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Episode 276 – Don Payne: Already Sanctified

“In many cases, particularly in the case Wesley, teaching on sanctification leads to versions of piety that border on individual narcissism…renditions of sanctification as a process or journey of the believer moving towards ever ascending degrees of…

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Episode 275 – Ken Jones: Because I’m Free

More than half of American adults, including 30% of evangelicals, say Jesus isn’t God but most agree He was a great teacher, according to results from the 2020 State of Theology survey. So, back on the podcast is our friend, Ken Jones, to talk about…

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Episode 273 – Frederick Bauerschmidt: The Love That is God: An Invitation to the Christian Faith

“”God is love,” Who’s he kidding?”

Fritz Bauerschmidt is a Catholic deacon and a professor of Theology at Loyola University in Baltimore. His newest book, in the tradition of Lewis and Chesterton, is a treasure.

“God is love is the radical…

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Episode 273 – Martin Doblmeier: Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story

In between weeks when the DNC and the RNC will showcase two divergent portraits of Christianity in America, our guest is filmmaker Martin Doblmeier. The founder and CEO of Journey Films, Martin’s latest documentary is Revolution of the Heart: The…

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Episode 272 – Jamie Howison: The Man Who Ate with Capon

Jamie Howison struck up an unlikely friendship with the irascible Robert Farrar Capon just before Capon’s death, and he’s on the podcast to talk about it, ministry, Cornel West, and John Coltrane….

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Episode 271 – Simeon Zahl: The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience

“It is true that theological doctrines and religious practices do shape and form religious experience, but it is no less true that experience tends to resist such shaping and forming. Attention to the complex interaction of these two insights is a key…

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Episode 270 – Fleming Rutledge: Elected & Rejected

For our latest episode, we’re bringing you a conversation Jason had with the inestimable Fleming Rutledge, at the beginning of the COVID quarantine, about God’s way of rejecting and electing throughout scripture.

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Episode 269 – Ryan Newson : Cut In Stone

Our guest today is Dr. Ryan Newson, Professor of Theology and Ethics at Campbell University, about his new book, “Cut in Stone”: Confederate Monuments and Theological Disruption.”

Confederate monuments figure prominently as epicenters of social…

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