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Podcast: Thinking Out Loud
Episode: King Saul and the Witch of Endor
Description: To Western eyes, I Samuel 28 offers a bracing vision of the spiritual world. Why are we so unnerved by frank accounts of spiritual confrontations? Why is it that people in non-Western settings have a very different response? Could it be that we’re more formed by a materialistic account of reality than we realize? Okay, that last one is a leading question, but you get the point. Join us as we discuss the ways in which this fascinating chapter challenges our assumptions.