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Exploring what it means to be faithfully Christian in our always-changing world with its challenges and opportunities. I like to think out loud and talk with friends about biblical texts, books, politics, sports, music, films, and basically anything that interests me. This is all an attempt to be fully alive in God’s good world and to enjoy the liberating reality of the Christian gospel.

Dark Passions & Other Thoughts

25 mins; October 14, 2025

Paul's Thesis Statement in Ephesians 1, Pt. 2

39 mins; September 30, 2025

Paul's Thesis Statement in Ephesians 1

59 mins; September 23, 2025

Summer's End

50 mins; September 16, 2025

Paul's Prayer Report in Ephesians 1

71 hours 20 mins; May 13, 2025

Identity Formation in Ephesians 1, Pt. 3

73 hours 30 mins; April 29, 2025

Identity Formation in Ephesians 1, Pt. 2

58 mins; April 22, 2025

An Epic Golf Tournament & National Political Shenanigans

68 hours 4 mins; April 15, 2025

Identity Formation In Ephesians 1

51 mins; April 08, 2025

Ephesians As A Letter

42 mins; April 01, 2025

God's Cosmic Enemies in Ephesians

62 hours 21 mins; March 25, 2025

Ephesians & Me

58 mins; March 18, 2025

Introducing Season 6

42 mins; March 11, 2025

Showing Up

61 hours 6 mins; September 17, 2024

Autocracy, Inc.

