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The Judas Effect: How Evangelicals Betrayed Jesus for Power (with Amy Hawk) | Ep. 90
Amy Hawk spent 25 years inside the evangelical bubble before 2016 brought it down around her. She taught Bible, served as an elder, voted for John McCain and Mitt Romney, then left the church that was her entire life,...
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The Word That Isn't in the Book: An Exploration of the Trinity | Ep. 89
The word Trinity appears nowhere in your Bible, and the one verse that claims to state the doctrine in plain words is missing from every early Greek manuscript. So where did the doctrine come from? The path runs...
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Grace, Sideways: Faith, Doubt, and Deconstruction (with Jack Reese) | Ep. 88
You probably expect a certain type of person to talk to you about deconstruction and doubt. Perhaps someone young and with a lot of life yet to experience. But Jack Reese is 75, a former senior pastor and a professor...
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A Guide for Spiritual Refugees (The Book of Job Pt. 8 with David Gushee) | Ep. 87
I've been on the ash heap with the Book of Job for eight weeks, and this week the author of Job in Exile: A Guide for Spiritual Refugees, Dr. David Gushee, joins me to close it out. Gushee was once America's leading...
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What God Says When You Demand an Answer (The Book of Job Pt. 7) | Ep. 86
For seven weeks, Job has been waiting for God to answer him. In part seven of the Job in Exile series, God finally shows up in the whirlwind and then wants to talk about lions, ravens, mountain goats, and two...
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Offering Answers the Story Refuses (The Book of Job Pt. 6) | Ep. 85
Just when you'd expect the Book of Job to reach its climax, a new character barges in. Elihu is young, angry, and completely certain he has the explanation everyone else somehow missed. In part six of the Job in Exile...
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Humor for Church Trauma (with Joshua Colburn) | Ep. 84
Joshua Colburn spent twenty years inside a megachurch, and now he's known as the "Original Sinfluencer." In this conversation, he and Jeremy dig into why humor and satire might be the most honest tools survivors of...
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Refusing to Lie to Keep the Peace (The Book of Job Pt. 5) | Ep. 83
Job had a way out. All he had to do was apologize for something he never did, agree that God was punishing him, and his whole world would snap back into place. His community, his reputation, his peace, all of it one...
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When Friends Become Accusers (The Book of Job Pt. 4) | Ep. 82
Job's three friends showed up while his life was in ruins, and by the end they had turned into accusers, convinced that a man suffering this much must have earned it. In part four of Job in Exile, I stay in the long,...
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New Eyes, Old Blind Spots (The Book of Job Pt. 3) | Ep. 81
In part three of our Job in Exile series, we sit with something in the book of Job that most of us were trained to read right past. By chapter three, the patient, pious Job we love to quote is gone. He breaks a week...
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Mystical Experiences: How to Know If It's Really God (with John Doyle) | Ep. 80
My guest John Doyle has spent forty years paying attention to the moments most of us file away and never mention out loud. The vision. The voice. The thing that grabbed him when no one was there. He holds these...
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When Your Friends Go Silent (The Book of Job Pt. 2) | Ep. 79
Job's friends showed up, tore their robes, and then said nothing for seven days straight. It's easy to rush past that on the way to the arguments that come later, where these three men get almost everything wrong. But...
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