Recovering Evangelicals
By Luke Jeffrey Janssen
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Episodes: 200
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A podcast for people who were once very comfortable in their Christian faith … until the 21st century intruded and made it very hard to keep on believing.
And for those who are intrigued by science, philosophy, world history, and even world religions …. and want to rationalize that with their Christian theology.
And for those who found that’s just not possible … and yet there’s still a small part of them that … … won’t let it go.
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#221 – A systematic theology of love
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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#220 – listener responses to Luke’s Christian Humanism
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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#219 – a new Christology for the deconstructing Christian
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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#218 – Did John just make it up?
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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#217 – Christianity: the “true myth”
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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#216 – The Gospels aren’t what we thought they were!?
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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#215 – Jesus: Cosmic Deity?
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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#214 – Jesus: Jewish Messiah?
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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#213 – Divine Inspiration
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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#212 – Are the Gospels (just) human documents?
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May 29, 2026 |
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#211 – Fish with feet?
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May 15, 2026 |
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#210 – YECist and ID proponents re-think snakes and wasps
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May 01, 2026 |
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#209 – Wasps and cockroaches re-invent “the birds and the bees”
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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#208 – It’s not a simple thing becoming a snake!
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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#207 – Defense and attack strategies
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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#206 – Ancient Christianities
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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#205 – Beyond Deconstruction: building a more expansive faith
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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#204 – Putting God in a box?
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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#203 – the evolution of religious belief and atheism (part 2)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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#202 – the evolution of religious belief and atheism (part 1)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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#201 – A theist and an atheist compare notes
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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#200 – What do we now do with Philip Yancey’s books?
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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#199 – Season Seven’s scandalous opener!
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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#198 – Peter Enns: How we got the Old Testament
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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#197 – updating the Exodus and Christian faith
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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#196 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 2 (re-release)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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#195 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 1 (re-release)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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#194 – The three existential threats of Dispensationalism
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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#193 – The word that most have never heard of, but that could end up destroying our planet
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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#192 – Looking back at S6 (and forward to S7?)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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#191 – A more human (and relatable) Jesus
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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#190 – Theological anthropology updated
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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#189 – Human morality has been evolving upwards!?
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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#188 – Human evolution is just like the evolution of English
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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#187 – Adam had ancestors!?
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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#186 – Christian theology and our hominid cousins
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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#185 – Science education / science denial
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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#184 – Brian McLaren’s journey
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May 30, 2025 |
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#183 – The paranormal and psychic phenomena
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May 23, 2025 |
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#182 – Why religion went obsolete !?
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May 16, 2025 |
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#181 – Peter Enns and the control of orthodoxy
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May 02, 2025 |
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#180 – A Christian Nationalist pastor encounters Jesus on “the slippery slope”
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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#179 – Humans can believe some pretty crazy things!
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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#178 – What do you mean the Dark Ages never happened?
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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#177 – The Conflict Thesis fooled the world for 150 years!
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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#176 – Scott: “What I believe (for now)”
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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#175 – A liberal scholar critiques our liberal theology
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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#174 – A conservative scholar critiques our liberal theology
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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#173 – My liberal Christian worldview
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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#172 – Constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing a Christian worldview
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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#171 – Season Six!
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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#170 – Putting together a new Christian worldview
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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#169 – Life starts shape-shifting
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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#168 – Life from non-life?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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#167 – Fine-tuning without a “Tuner”
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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#166 – What it takes to make a LIVING universe
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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#165 – What it takes to produce a universe
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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#164 – Fine Tuning: getting the pencil to stand on its tip!?
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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#163 – Evolution, a “good” creation, and the problem of pain
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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#162 – Bending the arc of the moral universe
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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#161 – Human evolution, morality, and our ultimate purpose
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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#160 – Richard Dawkins v. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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#159 – Answers-in-Genesis are getting a new leader …. and a Tower of Babel theme park!?
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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#158 – A clash of wills in a Young Earth Creationist school system
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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#157 – The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
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May 31, 2024 |
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#156 – An expert’s proposal for this religion-making software in my brain
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May 24, 2024 |
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#155 – “Is it all just in my head?”
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May 17, 2024 |
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#154 – Eastern Orthodoxy, symbolism and mysticism
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May 10, 2024 |
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#153 – A post-Christendom Christianity
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May 03, 2024 |
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#152 – Awe and spiritual experience, pt 2
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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#151 – Awe, and the religious/spiritual experience
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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#150 – Human evolution and Christian theology
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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#149 – Creating a new Christian worldview
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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#148 – Brian MacLaren: Life After Doom
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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#147 – The “personal relationship” with the divine
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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#146 – Hell? or Purgatory?
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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#145 – Grieving the loss of faith
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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#144 – Giving up God – a personal story
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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#143 – Season 5 opener
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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#142 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 6)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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#141 – The Teleological Menace: Why Biology (Still) Requires God
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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#140 – LTEE shows evolution in real-time!
