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 Aug 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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 1h 3min
Faith vs. Works vs. Chaos Monsters
This week we crack open the Epistle of James — a letter that may claim to come from none other than James the brother of Jesus — and wade into one of Christianity's oldest arguments: faith versus work...
6 Jul 1h 6min
The Twelve Tribes of Israel (Give or Take)
This week the Dans try to count to twelve — and find that the number matters a lot more than the names. We dig into the twelve tribes of Israel: how Levi quietly drops out and Joseph splits into Ephra...
29 Jun 59min
Moloch, Mormons, and Mike Lee
Senator Mike Lee keeps accusing his opponents of sacrificing children to Moloch, so this week we ask who — or what — Moloch actually was, why abortion and child sacrifice are not the same thing, and t...
22 Jun 1h
Sins of the (Grand)father
The sins of the fathers! It's a phrase you've heard a thousand times, but did you know it comes straight from the Bible? This week it's Bible versus Bible, and the topic is generational punishment: Go...
15 Jun 1h 3min
