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Thinking Out Loud — 450 episodes
Performative Christianity: Why So Many Christians Feel FAKE Online
Why Christians Don’t Know How to Be Christians Anymore
What to Say to Someone Deconstructing Their Faith?
Biblical Prophecy Explained: Symbolism, Sovereignty, and Christ-Centered Interpretation
The Rise of ‘Micro Looting’: Are Moral Standards Collapsing?
13 Ideas Destroying Christianity: The Hartford Appeal Revisited
Is Modern Culture Losing Great Art? What Handel’s Messiah Reveals
Manosphere Exposed: Modern Masculinity and the Crisis Facing Young Men
When ‘Choice’ Goes Too Far: The Euthanasia Case Everyone Is Talking About
Is Weed Actually Good for You? Rethinking Medicinal Claims and Vices
Do UFOs (UAPs) and Aliens Threaten Christianity
Why Human Rights Might Be Impossible Without Christianity | Political Theory & Dr. Logan Gates
Why Christian Culture Is Quietly Collapsing
Is Digital Culture Opening Doors to the Demonic?
Why the Iran War Reveals the Truth About Our World | Christian Analysis
Why Most Christians Feel Unready to Share the Gospel (And Why That’s Okay)
The Strange Rise of ‘Wild Christianity’ — And Why So Many Christians Want It
Richard Dawkins, AI Poetry, and the Crisis of Human Identity
Faith Under Communism: Lessons from Eastern Europe for Western Christians
Why the Epstein Scandal Doesn’t Shock Us Anymore
Why the NFL’s Bad Bunny Move Makes Perfect Sense (Even If You Hate It)
The Trump–Obama Post: Why Alyssa Childers' Response Reveals a Deeper Crisis
Why Autonomy Is Backfiring: Late-Stage Individualism and the Crisis of Meaning
Why Evangelicalism Didn’t See Its Moral Collapse Coming
Why Hope Feels Boring Today—and Why Christianity Says It Isn’t
John Adams Warned Us: Why the Constitution Can’t Survive Without Christian Virtue
Why Everyone Should Be Religious: Breaking Down Ross Douthat’s provocative new book
Philip Yancey Scandal: Can We Still Trust Christian Leaders?
Why the Minneapolis ICE Shooting Is Dividing Christians So Deeply
Is Pop Music Satanic? Discernment, Idolatry, and Christian Theology in Modern Culture
What the Venezuela Crisis Reveals about the Collapse of Christian Moral Reasoning
The Lie Parents Are Told About Raising “Successful” Kids
Why Pro-Death ideology Is Gaining Support: Nathan and Cameron on the MAID Act
Why Our Institutions Are Collapsing—and Why Should Christians Keep Building
Why Advent Hope Matters When the Culture Feels Like It’s Collapsing | Nathan and Cameron
Why Protestantism Is Collapsing in America: Nathan and Cameron on Church Decline
Should Christians Use AI in Worship? The Morality Behind Modern Church Practices
Why Young Men Are Turning to Orthodoxy: Nathan and Cameron on the Rise of the “Ortho Bros”
Instant Influencer Christianity: Lindsey and Nathan Sound the Alarm
Hollywood Doesn’t Want You to Notice This: Media, Church, and Attention
Are We Drowning in Cheap Stuff? Consumerism, Relationships, and Holidays
Black Friday, Green Wednesday… Has America Lost Its Mind?
The Surprising Link Between Radical Individualism and the Trans Movement
Embarrassed to Say You’re a Christian? Nathan and Cameron on Misrepresentation and True Faith
Outraged at Fake Outrage: Taylor Swift, Culture Wars, and Christian Discernment
Peak Trans: What Hyper-Individualism Is Doing to Us
Crypto-Religious Explained (Part 2)
Crypto-Religious Explained: Bob Dylan, Madonna, and the Hidden Language of Faith (Part 1)
Santa, The Great Pumpkin, and Wishful Thinking| Nathan & Cameron
the Anglican Breakup & The $10 Million Cannon Press Offer
The Hidden Cost of Globalization
The Death of Reading? Christians, Smartphones, and the Rise of Post-Literacy
Doug Wilson, Christian Nationalism & Theocracy: A Deep Dive with Nathan & Cameron
"You want an AI Pastor, You Just Don't Know it Yet": Cameron and Nathan Respond
Was Charlie Kirk a Martyr? A Christian Theological Reflection on Faith, Politics & Tragedy
What Is the Progressive Story? Douthat, Klein & the Search for Meaning
Why We Don’t Pick Sides: A Christian Approach to Politics, Power, and Virtue
Pragmatic Christianity vs. True Discipleship: A Theological Conversation on Spiritual Formation
The Free Speech Crisis: Biblical Thinking for Turbulent Times
Malcolm Gladwell Admits He Lied: the Cost of Truth in a Hostile Culture
This Feels Different — Charlie Kirk’s Murder & the Cultural Moment
Why Liberalism Failed: Reaction to Freakonomics #644
The Future Isn’t What You Think —And Neither Are You
have Christians given up on truth?
