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Recovering Evangelicals

Recovering Evangelicals

165 Episodes • By Luke Jeffrey Janssen • lukejjanssen.wordpress.com...
A podcast for people who were once very comfortable in their Christian faith … until the 21st century intruded and made it very hard to keep on believing. And for those who are intrigued by science, philosophy, world history, and even world religions …. and want to rationalize that with their Chris ...more
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Recovering Evangelicals
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#165 – What it takes to produce a universe
Getting twenty five fundamental constants and physic... more
Jul 26 2024 1h 30m
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#164 – Fine Tuning: do the physical constants really “demand an explanation”?
“Fine Tuning” really means three very di... more
Jul 19 2024 1h 30m
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#163 – Evolution, a “good” creation, and the problem of pain
Can we say God used evolution to produce a “go... more
Jul 12 2024 1h 30m
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#162 – Bending the arc of the moral universe
Humans have been developing the toolkit needed to fu... more
Jul 5 2024 1h 30m
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#161 – Human evolution, morality, and our ultimate purpose
Human evolution is hard to take for some Christians,... more
Jun 28 2024 1h 30m
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#160 – Richard Dawkins v. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The scientist poster-boy for atheism and an ex-Musli... more
Jun 21 2024 1h 30m
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#159 – Answers-in-Genesis are getting a new leader …. and a Tower of Babel theme park!?
Recent developments in the YECist world, according t... more
Jun 14 2024 1h 30m
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#158 – A clash of wills in a Young Earth Creationist school system
Sparks fly when a Greek Orthodox evolution-accepting... more
Jun 7 2024 1h 30m
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#157 – The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that t... more
May 31 2024 1h 30m
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#156 – An expert’s proposal for this religion-making software in my brain
In addition to enhancing hominid survival and reprod... more
May 24 2024 1h 30m
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#155 – “Is it all just in my head?”
A retrospective journey through four years of episod... more
May 17 2024 50m
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#154 – Eastern Orthodoxy, symbolism and mysticism
For some, the Bible takes on a deeper meaning when y... more
May 10 2024 1h 4m
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#153 – A post-Christendom Christianity
A northern Irish philosopher (who grew up in the 30-... more
May 3 2024 1h 14m
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#152 – Awe and spiritual experience, pt 2
An experimental psychologist and a theologian with a... more
Apr 26 2024 55m
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#151 – Awe, and the religious/spiritual experience
After a quick primer on this uniquely human phenomen... more
Apr 19 2024 57m
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#150 – Human evolution and Christian theology
Many Christians can fully accept the idea of human e... more
Apr 12 2024 1h 11m
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#149 – Creating a new Christian worldview
A week after Easter 2024, and in response to questio... more
Apr 5 2024 1h 5m
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#148 – Brian MacLaren: Life After Doom
Brian takes an entirely new and unexpected direction... more
Mar 29 2024 59m
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#147 – The “personal relationship” with the divine
A social anthropologist, with decades of scholarship... more
Mar 22 2024 1h 7m
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#146 – Hell? or Purgatory?
We trace the evolution of the human construct &#... more
Mar 15 2024 1h 8m
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#145 – Grieving the loss of faith
David Morris, with a PhD in psychology and theology,... more
Mar 8 2024 1h
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#144 – Giving up God – a personal story
For Sarah Henn Hayward, reading a few too many books... more
Mar 1 2024 1h 17m
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#143 – Season 5 opener
Setting the stage for the next season of episodes, a... more
Feb 23 2024 1h 4m
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#142 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 6)
A brief retrospective on Season 4, and a longer one ... more
Nov 3 2023 57m
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#141 – The Teleological Menace: Why Biology (Still) Requires God
Biology is unique among the sciences in its apparent... more
Oct 27 2023 1h 20m
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