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Theology on Mission — 219 episodes

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S11:E13 Faith Over Breakfast: Community, Calling, and Staying When It Gets Hard (Bonus Episode)

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S11:E12 Contextual Theological Interpretation: An Integrated Model for Reading the Bible with Dr. Bo H. Lim

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S11:E11 Joining Creation's Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness with Dr. Brian Brock

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S11:E10 Whataboutism, Power, and the Church’s Witness in Politics

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S11:E9 Why I’m Not Reformed: The Contextual Nature of All Theologies

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S11:E8 Will 2026 Be Defined by Uncertainty?

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S11:E7 The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Shapes (and Misshapes) American Politics with Kaitlyn Schiess

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S11:E6 The Anti-Greed Gospel with Dr. Malcolm Foley

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S11:E5 The Rise of Influencer Christianity

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S11:E4 The Political War Beneath the Surface

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S11:E3 Charlie Kirk and the Missing Church

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S11:E2 Why Studying Culture Maters

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S11:E1 Losing Our Religion: Russell Moore on the Crisis and Hope of Evangelicalism

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S10:E14 Church Planting Post-COVID with Dr. Eun K. Strawser

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S10:E13 Preaching in a New Key with Mark Glanville

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S10: E12 Bonhoeffer, Resistance, and the Role of the Church with Michael DeJonge

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S10: E11 Nothing More Evangelical Than a Post-Evangelical

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S10: E10 Beyond The Salvation Wars: Rethinking Salvation with Matthew Bates

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S10: E9 Bridging the Divide: How to Have Transformative Conversations with Dan White Jr.

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S10: E8 The Violent Take It by Force with Matthew Taylor

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S10: E7 Prophets Beyond Activism with Julia O’Brien

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S10: E6 Reflecting on Election Results and the Next Four Years (Live Podcast)

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S10: E5 Prodigal Gospel: Getting Lost and Found Again in the Good News with Jonny Morrison

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S10: E3 Does God's Power Redefine Leadership? Fitch & Crouch Discus Power Dynamics (Part 2 of 2)

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S10: E2 Andy Crouch & David Fitch Talk Culture Making or Power Grabbing? ( Part 1 of 2)

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S9: E17 Reckoning with Power in Leadership | Pastor’s Table Podcast Crossover

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S9: E16 Navigating Conflict, Antagonism & Power as Pastors | The Pastor’s Table | Rev. Tara Beth Leach & Mark Quanstrom

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S9: E15 Theology & Discipleship in Conflict Zones: 1st Hand Perspective of Christians in Gaza | Dr. Jack Sara

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S9: E14 Trauma - Informed Evangelism: Cultivating Communities of Wounded Healers | Charles Kiser

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S9: E13 Finding Freedom in Constraint: Reimagining Spiritual Disciplines as a Communal Way of Life | Jared Patrick Boyd

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S9: E12 On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living | Dr. Alan Noble

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S9: E10 Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire | Dr. Preston Sprinkle

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S9: E9 Where Do Christians Start with Power - Genesis 1-3?

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S9: E8 Christ Among the Classes with Al Tizon

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S9: E7 Demystifying Evil with Dr. Ingrid Faro (Part 2)

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S9: E5 Debating Bivocational Ministry: Fitch v Moore

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S9: E4 Centering Discipleship with Eun Strawser

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S9: E3 Women and the Gender of God with Amy Peeler

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S9: E1 The Spiritual Formation Movement Needs Correction

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Theology, Methods, and the Church with Sarah Coakley

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Discerning Sexuality and Attraction

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S8:E11 Ethics, Orthodoxy and the Church with Brandan Robertson

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S8:E10 When Power Goes Rogue

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S8: E6 Communal Narcissism

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S8: Theology & Mission Lectures with Sarah Coakley

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S8: E4 Evangelicals, Gender, and Power with Lisa Weaver Swartz

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S8: E3 The Church in a Secular Age with Andrew Root

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S8: E2 This Present Moment with Stanley Hauerwas

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S8:E1 House Gatherings Will Renew the Church (or not)

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S7: E16 Church Planting with JR Woodward

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S7: E15 (Summer Bonus) Gathering, Not Landing

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S7: E14: Christ & The Common Life with Luke Bretherton

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S7: E13 Racial Capitalism with Jonathan Tran (Part Two)

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S7: E12 Racial Capitalism with Jonathan Tran (Part One)

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S7: E12 The Rise of the 'Umms'

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S7: E11 Children and the Post Christendom Reaction

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S7: E10 What is a Jesus Centered Response to the War?

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S7: E9 Capitalism and Kingdom Economy

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S7 E8: Don't Censor Us! Spotify, Neil Young, and the Church.

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S7: E7 The Rise & Fall Mars Hill: Context. Power. Misogyny.

