Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is author Michelle Griep. Hear Michelle discuss her books and how she became a writer. Along the way, we wrestle with incorporating biblical themes into literature and the philosophy of time travel among other things. 

Note: We did have technical issues that messed with the sound quality a bit. It still turned out alright overall.

Michelle’s website: Michelle Griep

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Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is my friend and former roommate (for exactly one month) Ben Hershey. Hear Ben explain why he abandoned us after only a month and his life since then, including his missionary work and his married life. Along the way we wrestle with the effectiveness of short-term missions trips and how to discern God’s calling among other things.

Support Ben at: https://www.adventures.org/give/donate.asp?giveto=staff&desc=Ben%20&%20Brittany%20Hershey&appeal_id=HERSHEYBEN%26BRITTANY

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Resource on short-term missions: Short-term mission trips often don’t help | The Baylor Lariat

Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is my new roommate Silas Buus. Hear us discuss medieval, guild-based economics and how the Industrial Revolution actually decreased the quality of goods, and the Swedish monks who consumed nothing but beer for 43 days. Along the way, Silas and I wrestle with how to express individuality within an objective worldview and how to work to the glory of God among other things. 

Lady and the Unicorn Sense of Sight Wall Tapestry – Quality Tapestries Inc.

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For this special episode I give my thoughts on the newest marvel movie, Thor: Love and Thunder. In this episode, I compare and contrast the gods of the movie with the One True God. I wrestle with the question of God's goodness and the problem of unanswered prayer among other things. Along the way, I answer the question, is Gorr the God Butcher really a villain? I conclude by discussing the end credit scene and looking forward to the next Thor movie.

Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is Jesse Morris. Jesse has a sad, but also triumphant story; hear Jesse describe his upbringing in a cult, including the abuse he endured from fellow church members, and how God delivered him from the cult, and his road to recovery. Along the way, we wrestle with Jesus’ teaching that “You must be perfect” and how to help someone ensnared in a cult among other things.

Resources:

The Perfect Church | The Christian Answer Man

And, the Perfect Chruch's website: PerfectChurch.com – The Church of Jesus Christ Forever

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Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is my former college classmate Aaron Anderson. Hear Aaron describe his journey from evangelical to nihilist to Eastern Orthodox and hear us compare and contrast Orthodox and Reformed theology and practice. We wrestle with election and free will, the use of icons in worship, and the state of the American evangelical church among other things.

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joining me for this episode of Wrestling are my friends Josh Pratt and Chad Larson (yes, that is the same Chad Larson of episodes 19 and 20, check those out to hear more from Chad). Our main topic of discussion is color. Trust me, this was actually a really cool conversation; my mind was blown multiple times, and I am sure yours will be too. We also wrestle with some theological topics, such as the story of Jesus healing a blind man in two phases (as described in Mark 8:22-26). Along the way, we reveal why blue and red are not primary colors, why drinking distilled water is bad for you, and why some entire cultures can’t distinguish green from blue among other things. 

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More on what we discussed:

Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature? - YouTube

Why The Ancient Greeks Couldn't See Blue - YouTube

Dancing Frog Legs - You Have Been Warned - YouTube

Art - Colour Blind Awareness

Additional resources to check out:

Magenta Doesn't Exist!: Magenta Is All In Your Head - YouTube

What color was the pale horse of Revelation?: What the Bible says about Pale Horse (bibletools.org)

Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is my friend Ben Lattner. We wrestle with a variety of topics such as where Jesus was between His death and resurrection, the key differences between the Old and New Testaments, and how to navigate the already/not yet tension in which we find ourselves.

Check out this resource:

Where Was Jesus for Three Days Between His Death and His Resurrection? - YouTube

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For Part 2 of our conversation, Chad and I wrestle with the science of evolution. Chad and I discuss Charles Darwin and his works, and the oft-cited example of natural selection, the phenomenon of the black and white peppered moths among other things. Along the way Chad explains what exactly a genetic mutation is and how that is problematic for “The theory of evolution”. To conclude the episode, we wrestle with the question of how the Genesis 5 patriarchs lived so long, and we speculate on what the world was like before the flood, based on recent discoveries made about the Sphinx, and the recently uncovered Gobeckli Tepe.

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The peppered moths phenomenon: Peppered Moth and natural selection | Butterfly Conservation (butterfly-conservation.org)

Info on the Sphinx: The age of the Sphinx: Was there a lost civilization behind the Egyptian Pyramids? | MRU MEDIA (mysteriesrunsolved.com)

And on Gobeckli Tepe: Lost Civilisations of Anatolia: Göbekli Tepe - World History Encyclopedia

Joining me for this episode of Wrestling is Chad Larson; Chad is a former member of the board at the Twin Cities Creation Science Association. On this episode we wrestle with creation science. We try to answer questions such as how old is Earth according to science? Did God intend the creation account of Genesis to be read literally? Is creation science just another version of flat Earth science? We wrestle with that and more in this episode.

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Resources Chad recommends:

TCCSA - Twin Cities Creation Science Association Home Page

Home | The Institute for Creation Research (icr.org)