You Starve ... Glory Be To God?
In three days, the earth opens up and swallows a household whole, fire consumes 250 men, and a plague takes 14,700 more — and then the very next chapter expects us to be impressed by a dead stick grow...
31 Elo 1h 4min
Rod Almighty!
Get your mind out of the gutter — this week it's Aaron's rod, the staff that sprouted buds, blossoms, and ripe almonds overnight to settle once and for all who was in charge. But the text is oddly ins...
24 Elo 59min
The Grandfather of the Hebrew Bible (and What Is Zion?)
In 1929, a farmer in French-occupied Syria hit a rock with his plow and accidentally uncovered the lost city of Ugarit — and with it, a library of Bronze Age tablets that has been quietly reshaping ho...
17 Elo 1h 2min
66 Books, 40 Authors, Zero Contradictions?
You've seen the claim: 66 books, 40 authors, 1,500 years, three continents, three languages — and not one contradiction. This week we take that apologetic apart piece by piece, from the canon that w...
10 Elo 1h 3min
No Originals, No Mercy
There isn't a single surviving original manuscript for any book of the Bible, so how do scholars decide what the earliest recoverable text actually said? This week, it's a primer on textual criticism...
3 Elo 1h 9min
Don't be a jerk...off?
This week it's a "What's That?" double feature! First, we take on the Great Commission. Does Matthew 28 really command every believer to accost strangers on airplanes and by the baggage carousel, or...
27 Heinä 1h
A Trickster God and the Worst Wedding Ever
This week, Christian nationalist Joel Webbin says the quiet part out loud: lie to voters about your theocratic goals until you've got the power to enact them. It's grotesque and profoundly un-American...
20 Heinä 59min
Lean Not on Your Own Understanding (and Other Conversation-Enders)
This week we're taking on the thought-stopping cliché to end all thought-stopping clichés: "trust in the Lord, and lean not on your own understanding." Is "reading with the Holy Spirit" a special line...
13 Heinä 1h 3min
