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Episode 230: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - Pete & Jared Ruin Christmas S6/
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Dec 12 2022
Episode 229: Joel Marcus - Parting of the Ways Between Judaism & Christianity S6/
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Dec 5 2022
Episode 228: Emilie Townes - The Wisdom of Hope (REISSUE) S6/
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Nov 28 2022
Episode 227: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Joshua S6/
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Nov 21 2022
Episode 226: Meredith Riedel - What is Byzantine Christianity? (And Why Should We Care?) S6/
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Nov 14 2022
Episode 225: Daniel Kirk - Romans Isn’t What You Think It Is S6/
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Nov 7 2022
Episode 224: Gregory Mobley - Satan’s Biblical Roots S6/
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Oct 31 2022
Episode 223: Jared Byas - Misconceptions About Deconstruction & the Bible S6/
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Oct 24 2022
Episode 222: Pamela Eisenbaum - Paul & Salvation S6/
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Oct 17 2022
Episode 221: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - How to Read the Bible Now That We've Ruined It S6/
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Oct 10 2022
Episode 220: Joel Baden - The Historical David S6/
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Oct 3 2022
Episode 219: Jemar Tisby - Acknowledging Racism in the Church S6/
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Sep 26 2022
Episode 218: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Deuteronomy S6/
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Sep 19 2022
Episode 217: Jonathan Jong - How Scientists Study Religion S6/
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Sep 12 2022
Episode 216: Rev. Dr. Angela N. Parker - The White Supremacy of Inerrancy S6/
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Sep 5 2022
Episode 215: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - The Center of the Hebrew Bible S6/
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Aug 29 2022
Episode 214: Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg - On Repentance and Repair S6/
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Aug 15 2022
Episode 213: Amanda Held Opelt - The Honesty of Grief S6/
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Aug 1 2022
Episode 212: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Numbers S6/
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Jul 18 2022
Episode 211: David P. Gushee - Christian Ethics & the Memory of Jesus S6/
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Jul 4 2022
Episode 210: Sidnie White Crawford - What You Really Need to Know about the Dead Sea Scrolls S6/
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Jun 20 2022
Episode 209: Jared Byas - Making of the Modern Mindset, Part 4 S6/
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Jun 6 2022
Episode 208: David Farrier - What's Going On With Megachurches? S6/
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May 30 2022
Episode 207: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - Respecting the Bible for What It Is (And Isn’t) S6/
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May 23 2022
Episode 206: Dale C. Allison - Approaching the Resurrection of Jesus as a Historian S6/
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May 16 2022
Episode 205: Amy Kenny - My Body Is Not a Prayer Request S6/
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May 9 2022
Episode 204: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Leviticus S6/
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May 2 2022
Episode 203: Andre Henry - Systemic Racism in the Church S6/
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Apr 25 2022
Episode 202: Jeff Chu - Grief as a Biblical Practice (Reissue) S6/
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Apr 18 2022
Episode 201: Debra Rienstra - Eco-Theology: Beyond Stewardship S6/
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Apr 11 2022
Episode 200: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - Does the Bible Still Matter? S6/
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Apr 4 2022
Episode 199: Becca Stevens - Reimagining Scripture for a Suffering World S6/
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Mar 28 2022
Episode 198: Anna Sieges - The Minor Prophets and Why We Shouldn't Call Them That S6/
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Mar 21 2022
Episode 197: Jared Byas - Making of the Modern Mindset, Part 3 S6/
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Mar 14 2022
Episode 196: Chris Hoklotubbe - The Bible and Native American Spirituality S6/
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Mar 7 2022
Episode 195: Gary Rendsburg - History and the Exodus S6/
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Feb 28 2022
Episode 194: Pete Enns - Staying Christian Is Hard, Isn't It? S6/
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Feb 21 2022
Episode 193: Lisa Sharon Harper - The Meaning of the Image of God S6/
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Feb 14 2022
Episode 192: Bishop Michael Curry - Love Makes Room for Us All S6/
