Nate Hanson
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Jesus and self defense
Tragically, school shootings happen seemingly every week in America these days, and every time they do a debate breaks out over guns and the right to bear arms.
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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Slaveholder Religion
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove reflects on the painful reality that much of white American Christianity is more akin to slaveholder religion than the Christianity of Christ.
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Post traumatic history disorder
Acknowledging the truth of our history can be painful, overwhelming and even traumatic. The history itself is also one of traumatization.
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Mark Charles: Is America a Christian Nation?
Mark Charles retells the founding of America to expose political, social and spiritual implications. You may need to sit and process for a while after this episode.
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The risk of believing differently
Is it worth losing the certainty you once had to pursue a better picture of God? What if God becomes harder to believe in?
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Brian Zahnd – Making Christianity possible again
Brian Zahnd joins us to talk about how to make Christianity viable for this generation and generations to come.
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Rachel Held Evans: Faith, Doubt & De-Weaponizing the Bible
Rachel Held Evans joins us to discuss the Bible and what to do with it.
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The myth of the slippery slope
If you start believing things outside your faith circle you might fall down a slippery slope… Should you be afraid of that?
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Wrath and Liberation
How does getting crucified liberate anyone? Is liberation the central driving force behind the gospel? And is the wrath of God something we need to be liberated from or instead something that liberates?
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God isn’t the problem
Jesus saves us from ourselves, not from God. Today we look at 10 different ways to think about the atonement that are key in the Bible.
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I used to be terrified of God
Nate shares why he used to be afraid of God. We explore why penal substitution is worth fighting back on.
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Mako Nagasawa – Beyond penal substitution
Is Penal Substitutionary Atonement really the gospel? Is it even true? And what other options are there for making sense of Christ’s death? This week we’re joined by Mako Nagasawa.
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Give up power like Jesus (Part 4)
Contrary to popular evangelical practice, the call to follow Jesus is an invitation to relinquish power over others. Part 4 in a series on the Bible as a story about power.
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The Bible speaks truth to power (Part 2)
The Bible is trying to tell a story about power. Will we let it?
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The Bible is a story about power (Part 1)
So much and hurt is rooted in issues of power, yet power is rarely discussed in church.
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When theology hurts (Stories)
Last week Tim and Nate discussed why theology even matters. It matters because ideas have consequences and bad theology hurts people.
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Taking responsibility for our theology
Nate and Tim step back from the Old Testament theology to reflect on why theology matters at all. Ideas trickle downstream.
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Giants and genocide
The episodes on the Fall introduced some crazy stuff about gods engaging in a battle to take over the human bloodline. Now we jump into the heated conversation on divine .
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Is God more tolerant of other religions than we are?
Rethinking the Fall (Part 5) — The reinterpretation of the Fall sparked further questions, so Nate and Tim slow down to reflect on some its implications.