James Dobson Was a Hero… Or Was He?
Top Ten Books Every Thinking Christian Should Read
C.S. Lewis Predicted 2025 in That Hideous Strength
Are Humans Naturally Religious? Debunking the Myth that Atheism Is Natural
Is the Bible Enough? Hidden Influences on How We Read Scripture
What Is the Good Life? A Response to the Meaning Crisis
Do Robots Deserve Respect? A Christian Look at AI, Ethics, and Language
Is Heavy Metal Evil? Reaction to Ozzy Osbourne’s Death
Contentment, Crisis, and Contemplation
Listening to the Wider Culture: What Should Apologetics Look Like Today?
The Weariness of Watching: News Overload and the Michael Tate Scandal
Discipleship in a Distracted Age: Karl Johnson on Spiritual Formation
Is Biohacking the Death of Being Human?
Exposing the Atheist Double Standard About God and Evidence
Faith Kipyegon & Feminism: Fastest Woman Alive Not Fast Enough
Young Americans Turning to Socialism?
Smartest Man Alive Is a Christian — But Does That Matter?
What Happened to Pride Month? The Culture Shift You Didn’t See Coming
Hijacking Jesus: Confronting Distorted Christianity in Today’s Culture War
Discerning the News in Global Chaos
Fundamentalism and the Fear of Ambiguity
The Hidden Cost of Efficiency
Apologetics Without the Fight: John Lennox and Alex O'Connor
Why Doesn’t God Just Prove He’s Real?? Responding to Skeptics comments
Jordan Peterson Jubilee Analysis
Can AI Disciple You?
DC Embassy Shooting: Scapegoats, Sacrifice, and Violence
Religion as a Stepping Stone to Truth?? Response to Ross Douthat
Anti-Natalism and Consent | Christian Response to Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Bombing
Fighting Distraction: How Christians Can Reclaim Focus in the Digital Age
Following Jesus in a Corrupt System: Moral Dilemmas
Don’t Be a Defensive Christian: Defend the Faith with Confidence
Love Is Love’—Or Is It? The Dangerous Myth of Modern Love
Autopsy of New Atheism: Why Its Arguments No Longer Hold Up
Food Hacks and FOMO
What Does Pope Francis’s Death Mean for the Future of the Church?
Joe Rogan, Douglas Murray & the Death of Expertise: What Should Christians Think?
The Spiritual Double Standard & Good Friday
Alex O’Connor vs David Wood Analysis & Snow White
The Sin of Empathy?
Is Christianity a True Myth? Insights from Lewis & Tolkien
Unpacking the Complexities of U.S.-Europe Relations
What's The Big Deal With Sin?
Is the Bible in Conflict with Modern Science?
Is Christianity a Cult?
Thick Christianity: Young Christians Ditching Modern Churches?
Why Is Gen Z Turning to the Bible and How Can They Start Reading it?
On the Oscars, Influencers, and Sex Work: A Christian Perspective
What Do Christians Actually Do in a Post-Christian World?
How should a Christian think about Doubt?
Is Christianity Making a Comeback? New Trends Challenge the Decline
Three Lies Shaping The World: "The Coddling of the American Mind' Reflection
Church Scandals: Navigating Public Failures in the Church
Wikipedia Co-Founder Skeptic No More
Politics and Religious Freedom: Mennonite Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration
Atheist Homosexual Jew Concerned for Christianity
The Pope The Catholics and The Modern Era
Freemasons and the Loss of Community
Does Apologetics Still Matter?
The Sermon that Enraged a Nation
Do Audio Books Count as Reading?
Neil Gaiman and the Hazards of Engaging with Fallen Artists
Can We Say Someone Is Not a Christian?
Whatever Happened to Dying for a Cause? (With Stuart McAllister)
A Tesla Explosion and America’s Obsession with Violence
Happy Holidays, You’re Going to Die
Is Christian Civilization a Mistake?
