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Credo House of Theology: Update

You can now visit our new website dedicated to this project. Doors should be opening in a few weeks!

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Misled By Experience

This concerns an event that happened in 2003 with my sister Angie. When my sister Angie was sick with depression, the entire family was perpetually in fear of what she might...

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Odds and Ends

Its my son Zach’s 2 year birthday today. Going to Chuck-e-Cheese. Word about Facebook: the “friend” thing is really odd. I have added a lot of friends that I...

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Does God Exist Debate?

Christopher Hitchens and Frank Turek debate the question, “Does God Exist?” Turek vs. Hitchens Debate: Does God Exist? from Andrew Ketchum on Vimeo.

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What if God Read Your Posts? A Reminder About Christian Conduct on the Internet

I believe that we are to defend the faith. I believe that we are to contend for the faith. One of my great loves in theology is the discipline of apologetics. But sometimes...

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The Number of Textual Variants: An Evangelical Miscalculation

By Dan Wallace In the Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, by Norm Geisler (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998; p. 532), there is a comment about the number of textual variants...

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“Belief is No Good Without Practice” . . . and Other Stupid Statements (Part I'm Done)

Belief is no good without practice is a stupid statement. Yes, I have read James (once or twice). My argument has been pretty simple so far. God is glorified when he is known...

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My Evangelical Bailout Package

“We are on the verge—within 10 years—of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant...

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What Does Believing In Jesus Really Mean?

Acts 16:31, after Paul and Silas are miraculously released from prison, the jailer obviously impressed with fantastic occurrences that freed them asks the simple question...

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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 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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    Ontological Argument: The Definitive Explanation In this episode, I walk through the ontological argument the way Anselm actually framed it—not the simplified version, but the real thing. God is defined as “that than which nothing greater can be conceived.” Once you understand that definition, the argument starts to press in on you in a way […]

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