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Gather around, my friends, for one of the great ghost stories of this or any other age.  On this Christmas Pod Special, Laura Batstone and I talk about that Victorian

Continue readingA Christmas Pod Special: Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”

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“Who we are is more important than what we have achieved.”  On this episode of the pod I talk to my friend, Eric Balmer, about fatherlessness and fatherhood, finding identity

Continue readingA Father to the Fatherless : A Conversation w/ Eric Balmer on Fatherhood, Faith, and Rock and Roll

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“WAKE UP!”  “CONNECT THE DOTS!”  “STOP BELIEVING WHAT YOU HEAR FROM THE MEDIA!”  From the Garden of Eden to the present day, human beings have shown a primordial desire to

Continue readingDown the Rabbit Hole: Christians in an Age of Conspiracy Thinking (w/ Laura Batstone)

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We live in a culture of relentless self-optimization.  On the one hand, we are told to be ourselves, that no one is quite like us, that the world needs our

Continue reading“The Tyranny of the Ideal Woman” : A Conversation w/ Laura Batstone

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What is being revealed about our world and ourselves at this particular cultural moment? Many have evoked the language of the End Times and the apocalyptic in light of the

Continue readingThis is the Apocalypse: A Conversation with Rev. Hayden Butler on the Church’s Witness and the World’s Last Night

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K-12 education has been disrupted at an unprecedented scale this year. Few options facing parents are straightforward or reliable or without obvious drawbacks. Virtual, in-person, hybrid? Parents are stressed, some

Continue reading“Children are Born Persons”: A Conversation w/ Beth Young on Children, Education, and the Philosophy of Charlotte Mason

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There really is no hyperbole left.  Evangelicalism is in its death-throes.  We have lost moral credibility with our neighbors.  We have lost intellectual credibility with our neighbors.  And yet we

Continue readingThe Crisis of Evangelicalism: A Conversation w/ Dr. Mark Labberton, President of Fuller Seminary

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We’re baaaaack! Almost. Next week we officially launch Season 2 of the pod. The following week I launch the FBWL Newsletter (https://davewoods.substack.com/welcome). And it couldn’t arrive soon enough. The world

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The ones who will resist the spreading darkness of this historical moment and endure to the end… will be hobbits.  In Part 2 of our final episode, John and I

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Are you a person or a brand? Is political ideology at the core of your identity, or is Christ? Our current historical moment has revealed something that has been obvious

Continue readingPolitics and Personhood: Part 1 of the Final Episode