Paying for Other People’s Crimes?
On Luigi Mangione
A Grand Theory of Wokeness
Disagreeing with Dallas Willard
Hope Is Not Optimism
The Myth of Toxic Positivity
The Shape of Christian Hope Today
Persuasion and the Need for Christian Hope
Dietrich Bonhoeffer the Culture Warrior?
Thoughts On the Election
Idealism In a Non-Idealistic World
On the Changing Media Landscape
Halloween and Violence
Jordan Peterson Backed Into a Corner
Why Do the Amish Have Such Good PR?
The End of the World as We Know It
Is TikTok Really That Bad? (Yes)
Are We Truly Post-Literate?
Israel, Iran, and the Nature of Global Conflict
Once More On Nationalism (with Stuart McAllister)
Our Top Sources for TOL
Pope Francis and Universalism
Exvangelicals and Ecclesial Structures
Reflections on September 11th
Cultural Influence Doesn’t Work Like You Think It Does
The Deep Sources of Cultural Change
On Gossip
Praying When God’s Will Doesn’t Happen
The New Role of Psychedelics
Against Political Bitterness
Thinking Out Loud Live
Why We Won’t Be Reading Megan Basham’s New Book
Artificial Intimacy
A Discussion with Grandpa Rittenhouse
On the Spectacle of the 2024 Olympics
Can You Fix a Human?
Computers Aren’t as Smart as We Think They Are
Reflections on the Trump Shooting
An Interview with Warren Smith
On Developing Mental Filters with Stuart McAllister
The State of the North American Church: An Interview with Stuart McAllister
The 10 Commandments and the Laws of the Land
Plato’s Noble Lie and the Question of Heroic Unbelief
From Cannabis to Edibles: Our Addiction to Mood Control
Joy vs. Happiness
On Canceling the Humanities at Christian Universities
What Do We Do When Scripture Is Just as Confusing as Life?
You Are a Philosopher
What is TOL Connect and How Do I Use It?
Pride Month and Christian Witness
Taking Care of Our Stuff Is a Spiritual Discipline?
No, the Sky Is Not Falling
Reckoning with the “Anxious Generation”
Why is Harrison Butker Controversial?
Should We Have Armed Guards at Church?
On Reparations
A New Kind of Celebrity Christian
A Christian Response to the Protests
On the Ugliness of Today’s Art
NPR and the Distrust of Mainstream Media
Why Do We Distrust Beauty?
Are We Worrying Too Much About Gen Z?
Work & AI
On “Normophobia”
The Supernatural and Christian Gullibility
Is Richard Dawkins a Christian Now?
Paganism Today
Why Are Evangelicals Scared of Truth in Fiction?
Loneliness and Purpose
Cultural Apologetics in an Anti-Christian Culture
The Global Challenge of Islam
The Specter of Christian Nationalism, Pt. 2
The Specter of Christian Nationalism, Pt. 1
Fantasy and Christianity
Against Political Despair
Inconvenient Truths with Stuart McAllister
On Wokeism, Pt. 2
On Wokeism, Pt. 1
The Dangers of Idealism
Let’s Talk About that “He Gets Us” Ad, Pt. 2
Let’s Talk About that “He Gets Us” Ad
Why Are We So Self-Obsessed?
Canceling Alistair Begg
The Countercultural Security of Christian Identity
The New Face of Apologetics
Canceling Disagreement
Thinking With Our Head and Hands
Seekers or Consumers of Spiritual Goods and Services?
On the Epidemic of Loneliness
On the Habit of Dumbing Down
What comes after postmodernism?
Reflections on the Plane Crash in Japan
The New Year and the Predicament of Big Goals
Let’s Talk about the Barbie Movie
Movies vs. Books
On It’s a Wonderful Life
Is Free Speech a Biblical Concept?
What Hath Chicken to Do With Our Modern Predicament?
Divine Hiddenness
Once More on AI
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year: Authenticity
On Giving
The Unlikely Conversion of Kat Von D
On Questioning Conversions
The Conversion of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Gen Z and Repairing Our Broken Culture
On the Mystery of Consciousness
On Ignoring (Some) News
The Rise of Antisemitism
Christian Credibility
The Spiritual Legacy of the Exorcist
Reconsidering Evangelism
A Surge of Interest in the Occult
Confronting the Problem of Collective Guilt
Andy Stanley and the Pope
Attack On Israel
Let’s Talk Animal Rights, Part 2
Let’s Talk Animal Rights, Part 1
Idealism and Harsh Realities
On the Witching Hour
Anger vs. Wrath
Drew Barrymore and the Writer’s Strike
Pledging to Cut Social Media and Smartphones
Jimmy Fallon and the Idol of Niceness
Why Are Pastors Leaving the Church?
