The Broken Book Bible Podcast

Considering the Bible's saintly reputation, it packs surprising gore, horror, and depravity. As well as beauty, wisdom, and tedium. For millennia, the Bible has held Western culture captive to its strange stories of ancient people trying to figure out God.

Maybe you're not religious, but you're curious about the Bible. Maybe you grew up in church, but you're looking for a new way to relate to the Bible.

Welcome! We're Sam and Amanda. We're obsessed with the Bible. Sam is a liberal Presbyterian who became post-modern by studying the Bible too much. Amanda is a mystic naturalist Unitarian Universalist with Reformed and Evangelical roots. We are wrestling with what the Bible can mean in the midst of radical questioning, faith changes, depression, and self-doubt. We hope you'll join us as we appreciate, dissect, criticize, defend, and generally nerd out about the Bible from our progressive religious perspectives.

Where to Find Us

Podcast Directories: Stitcher, iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broken-book-bible-podcast/id1172672907?mt=2 , Google Play

Email: sam@brokenbookpodcast.com & amanda@brokenbookpodcast.com

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/brokenbookpod

Twitter: @BrokenBookPod

Podcasting since 2016 • 36 episodes

The Broken Book Bible Podcast

Latest Episodes

The Realities of Social Construction: Interview by Micah Redding, Executive Director of the Christian Transhumanist Society

Joint project with the Christian Transhumanist Podcast! https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/podcastLots of interesting questions. How can we love religion when so many are hurt? How do we describe the reality of social construction? ...

November 15, 2018 • 1:03:37

God as Living Liminality: A Queer Nonbinary Theology - Episode 34

Adriaan Dippenaar, director of the Seattle Nonbinary Coalition joins in to discuss how queer identity, queer tension, and queer magic helps them imagine God. God is absurd, and that's okay! The divine does not fit into any clear, clean label. This...

August 06, 2018 • Episode 34 • 56:37

Blasphemy: Reciting the Apostles Creed in First Person - Episode 36

If the Spirit of Christ dwells in are hearts, and if we are supposed to be Christlike. . . then the Apostle's Creed is about us.

July 01, 2018 • 40:56

Autism: Finding God on the Spectrum - Episode 33

Sam, who is on the autism spectrum, discusses how his diverse theory of mind has brought him on a unique, exciting, and terrifying journey with and towards God.People on the spectrum develop their sense of theory of mind differently than neurotypi...

April 28, 2018 • Episode 33 • 1:35:46

Trinity and Biblical Authority: Reclaiming Truth - Episode 32

This episode was originally recorded over two years ago, and shows us at a different stage in our spiritual development. Amanda, a Unitarian, defends the trinity. Sam, a relativist, defends Biblical' authority and infallibility. As modernism is ch...

March 15, 2018 • Episode 32 • 35:26

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