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Episode 343: Andy Root – Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age

A book that marries the theologian of THE 20th century (Karl Barth) with THE philosopher at the turn into the 21st, Charles Taylor, and all for the practical application...

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Episode 342: Stanley Hauerwas – Fully Alive

“Karl Barth’s attacks on the liberal theologians and what he regarded as their high humanism has led many to label him as anti-humanistic. Barth, however, never abandoned his presumption...

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Episode 341: Christy Thomas – The UMC Must Die

Our guest for #341 is our friend Christy Thomas. Christy is a retired UMC Elder and journalist from Texas. She writes at the website The Thoughtful Pastor on Patheos....

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3rd Sunday After Epiphany [C] – Take It Up And Read

Nehemiah 8.1-3, 5-6, 8-10, Psalm 19, 1 Corinthians 12.12-31a, Luke 4.14-21; Should we let kids read the Bible? How is the law of the Lord perfect? What does reconciliation...

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