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”.
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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.
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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.
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Part 2 in a series on gender and the Bible. Nate and Tim discuss the first of six key New Testament passages pertaining to gender that have traditionally been used to support male authority.
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Part 1 in a series on Jesus and gender: Nate and Tim discuss some prerequisites to looking at New Testament texts pertaining to gender.
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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.
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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.
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What is the connection between rampant pastoral abuse in evangelical churches and evangelicalism’s collusion with conservative politics?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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 joins us to discuss the Bible and what to do with it.
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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?
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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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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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Nate shares why he used to be afraid of God. We explore why penal substitution is worth fighting back on.
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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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