Recovering Evangelicals Podcast
1) #198 – Peter Enns: How we got the Old Testament
Divine dictation of fully-formed books, or a gradual evolution of texts at the hands of authors, editors, interpreters, redactors, copyists, collectors, ……? This will be the first of several episodes ...Show More
2) #197 – updating the Exodus and Christian faith
A new understanding of the ancient story of Israel’s exodus out of Egypt leads to a whole new understanding of the Passover … and of the crucifixion! In this episode, Scott and Luke look back on the t...Show More
3) #196 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 2 (re-release)
Science now makes the Sunday School version of this story no longer tenable, leaving three options for believers: ignore the problem, reject the Bible, or revise one’s theology. The story of “the Exod...Show More
4) #195 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 1 (re-release)
Although the origin story for Jews, and the foundation for much of Christian theology, many scholars will ask: did it really happen (that way)? Moses leading the newly-born nation of Israel out of sla...Show More
5) #194 – The three existential threats of Dispensationalism
Last week we said this “mind-virus” could end up destroying the planet; this week we explain the three biggest reasons why/how. Last week’s episode title claimed “Dispensationalism” could end up destr...Show More
6) #193 – The word that most have never heard of, but that could end up destroying our planet
Very few have heard of “Dispensationalism,” and fewer could give a paragraph-length definition of it, and yet it saturates Evangelical thinking and influences much of what is in the news headlines tod...Show More
7) #192 – Looking back at S6 (and forward to S7?)
A retrospective on how well we achieved our goals for this season, and pondering whether we need to do some re-branding before the next!? August is a busy time of year for us: vacations … road-trips …...Show More
8) #191 – A more human (and relatable) Jesus
Although Christians may say that “Jesus was fully human and fully divine,” many of them tend to slow-pedal the first half of that fundamental tenet. A fundamental Christian belief is that Jesus was fu...Show More
9) #190 – Theological anthropology updated
It’s time to revise our picture of human origins, and the theology built up around the one handed down to us by authors and church fathers who knew nothing about our hominid cousins. This is the final...Show More
10) #189 – Human morality has been evolving upwards!?
A strident secular humanist, two Christians (and a Jewish rabbi) compare perspectives on their agreed claim that human morality has been on the upswing. A year ago, we did an episode with a Jewish rab...Show More