Overestimating AI, Underestimating Humanity
The Church and Christian Higher Education
Is Dwindling Church Attendance Really Such a Bad Thing?
Raising Boys in a Gender-Confused World
In Which We Talk "Rich Men North of Richmond"
Weight Loss Medication and the Hunger for Shortcuts
Not So Cosmopolitan After All
“Do I Need Community to Know Who I Am?”
Critical Theory in the Classroom
Are We On the Cusp of a “Reproduction Revolution”?
Revival or Nostalgia? Russell Moore on the State of Evangelicalism in America
Richard Dawkins and the Need for Religion
You Asked, We Tried to Answer
Can AI Plagiarize?
Medically Assisted Suicide and the Sanctity of Life
An Interview with Dr. Andy Bannister
A Tribute to Cormac McCarthy
An Interview with Dr. Fuz Rana
Patriotism vs. Nationalism
Impending Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine?
When Is a Body Not Just a Body?
Lost at Sea: Thoughts on the Titan Sub
Of Shamans and Lost Children
In Which We Talk Golf?
A Dam Collapse in War-Torn Ukraine
Are Formal Debates Still Possible? Pt.2
Are Formal Debates Still Possible? Pt.1
Navigating Serious Disagreement in Pride Month
Trans “Nuns” and Laughter
Bob Dylan and the Dangers of “Christian” Celebrities
Timothy Keller, a Normal Christian Life
Is There a Crisis of Mentorship?
Violence in Our Hospitals and the Need for Community
Are We Living in a Brave New World?
Cultivating Humility, Overcoming Pride
Why Don't We Value Our Artists?
Things Your Church Forgot to Tell You
Why You Should Care About Acedia/Sloth
The Thorny Question of Denominations
The Church Has Lost the Culture War. So What?
Why We’re Not Scared of Aliens
Who’s Really Out Of Touch with Our Culture?
Of Chreasters and the Local Church
The “Rationality” of the Resurrection
Christians and Cussing
The Covenant Shooting
On Wokeness
On Enchantment and Re-Enchantment
Watching Justice? (On Malcolm Gladwell’s Theory of Entertainment)
Faith Healing
Christianity and Myth
Why You Should Read Books You Disagree With
Who We Are, Where We Hope to Go
Toxic Train Wreck in Ohio
Recovering a Biblical Understanding of Rest
Roald Dahl and Censorship
Tim Keller and Cultural Apologetics
On the Asbury Revival
Is There a Crisis of Masculinity?
Rapid Fire, TOL Style
Shots Fired (On Chinese Spy Balloons)
Let’s Talk About Groundhog Day (the Day After Groundhog Day)
Tyre Nichols and the Chaos of Our Moment
Should ChatGPT Write Your Sermons?
Can’t Stand Your Church? Maybe Stay?
ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Voice
Were We Wrong About Amy Grant?
The Moral Necessity of Being Wrong, Pt. 2
Damar Hamlin and Public Prayer
Remembering Benedict XVI
New Year, New You?
Dwindling Life Expectancy
Amy Grant and the Price of Celebrity
Advent and Our Weary World
Why Winsomeness Is Not a Strategy
Nuclear Fusion and Optimism About the Future
Does the Church Need Another Update?
We're Going Goblin Mode
Christians on the Fringes
Fifa and Theocracy
Black Friday and Gratitude
Elon Musk and the Demolition of Twitter?
What Hath a Russian Penal Colony to Do With the US?
Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom
The Illusion of Capital-P Progress
Haiti and the Moral Obligation to “Lost Causes”
Hope and Election Day
Christianity as a Subculture
King Saul and the Witch of Endor
Halloween and the Need for Festival
How do we respond to religious discrimination?
Art, Vandalism, and the Sacred
A Christian Perspective on Doubt
The Appeal of "Celebrity Christianity"
Campus Ministry Today
The Prof Who Was Fired for Refusing to Lower His Academic Standards
Is it wrong to kick my robot dog?
Iran and the Public Consequences of Religion
Why Are Pastors Fleeing the Pulpit?
A Church Full of Heretics
Is Higher Education Broken?
