Dec 20, 2023
As a recent guest on Joshua's excellent podcast, "The Mediocre Observer," I was happy to return the favor and have Joshua on the show. I hope you enjoy this, the final episode of MindShift Podcast for 2023!
In this wide-ranging discussion, Joshua and I discuss, among other things, why he was terrified to pick the wrong...
Dec 6, 2023
I've finally managed to catch up
with one of my favorite Canadians, David Hayward "The Naked
Pastor."
As an ex-pastor and
ex-evangelical like me, author and cartoonist David is best known
for his irreverent but incredibly poignant cartoons depicting a
huge array of theological and churchly issues. They cause
people...
Nov 22, 2023
This week's episode features a
great conversation with a returning guest, historian Dr Warren
Throckmorton. From our previous conversation a few years ago, he's
had a longstanding issue with the Christian nationalist "historian"
David Barton of WallBuilders.
Back in 2012, Barton's
book The Jefferson
Lies was
pulled...
Nov 8, 2023
Katherine North is an amazing
woman--she grew up as a missionary kid in Japan, but all her life
as a young girl she struggled with a major problem: she couldn't
bring herself to believe the message of the Christian
gospel.
What did she do about it? As the
title of the episode suggests, she deconstructed in
a...
Oct 25, 2023
Once again, I'm joined by my good friend Tim Sledge, who like me is an ex-pastor who has since walked away from both the church and the Christian faith.
This week we're discussing his excellent book, Four Disturbing Questions with One Simple Answer, which has a lot of resonance with me as an ex-Christian. Tim poses four...