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God created us as limited creatures, and He called those limits good. But we often confuse our limits with sin. Shane welcomes Dr. Kelly Kapic, author of You’re Only Human, to explore the ways we try to transcend our limits, and how God wants us to embrace them, instead.

Have you ever been knocked off your feet by an ocean wave or gotten stuck on a mountain after dark? Shane and Tim reflect on how modern life allows us to forget our limits and our dependence on God, and how remembering those limits can restore our joy.

Shane welcomes Dr. Ashley Hales, author of A Spacious Life, to dispel the myth that you have to do everything, be everywhere, know it all, and never rest in order to be successful. God gave us our limits, and in Jesus Christ, He joined us in them.

Shane and Tim revisit the conversation with Bruce Herman on beauty, and challenge the idea that “the beautiful” is impossible to define. Does that mean anything can be beautiful? And has modern art taken a wrong turn? They consider these hard questions in light of Christian wisdom and God’s self-revelation.

Shane welcomes Gordon College Fine Arts Chair, Bruce Herman, for a challenging discussion on the meaning and purpose of beauty, how we recognize it, and why beauty is inseparable from truth and goodness.

Shane and Tim reflect on the conversation with Matthew LaPine and sketch the unique and life-giving ways Christians can approach mental health and psychology.

Shane welcomes Dr. Matthew LaPine, author of The Logic of the Body, to examine two stories about the human mind and emotions, and to offer an older and richer way of understanding ourselves and trusting God through mental struggles.

Tim Padgett joins Shane again to continue the conversation on natural law, and to point out how the Bible, Christian morality, and even our secular culture assume moral truth exists, and that it is evident to all.

Shane welcomes back Dr. David Haines to discuss natural law, where it’s taught in Scripture, and how the Church today can rediscover this ancient and deeply Christian type of moral reasoning.

Tim Padgett joins Shane to reflect on the conversation with Dr. Stephen Meyer, and to explore the ways in which even scientists can fall prey to human biases and blind spots, especially when it comes to origins.