We live on earth.  It was here before us and will likely be around after us.  But how long has it been here to begin with?  What is the best way to even answer this question and should we use the Bible as a reliable indicator for truth on this subject?  In this episode, we discuss and assess a view known as Young Earth Creationism while attending to data from science and Ancient Near East studies.

What sort of thing are you? Are you physical or non-physical? Are you a soul -or is all of that soul stuff hogwash? We look at several arguments for and against the idea that all that exists is matter and energy.

How can you know what the right thing to do is? How do you go about deciding what action you should take? We entertain a thought-experiment to help us get clear on our moral intuitions and examine different prominent perspectives on morality.

What are ethics? I can't reach out and grab them - or can I? Not everyone even agrees about what the right thing to do is.  What are we even doing when we make a moral claim?  Morality is kind of a weird thing.  Let's talk about it!

Church comes in lots of shapes and sizes. How big should they be? How should they spend the money that people give? What kind of good do they do in the world? In this episode, we have a candid discussion about church practices and resource stewardship.

Nearly all of us have attended some kind of religious service.  Is that all there is to the thing we call "church"? What even is church? Do we have to meet in a "church" building? What if I am just talking to my friend about God - is that church? In this episode, we have a free flowing discussion about what we think church is and why it has various expressions.

We want morally good laws. There should be good reasons for making things illegal. In this episode, we discuss what the moral reasons ought to be for creating a law. In the wake of U.S. Midterm elections and local tax levies, join us for a much needed reflection on this topic.

Did you know that the people who wrote the literature we find in the Bible did not write it in English? The Bibles that you have encountered are translations of earlier versions and manuscripts from many centuries ago. We will try to familiarize ourselves with the tricky decisions translators often have to make to construct an English version.

You have thoughts and ideas. Sometimes you would like to share those with someone else. This is the project of communication. In this episode, we will discuss a theory of meaning in order to better understand communication. This may have certain implications for one's theory of inspiration of Scripture. How did God communicate to human authors? What are the mechanics of this? Join us as we try to make sense of it.

We would all like to think that we know some things. But what does it actually mean to "know"? We discuss a widely held view in philosophy concerning a theory of knowledge and see how we can make sense of having knowledge about claims made in the Bible.