Easter 2020. The churches are empty, and the shadow of death hangs over our land. As Joni Mitchell sang, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone….” Have we, as a society, lost something that we’ll never r

A Primer On Culture And A Warning About Role Models

Mar 28th, 2020 20m 38s

Like any human enterprise, culture can serve as a vehicle for good or evil. What of our culture? The values modeled by those in power give us a clue.... In Part 3 of Adam’s Evolutionary Journey, I said, “Human beings are indoctrinated into sin

Kierkegaard’s Complaint: Putting Adam ‘Fantastically Outside’ of History

Feb 23rd, 2020 16m 54s

Was Adam directly created from dust and placed in a sinless, deathless paradise? If so, how does he represent me before God? What does a perfect man in a perfect environment have in common with anyone?

Becoming Christ: The Political Context

Feb 8th, 2020 32m 50s

Since everyone is obsessed with politics this week, the time seemed right for another episode of Becoming Christ. As I mentioned in the first episode, to understand Jesus, we must enter his story and view him through the eyes of his first-centu

God’s Presence and Guidance in Evolution

Jan 30th, 2020 15m

Before my unexpected “vacation,” one of my podcast listeners had asked for clarity on my series, Adam’s Evolutionary Journey. “After listening to Episode 3,” she wrote, “I was left feeling a little empty. Where is God in the evolutionary proces

Culture War, Inerrancy, Tolstoy, & the Gospels: A Personal Journey

Jan 11th, 2020 14m 50s

My formative years were spent in ultra-conservative Amarillo, Texas, during the 1970s. My family faithfully attended a Methodist church down the street from our house, and this being the ’70s, we piled into the car and drove to the end of the b

Becoming Christ: The Birth of Jesus the Anointed

Jan 1st, 2020 26m 32s

Living in a predominantly Christian culture, all of us – even those of us who don’t identify as Christian – think we know who Jesus is. We grew up decorating Christmas trees, singing carols, and watching Charlie Brown specials. Many of us atten

Genealogical Adam & Eve Makes God a Monster

Dec 22nd, 2019 15m 5s

Biologist Joshua Swamidass claims the ‘fall’ took place as recently as 4000 BC. Are murder, cannibalism, magic, and idolatry not sinful? ... In my previous review of Genealogical Adam & Eve, I focused mainly on the scientific problems with the

Adam's Evolutionary Journey, Pt. 3: Genesis & Evolution in Dialogue

Dec 15th, 2019 24m 20s

Can the ‘fall’ be an actual event in human history? Is ‘original sin’ something real, or just a Christian fairytale? ... The structural metaphor that MORAL KNOWLEDGE = COMING OF AGE is immediately grasped by every human being in every culture,

The Death of Genealogical Adam: Shipwrecked in the Bass Strait

Dec 10th, 2019 18m 20s

Biologist Joshua Swamidass says a literal Adam and Eve could have lived as recently as 6000 years ago. Tasmania says otherwise. ... What does genealogy have to do with Adam and Eve? Simply, it allowed them to become everyone’s “parents” without

Adam's Evolutionary Journey, Pt. 2

Dec 6th, 2019 19m 43s

Genesis hints that language, empathy, and morality hold the keys to human uniqueness. What does science say? Can the ‘fall’ be historical?Listen or Read. Your Choice.Thefirst steps toward human language required walking on two

Adam's Evolutionary Journey, Pt. 1: Science & Scripture in Conversation

Dec 2nd, 2019 19m 25s

Given the fact of evolution, was there a historical “fall”? Without a literal Adam and Eve and a literal command to break, was the biblical “fall” even possible?Listen or Read. Your ChoiceIn the last decade, genetics effectively

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