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Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Sunday, November 1, 2026
Is God Eternal? (Part 2) (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
The affirmation that God is eternal, that God exists outside of time and is unaffected by it, has been central to orthodox Christian teaching for centuries. But it brings other questions with it. How can God act in the world, as Christians also teach? How can we possibly avoid the logic of determinism that follows from the claim that God knows all future events, decisions, and actions? What answers have Christians offered in response to these questions? Are they convincing? What if they are not? Join Dan for this week’s episode to find out.
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Monday, September 28, 2026
Monday, September 21, 2026
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Thursday, September 3, 2026
JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’
Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/jd-vance-god-podcast-end-times
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Monday, August 17, 2026
Friday, July 31, 2026
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Sunday, July 26, 2026
“What Do We Love When We Love God?” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) It's In the Code 200
How much love is enough? In this episode of It’s In the Code, part of the series “Questions I Wasn’t Supposed to Ask in Church,” we examine one of the most influential teachings in conservative Christianity: that Christians must love God or Jesus more than anyone and anything else. What happens when this teaching becomes an impossible demand? Drawing on a listener’s powerful experience, we explore the connection between the love of God, religious trauma, Christian deconstruction, and the damaging effects that toxic religious teachings can have on relationships with parents, children, partners, and family. For many people leaving high-control religion or evangelical Christianity, questions about how to love God—and whether loving God requires loving other people less—can become central to the process of religious deconstruction.
This episode also explores the history of Christian theology and the influence of Greek philosophy on Christian ideas about God, love, the body, the material world, mortality, and human relationships. Is loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength really the same thing as loving God more than everyone else? Can love of God and love of other people exist in harmony? And what if the things we love most are precisely the things that are finite, temporary, and mortal? This conversation about conservative Christianity, religious trauma, spiritual abuse, Christian deconstruction, and the meaning of love ultimately asks whether we need to rethink both love and God.
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This episode also explores the history of Christian theology and the influence of Greek philosophy on Christian ideas about God, love, the body, the material world, mortality, and human relationships. Is loving God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength really the same thing as loving God more than everyone else? Can love of God and love of other people exist in harmony? And what if the things we love most are precisely the things that are finite, temporary, and mortal? This conversation about conservative Christianity, religious trauma, spiritual abuse, Christian deconstruction, and the meaning of love ultimately asks whether we need to rethink both love and God.
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Friday, July 24, 2026
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Sunday, July 19, 2026
"Is God a Liar?" (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) It's In the Code Episode 199
In this episode of It's In the Code, host Dan Miller tackles one of the most provocative questions a believer can ask: Did God lie in the Garden of Eden? Beginning with a listener's question about Genesis and God's warning that Adam and Eve would die if they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Dan takes a close look at the biblical text itself rather than the assumptions many Christians bring to it. Along the way, he explores how later theological traditions—including original sin, spiritual death, and the identification of the serpent with Satan—have shaped the way this familiar story is understood, often in ways that go beyond what the text actually says.
Drawing connections to his previous episode on Job, Dan argues that some of the Bible's most challenging passages become even more unsettling when read carefully and without inherited interpretations. He examines the role of the serpent, the meaning of knowledge, and why difficult questions about scripture are so often discouraged in high-control religious communities.
Rather than seeing these questions as signs of weak faith, Dan suggests they emerge from taking the Bible seriously enough to wrestle honestly with its complexities.
If you've ever been told there are questions you're not supposed to ask in church, this episode invites you to ask them anyway.
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Saturday, July 18, 2026
Friday, July 10, 2026
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
The Moment the Christian Argument Collapsed
I asked one simple question: Why is it morally coherent to punish people for not being convinced of something?
He dodged. Pivoted. Attacked atheism. Changed the subject. But I kept bringing it back.
Eventually, I pinned him down to an answer: “Because God said so.” That’s the moment his argument collapsed.
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