Bidding Farewell to the Queen
Amish Paradise?
What I Learned at a “Satanic” Metal Concert
Thoughts on the Matt Chandler Controversy
For Friends Who Have Left the Church: A Conversation with Wade Bearden
Fear of the Future
Why We're Not Afraid of the State of the World
Get Ready to Be Weird
Should De-Extinction Be a Thing?
Salman Rushdie and Dangerous Art
Is the US Church Dying?
Is Objectification Ever Justified?
Will Smith's "Apology"
A Response to Jordan Peterson's "Message to the Christian Churches"
Victoria's Secret and Our Addiction to Objectification
What Is the Christian Response to Transgenderism?
Why Science Can't Answer Everything
Christians and the Fear of Public Schools
Climate Change, Pt. 2: A Guide for the Perplexed
Climate Change, Pt. 1: A Guide for the Perplexed
The Relevance of the Gospel in a Digital Age
How to Use the Bible to Read the News
Beyonce and the Spiritual Weight of Exhaustion
The Road Beyond Abortion
Episode Teaser
Christian Sexual Identity and Calvin University
Spiritual Anxiety in the Life of the Believer
Are Things Really that Bad? A Christian Response to Pessimism
Is Winsomeness Outdated?
We Answer Your Questions: "Back to Land Movement"
Christians and Pride Month
On the Need for Courage
Catholicism vs. Radical Individualism: Nancy Pelosi and Communion
Uvalde and the Practical Reality of Evil
Hope in the Face of Horrendous Abuse: A Response to the Southern Baptist Report
The Shape of Evangelism Today: A Conversation with Dan Paterson
10 Reasons Why We Don't Like Top-Ten Lists
Food Shortages and the Demand for Convenience
"Deconstructing Evangelicalism": A Talk from Cameron McAllister
Is True Adventure Outdated?
Physician Assisted Suicide and the Price of Autonomy
Let's Talk About Elon Musk
Social Media and Demons?
Is Social Media an Existential Threat?
Disney and Discernment
Faithfulness in a Fickle Culture
The God of Surprises: Stuart McAllister's Palm Sunday Sermon
Magic Mushrooms
Listener Submitted Question
March 32nd
Evangelism in a Post-Christian Culture: A Conversation with Dr. Andy Bannister
Let's Talk About Marxism: A Conversation with Stuart McAllister
Is Putin Fighting a Holy War?
Moral Failure at Christianity Today and the Critical Need for Virtue
Why We Can't Slow Down (And What We Can Do About It)
Why Do You Watch the News?
Skyrocketing Gas Prices, Economic Fears, and the Goodness of God
The Ukraine Crisis: A Discussion with Stuart McAllister
Race, America, and Christian Hope: A Discussion with Brandon Cleaver
Transgender Swimmers and the Question of Human Purpose
Does Sociology Belong in the Pulpit?
The Trouble with Eileen Gu
The Valentine's Day Episode
David Brooks, "Evangelical Dissenters," and the Hope of Renewal
Stephen Colbert the Evangelist?
Of Tarot Cards and Modern Superstition
Giving Joe Rogan His Due
Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and #cancelspotify
Episode 98: Is physical church outdated?
Episode 97: Who can afford to not care about genocide?
Episode 96: The Tonga Volcano and Human Vulnerability
Episode 95: January 6th and the State of the Nation
Episode 94: The Christian Obsession with Celebrity
Episode 93: The Webb Telescope and Cosmic Wonder
Episode 92: Three Cheers for New Year’s Resolutions
Episode 91: Why We Need the Humanities
Episode 90: Sensationalism Is Old News
Episode 89: The Moral Foundation of Advent
Episode 88: What’s So Great About Christmas Hymns?
Episode 87: Tornadoes, Devastation, and the Demand for Explanations
Episode 86: What’s an Evangelical?
Episode 85: Michigan School Shooting and Moral Responsibility
Episode 84: Evil in the Age of Google
Episode 83: Alec Baldwin and Our Lethal Entertainment Habits
Episode 82: Why Are Christians Deconstructing Their Faith?
Episode 81: Christian Deconstruction?
Episode 80: Reckoning with Kyle Rittenhouse
Episode 79: Should We Cancel Dave Chappelle?
Episode 78: Reckoning with the Haiti Kidnapping
Episode 77: Vaccine Mandates and Risk
Episode 76: Of Halloween and Horror Movies
Episode 75: What the Texas Abortion Ban Says About Us
Episode 74: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going