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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#139 – The Long-Term Evolution Experiment – not “just breaking genes”
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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#138 – Science denial / Science education
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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#137 – Putting it all together
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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#136 – a leading ID proponent rebuts our anti-ID challenges
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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#135 – The expert’s fascinating version of how the flagellum really came to be
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#134 – The bacterial flagellum according to an expert
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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#133 – Five things you probably misunderstood about genetics
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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#132 – Intelligent Design and the bacterial flagellum
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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#131 – Cell Biology 101 (essential background for ID talks)
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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#130 – Intelligent Design – an introduction
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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#129 – A new way to “do church”
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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#128 – Lessons learned from our listeners
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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#127 – Rachel’s spiritual journey
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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#126 – Ruth’s spiritual journey
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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#125 – Paul’s spiritual journey
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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#124 – Doug’s spiritual journey
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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#123 – “The Exodus”: Sunday School version or scholar’s version?
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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#122 – the Exodus from Egypt
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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#121 – Human sexuality and gender: our own perspective
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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#120 – Evangelical Purity Culture
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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#119 – Human sexuality: the Christian perspective
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May 26, 2023 |
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#118 – Human sexuality: the ancient Jewish perspective
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May 19, 2023 |
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#117 – Why do religions care so much about sex?
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May 12, 2023 |
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#116 – Bible translation ain’t easy!
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May 05, 2023 |
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#115 – Interfaith learning
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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#114 – “an atheist who believes in God”
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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#113 – The Philip Yancey I never knew
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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#112 – Easter
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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#111 – Mailbag #4
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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#110 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 5)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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#109 – “End Times”, an ancient Jewish perspective
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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#108 – “End Times”, a psychological perspective
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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#107 – “End Times”, a historical perspective
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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#106 – “Left Behind” … again!?
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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#105 – Noah’s Flood
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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#104 – Creating a road less travelled
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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#103 – AI and the church
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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#102 – To reject or reconstruct?
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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#101 – Divine inspiration
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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#100 – Speaking in tongues
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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#99 – Prayer
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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#98 – Divine violence
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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#97 – Deconstructing, with kids
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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#96 – a response to Swamidass and Alexander
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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#95 – A VERRRRY ancient Adam [&Eve]?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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#94 – A Recent Adam & Eve?
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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#93 – Mailbag #3
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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#92 – The belief vortex: falling in, crawling out
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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#91 – Science, Theology and the search for Truth
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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#90 – Open Theology and Process Theology
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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#89 – Spiritual abuse
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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#88 – Hell
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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#87 – Season 4!
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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#86 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 4)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#85 – Resurrection
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May 27, 2022 |
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#84 – Christianity: the “true myth”
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May 20, 2022 |
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#83 – Jesus as cosmic divine being
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May 13, 2022 |
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#82 – Jesus, Jewish Messiah
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May 06, 2022 |
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#81 – Origin and evolution of the New Testament
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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#80 – Origin and evolution of Judaism and nation of Israel
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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#79 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 3)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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#78 Origin and evolution of … religion-making software in hominid brains
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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#77 – Origin and evolution of … a religious streak and symbolism
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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#76 – Origin and Evolution of … morality and religion
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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#75 – Origin and evolution of … the human mind and soul
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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#74 – Putting together a new Christian worldview
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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#73 – Origin and evolution of … humans (part II)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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#72 – Origin and evolution of … humans (part I)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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#71 – Origin and evolution of … species (part 2)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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#70 – Origin and evolution of … species (part 1)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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#69 – Genetics 101, and Evolution denial
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#68 – the “New Creationists”
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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#67 – Climate crisis
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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#66 – Origin and evolution of … life
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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#65 – Origin and evolution of … the universe
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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#64 – The primordial “cosmic egg” (re-release)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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#63 – Fine Tuning of the Universe (re-release)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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#62 – COVID: mandates, revolts, and your crazy uncle
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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#61 – COVID, science denial and pseudoscience
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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#60 – COVID’s in disguise
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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#59 – Special COVID announcement
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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#58 – Church, science and technology
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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#57 – Origin and evolution of the Old Testament
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#56 Lessons from an exvangelical wanderer
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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#55 Church for those who aren’t into God?
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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#54 A global deconstruction network
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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#53 Back to church III – growing up
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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#52 Back to church II – doing things differently
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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#51 – Back to church, part I
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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#50 – We’re back! (Season 3 opener)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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#49 – End of season 2
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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#48 – Jesus and John Wayne
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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#47 – Religious trauma (pt 2)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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#46 – Religious trauma (pt 1)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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#45 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 3
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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#44 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 2
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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#43 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 1
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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#42 – “Personal relationship”
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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#41 – Scratching the itch
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May 28, 2021 |
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#40 – Mailbag#2: listeners’ responses to “Evangelicalism”
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May 21, 2021 |
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#39 – who are these “Evangelicals”?
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May 14, 2021 |
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#38 – Are we too hard on “Evangelicals”?
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May 07, 2021 |
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#37 – The Great Reset
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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#36 – COVID-19, part II
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#35 – Evangelicals, QAnon, and the Insurrection
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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#34 – (Re)Introduction
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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#33 End of the World (ITEOTWAWKI)
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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#32 – Mailbag episode – the Bible
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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#31 Moths drawn to a flame
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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#30 Emergent Creationism – part 2
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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#29 Emergent Creationism – part 1
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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#28 Covid-19
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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#27 Science Denial
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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#26 My faith was threatened by YECism, not science!
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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#25 YECist 2nd response to science — reject faith
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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#24 YECism responds to science — deny the evidence
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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#23 Young Earth Creationism
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May 28, 2020 |
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#22 Fine Tuning
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May 21, 2020 |