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Five Words that Changed My Life

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was ditching a class in high school. It was third hour, I think. That is the hour we always ditched. We were in my friend’s jeep....

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10 Books Every Christian Should Have (Michael’s List)

The following is my objective, absolute, written in heaven, add it to the Bible list of the top ten books every Christian should have. The post is in response to our latest...

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10 Books Every Christian Should Have (Tim’s List)

While Michael’s list is silly and heavily subjective, here is my more level-headed list. The post is in response to our latest Theology Unplugged Podcast on the same...

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Theology Unplugged: 10 Books Every Christian Should Have

Join C. Michael Patton and Tim Kimberley as they discuss their essential reading lists for Christians. [display_podcast] Other ways to get TUP: Theology Unplugged Page RSS iTunes

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Six Views of What it Means to Be “Orthodox”

Have you ever been called a heretic? Have you ever had someone say that your faith is “unorthodox”? Have you ever wondered what it meant to be...

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Questions I Hope No One Will Ask: What Will We Be Doing in Heaven?

The following is the latest post in my “Questions I Hope No One Will Ask” series. Check out all the posts in this series here. Thus far in human history, outside...

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Theology Unplugged: An Invitation to Calvinism, Part 3

Join Michael Patton, Tim Kimberley and Sam Storms as they discuss Calvinism. [display_podcast] Other ways to get TUP: Theology Unplugged Page RSS iTunes

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If God Has Stopped Speaking Then Why Do I Still Hear Him?

(by Lisa Robinson) It has been five years since my ‘conversion’ from being a somewhat radical charismatic to embrace a soft-cessationist position…I think. ...

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Urine

Last night I went to pick  Zach, my three-year-old, up from his class at church. When I dropped him off, the sign-in sheet asked, “Any special instructions?” I...

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The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust
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The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust

Podcast culture is telling us something—and it’s not just about who people are listening to, but why they trust them.

As voices like Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan rise, trust in institutions continues to collapse. Government, media, and even scientific authorities are no longer seen as stable sources of truth. But this does not mean truth itself is disappearing. It means confidence in those who interpret and deliver truth is fading.

In this episode, I make a critical distinction: science isn’t collapsing—trust in interpreters of science is. Science is a method. But people don’t live by methods—they live by meaning. And when the messengers lose credibility, people begin looking elsewhere for something to anchor their understanding of reality.

The deeper issue is that we are no longer building complete worldviews. Instead, we are assembling beliefs like a playlist—pulling ideas from wherever they resonate without asking whether they actually fit together. But a real worldview must answer real questions: What is ultimate reality? How do we know anything? Are there real morals? What is our purpose? What happens after death?

When those questions go unanswered, a vacuum is created. And that vacuum never stays empty.

This is where the “new prophets” begin to emerge—not from institutions, but from experience. And in a world that no longer trusts shared authority, experience itself begins to take the throne.

This episode sets the stage for understanding how we got here—and why what replaces truth may be far more dangerous than what we lost.

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  • The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust 2026-04-08
    The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust Podcast culture is telling us something—and it’s not just about who people are listening to, but why they trust them. As voices like Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan rise, trust in institutions continues to collapse. Government, media, and even scientific authorities are no longer seen […]
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    Israel, the Camaro, and the Faithfulness of God Can a promise from God mean more than the original hearer understood without meaning less than what God actually said? In this episode of Theology Unplugged, we look at one of the most important questions in biblical interpretation: how should Christians understand Old Testament promises in light […]

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