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Feb 7 2022
Episode 191: Pete & Jared - Creative Interpretation as Necessary S5/
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Dec 13 2021
Episode 190: Austin Channing Brown - Preaching the Bible in the Black Church (Reissue) S5/
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Dec 6 2021
Episode 189: Pete Enns - Faith and the New Normal S5/
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Nov 29 2021
Episode 188: Willie James Jennings - The Book of Acts & the Acts of the Spirit S5/
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Nov 22 2021
Episode 187: Kirsten Powers - How Grace Saves Us S5/
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Nov 14 2021
Episode 186: Jared Byas - Making of the Modern Mindset, Part 2 S5/
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Nov 8 2021
Episode 185: Randy Woodley - Following Jesus as a Native Traditionalist S5/
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Nov 1 2021
Episode 184: Heather Macumber - Monsters in the Bible S5/
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Oct 25 2021
Episode 183: Jennifer Bashaw - What Did the Crucifixion Do? S5/
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Oct 18 2021
Episode 182: Pete & Jared - The Evolution of Adam S5/
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Oct 11 2021
Episode 181: Kate Bowler - The Prosperity Gospel & a Theology of Suffering S5/
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Oct 4 2021
Episode 180: Brian K. Blount - Revelation for Today S5/
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Sep 27 2021
Episode 179: Paul Deal - Integrating Faith and Psychology S5/
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Sep 20 2021
Episode 178: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Isaiah S5/
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Sep 13 2021
Episode 177: Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. - Social Justice & the Radical Gospel S5/
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Sep 6 2021
Episode 176: Jared Byas - The Making of the Modern Mindset, Pt. 1 S5/
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Aug 23 2021
Episode 175: Jodi Magness - The Jesus of Archaeology S5/
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Aug 9 2021
Episode 174: Brian McLaren - The Four Stages of Faith S5/
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Jul 26 2021
Episode 173: Cheryl B. Anderson - The Ethical Impact of Biblical Interpretation S5/
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Jul 12 2021
Episode 172: Pete Enns - A Whole Different Way of Reading Genesis S5/
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Jun 28 2021
Episode 171: Ted Lewis - The Origins of God S5/
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Jun 14 2021
Episode 170: Kristin Kobes Du Mez - A Modern Church History of Toxic Masculinity S5/
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Jun 7 2021
Episode 169: Pete & Jared - The Bible and the "Problem of History" S5/
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May 31 2021
Episode 168: Xavier Pickett - When Did White Christian America Lose Its Mind? (Reissue) S5/
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May 24 2021
Episode 167: Joshua Harris - A Story of Public Deconstruction S5/
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May 17 2021
Episode 166: Matthew Paul Turner - Teaching God to Our Kids S5/
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May 10 2021
Episode 165: Stephanie Tait - Disability Theology is for Everyone S5/
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May 3 2021
Episode 164: Pete Enns - Where Did Our Bible Come From? S5/
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Apr 26 2021
Episode 163: Tripp Fuller - Thinking About Jesus Today S5/
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Apr 19 2021
Episode 162: Jared & Sarah Byas - Parenting in a Faith Transition S5/
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Apr 12 2021
Episode 161: Amanda Mbuvi - Finding Ourselves in the Stories of the Bible S5/
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Apr 5 2021
Episode 160: Pete and Jared - The Risk of an "Errant" Bible S5/
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Mar 29 2021
Episode 159: Richard Elliott Friedman - Who Wrote the Pentateuch? S5/
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Mar 22 2021
Episode 158: Maria Doerfler - Reading the Bible in Times of Crisis S5/
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Mar 15 2021
Episode 157: Nadia Bolz-Weber - Being a Christian in the Messiness S5/
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Mar 8 2021
Episode 156: Pete and Jared - Your Questions About Prayer, Marriage, White Jesus, an Angry God, and a Murky Bible S5/
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Mar 1 2021
Episode 155: Sarah Bessey - Why Bother Praying? S5/
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Feb 22 2021
Episode 154: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler - How Jews & Christians Read the Bible Differently S5/
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Feb 15 2021
Episode 153: James Kugel - Shifting Perspectives on God in the Bible S5/
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Feb 8 2021
Episode 152: Pete Enns - What Makes Christianity Different? S5/