57 mins; August 20, 2024

Salman Rushdie's Memoir

68 hours 27 mins; August 13, 2024

Buffoonery & Autocracy

70 hours 2 mins; August 06, 2024

Reason, Passion, Ignorance, and Expertise in Politics

72 hours 24 mins; February 27, 2024

What We've Learned About Teaching

54 mins; February 20, 2024

You Are Not Your Job, Pt. 2

54 mins; February 13, 2024

You Are Not Your Job

49 mins; February 06, 2024

Chosen Family

47 mins; January 23, 2024

Adventures in Public Education

54 mins; January 16, 2024

Tim Gets Some Perspective

53 mins; December 12, 2023

Gaining Perspective on Our Suffering

54 mins; November 28, 2023

Doing What You Love & Maintaining Perspective

44 mins; November 21, 2023

Long Walks & Laughter

46 mins; November 14, 2023

The Challenges of Our Intellectual Journeys

48 mins; November 07, 2023

The Place of Pain and Suffering in the Pursuit of Happiness and Wholeness

49 mins; October 31, 2023

The Quest for Certainty in an Uncertain World

41 mins; October 24, 2023

Tragic Violence in the Middle East & The Importance of Memory

50 mins; October 16, 2023

The Origins and Expressions of Individualism in American Protestantism

48 mins; October 10, 2023

Conspiracies, Intellectual Humility, and Arrogance

46 mins; October 03, 2023

True Grit: Navigating a Cold, Indifferent Universe

55 mins; September 25, 2023

Pursuing Happiness, Wholeness, and Healing, Pt. 2

41 mins; September 19, 2023

Pursuing Happiness, Wholeness, and Healing: Introducing Season 5

66 hours 41 mins; September 12, 2023

Evangelism Is Not the Task of the Church

69 hours 26 mins; August 29, 2023

Concluding Season 4

31 mins; August 22, 2023

Reading New Testament Letters, Pt. 3

42 mins; August 01, 2023

Reading New Testament Letters, Pt. 2

35 mins; July 25, 2023

Reading New Testament Letters, Pt. 1

44 mins; July 18, 2023

Reading Biblical Narratives, Pt. 3

52 mins; July 11, 2023

Reading Biblical Narratives, Pt. 2

54 mins; May 16, 2023

Reading Biblical Narratives

58 mins; April 25, 2023

The Bible Is a Library, Pt. 2

70 hours 21 mins; March 21, 2023

The Bible Is a Library

65 hours 4 mins; March 14, 2023

The Questions the Bible Asks of Us

73 hours 28 mins; February 21, 2023

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 15

52 mins; February 14, 2023

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 14

58 mins; February 07, 2023

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 13

60 hours 12 mins; January 31, 2023

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 12

35 mins; January 24, 2023

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 11

57 mins; January 17, 2023

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 10

51 mins; January 10, 2023

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 9

43 mins; November 29, 2022

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 8

63 hours 39 mins; November 15, 2022

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 7

54 mins; November 08, 2022

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 6

63 hours 21 mins; November 01, 2022

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 5

65 hours 59 mins; October 25, 2022

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 4

67 hours 8 mins; October 18, 2022

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 3

69 hours 52 mins; October 04, 2022

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 2

98 hours 22 mins; September 27, 2022

The Big Story of the Bible, Pt. 1

59 mins; September 20, 2022

Putting the Testaments Together

63 hours 9 mins; August 16, 2022

Thinking with Scripture

49 mins; July 26, 2022

Introducing Season 4

51 mins; July 19, 2022

Wrapping Up Romans

68 hours 50 mins; March 29, 2022

The Closing of Paul's Letter to the Romans

57 mins; March 22, 2022

The Rhetorical Climax of Romans

70 hours 8 mins; March 15, 2022

Submission to Worldly Powers in Romans 13

80 hours 11 mins; February 22, 2022

Being God's New Creation Community (Romans 12)

68 hours 58 mins; February 15, 2022

How to Be Christian and Stay Christian (Even When LGBTQ+ People Exist)

81 hours 36 mins; February 08, 2022

God's Commitment to Save Israel (Romans 11)

51 mins; February 01, 2022

How the Church Harms LGBTQ Christians

17 mins; January 25, 2022

Israel and the Gentiles in Rome

62 hours 39 mins; January 18, 2022

Election and God's Prerogative in Romans 9

75 hours 5 mins; December 14, 2021

The Climax of Paul's Argument in Romans 8

74 hours 51 mins; December 07, 2021

Questions about Romans and Mark

36 mins; November 30, 2021

The Mosaic Law and the Cosmic Power of Sin (Romans 7)

63 hours 54 mins; November 16, 2021

The Cosmic Scope of Paul's Exhortations in Romans 6

63 hours 8 mins; November 10, 2021

The Roman Conflict in Cosmic Perspective

103 hours 19 mins; November 02, 2021

A Brief Hiatus

38 secs; September 21, 2021

The Roman Christians' Transformed Identity

63 hours 51 mins; September 14, 2021

Paul Sends Abraham to Rome

68 hours 14 mins; September 07, 2021

Paul Unites the Romans in Justification

67 hours 53 mins; August 31, 2021

Paul Unites the Romans in Cosmic Enslavement

93 hours 19 mins; August 24, 2021

Paul Confronts the Judging Group in Rome (Romans 2)

90 hours 2 mins; August 17, 2021

Paul's Rhetorical Trap (Romans 1:18-32)

68 hours 52 mins; August 10, 2021

The Narrative Sub-Structure of Romans

89 hours 35 mins; August 03, 2021

Paul Greets The Romans

103 hours 31 mins; July 27, 2021

An Overview of Romans

73 hours 21 mins; July 20, 2021

Wandering Through Romans

66 hours 17 mins; July 13, 2021

The Church Is God's Social Justice

103 hours 57 mins; June 08, 2021

Death of God, Etc.

77 hours 26 mins; June 01, 2021

The Grammar of the Gospel

74 hours 26 mins; May 25, 2021

The Problem of Men in Ministry

127 hours 6 mins; May 18, 2021

Love the Evangelical, Hate the Evangelicalism

78 hours 51 mins; May 11, 2021

Thinking Again, Again

58 mins; May 04, 2021

What Did Jesus Know & When Did He Know It?

60 hours 41 mins; April 27, 2021

The Joy of Being Wrong

76 hours 1 min; April 20, 2021

Baseball & Golf, Science & Faith

13 mins; April 13, 2021

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