Confronting Christianity with Rebecca McLaughlin

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...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Dr. Karen Swallow Prior to have a conversation about abortion and how we as Christians can engage with the sanctity of human life issues most helpfully. Questions Covered in This Episode: Would you be willing to share a bit of your story: How did you come to follow Jesus? What led you into your field of study? What led you to become involved in righ...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Justin Giboney to have a conversation about how Christians view diversity. Questions Covered in This Episode: What led you to the work you do now with the And Campaign? What would you have said to my 2008 UK self, trying to navigate that seemingly Christian values were evenly distributed between two options? Don’t Christians oppose ethnic and cultur...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin explore the question, are we better off without religion? Questions Covered in This Episode: Is America, in general, more religious than the UK? Would you say the perception of religion among non-believers is generally positive or negative? The change in 2005-2008 range, do you think the atheist tones were driving how people were thinking? Is there data around th...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin talk about deconstructing; where has this come from and how should we engage? Questions Covered in This Episode: Let’s talk about deconstruction: Where has this come from? What is the most helpful way for us to approach people's real questions? Don’t we also need cultural deconstruction? How often are we deconstructing how culture (sarcasm, the sexual revolution,...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Lisa Fields to discuss if Christians are addressing the right questions and what we need to learn to engage with people who don’t believe. Questions Covered in This Episode: Are Christians addressing the right questions? What made you want to start Jude 3? Rebecca, are there differences in the UK vs. US apologetics? Does it feel like so much of the...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin discuss what objections and questions people have about Jesus and what is essential to believe about Him. Questions Covered in This Episode: Two of your books are releasing this year: Jesus through the Eyes of Women and Confronting Jesus. Why all this interest in Jesus? Ok, but what if we’re wrong about Jesus? What are some objections people have about Jesus? Whe...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by author Rachel Gilson to talk about why God cares about who we sleep with. Questions Covered in This Episode: Rachel, can you share your testimony? It seems like a lot of people care about sex and sexuality. Why? When you hear the phrase “authentic self,” where does that register with you? What is often missing from this conversation? Why do we care...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin faithfully explore the question, “how do we know anything?”Questions Covered in This Episode: How do we know anything? What is a thing to be known and how do we know it? Is it okay to talk about faith and trust in terms of knowing? How do we measure things that claim to be true? We both believe the God of the Bible is the one true God. Why do we believe these thi...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin talk about why they decided to start the Confronting Christianity podcast and what you can expect on future episodes! Hint: Hard questions faithfully explored. Questions Covered in This Episode: How did we get here? Who are we? Why are we doing this? What’s our tagline and why? Why are we a good tag team? What if you and I don’t agree on something? What kinds of...

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin talk about their new podcast Confronting Christianity, where they seek to faithfully explore hard questions. Questions Covered in This Episode: Why another podcast? What is the goal of Confronting Christianity? Follow Us: Instagram  or Twitter Confronting Christianity is a podcast of: Training the Church For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon...