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#215 – Jesus: Cosmic Deity?

#214 – Jesus: Jewish Messiah?

#213 – Divine Inspiration

#212 – Are the Gospels (just) human documents?

#211 – Fish with feet?

#210 – YECist and ID proponents re-think snakes and wasps

#207 – Defense and attack strategies

#206 – Ancient Christianities

#205 – Beyond Deconstruction: building a more expansive faith

#204 – Putting God in a box?

#203 – the evolution of religious belief and atheism (part 2)

#202 – the evolution of religious belief and atheism (part 1)

#201 – A theist and an atheist compare notes

#200 – What do we now do with Philip Yancey’s books?

#199 – Season Seven’s scandalous opener!

#198 – Peter Enns: How we got the Old Testament

#197 – updating the Exodus and Christian faith

#196 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 2 (re-release)

#195 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 1 (re-release)

#194 – The three existential threats of Dispensationalism

#193 – The word that most have never heard of, but that could end up destroying our planet

#192 – Looking back at S6 (and forward to S7?)

#191 – A more human (and relatable) Jesus

#190 – Theological anthropology updated

#189 – Human morality has been evolving upwards!?

#188 – Human evolution is just like the evolution of English

#187 – Adam had ancestors!?

#186 – Christian theology and our hominid cousins

#185 – Science education / science denial

#184 – Brian McLaren’s journey

#183 – The paranormal and psychic phenomena

#182 – Why religion went obsolete !?

#181 – Peter Enns and the control of orthodoxy

#180 – A Christian Nationalist pastor encounters Jesus on “the slippery slope”

#179 – Humans can believe some pretty crazy things!

#178 – What do you mean the Dark Ages never happened?

#177 – The Conflict Thesis fooled the world for 150 years!

#176 – Scott: “What I believe (for now)”

#175 – A liberal scholar critiques our liberal theology

#174 – A conservative scholar critiques our liberal theology

#173 – My liberal Christian worldview

#172 – Constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing a Christian worldview

#171 – Season Six!

#170 – Putting together a new Christian worldview

#169 – Life starts shape-shifting

#168 – Life from non-life?

#167 –  Fine-tuning without a “Tuner”

#166 – What it takes to make a LIVING universe

#165 – What it takes to produce a universe

#164 – Fine Tuning: getting the pencil to stand on its tip!?

#163 – Evolution, a “good” creation, and the problem of pain

#162 – Bending the arc of the moral universe

#161 – Human evolution, morality, and our ultimate purpose

#160 – Richard Dawkins v. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#159 – Answers-in-Genesis are getting a new leader …. and a Tower of Babel theme park!?

#158 – A clash of wills in a Young Earth Creationist school system

#157 – The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

#156 – An expert’s proposal for this religion-making software in my brain

#155 – “Is it all just in my head?”

#154 – Eastern Orthodoxy, symbolism and mysticism

#153 – A post-Christendom Christianity

#152 – Awe and spiritual experience, pt 2

#151 – Awe, and the religious/spiritual experience

#150 – Human evolution and Christian theology

#149 – Creating a new Christian worldview

#148 – Brian MacLaren: Life After Doom

#147 – The “personal relationship” with the divine

#146 – Hell? or Purgatory?

#145 – Grieving the loss of faith

#144 – Giving up God – a personal story

#143 – Season 5 opener

#142 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 6)

#141 – The Teleological Menace: Why Biology (Still) Requires God

#140 – LTEE shows evolution in real-time!

#139 – The Long-Term Evolution Experiment – not “just breaking genes”

#138 – Science denial / Science education

#137 – Putting it all together

#136 – a leading ID proponent rebuts our anti-ID challenges

#135 – The expert’s fascinating version of how the flagellum really came to be

#134 – The bacterial flagellum according to an expert

#133 – Five things you probably misunderstood about genetics

#132 – Intelligent Design and the bacterial flagellum

#131 – Cell Biology 101 (essential background for ID talks)

#130 – Intelligent Design – an introduction

#129 – A new way to “do church”

#128 – Lessons learned from our listeners

#127 – Rachel’s spiritual journey

#126 – Ruth’s spiritual journey

#125 – Paul’s spiritual journey

#124 – Doug’s spiritual journey

#123 – “The Exodus”: Sunday School version or scholar’s version?

#122 – the Exodus from Egypt

#121 – Human sexuality and gender: our own perspective

#120 – Evangelical Purity Culture

#119 – Human sexuality: the Christian perspective

#118 – Human sexuality: the ancient Jewish perspective

#117 – Why do religions care so much about sex?

