Episode 89: A Crash Course in the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Part 1)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | RSSSummary October 7, 2023, saw the attack on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas. Conflict is nothing new to this region, but for Americans, the way in which the...
Does Jesus Ever Talk About Homosexuality?
I was in my mid-20s living in San Diego. I joined some people from a nearby church and went to a Pride parade to pass out water, give hugs, and hold signs saying “We are sorry the church hasn’t loved you the way Jesus would” (or something along those lines). All of a...
The Importance of Christmas Traditions
What do you think of when you hear the word tradition? Your great aunt’s famous casserole? Opening a single gift on Christmas Eve? Watching that creepy claymation Rudolph film? (You know… the one with the elf who wants to be a dentist?) Most of our families have some...
A Crash Course in Judaism
When you think about Judaism, what comes to mind? When I was growing up, we had a menorah in our house that we’d light for Hanukkah even though we weren’t Jewish, and I remember Adam Sandler’s famous song about all the famous people who are Jewish (which we included...
Why Doesn’t the Oldest Gospel Include the Resurrection?
If the resurrection really was the central teaching of the New Testament, wouldn't we expect to find it in the oldest Gospel accounts? Share on XThis was a question I was asked on Twitter a few days ago. It included a bunch of other stuff, but that was the main...
Why did God Create the Tree in the First Place?
A few weeks ago, our church’s 3rd-5th graders were learning about the creation story from Genesis, and I was brought in to the planning process to help address common science misconceptions that the kids will encounter as they get older. (i.e. “Science can disprove...
But Jesus Never CLAIMED to be God? Actually, He Did—3 Times
By Alisa Childers One of the most common objections skeptics raise to the deity of Christ is the idea that Jesus never actually claimed to be God. Sure the church ended up worshiping Him as such, but this was a later development that was projected onto Jesus but...
MBA 18: Why Does the God of the Old Testament Seem So Different from the God of the New Testament?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | Android | RSS“It is often said with a sneer that the God of Israel was only a God of Battles, ‘a mere barbaric Lord of Hosts’ pitted in rivalry against other gods only as their...
MBA 15: Are the New Testament Eyewitnesses Reliable: The Flashbulb Memory Objection
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSThe question of eyewitness reliability is a pertinent conversation that every parent will have (or should have) when their child asks, “How do we know that we can trust the Bible?”...