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Feb 1 2021
Episode 151: 2020 - Let's Not and Say We Did S4/
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Dec 14 2020
Episode 150: Christopher Rollston - Where Does Hebrew Come From? S4/
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Dec 7 2020
Episode 149: Dan Koch - The End Times & American Christian Culture S4/
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Nov 30 2020
Episode 148: Pete Enns - Adam, Evangelicalism, & the Metanarrative of Evolution S4/
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Nov 23 2020
Episode 147: Benjamin D. Sommer - Does God Have a Body? S4/
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Nov 16 2020
Episode 146: Jared Byas - Rediscovering Jonah - Part 3 S4/
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Nov 9 2020
Episode 145: Emilie Townes - The Wisdom of Hope S4/
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Nov 2 2020
Episode 144: Austen Hartke - The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians (REISSUE) S4/
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Oct 26 2020
Episode 143: Martha Himmelfarb - Second Temple Judaism & Apocalyptic Literature S4/
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Oct 19 2020
Episode 142: Jared Byas - Rediscovering Jonah - Part 2 S4/
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Oct 12 2020
Episode 141: John Franke - God Is On a Mission and So Can You S4/
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Oct 5 2020
BONUS Episode: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott - What Archaeologists Do & Why it Matters S4/
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Oct 1 2020
Episode 140: Paula Fredriksen - When Christians Were Jews S4/
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Sep 28 2020
Episode 139: Pete Enns - You Have Questions, Pete Has Answers S4/
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Sep 21 2020
Episode 138: Pete & Jared - How Love Changes the Meaning of the Bible S4/
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Sep 14 2020
Episode 137: James Kugel - Challenging Our Assumptions About the Bible S4/
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Sep 7 2020
Episode 136: Ariel Sabar - Telling the Truth About Jesus' Wife S4/
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Aug 24 2020
Episode 135: Gary Anderson - How the Bible Talks About Sin S4/
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Aug 10 2020
Episode 134: Ilia Delio - Grounding God in Evolution S4/
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Jul 27 2020
Episode 133: Pete Enns - The Book of Job S4/
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Jul 13 2020
Episode 132: Joe Gordon - A Conversation About Inspiration S4/
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Jun 29 2020
Episode 131: Pete & Jared - Did the Bible Get it Wrong? S4/
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Jun 15 2020
Episode 130: Drew Hart - The Bible, Race, & White Supremacy (REISSUE) S4/
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Jun 8 2020
Episode 129: Brooke Prentis - Reading the Bible Through Aboriginal Eyes S4/
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May 25 2020
Episode 128: Matthias Henze - The Bible & Second Temple Judaism S4/
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May 18 2020
Episode 127: Miguel De La Torre - Diverse Voices in Biblical Scholarship S4/
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May 11 2020
Episode 126: Kirsten Powers - The Journey To Grace S4/
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May 4 2020
Episode 125: Pete Enns - Big Ideas that Shaped Biblical Scholarship: Julius Wellhausen and the Pentateuch S4/
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Apr 27 2020
Episode 124: Yii-Jan Lin - Immigration & the Book of Revelation S4/
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Apr 20 2020
Episode 123: Jared Byas - Rediscovering Jonah - Part 1 S4/
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Apr 13 2020
Episode 122: Emerson Powery - The Bible as a Source of Liberation S4/
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Apr 6 2020
Episode 121: Pete and Jared - Pete and Jared Talk About the Afterlife S4/
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Mar 30 2020
Episode 120: Jack Levison - The Spirit, Wind, & Breath of God in the Bible S4/
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Mar 23 2020
Episode 119: Xavier Ramey - Diversity, Social Justice, and the Gospel S4/
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Mar 16 2020
Episode 118: Meghan Henning - Does Hell Exist? S4/
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Mar 9 2020
Episode 117: Pete Enns - Reading the Old Testament Christotelicly S4/
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Mar 2 2020
Episode 116: Sarah Ruden - Getting Inside the Head of Paul & Jesus S4/
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Feb 24 2020
Episode 115: Alison Cook - Your Emotions Are Not Your Spiritual Enemy S4/
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Feb 17 2020
Episode 114: Pete and Jared - How to Read the Bible in 2020 S4/
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Feb 10 2020
Episode 113: James Martin - The Gift of Imagination in Reading Scripture S4/
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Feb 3 2020
Season 4 Teaser trailer S4/
