Episodes

  • S6 EP: 4 Leaving the Church to Find Jesus with Tommy Phillips
    Oct 31 2024

    In their new book, Tommy and Scot McKnight discuss how Jesus is disappearing in the evangelical church, and how this is leading to deconstruction. Aaron and Tommy sit down and talk about what Tommy and Scot found in their new book, Invisible Jesus: A Book about Leaving the Church and Looking for Christ.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • S6 EP:3 What Church History Tells Us About the Modern Church with Dr. Leah Payne
    Oct 17 2024

    In order to understand the state of the church today, we need to look at the church of the past. Dr. Leah Payne joined Aaron on this podcast to discuss what we can learn about church history spanning various topics such as efficiency models, women in ministry, and everything in between.

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    55 mins
  • S6 EP:2 Where is the American Church Headed with Joseph Lear
    Oct 1 2024

    There are a lot of things to be said about the state of the church in America, but what can be said by those who are both pastors and theologians? In this podcast, Aaron chats with Joseph Lear, a pastor and professor, about the church in America today, and where it is headed.

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    55 mins
  • S6 EP:1 The Church, The Academy, PhD's and What We've Learned with Yoon Shin
    Aug 29 2024

    Return guest, Rev. Dr. Yoon Shin, and I sit down to talk about our academic and church life journeys. We talk about the good, bad, ugly, and holy of the academic and church worlds we have found ourselves in. We even get into whether or not we would start PhD's again, and what that process did within us.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • S5 EP:18 How to Engage in Hard Conversations with Ashlee Eiland
    May 9 2024
    Conversations on race, religion, politics, or anything that promises to be controversial has the ability to cause contentious conversations and cause ruptured relationships. In Ashlee Eiland's new book, "Say Good", she argues that this does not have to be the only outcome of hard conversations. In this podcast, Aaron sits down with Ashlee how to have hard and fruitful conversations while staying in good relationship with other.
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    54 mins
  • S5 EP:17 Do We Need to Reconcile the God of the Old and New Testaments with Chris Green
    Apr 4 2024

    A question has plagued Christianity for some time, what do we do with a loving God in the New Testament seen in Christ when we find a God who directs violence in the Old Testament? There are various answers and theories that have been deployed to answer this, and yet, is it even the right question to ask to begin with?


    In this episode, Aaron sits down with friend of the podcast, Chris Green, to discuss his new book, The Fire and the Cloud: A Biblical Christology, and to dig to the heart of the matter at hand. Perhaps it is not the Christ who needs to be reconciled to the God of the Old Testament, but rather, it is our understanding of what reading the text is meant to do in the lives of Christians, and what God does through that text. Christ is not far from the Hebrew Scriptures when we begin to reframe the way we approach the text and when we ask better questions of it.

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • S5 EP:16 The Business of Religion with Nathan Apffel
    Mar 21 2024

    Have you ever wondered about the business of the church? Wondered where your donations or tithes have gone? Have you felt that there has been a lack in the accountability of how churches spend money, or where they put there money into?

    Nate Apffel set out to understand the religion of business in his new series "Religion Business", coming out in the Fall ('24). Listen along as Aaron talks with Nate about the business of religion, the problems, and the potential solution (hint: it is not taxing churches!).

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • S5 EP:12 How Should Christians Vote? - With Michael Wear
    Feb 29 2024

    How should Christians vote? How do we engage in politics? What does it mean to be a Christian in a political world?

    In this podcast, Aaron speaks with the Founder, President, and CEO of the Center for Christianity in Public Life, Michael Wear about the framework needed to answer those questions.

    If you are looking for a podcast that says a Christian should vote for this candidate or that one, this is not that podcast. Rather, Aaron and Michael explore the framework for how Christians engage in political life. Michael's new book "The Spirit of our Politics" is out now, wherever books are sold.

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    39 mins