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S7: E6 Social Location Meets Biblical Exegesis

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Limited Invitation: Lectures with Dr. Willie Jennings

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S7: E5 The Leader Who Submits

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S7: E4 Jesus, the Justice of God

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S7: E3 The Practice of Conversation

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S7: E2 Part 2 Participation & Mission with Michael Gorman

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S7: E1 Participation & Mission with Michael Gorman

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S6: E16 Pastoral Care According to Hauerwas: Fitch & Jones Debate ;)

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S6: E15 State of Theology with Beth Felker Jones

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Throwback Thursday with Michael Gorman

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S6: E14 Who Will Lead What's Left of Evangelicalism?

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S6: E13 What is the Church? Why Does it Exist?

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S6: E12 Top 5 Issues for Church Leaders Post-COVID

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S6: E11 A Theology of Race & Place with Andrew Draper

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S6: E10 Church Planting. Money. Mutuality. Mission.

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S6: E9 Who Will Be My Witness? A Conversation with Drew Hart

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S6:E8 Discerning Through Theological Disagreements

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S7: E7 Increase Density. Decrease Numbers.

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S6: E6 Church Planting Webinar with Hugh Halter

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S6: E5 What to do with the 74 Million?

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S6: E4 Advent for "the Rest of Us"

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S6: E3 Third Way Politics

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S6: E2 Critical Theory & Tim Keller: Part 2

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S6: E1 Foundations: Tim Keller & Justice: Part 1

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S5: E21 Top 5 Fundy Backlashes (As Seen in Progressive Evangelicals)

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S5: E20 White Male Speaking

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S5: E19 The Parsing of Racism

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S5: E18 A Theology of Protest

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S5 E17: What Difference Does Soteriology Make?

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S5 E16: Video Killed the Embodied Church

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S5: E15 Suffering During the Pandemic

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S5: E14 Faithful Presence During the Pandemic

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S5: E13 Depression. The Challenge of Ministry.

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S5: E12 Are You Lonely? Angry? Lost?

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S5: E11 To Volunteer or Not?

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S5: E10 Non-Violent Atonement with J. Denny Weaver

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S5: E9 Divine Violence & The Warrior God: Greg Boyd & Claude Marriottini

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S5: E8 Universal Salvation: w/Geoff Hosclaw

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S5: E7 The Shape of Liturgy

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S5: E6 The "Third Way" of the Church w/Gary Sittser

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S5: E5 The Evangelism Pendulum

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S5: E4 When Theologians Fail Morally

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S5: E3 Understanding Joshua Harris: Doubt & Belief

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S5: E2 Eschatology For Mission

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S5: E1 Big Problems. Are There Solutions?

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S4: E17 Antagonisms vs Conflict

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S4: E16 Summer Reading Recommendations

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S4 E15: INTERVIEW: C. Christopher Smith.

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S4 E14: Multicultural Church? From a Black Church Perspective

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S4: E13 Reformed Soteriology is Passive Aggressive

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S4: E12 Resurrection. Time. Worship.

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S4: E11 INTERVIEW: Karen Swallow Prior

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Post Willow Creek Era: Vulnerability & Repentance

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S4: E11 Us vs Them: Politics

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S4: E10 Us vs Them: Salvation

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S4: E9 Us vs. Them: The Inerrant Bible

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S4: E8 INTERVIEW with Michael Gorman

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S4: E7 ReAdvent

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S4:E6 Caught in the Middle: Human Sexuality

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S4:E5 Conservatives become Progressives become Atheists?

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S4: E4 Should Christians Vote?

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S4: E3 INTERVIEW with Pastah J

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S4: E2 Elitism in the Church

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S4: E1 Bible Battle

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Season 3 Summer Show: Willowcreek & Leadership—Now What?

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S3:E23 Is Culture Causing Us Brain Damage? On Depression and Anxiety (Season 3 Finale)

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S3:E22 Does Pentecost Obliterate Differences?

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S3:E21 Is the Church Being Feminized?

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S3:E20 Can I Get a Witness? or, the weakness of God

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S3:E19 6 Ways to Ruin Easter

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S3:E18 Feeling down about the 10 Commandments?

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S3:E17 The 7 Ps of Cultural Engagement (boring title, but good episode)

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S3:E16 No Home Like Place; On loving where you are

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S3:E15 Can you find yourself in Lent?

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S3:E15 Why We Listen to Jesus; on the Transfiguration

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S4:E14 You Don't Know What the Church Is!

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S3:E13 Why Tim Keller is right and wrong about Jesus.

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S3:E12 Safe Sex? On "Grace", Aziz Ansari, and #MeToo

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S3:E11 For Sinners & Sufferers: The Baptism of Jesus

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S3:E10 Should we be Hero-Makers?

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S3:E9 Advent: For Death or Life?

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S3:E8 Are Sacraments for Mission?

