You are helping to run a ministry and you learn that one of the people you are trying to help has stolen all of the money that was donated to put him in school. That puts you in a weird spot. Do you let your donors know that their money was sto...

We're called to suffer for Jesus, but how much is too much? How do we care for ourselves while also helping others? What do healthy boundaries look like and how do we balance sacrifice with self-care? 

Do the poor hurt those who are trying to help them because it's within their nature to hurt others? Do they lie, steal, or cause harm because they are inherently different? Or is it perhaps a bit more nuanced than that...Well, if you be...

We love to talk about how to help the poor without hurting them, but it's not nearly as common to talk about how to help the poor without them hurting you. It happens more than you might think, and I have a lot of experience with it. B...

"If you left the church because you had a bad experience with people, you didn't have a relationship with God, you had a relationship with people." - A really dumb thing to sayLet's talk.

Post modernism, apologetics, suffering, doubt, the universe, a burrito advertisement, and a debate about the existence of God. Enjoy. 

It's often tempting to interpret Jesus through our own cultural lens. But taking an honest approach to who Jesus was will require exiting our culture and stepping into his... if that's even possible.

Joshua Milton Blahyi (aka "General Buttnaked"), often referred to as the "Modern Day Saul" has been held responsible for around 20,000 deaths during the Liberian Civil War. But his story doesn't end there. After a dramatic, Damascus Road-like c...

The fundamentalist literal reading of the Bible leads to some pretty interesting views - one of them being an actual mark that followers of the antichrist receive that destines their souls to eternally serving this beast in hell. Crazy stuff. U...

Back in the 19th century, the Dismal Dane went on a rampage against the church with the greatest and most deadly weapon he had - a pen, in the battlefield of his day - the newspaper column. What resulted was an attack that is just as much relev...

Don't waste your life. Waste someone else's! 

This episode is not about long skirts or grape juice or hell (but we might get there eventually). For now, let's take a moment to go to the core of what fundamentalism is and where we might find it. 

Evangelical Christianity is often centered around the gospel message, which is often reduced to words spoken. Is this all that Jesus intended? Is there something missing? Is The Godfather overrated? I'll answer at least two of those questions i...

Tearing apart, criticizing, and demolishing is easy, building is not. So as we are deconstructing elements of our faith, where do we begin the process of reconstructing that which is good? How do we put back together the Lego house, currently s...

If you are flying in an airplane and decide to deconstruct it, don't be surprised when you crash. Deconstructing is insanely beneficial for the growth of a Christian, but where's the line? When is deconstruction dangerous? When does deconstruct...

How does an atheist feel when they walk into a store and hear Christian music playing? In this episode, I sit back down with Mike to talk about Christian music. Although not a Christian, he grew up on Steven Curtis Chapman, DC Talk, Kirk Frankl...

Apologetics is typically an intellectual approach to defending the "faith." Philosophy, logic, science, etc. But is this really what we should be defending? Did Peter know that his encouragement to believers to continue doing what is good despi...

Mike, a pastor's kid who lost his faith while attending Christian college, shares his story, his struggles, and his own unique perspective on Christianity.  In this episode, I interview my long time best friend and cousin, the person who h...

Doubt is authentic. It's real. It's something so many Christians struggle with. But is it good? Does doubt strengthen your faith or weaken it? And should we be praised for doubting or condemned? In this episode, we'll venture into the darkness ...

Cannot wait to get going again! After a season of intellectual and psychological hibernation, I'm back, and things are getting even more awkward... This season we'll get into topics like doubt, apologetics, fundamentalism, worldliness, Satan, T...

After spending almost a year in Liberia, I'm back in the states and my brain is a scrambled egg. Culture shock, freezing rain, and dark days have left me in a state of muddled confusion. But I finally managed to squeeze out an episode. I record...

When the gospel becomes an instrument of cultural colonization, missions ceases to be missions. 

Alright, here we go... humor me for a moment. What if the gospel we've been preaching is not the gospel of the Bible? I know, I know... it seems heretical to even ask that question. But trust me on this one. If I didn't have verses to support t...

In this special birthday episode, I congratulate myself for not dying for another consecutive year. Why are Christians afraid to die? It seems weird, since we're all about eternal life and resurrection and all that. Just sit back a...

"Things are just goin down the drain. Jesus is comin back soon, y'all!" This is a sentiment shared by many American Christians. Things get bad. Then Jesus returns. That's how the Bible portrays this world, right? In this episode, we're...