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Podcast-The Tentative Apologist

59. A Response to Bill Maher on Religion and Free Speech

January 14, 2015 by Randal

In this podcast I offer a response to Bill Maher’s recent incendiary comments against Islam. While Maher attempts to position himself as a defender of the true spirit of liberalism and free speech, I argue that his understanding of free speech is egregiously truncated and produces rhetoric which foments misunderstanding, demonization, and the eroding of […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bill Maher, free speech, Islam, liberalism, Muslim, public square, religious violence

58. Matthew Flannagan on God and Genocide

January 13, 2015 by Randal

In his bestselling 2006 book The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins throws down the gauntlet against the Judeo-Christian God. While much of Dawkins’ book is devilishly quotable polemic, he arguably reaches his rhetorical apex with this oft-quoted passage: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical ethics, biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, divine command, ethics, genocide, interview, Matthew Flannagan

57. Terry Mortenson on Creationism

January 5, 2015 by Randal

When I was in high school I gave my science teacher a copy of Paul Ackerman’s book It’s a Young World After All. The book aimed to show that evolution was false and the earth was a mere six to ten thousand years old. My science teacher politely received the gift and then, for all I […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, creationism, evolution, Genesis, hermeneutics, science, six day creationism, Terry Mortenson, young earth creationism

56. Deborah Haarsma on BioLogos, God, and Evolution

December 18, 2014 by Randal

For many people today, the relationship between science and religion or theology can be summarized in one word: “conflict”. While conflicts inevitably do arise, there are many Christians who believe that a more helpful framework for conceiving the relations between science and theology is one of harmony. In this episode of the Tentative Apologist Podcast […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Biologos, Deborah Haarsma, evolution, science, theistic evolution

55. Does the Trinity make sense? A conversation with Michael Rea

December 4, 2014 by Randal

A.W. Tozer once said, “Love and faith are at home in the mystery of the Godhead. Let reason kneel in reverence outside.” And why are we obliged to leave reason outside? Well the doctrine of God brings with it many conundrums, but there is probably none greater than that posed by Trinitarian doctrine, that is, […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Analytic theology, doctrine, Michael C. Rea, mystery, paradox, Trinity

54. William Lane Craig on Apologetics and Debates

November 25, 2014 by Randal

As one of the most influential and prolific philosophers of religion today, and indisputably the world’s leading Christian apologist, William Lane Craig is one of those rare guests who truly needs no introduction. But that’s not going to stop me from giving one. Dr. Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, God, interview, Tentative Apologist Podcast, William Lane Craig

53. Peter Enns Tells Me So: The Interview

October 28, 2014 by Randal

When I was growing up, the Bible was viewed as the Word of God, revelation from above. And you could know this by confirming the Bible’s perfect moral teaching, its fulfilled biblical prophecies, its reliable scientific descriptions, its inerrant history, and its inexplicable unity: 66 books, three languages, two testaments written over one thousand years, and […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, bibliology, inspiration, interview, Peter Enns, The Bible Tells Me So

52. Women in Ministry

October 21, 2014 by Randal

In 1967 Katherine Switzer made history as the first woman ever to enter … and complete the Boston Marathon. In this iconic photo you can see race official Jock Semple (the bald man in the black blazer) attempting to pull Switzer’s numbers off and stop her from running. As I reflect on the role of women ministering […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: church, complementarianism, ecclesiology, egalitarianism, feminism, ministry, spiritual gifts, women

51. On God and Comedy: Trading jokes with comedian and pastor Dan Taylor

October 1, 2014 by Randal

I suspect God has a sense of humor. But do Christians? In this episode of The Tentative Apologist Podcast I sit down with Dan Taylor to explore that very question (and a few others).  By day, Dan is the lead pastor of Disciples Church in Edmonton, Alberta and by night he is one of Edmonton’s top […]

Filed Under: Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: arts, comedy, Dan Taylor, interview

50. The Evidential Problem of Evil (Part 1)

June 18, 2014 by Randal

William Rowe tells the story of a fawn (think Bambi) severely burnt in a forest fire and left to die slowly over several days amidst the burning embers of the ravaged forest floor. It’s just one fawn, right? Who cares? But if God really is all-good and all-powerful then presumably he would not allow gratuitous […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Erik Wielenberg, Jeremy Beahan, Justin Schieber, philosophy of religion, problem of evil, Reasonable Doubts, theism

49. David Goa on Christianity and the Religions

June 6, 2014 by Randal

Some years ago conservative Protestant theologian H. Wayne House published a book titled Charts of World Religions. In one two page chart the book compares and contrasts the beliefs of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, secular humanism, Hinduism and Buddhism on their views of creation, God, mankind, and scripture. All that, in two pages. Twenty five years […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christianity, David Goa, dialogue, interview, religion, theology

48. God is not a white man: Terry LeBlanc on Indigenous Theology

May 27, 2014 by Randal

God is a white man. Just consider the iconic “Creation of Adam” fresco in Michelangelo’s timeless Sistine Chapel ceiling.  Take a look. See? There’s God, beard waving in the heavenly breeze, arm extended, creating Adam in his very white and very male image. But what if God isn’t white? What if he isn’t male? What if images like […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: contextualization, first nations, indigenous theology, native, Terry LeBlanc

47. The Devil’s in the Music: On growing up evangelical in the 80s

May 13, 2014 by Randal

I grew up reading Hal Lindsey books. Beginning with The Late, Great Planet Earth (1970), Mr. Lindsey had a string of bestsellers throughout the 1970s. And each of those books promoted a popularist form of dispensationalist Christianity that read the predicted future of the book of Revelation in the unfolding events of the evening news. […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: backmasking, culture, demons, devil, dispensationalism, evangelicalism, fundamentalism, Hal Lindsey, Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven

46. Kelly Kapic on A Little Book for New Theologians

May 7, 2014 by Randal

Some years ago I arrived home to see my neighbor sitting in the front seat of her car with a strange, pained expression. “Are you okay?” I called over in a faltering attempt to be neighborly. My friendly inquiry was immediately returned with an in-depth account of my neighbor’s lower back pain, its etiology, proposed course […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: A little book for new theologians, doctrine, God, Kelly Kapic, systematic theology, theologian, theology

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