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S3:E7 Going Deeper in APEST?

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S3:E6 Beware the Language Police

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S3:E5 Glorious Things Of...? A Reformation Reflection

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S3:E4 How Clear Should the Church Be?

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S3:E3 Why is your church here? 3 Streams of Cultural Accommodation

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S3:E2 Are You a Tool? (a tool of God's glory)

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S3:E1 If God is Everywhere, Why Does God Draw Near

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Second Summer #1: Church Discipline or Restoration?

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S2:E24 To Tell the Truth: Stanley Hauerwas on Life and Ministry

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S2:E23 5 Challenges Before the Church

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S2:E22 Who's Rules the Blogosphere?

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S2:E21 Jesus' Death: What Kind of Substitution?

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S2:E20 What is the Benedict Option?

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S2:E19 Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus

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S2:E18 Against Antagonisms?

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S2:E17 Returning to Joy in a Troubled World

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S2:E16 Reclaiming Hope, with Michael Wear

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S2:E15 Subject to Government? Protesting Romans 13

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S2:E14 Aliens and Exiles (with Dennis Edwards)

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A Lot Has Been Going On

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S2:E12 A Thanksgiving Survival Guide

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S2:E11 Horror, Relief, Hope: Post-Election Debrief

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S2:E10 Is it Christian to Vote? (A Short Voter Guider)

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S2:E9 The Church as Movement

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S2:E8 Faithful Presence and Kingdom Roots

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S2:E7 The End is Here! Or is it? Does Eschatology Matter?

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S2:E6 Locker Room Talk, the Power of Words, Hope for Revival

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S2:E5 Converts Or Proselytes? The Change Jesus Makes

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S2:E4 Advice to a Mega-Church (or Any) Pastor

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S2:E3 World Evangelicalism - A Future for the West?

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S2:E2 3 Ways (Not) to Start Your Theology

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S2:E1 3 Evangelical Off-Ramps; or, We've Never Been Evangelical

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Summer Episode 06: Gender Differences: 3 Views

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Summer Episode 05: Policing the Facts = Failure

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Summer Episode 04: Science and Scripture, a Search for Purity

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Summer Episode 03: 3 Kinds of Jesus, and Why it Matters

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Summer Episode 02: Theological Jenga: The Word Blocks of Mission

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Summer Episode 01: Evangelicals Discover the Trinity, On Recent Debates

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S1:E33 The Pursuing God (with Joshua Ryan Butler)

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S1:E32 The Aftermath Of Revival (with Mandy Smith & Cyd Holsclaw)

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S1:E31 A Future For Reformed Theology? (Roundtable)

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S1:E30 Joining God & Changing The World (with Alan Roxburgh)

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S1:E29 The Spirit of Leadership: Beyond Mere Decisions or Discussions

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S1:E28 Does God Really Love You? And Have A Plan For You?

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S1:E27 Reformation, We Have A Problem!

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S1:E26 The Art Of Bi - Vocational

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S1:E25 Jesus and the Other Bridge Illustration

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S1:E24 Planting A Church Without Women = Disaster

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S1:E23 What Should The Church Do About T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶ Politics?

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S1:E22 "Enjoy The Show": Worship And Church Planting

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S1:E21 Lent: Punishment or Preparation?

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S1:E20 Seeing Another Story = Discipleship

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S1:E19 The De - Radicalization Of MLK

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S1:E18 What Do You Gather Around? Practices Or Ideas.

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Special Episode #8: "Preaching To And Through Vulnerability" with Mandy Smith

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Special Episode #7: "Resurrection Imagination" with Matt Tebbe

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Special Episode #6: "Pour Over Sermons, Brewing In The Spirit" with Tara Beth Leach

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S1:E17 Should the Church Protest?

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Special Episode #5 - "Proclamation Or Teaching" with David Fitch

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S1:E16 Mission or Institution: Our Denominations?

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Special Episode #4: "Weakness In Ministry" with Mandy Smith

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S1:E15 What You're NOT Thinking About: Ideology

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Special Episode #3, Man Enough?

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Special Episode #2: Local Church Going…Local (Live Audience)

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S1:E14 Ashley Madison and Sanctification

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S1:E13 Why Gather for Worship?

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S1:E12 The Spirit of Leadership: Beyond Hierarchy and Democracy in the Church

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S1:E11 What is Preaching and Why Bother?

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Special Episode #1: Carolyn Custis James

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S1:E10 Our Place in Cultures Of Power?

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S1:E9 The Word Became Fallible?

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S1:E8 On NOT just adding JUSTICE

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S1:E7 Not Sharing That Gospel

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S1:E6 Get Off The Train, Fundy, Progressive And Beyond

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S1:E5 Slackivism And Mission

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S1:E4 Mutual Submission

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S1:E3 The Art of Bi-Vocational