Episodes
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
101. Jemar Tisby | Splendiferous Wondrous Differences
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Every human bears the image of God and in God’s good future there will be a great diversity of people from all nations and tribes. But we don’t always live as if that were the case. Jemar Tisby joins us to talk about the church’s complicity in racism and what we can do about it. Jemar Tisby is the author of The Color of Compromise, a New York Times bestseller, and How to Fight Racism, as well as the recently published How to Fight Racism Young Reader’s Edition. He’s also the co-founder of The Witness: a Black Christian Collective and co-host of the podcast Pass the Mic.
Extras:
The Witness
The Witness Foundation
This episode originally aired on January 13, 2022.
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Thursday Feb 02, 2023
135. David Anderson | Comprehension Begins with Conversation
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Thursday Feb 02, 2023
Each February, on the podcast, we make a point of increasing our comprehension about issues of race in America from within the BioLogos mission of exploring God’s word and God’s world. As Dr. David Anderson points out, conversation is an important step toward comprehension. Dr. Anderson tells his own story of how he came to be a pastor of a large multi-cultural church and bridge builder, and how he has integrated science and scientists into that work.
Dr. David Anderson's books
Praying for Scientists video
Music in this episode by Joseph McDade.
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Thursday Jan 26, 2023
134. Mónica Guzmán | The Gift of Curiosity
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
In a world of increasing division, Mónica Guzmán offers advice for approaching conversation with curiosity. When we attempt to understand those who we disagree with, instead of merely attempting to change their beliefs, we are able to see people more fully and to even learn more about our own beliefs and ideas.
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Thursday Dec 22, 2022
BONUS | God in the Noticing
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
A reflection on dragonflies, neurobiology, attention and the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Music in the episode is by Brian Mulder. (Spotify)
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Thursday Dec 15, 2022
133. A Wrinkle Occurred | The Nature of Science with Larry Molnar
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Larry Molnar spent years with his astronomy students studying a contact binary star system. Their observations and data eventually led them to make the claim that the stars were headed toward an explosion called a luminous red nova, a major discovery. The story of these stars and of the scientists who study them highlight the ways that science leads to knowledge about the world, and not always in straightforward ways.
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Thursday Dec 08, 2022
132. Neuroscience, Mental Health & the Church
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
The church has had a complicated relationship with mental health. Research shows that 1 in 5 adults experience mental illness in a given year and yet 66% of pastors talk about mental health in sermons only once a year or less. In the episode we break down what exactly mental illness and mental health are, what is happening in the brain, and how the church can respond in ways that help us all to be healthier individuals and begin to build a more understanding, empathetic and healthy community.
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Thursday Dec 01, 2022
17. John Walton | More Than History
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Biblical interpretation is all about asking questions—How did Ancient Israel understand the book of Genesis? How much context do we, as modern readers, need to discover the intended meaning of the text? Does the text hold the answers to the questions we are asking? Jim and guest host Rebecca McLaughlin discuss these thorny questions with biblical scholar John Walton and explore the answers his work offers them.
This episode was originally aired on September 19, 2019
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Thursday Nov 17, 2022
131. Katey Walter Anthony | Science, Faith & Thermokarst Lakes
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Thursday Nov 17, 2022
Katey Walter Anthony has done much of her research deep in the arctic, studying the methane bubbles that are released in thawed permafrost lakes. What she has learned helps us to better understand the complexity of earth’s climate and how it might change in the future. But alongside the exciting story of her scientific journey is a story about how she has come to understand God’s place in it all.
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Thursday Nov 10, 2022
58. Humility | How to Hold Knowledge
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Both science and the Christian faith share a commitment to humility. Each also provides us with a perspective of the world which we believe to be true. How then do we hold onto these things we believe to be true and be open to the fact that we can’t know everything? In this episode we explore that tension, looking into the deeper meaning of humility in the realms of both science and faith.
Thanks to our guests in exploring these ideas: psychologist, Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet; theologian and poet, Padraig Ó Tuama; biologist, Steve Roels; and evolutionary biologist, Sarah Bodbyl Roels.
This episode originally aired on October 8, 2020.
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Thursday Nov 03, 2022
130. Charles Foster | Inhabit the World
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Charles Foster has spent a lot of time trying to deeply understand what it is like to be other than himself. It has led him to explore and emulate the life of badgers, foxes, and swifts as well as the lives of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. In doing so he hopes to better understand all the people in his world and ultimately himself. He talks about his journey from a curious and wandering child to who he is today, including the place of religion and the place of science, both of which have the opportunity of enriching our view of the world and allowing to see into the other, but which also have the possibility of limiting our openness to inhabit otherness and therefore hinder our ability to better understand God.
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