#116 – Bible translation ain’t easy!

#115 – Interfaith learning

#114 – “an atheist who believes in God”

#113 – The Philip Yancey I never knew

#112 – Easter

#111 – Mailbag #4

#110 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 5)

#109 – “End Times”, an ancient Jewish perspective

#108 – “End Times”, a psychological perspective

#107 – “End Times”, a historical perspective

#106 – “Left Behind” … again!?

#105 – Noah’s Flood

#104 – Creating a road less travelled

#103 – AI and the church

#102 – To reject or reconstruct?

#101 – Divine inspiration

#100 – Speaking in tongues

#99 – Prayer

#98 – Divine violence

#97 – Deconstructing, with kids

#96 – a response to Swamidass and Alexander

#95 – A VERRRRY ancient Adam [&Eve]?

#94 – A Recent Adam & Eve?

#93 – Mailbag #3

#92 – The belief vortex: falling in, crawling out

#91 – Science, Theology and the search for Truth

#90 – Open Theology and Process Theology

#89 – Spiritual abuse

#88 – Hell

#87 – Season 4!

#86 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 4)

#85 – Resurrection

#84 – Christianity: the “true myth”

#83 – Jesus as cosmic divine being

#82 – Jesus, Jewish Messiah

#81 – Origin and evolution of the New Testament

#80 – Origin and evolution of Judaism and nation of Israel

#79 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 3)

#78 Origin and evolution of … religion-making software in hominid brains

#77 – Origin and evolution of … a religious streak and symbolism

#76 – Origin and Evolution of … morality and religion

#75 – Origin and evolution of … the human mind and soul

#74 – Putting together a new Christian worldview

#73 – Origin and evolution of … humans (part II)

#72 – Origin and evolution of … humans (part I)

#71 – Origin and evolution of … species (part 2)

#70 – Origin and evolution of … species (part 1)

#69 – Genetics 101, and Evolution denial

#68 – the “New Creationists”

#67 – Climate crisis

#66 – Origin and evolution of … life

#65 – Origin and evolution of … the universe

#64 – The primordial “cosmic egg” (re-release)

#63 – Fine Tuning of the Universe (re-release)

#62 – COVID: mandates, revolts, and your crazy uncle

#61 – COVID, science denial and pseudoscience

#60 – COVID’s in disguise

#59 – Special COVID announcement

#58 – Church, science and technology

#57 – Origin and evolution of the Old Testament

#56 Lessons from an exvangelical wanderer

#55 Church for those who aren’t into God?

#54 A global deconstruction network

#53 Back to church III – growing up

#52 Back to church II – doing things differently

#51 – Back to church, part I

#50 – We’re back! (Season 3 opener)

#49 – End of season 2

#48 – Jesus and John Wayne

#47 – Religious trauma (pt 2)

#46 – Religious trauma (pt 1)

#45 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 3

#44 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 2

#43 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 1

#42 – “Personal relationship”

#41 – Scratching the itch

#40 – Mailbag#2: listeners’ responses to “Evangelicalism”

#39 – who are these “Evangelicals”?

#38 – Are we too hard on “Evangelicals”?

#37 – The Great Reset

#36 – COVID-19, part II

#35 – Evangelicals, QAnon, and the Insurrection

#34 – (Re)Introduction

#33 End of the World (ITEOTWAWKI)

#32 – Mailbag episode – the Bible

#31 Moths drawn to a flame

#30 Emergent Creationism – part 2

#29 Emergent Creationism – part 1

#28 Covid-19

#27 Science Denial

#26 My faith was threatened by YECism, not science!

#25 YECist 2nd response to science — reject faith

#24 YECism responds to science — deny the evidence

#23 Young Earth Creationism

#22 Fine Tuning

#21 Intelligent Design

#20 Atonement Theology: what does science have to say?

#19 Atonement Theology: the traditional view(s)

#18 Original Sin: what does science say?

#17 Original Sin: the traditional view(s)

#16 Consciousness

#15 Loose Threads: Chronological snobbery

#14 Loose Threads: Evangelicalism (pt III) … four core problems

#13 Loose Threads: Evangelicalism (pt II) … this time it’s personal

#12 Loose Threads: Evangelicalism and the Gospel

#11 Soul and Afterlife: Resurrection and the afterlife

#10 Soul and Afterlife: Scientific explanation for the soul

#9 Soul and Afterlife: Science says “no” to immaterial soul

#8 Soul and Afterlife: Bible says “yes” or “no” to immaterial soul?