Germany (Episode 1)
Word Revisited: Major Matters on the Minor Prophets
The Wesleyan Way: Active Faith and Resisting Dangerous Ideologies
Calmly Considered: Global Population-- Will It Become Standing Room Only?
Believing Is Seeing: The Character of Virtue-- A Conversation with Stanley Hauerwas
Calmly Considered: Does Social Security Have a Future?
The Wesleyan Way: Revival-- Real or Ridiculous?
Courageous Conversations: Abortion-- Toward a Better Understanding
Calmly Considered: The Sport of Gambling-- Should Christians Take the Bet?
The Wesleyan Way: Methodist Beginnings Through the Eyes of Women
Calmly Considered: 2022 Review, 2023 Preview
Believing Is Seeing: Pietism-- Heartfelt Faith or Heavenly-Minded Humbug?
Calmly Considered: Should Christians Participate in Black Friday?
Word Revisited: Should Protestants Read the Apocrypha?
The Wesleyan Way: An Interview with Bishop William H. Willimon
Calmly Considered: The Mid-Term Election and Voting as a Christian
Word Revisited: John Among the Gospels
Calmly Considered: Student Loan Forgiveness and Thinking Christianly
Believing Is Seeing: Does God Know the Future and Other Open Questions
Calmly Considered: Christian Nationalism-- Christ AND Caesar?
Courageous Conversations: American Mythologies-- The Cover Stories We Tell Ourselves
Calmly Considered: What's Up with Inflation?
Calmly Considered: Gun Violence in America
"It's a Wonderful Life" (Acts 26:24-32)
"Babbling No More" (Acts 2:1-21)
"Finding Good Trouble" (Acts 16:16-34)
"When Cleanliness is Next to Godliness" (Acts 11:1-18)
"Remember Your Baptism" (Romans 6:1-11)
Calmly Considered: The Demise of Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism
"Hearing Voices" (Acts 9:1-20)
"Resurrection Reverberation" (Acts 5:27-32)
"Running Toward the Light" (John 20:1-18)
"What Has Jesus Done?" (John 13:1-17, 31b-35)
"Extravagant Generosity" (John 12:1-8)
"On Being Gracious with Grace" (Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32)
"No One is Exempt" (Luke 13:1-9)
Calmly Considered: Climate Change, Yea or Nay?
Calmly Considered: Free Speech and Cancel Culture
"Of First Importance" (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
"A More Excellent Way" (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
"Body Double" (1 Corinthians 12:12-31a)
Calmly Considered: Scarcity or Abundance-- Which Is Our World?
"Gifts Given by the Spirit" (1 Corinthians 12:1-11)
“A New World Not of Our Making” (Luke 3:15-17, 21-22)
"Life-Giving Light" (John 1:1-18)
"You Are What You Wear" (Colossians 3:12-17)
"The Lord Is Come!" (Luke 2:1-20)
"Wait Upon the Lord with Gratitude" (Luke 1:67-79)
Calmly Considered: Global Living Conditions-- Better or Worse?
"Wait Upon the Lord with Joy" (Luke 1:39-45)
"Wait Upon the Lord with Faith" (Genesis 17:1-9)
"A King Like No Other" (John 18:33-38)
Calmly Considered: Immigration-- The Bible and Contemporary Challenges
"On End Times Weather Forecasting" (Mark 13:1-8)
"Eagerly Waiting" (Hebrews 9:24-28)
"When Family Means Everything" (Ruth 1:1-18)
Calmly Considered: The Church and the Ethics of Business
"Like a Hot Knife Through Butter" (Hebrews 4:12-16)
"Watery Soup and Strong Coffee" (Mark 14:22-25)
"Praying Like Elijah" (James 5:13-20)
"Do You See Through a Keyhole with Both Eyes?" (Mark 9:30-37)
Calmly Considered: Race in America-- History, Story, and Changing Faces
"A Song of Songs" (Song of Solomon 2:8-13)
"Seeing Beyond What Can Be Seen" (08.15.2021)
Calmly Considered: Socialism vs. Capitalism-- Getting Beyond the Memes
"When the Chickens Come Home to Roost" (2 Samuel 11:26-12:13a)
"What's Love Got to Do With It?" (2 Samuel 11:1-15)
"Peace Far Off and Near" (Ephesians 2:11-22)
Calmly Considered: Economics, the New Testament, and the 21st Century
"Flesh and Spirit" (2 Corinthians 12:2-10)
A Conversation on Spiritual Maturity
"The Heart of the Matter" (1 Samuel 15:34 - 16:13)
Monday Musings (06.07.2021)
"Saturated with Scripture" (Leviticus 19:11-18; Romans 12:9-21; Mark 12:28-34)
"All the Subtlety of a Sledgehammer" (Acts 2:1-21)
Monday Musings (05.17.2021)
Pithy Ponderments: Dr. Suess and Free Speech
"Ascension: Not a Hallmark Holiday"
"No Greater Love" John 15:9-17
"The Choicest Grapes" John 15:1-8 and 1 John 4:17-21
Monday Morning Musings (04.26.2021)
"Listen to My Voice" John 10:11-18
"Seeing Is Believing?" John 20:19-31
"Terror and Amazement" (Mark 16:1-8)
"By His Wounds" (Isaiah 53:1-6)
"It Is Time" (Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14 & John 13:1-17, 31b-35)
Monday Morning Musings (03.29.2021)
"One Who Comes" (Mark 11:1-11)
Monday Morning Musings (03.22.2021)
Dream Like Jesus
"Look Up and Live" (Numbers 21:4-9)
The Bible and Today's Self-Proclaimed Prophets
"All These Words" (Exodus 20:1-17)
Faith Seeking Understanding Introduction
"Walk Before Me" (Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16)
"This is the Sign" Genesis 9:8-17
"Lent in Exile" Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
"Blinded By the Light" 2 Corinthians 4:3-6
Creating a Culture of Goodness in the Church
"Of Grasshoppers and Eagles" Isaiah 40:21-31
God Can't: Freedom and Uncontrolling Love
"Disappointment with the Divine" Jonah 3:1-5, 10
"Living Temples" 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
"Holy Water" Genesis 1:1-5 & Mark 1:4-11
"The Pledge of Our Inheritance" Ephesians 1:3-14
The Church and the Need for Lament
Racism and the Blind Spots of Prejudice
The Psychology of the Conspiracy Theorist
Faith Seeking Understanding: A Podcast on Christian Faith and 21st Century Life (Trailer)