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An Emerging Understanding of “Orthodox” – Part 3: The Maturing of Orthodoxy

My view of what I call “progressive orthodoxy” allows for maturation and development in our understanding of orthodoxy. Here is the definition I gave in the last...

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Faith
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“Will God Protect My Kids?” – What Am I Supposed to Say

One of my best friends that I grew up with asked me a very hard question about God. I want to share this with you. Let me back up first so you can see the context from...

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Church History
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An Emerging Understanding of “Orthodox” – Part 2: Six Views of Orthodoxy

Christians have different presuppositions that they bring to their theology. This does not make it right or wrong, but we must understand that the unexamined presupposition is...

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Christology
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In What Sense Are Jesus and the Father One? Part III: One in Purpose? B: The Father Is Greater than All

I have argued in previous installments of this series that in John 10:28-30 Jesus claims to be “one†with the Father in the exercise of the...

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Eastern Orthodox
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Why Eastern Orthodoxy? Part 3: A Gospel Critique of Eastern Orthodoxy

Up to now, I’ve been sharing what I think the Orthodox Church has to offer the non-Orthodox community. Now it’s time to turn the tables. My evangelical passions...

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Eastern Orthodox
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Why Eastern Orthodoxy? Part 2: History

Scholars define the Great Tradition as the theological consensus of the majority of believers during the first five hundred or thousand years of Christian history (the dates...

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Dan Wallace - Contra Mundane
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New Testament Manuscripts Discovered in Albania

For a long time, Albania has closed its doors to western scholars. Last summer, a four-person team from the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts went to Tirana to...

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Anthropology
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The Thing Itself – Consequences of the Abortion Debate

Greg CromartieHost of Theology Unplugged Ideas have consequences. The ideas passionately debated in Michael’s blog: Emergers On Abortion: Where Do You Stand? are no...

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Eastern Orthodox
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Why Eastern Orthodoxy? Part 1: Introduction

There are three main bodies of Christians in the world today: Protestants, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox. I myself am personally grateful for evangelicals who helped me come...

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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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    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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