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Who Belongs? The Identity Crisis at the Heart of Acts 15
What if Acts 15 wasn’t a theology debate at all—but a battle over identity, belonging, and who gets a seat at the table?
In this episode of Conversation Craft, Christian Baxter sits down with Dutch theologian Bas Van Os to explore the deep currents running beneath the early Christian story. Bas grew up inside Dutch Christianity and lived long enough to watch it collapse. Christian grew up in the American South and walked through his own collapse and reconstruction. Their lives meet in Acts 15—where ethnicity, class, land, law, and honor collide in the early church.
Bas’s online project
https://www.followers-of-jesus.org/
Together they explore:
• Why Paul, Peter, and James weren’t debating doctrine in a vacuum
• The shame–honor explosion in Antioch and why the table was the battleground
• Jesus as brother in the flesh—hungry, sick, learning, arguing
• Why story-participation (not propositions) is how real spiritual change happens
• How Christianity functions after collapse—in the Netherlands and in the American South
• The Apostles’ Creed as drama, not dogma
• The parallels between Christian’s Abraham-dagger moment and Paul’s Damascus rupture
• Why belonging, not ideology, is the real crisis of modern faith
Bas brings decades of work in early Christianity, Gnosticism, New Testament interpretation, and symbolic theology—combined with a life spent navigating post-Christian Europe, reconstruction, and the spiritual hunger of a secular culture.
This is not an academic interview.
This is two stories colliding inside a larger Story—identity, collapse, reconstruction, and the ancient question:
Who belongs?
PROMINENT NAMES MENTIONED
Jordan Peterson
Paul VanderKlay
P.F. Jung
Brendan Graham Dempsey
Cathy Newman
Richard Rohr
Robert Sapolsky
John Vervaeke
C.S. Lewis
Justin Brierley
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By chrbaxterytWhat if Acts 15 wasn’t a theology debate at all—but a battle over identity, belonging, and who gets a seat at the table?
In this episode of Conversation Craft, Christian Baxter sits down with Dutch theologian Bas Van Os to explore the deep currents running beneath the early Christian story. Bas grew up inside Dutch Christianity and lived long enough to watch it collapse. Christian grew up in the American South and walked through his own collapse and reconstruction. Their lives meet in Acts 15—where ethnicity, class, land, law, and honor collide in the early church.
Bas’s online project
https://www.followers-of-jesus.org/
Together they explore:
• Why Paul, Peter, and James weren’t debating doctrine in a vacuum
• The shame–honor explosion in Antioch and why the table was the battleground
• Jesus as brother in the flesh—hungry, sick, learning, arguing
• Why story-participation (not propositions) is how real spiritual change happens
• How Christianity functions after collapse—in the Netherlands and in the American South
• The Apostles’ Creed as drama, not dogma
• The parallels between Christian’s Abraham-dagger moment and Paul’s Damascus rupture
• Why belonging, not ideology, is the real crisis of modern faith
Bas brings decades of work in early Christianity, Gnosticism, New Testament interpretation, and symbolic theology—combined with a life spent navigating post-Christian Europe, reconstruction, and the spiritual hunger of a secular culture.
This is not an academic interview.
This is two stories colliding inside a larger Story—identity, collapse, reconstruction, and the ancient question:
Who belongs?
PROMINENT NAMES MENTIONED
Jordan Peterson
Paul VanderKlay
P.F. Jung
Brendan Graham Dempsey
Cathy Newman
Richard Rohr
Robert Sapolsky
John Vervaeke
C.S. Lewis
Justin Brierley
FOLLOW & SUPPORT
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU5SNBfTo4umhjYz6M0Jsmg/join
follow me on X: https://twitter.com/chrbaxter_yt
Podcast: Yours Truly Podcast
Substack: https://substack.com/@christianbaxteryt?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yours-truly-podcast/id1751129283