Episodes

Gender: Women elders? (1 Timothy 3)

Episodes Gender

Part 8 of the gender series. Nate and Tim discuss Paul’s words to Timothy concerning “elders” and “deacons”. Can women be elders?
Gender: Women on gender (Conversation)

Episodes Gender

Part 7 of the gender series. Nate and Tim host their moms as well as some friends and listeners for a round table discussion on the topic. If you only listen to one episode in the series, listen to this one.…
Gender: Adam, then Eve (1 Timothy 2:11-15)

Episodes Gender

Part 6 in a series on gender, power and hierarchy. Nate and Tim wrap up the discussion on 1 Timothy 2, discussing Paul’s reference to Adam being created first and the concluding line about women being saved through childbirth.
Gender: Authority over a man (1 Timothy 2:11-15)

Episodes Gender

Part 5 on Christianity and gender. Nate and Tim begin to tackle 1 Timothy 2 by considering the context of the letter, the significance of the goddess Artemis, and the Greek word translated as “exercise authority”.
Gender: Silencing women (1 Corinthians 14:34-35)

Episodes Gender

Part 4 in a series on gender. Nate and Tim discuss some of the more infuriating ways complementation theology affects Christian women and explore the frustrating passage where Paul seems to tell women to sit down and shut up.
Gender: Husbands and slave masters (Ephesians 5:22-6:9, Colossians 3:18-4:1)

Episodes Gender

Part 3 in a series on Christianity and gender. Nate and Tim discuss two more key passages related to gender, trying to understand why Paul grouped husbands & wives, children & fathers, and slaves & masters.
Gender: Authority over her own damn head (1 Corinthians 11:2-16)

Episodes Gender

Summary Part 2 in a series on gender and the Bible. (1 Corinthians 11:2-16) Nate and Tim discuss the first of six key New Testament passages pertaining to gender that have traditionally been used to support male authority. What is Paul really…
Gender: Jesus ended hierarchy

Episodes Gender

Part 1 in a series on Jesus and gender: Nate and Tim discuss some prerequisites to looking at New Testament texts pertaining to gender.
Let’s start talking about gender

Episodes Gender

Get ready for some episodes talking about gender. The church has a long history of oppressing and silencing women, and using the Bible and Paul to justify that.
Biblical Misuse: Exposing the Truth on Immigration & Family Separation

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Last week Jeff Sessions used the Bible to justify kidnapping children, separating families, and continuing one of the cruelest immigration policies in US history.
Connecting #churchtoo, Kaepernick and Christian nationalism

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What is the connection between rampant pastoral in evangelical churches and evangelicalism’s collusion with conservative politics?
Jesus and self defense

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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.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Slaveholder Religion

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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.
Post traumatic history disorder

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Acknowledging the truth of our history can be painful, overwhelming and even traumatic. The history itself is also one of traumatization.
Mark Charles: Is America a Christian Nation?

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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.
The risk of believing differently

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Is it worth losing the certainty you once had to pursue a better picture of God? What if God becomes harder to believe in?
Brian Zahnd – Making Christianity possible again

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Brian Zahnd joins us to talk about how to make Christianity viable for this generation and generations to come.
Rachel Held Evans: Faith, Doubt & De-Weaponizing the Bible

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Rachel Held Evans joins us to discuss the Bible and what to do with it.
The myth of the slippery slope

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If you start believing things outside your faith circle you might fall down a slippery slope… Should you be afraid of that?
Wrath and Liberation

Atonement Episodes

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?