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Jan 27 2020
Episode 112: Pete and Jared - How “How the Bible Actually Works” Works S3/
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Dec 16 2019
Episode 111: Tom Oord - Uncontrolling Love of God S3/
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Dec 9 2019
Episode 110: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Exodus (Part 6) S3/
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Dec 2 2019
Episode 109: Megan DeFranza - The Bible and Intersex Believers S3/
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Nov 25 2019
Episode 108: Pete Wehner - Faith, Politics, & Polarization S3/
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Nov 18 2019
Episode 107: Cindy Wang Brandt - Raising Children in the Faith S3/
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Nov 11 2019
Episode 106: Jared Byas - 5 Principles for Biblical Interpretation S3/
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Nov 4 2019
Episode 105: Wil Gafney - Womanist Midrash (Reissue) S3/
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Oct 28 2019
Episode 104: Jeff Chu - Grief As A Biblical Practice S3/
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Oct 21 2019
Episode 103: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Exodus (Part 5) S3/
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Oct 14 2019
Episode 102: Jonathan Martin - Pentecostalism as Mysticism S3/
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Oct 7 2019
Episode 101: Andrew Perriman - Does the New Testament Predict the Future? S3/
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Sep 30 2019
Episode 100: Pete & Jared on Genesis S3/
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Sep 23 2019
Episode 99: Jennifer Knust - The Bible As A Living Document S3/
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Sep 16 2019
Episode 98: Pete Holmes - Pete Holmes Talks About Comedy, Sex, & God S3/
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Sep 9 2019
Episode 97: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Exodus: Part 4 S3/
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Sep 2 2019
Episode 96: Jared Byas - Christian Ethics S3/
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Aug 26 2019
Episode 95: Cheryl Bridges Johns - The Bible & Women’s Spirituality S3/
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Aug 12 2019
Episode 94: Pete & Jared - Do We Know God is Good From the Bible? S3/
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Jul 29 2019
Episode 93: Keesmaat & Walsh - Resisting Empire in the Book of Romans S3/
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Jul 15 2019
Episode 92: AJ Levine - Jesus, Judaism, & Christianity (REISSUE) S3/
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Jul 1 2019
Episode 91: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Exodus (Part 3) S3/
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Jun 17 2019
Episode 90: Richard Rohr - The (Biblical) Universal Christ S3/
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Jun 3 2019
Episode 89: Pete and Jared - David’s Sordid Past: This Ain’t No Kids Story S3/
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May 27 2019
Episode 88: Rachel Held Evans - Reading The Bible Creatively S3/
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May 20 2019
Episode 87: Robert Alter - The Art of Translating the Bible S3/
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May 13 2019
Episode 86: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Exodus (Part 2) S3/
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May 7 2019
Episode 85: Austen Hartke - The Bible & The Lives of Transgender Christians S3/
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Apr 29 2019
Episode 84: Jared Byas - Paul is Frustrating: On Fornication & Wives Obeying Husbands in Colossians S3/
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Apr 22 2019
Episode 83: Judy Stack - The Gospel of Matthew on Integrity & Hypocrisy S3/
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Apr 15 2019
Episode 82: Linda Kay Klein - Breaking Free From Purity Culture S3/
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Apr 8 2019
Episode 81: Pete & Jared - Truth is Subjective . . . Even in the Bible S3/
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Apr 1 2019
Episode 80: Jonathan Walton - Reading the Bible Through the Lens of Love S3/
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Mar 25 2019
Episode 79: Austin Channing Brown - Preaching the Bible in the Black Church S3/
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Mar 18 2019
Episode 78: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Exodus (Part 1) S3/
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Mar 11 2019
Episode 77: Elizabeth Enns Petters - Anxiety in the Life of Faith S3/
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Mar 4 2019
Episode 76: Xavier Pickett - So When Did White Christian America Lose Its Mind? S3/
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Feb 25 2019
Episode 75: Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch - The Bible & Film S3/
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Feb 18 2019
Episode 74: Pete & Jared - God’s Children Tell the Story S3/
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Feb 11 2019
Episode 73: Propaganda - What Does Christian Art Even Mean? S3/
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