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Protest Letter from a Postmodernist

This is a real letter from a student at a well know unnamed Evangelical Bible College. He wrote this to his school’s administration after Campus Crusade for Christ...

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Apologetics
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Atheism Poster

I found this and thought it was cute: So, being bored, I made this out of another atheism poster:

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Uncategorized
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Friday Night Odds and Ends, August 18

Parchment and Pen flashback: Will One White Lie Send You to Hell for All Eternity? An interesting discussion: A Challenge to Michael Patton of Pen and Parchment. This will...

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Text Criticism
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Historical Renewal Friday: Lobegott Tischendorf

Provided by   D.A. LaGue [display_podcast]  In 1841, a young scholar sent a letter to his fiancée, ‘I am confronted with a sacred task,’ he wrote, ‘the struggle to...

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Christian Life
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Should the Church Seek for Miracles Signs?

Hi Michael, I’ve got a very devote Eastern Orthodox friend (he left evangelicalism and converted a few years ago…he is 24…) he goes on and on about all these...

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Dan Wallace - Contra Mundane
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Is the Bible a “Paper Pope” for Protestants?

On the first of March, 1516, the first published Greek New Testament, Erasmus’s Novum Instrumentum, rolled off the printing press. Almost exactly twenty months later the...

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Ecclesiology (Church)
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Theology Unplugged: What is the “True” Church #1

What is the “True” church? Were BACK! And we are not happy. . . well . . . not that happy. OK, we are happy, but that is beside the point. The Pope said we are...

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Apologetics
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A Warning About Pseudo or “Pancake” Apologetics

I am perfectly aware that apologetics as an intellectual enterprise does not produce faith. I am neither Pelagian nor Semi-Pelagian. I recognize the limitations of the human...

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Through Theology in a Year: Introduction to Theology, Session 6

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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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