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Why are People Leaving the Church?

  It is no secret that the ranks of the Christian church–the organized Christian church–are thinning. People are less and less likely to be involved in local...

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The Theology Program
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Financial Needs of Our Ministry

I wanted to take some time to let you know of the significant and immediate financial needs of our ministry.

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Christian Life
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Experience: Unreliable, but Important

How many of us can actually approach life as those who evaluate things outside our experience? I know that growing up in a conservative anti-charismatic tradition, I was...

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Culture
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Converse with Scholars? Do we need to?

It was great to see so many new people on Converse with Scholars tonight. I was very disappointed that things did not go too well with the program. We had many voice and...

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Suffering and Pain
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The Uninvited: The Origin of Poneros

You must understand. Poneros has not been around forever. Well, let me clarify. Poneros was not part of original creation. In fact, Poneros is not a creation at all. No one is...

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Jesus Tomb on Converse with Scholars: Mike Licona, Dan Wallace, Robert Bowman and Gary Habermas (UPDATED!!)

LIVE, ONLINE, the Thursday Evening. Come discuss the Jesus Tomb with the Scholars…  Considering all of the attention that has been given to the supposed Jesus Tomb...

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Can God contradict Himself? God’s relation to the law of non-contradiction

I understand the importance that the modern church is placing upon the mystery of God and His truth. I realize that the church has fought so many battles on the island of...

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Engaging Postmodernism (3): Changing the Horse

What are the options Christians are taking when it comes to engaging our postmodern culture? The question is: How do we lead a horse to water? The horse is the postmodern and...

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Personal (Michael Patton)
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Update on family

Once again, thank you all for your kind notes and prayers for me and my family. I thought that I would take some time to give you an update on things.

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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 […]
  • Israel, the Camaro, and the Faithfulness of God 2026-04-08
    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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