What does it feel like to change your beliefs? What can we teach our children when we're not sure what we believe? Nate talks to Audrey Assad who was part of creating and then leaving the evangelical culture through conservative Christian music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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98: Audrey Assad - Psychedelics, Christian Music and Parenting

Why is science denialism more prominent in the Christian church? What are the consequences of suppressing scientific curiosity in the Church? How do we have conversations with friends and family who deny scientific findings and new information? Nate talks with world renowned astrophysicist Dr. Mario Livio about his new book Galileo: And the Science Deniers. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Host: Nate Hanson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

97: Dr. Mario Livio - Galileo and science deniers

Why is Mister Rogers' message to children better than Sunday school? How did Dave Ramsey make the accusation of money a christian value? How can Attachment Theory shine a light on shame-filled messages we often hear in the church? Nate sits down with his friends Danielle and Krispin Mayfield to discuss all of this and more. You can also check out Krispin's podcast Attached to the Invisible and their joint podcast The Prophetic Imagination Station. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Host: Nate Hanson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

96: Krispin and D.L. Mayfield - Mister Rogers, Dave Ramsey and Attachment Theory

In light of the scandal involving Ravi Zacharias, Nate talks with Julie Anne Smith about Lori Anne Thompson's survivor story and power structures in the Church that allow for both spiritual and sexual abuse. What are good comebacks to many of the common responses we hear from Christian's about sexual abuse scandals? What needs to change to break this cycle? We get into all of that. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Host: Nate Hanson

95: Julie Anne Smith - Spiritual and Sexual Abuse

How did a suffering servant named Jesus of Nazareth lead to Christians in America electing and defending someone so opposite in Donald Trump? When and why did voting Pro Life become the main issue in evangelicalism? For all of us that see the problems with Trumpism and evangelicalism already, where do we go from here? Nate talks with Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez about her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Host: Nate Hanson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

94: Dr. Kristin Du Mez - From Jesus to Trump

Why did we take a break from the show for almost a year? Nate and Tim share about what happened to them personally in 2020 and talk about what is coming next for the show. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter

93: What happened in 2020

What does it even mean to be unequally yoked? And does any part of the New Testament actually forbid Christians getting married to people who aren’t Christian? And if so, why? (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter Music: jpoetic

92: Unequally yoked

God’s spirit living inside of our bodies. That is the central, climactic idea of the New Testament. But what if this grand climax also turned out to be a little disappointing? And what if much of the New Testament actually seems to acknowledge and deal with that disappointment? (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter Music: jpoetic

91: The Disappointment of the Spirit

How did the early church think about the Levitical system and sacrifices after Jesus? Nate and Tim discuss this common and problematic question while seeking to avoid antisemitic supersessionism and find a more sensible understanding of things. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter Music: jpoetic

90: Sacrifice after Jesus

Is baptism really just a bath? Does God really only forgive ignorant people? What is the order of operations related to atonement? Nate and Tim respond to a few more listener questions. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter Music: jpoetic

89: Shower first, spirit second

Nate and Tim respond to a few listener questions, discussing how forgiveness itself is tied to liberation as well as why universal atonement isn’t just a possibility but a necessity. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter Music: jpoetic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

88: Atonement must be Universal

What does holiness and chemical atonement have to do with liberation and ransom? Did Jesus pay a ransom price, and if so, to who? And how might we better synthesize these various ways of describing what Jesus accomplished? (We even get into The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and how C.S. Lewis portrays the ransom theory in Narnia.) (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter Music: jpoetic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

87: Ransom

What do ancient science, the “scapegoat” of Yom Kippur, and holy tree branches have to do with Jesus’ death? And what does resurrection have to do with everything? Nate and Tim continue discussing how the contagious nature of holiness undergirds much of the New Testament theology about Jesus and discover some fascinating ideas along the way. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter Music: jpoetic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

86: Chemistry and Scapegoats

Did Jesus have to die, or is that not even how we should think about it? And why is blood both a source of holiness and defilement? Also, what do menstruation and “nocturnal emissions” have to do with each other in Leviticus? Nate and Tim discuss a few listener questions as well as some of their own. (More)We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here!Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim RitterMusic: jpoetic

85: Did Jesus have to die?

Did Jesus have to die, or is that not even how we should think about it? And why is blood both a source of holiness and defilement? Also, what do menstruation and “nocturnal emissions” have to do with each other in Leviticus? Nate and Tim discuss a few listener questions as well as some of their own. (More) We have a second podcast called Utterly Heretical just for supporters of the show. You can listen to that here! Hosts: Nate Hanson / Tim Ritter Music: jpoetic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two former pastors rethinking the so-called orthodoxy of the American evangelical theology they used to teach. The podcast is conversations on faith, the Bible, church, race, gender and more. (Email us: contact@almostheretical.com)

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