Confronting Christianity with Rebecca McLaughlin

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Christy Thornton to answer questions about the Trinity. Questions Covered in This Episode: Has God always been Triune? Do other aspects of God’s identity change between the Old and New Testament? Is “let us make man in our image” written in plurality? If God was triune from the beginning why didn’t He make that clear from the beginning? Why is the Trinity not more c...

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Max Riesenhuber to have a conversation about the ethics and morality of artificial intelligence. Questions Covered in This Episode: What first interested you about neuroscience? Can you talk about recent advancement in AI and where we might go? Do we have a moral responsibility to artificial intelligence beings? What do you say to scientists who say that humans are...

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Mark Shepard to discuss his story of how he started following Jesus. Questions Covered in This Episode: Tell us more about your upbringing when it comes to faith. Was there a time in your life where you just didn’t believe in God? Most of my Jewish friends identify with the cultural and tradition but don’t believe in God. Did you identify with that? How did you firs...

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Dr. Danielle Treweek to have a conversation about singleness and marriage. Questions Covered in This Episode: What is the spiritual climate of Australia? What are the health benefits of regular participation in church? What does the subtitle of your book, “Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church” mean? When you say “the life to come,” what do...

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Sam Alberry to discuss the topic of friendship. Questions Covered in This Episode: What is the New Testament vision for friendship? Why do Christians think they have to have it all together and not need friends? Do we tend to look to specific people to fulfill all of our relational needs? Where do you look in scripture for a picture of friendship? What mandate and m...

Season 3 of Confronting Christianity begins on August 22! In this episode, Rebecca McLaughlin previews what is to come in Season 3.Questions Covered in This Episode: Who are some guests that will be ons season 3 and what will we talk about? Sponsors:To learn more about our sponsors please visit our website .Follow Us: Instagram | Twitter Our Sister Shows: Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Po...

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Sherelle Ducksworth to talk about the holiday Juneteenth. Questions Covered in This Episode: How did you become a Christian? What is systematic theology? What is Juneteenth? Can you help us understand anthropological distortions? How would you respond to someone who looks at history and say that how Christians treated black people shows that Christianity isn’t true?...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin talk about how Confronting Christianity has evolved over time, why Kyle will be stepping away from the podcast, and what to expect in the fall! Questions Covered in This Episode: Why did we start this podcast? How have we experienced hosting this podcast? Kyle, why are you leaving the podcast? Are you excited about the future of the show? What are some future top...

Rebecca McLaughlin is joined by Rachel Gilson and JD Greear to answer the question, what does someone do when they become a Christian and they are married to someone of the same sex? Questions Covered in This Episode: Rachel, can you share a little of your story? Why do you think it's important for people to hear from people like Rachel on this topic? How would you respond to someone who would thi...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Esau McCaulley to have a conversation about Easter and why it is important. Questions Covered in This Episode: What is your new book, “Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal” about? What would you say to someone who does not fully understand what Lent is? Is Easter Sunday just another Sunday? Isn’t every Sunday an opportunity to celebrate the ri...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin answer questions submitted by listeners! Questions Covered in This Episode: How would you counsel a Christian who is invited to the gay wedding of a close relative or friend? How should Christians understand God's sovereignty and the image of God in the case of a person born with a physical and/or mental disability? Is disability a product of the Fall that God al...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Sarah Irving Stonebraker to discuss the history of ideas around human rights, where Christians find the foundation for human rights, and where we are today. Questions Covered in This Episode: Sarah, what is your story, how did you become a Christian? What is the idea that universal human equality is Christian fiction? How does the history of ideas p...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin explore the question, does hypocrisy among Christians discredit Christianity? Questions Covered in This Episode: What is hypocrisy? What are we talking about? Do you think people are leaving the faith because of some level of hypocrisy? How does the Bible help us to think about this? Has social media created a stronger gap between the witness of the church and hy...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin have a conversation about what it looks like for Christians to argue ideas. Questions Covered in This Episode: Ideas matter, right? Can Christians argue about ideas? Does it matter how we argue? What does it mean to argue with gentleness and respect? What does a good process look like to engage in these conversations? What is the danger in categorizing people? Is...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Praveen Sethupathy to talk about what science is and if it can dictate our identity. Questions Covered in This Episode: How did your first few years at Cornell change you? Why did you land on Christianity? When you went back to your family and told them you were a Christian, what did that look like? Have you scientific pursuits pulled you away from...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin faithfully explore the question, is Christianity exclusive? Questions Covered in This Episode: Is Christianity exclusive? What does that mean? Isn’t it arrogant to say there is only one true religion? When we say Christianity is exclusive and that Jesus is the only way, are we saying that there is no truth to be found in other religions? Can we find true things a...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin have a conversation about how people view organized religion, what tends to replace it in peoples lives, and why it is important for believers. Questions Covered in This Episode: Are people in Texas skeptical of organized religion? Do you see people who see themself as spiritual but not religious? What are other institutions that mimic organized religion that hav...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Claude Atcho to have a conversation about how we can get better at talking about race. Questions Covered in This Episode: Should we still be talking about race? How can we get better about talking about race? “Race is a biological fiction but a sociological reality.” What does that mean? How has this conversation changed over the last 6-10 years? Ho...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin discuss the question; are transgender women, women? Questions Covered in This Episode: What is a man? What is a woman? Is a transgender woman a woman? What issues has this confusion presented? What is our primary responsiblity we have as Christians in this conversation? To what degree should we advance Christian ethics in public squares that are not purposefully...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin talk about doubt and where we can find a stable foundation that honors and invites our doubt toward goodness, truth, and beauty. Questions Covered in This Episode: Have you ever experienced profound doubt? What do you think are some of the most common places of doubt? What is doubt an invitation to? Do we find doubt in the bible? Where do you find a stable founda...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Sam Alberry to have a conversation about the question, is God anti-gay? Questions Covered in This Episode: In March a new edition of Is God anti-gay is being released. Why are you updating the book? What’s changed? Did the first edition play out how you thought it would? Is God Anti-Gay? What do you say to the people who think and feel that they are...

Season 2 of Confronting Christianity begins on January 24! In this episode, Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin preview what is to come in Season 2.Questions Covered in This Episode: What are we going to cover in Season 2? What guests are we going to have on this season? Follow Us: Instagram | Twitter Our Sister Shows: Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting PlaceConfronting Chri...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin discuss Rebecca’s new book “Jesus Through The Eyes of Women.”Questions Covered in This Episode: Is there a cultural impression that Christianity is misogynistic? You just wrote a book on Jesus through the Eyes of Women: Why did you write this? How does the perspective of the women in the gospels showcase some unique truths of the person and ministry of Jesus that...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin answer questions submitted by listeners! Questions Covered in This Episode: Why did there stop being prophets? Surely God is still speaking (inspiring?) since the 1st century. Why is there no book of Rebecca? Or book of CS Lewis? Why does no one ever talk about divorce? It’s mentioned in the OT and New Testament, and the internet is full of polarized views on it?...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin have a conversation about how cultural Christianity has impacted the global west. Questions Covered in This Episode: Is it good that “cultural Christianity” is on the decline in the west? How do people who are culturally Christian respond to an invitation to church or to talk about God? How much of this is tied with the reckoning that has to happen with the past...