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The Reading Room: Human Face Divine

How do we understand God in the midst of suffering?  What does it mean to search for God and to have trouble finding him?  In this meditation on Paradise Lost,

The Reading Room: The Satanic Mind

The Fall of the Rebel Angels…  Down through endless darkness and deep perdition.  This week in The Reading Room, David plunges deep down into the abyss of the opening books

The Reading Room: Introducing Paradise Lost

“Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” Gentle listener, for a moment this Advent

The History of Freedom, P.II: Giraffes with Long Necks

Telos.  Nature.  Plato’s Cave.  In-N-Out.  John 8:31-32.  And, of course, Giraffes.  In this episode, Justin and I attempt to chart the last leg of our history of freedom as we

The History of Freedom, P.1: Nihilism to Enlightenment

“Don’t Tread on Me!”  “Get off my lawn!”  “‘Merica!”  We are a people obsessed with the idea of individual sovereignty and autonomy.  We are also consumers at our core and

Exorcising the Imagination: Christianity and Literature

Demons.  Frank Peretti.  Stephen King.  The Incarnation.  What is the role of literature in the life of a Christian?  Over the years, I have heard many Christians dismiss fiction as

Electric Sheep: Christianity and Technology, P.2

“Great.  So, it’s a massive problem.  Now what?” In the second part of my conversation with Justin Lee, we turn our discussion to how one resists a culture of fragmentation

Electric Sheep: Christianity and Technology, P.1

Did Jesus dream of Electric Sheep?  Probably not.  But how should Christians think about their relationship to technology in an age of mass distraction? In this episode, Justin Lee (contributing

The Big Short: The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

In our Second Episode, Pastor John and I sit down to tackle the subject of Evangelicals and the Life of the Mind.  Using Mark Noll’s book, The Scandal of the

Pinocchio and the Whale: How to Read the Bible Well

In our first episode, Pastor John Hallowell and I sit down for a deep dive into how we ought to approach reading the Bible and the very real problems that

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