Dr. Larry Hurtado joins the show to discuss early Christianity including Christian distinctiveness, what made Christianity bizarre, Christianity as a philosophy, God of love, the improbability of Resurrection in the first century and his book Destroyer of the gods.

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Live from Theology Beer Camp Dr. John Cobb joins the show to discuss Process Theology, Open Theology,  divinity of Jesus, gender pronouns for God and Anslem.

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Jonathan Storment returns to discuss conversions vs. deconversions, Morgan Freeman,  the inability to have neutrality, the story teller for Christianity, wish-fulfillment, spiral dynamics, cancer humor and all things January from the podcast.

James Younger, executive producer of National Geographic's The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, joins the show to discuss sharks, Lie Witness News and which religion wins.

Dr. Barry Taylor co-host of the Story of Godcast discusses AC/DC, spirituality of music and sparkles.

United Methodist pastor Jason Micheli joins the show to discuss humor, grief, faith in stage serious cancer and his new book Cancer is Funny.

Pete Enns return to discuss the Tim Keller piece in the New York Times.

What makes someone a Christian? 

Liturgical community vs. Biblicistic community?

What is the offensiveness of the Gospel?

And Can Pete Enns know how to ask questions?

Doug King of Presence joins the show to introduce Spiral Dynamics.

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Jonathan and Luke discuss Australian accents, reconstruction, community, theology of singing, and the refugee crisis.

A sermon that Richard Beck and Luke preached together on gratitude, prison and singing.

In the second part of the refugee crisis conversation we hear from Joel Houston  and  Ramjaane Niyoyita.

 Joel Houston, of Hillsong United and Hillsong New York, discusses his experience with the Syrian refugee crisis and the Christian call to respond.

Ramjaane Niyoyita, a Rwandan born as a refugee in the Congo now living in Austin, TX, discusses his experience as a Refugee, the importance of humor in tragedy and having to listen to Luke preach every week.