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Brad is back down the rabbit hole, and this time, Augustine is the way in.

• Why Augustine of Hippo is arguably the real founder of Western Christianity, and what that means for everything you think you know about Paul, original sin, and the gospel
• The difference between the historical Paul and Augustine's Paul and why most Western Christians have been reading one through the filter of the other without knowing it
• Theology as historically contingent: what it means that Augustine's system was shaped by his ambition, his mother, his psychology, and his North African Roman world, not just by scripture
• The meadow vs. the perfume bottle: why extracting doctrine from the gospels might be missing the point entirely
• Why the gospels function more like cinema than philosophy and what it would mean to encounter them that way again, in community, without needing a final word
• Why the threat response to historical theology is worth examining and what it's actually protecting

This isn't a tidy episode. It's Brad thinking out loud about Augustine, interpretation, and what it might mean to do theology honestly in 2026.

For the historically curious, the theologically restless, and anyone who has ever felt vaguely crazy for asking hard questions about what the gospel actually means.