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Tactless Christianity

All the knowledge in the world with no tact is worthless. A little knowledge with a lot of tact can change the world. “Handling” people. That is one of the hardest...

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Ecclesiology (Church)
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Do We Really Need to be Culturally Relevant?

(Lisa Robinson) Every Sunday morning, I am transported to another place in time. There are no contemporary aesthetics, only architecture and relics that scream...

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Christian Crusades
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Four Misconceptions About the Crusades: #3 The Travesty of the Fourth Crusade

This is probably the hardest misconception for me to write about. It is not so much that I am unsure about my leanings here, it is just that I have held to this misconception...

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Roman Catholicism
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Theology Unplugged: Roman Catholicism – Part 6 – Purgatory

[display_podcast] Join Michael Patton, Tim Kimberley, JJ Seid and Sam Storms as they continue their series on Roman Catholicism by discussing the topic of Purgatory.

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Christian Life
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Don't Compete with the Super Bowl

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Apologetics
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A Letter to (Some) Atheists

(please note: I did not create this chart so I am not responsible for misspellings!) Dear atheist, As I am sure you know, I am not an atheist. I am a Christian and I am very...

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Faith
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Four Types of Faith

There are four different ways to define faith. It is incredibly important that we, as Christians, don’t go wrong here. 1. Blind Faith: Faith is a blind leap into the...

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Church History
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A Summary of Justo Gonzalez's Visit to Credo House

I just sat down after a long day’s events. Phew! What a day. As part of the “Converse with Scholars” series at the Credo House, our special guest for an...

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Christian Crusades
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Four Misconceptions About the Crusades: #2 The Crusaders Were Greedy Opportunists

Misconception #1: The Crusades Were Not Provoked   Misconception #2: The Crusaders Were Greedy Opportunists One popular history textbook talks about the Crusades as the...

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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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