Every Square Inch Podcast

Gandhi once said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Some of you may have had the same experience with Christians that he did. In this week’s episode, though, Robert asks us to consider the hypocrisy found within all worldviews, and shows us how Jesus (perhaps like you) holds self-righteous believers in contempt. • • • Want to support ou...

Parents are the most influential relationships in a person’s life, and none of them model Christ perfectly. In this week’s episode, Robert asks everyone (and especially those who left the faith due to their parents’ failings) to take a fresh look at the God of the Bible, whose call to “honor your father and mother” may not mean what you think. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky?...

The history of slavery and racism goes back for millennia in our species, and Christians have certainly participated in some of the worst examples of it. In this week’s episode, though, Robert highlights how Christians have also been fighting against slavery from the very beginning, starting with Jesus and his extremely counter-cultural views on the topics. • • • Want to support our work at Christ...

It’s not uncommon for someone living in today’s culture to be turned-off by apparent misogyny that seems to define the Christian religion. But what does the Bible actually have to say about the value of women? This week’s episode is all about the beauty and importance that Jesus ascribed to women. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free an...

Time to get practical. Parts 1 and 2 focussed on the history of Christians in politics and showed us Jesus’s own political ethic. This week, Robert offers three practical ways that Christians can be faithfully engaged in politics without giving in to the idols of our culture. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a...

After tracing the history of Christianity’s attraction to political power, this week Robert turns to Jesus’ response to our attraction to political power. What did Jesus’ political ethic look like, and what did he have to say about the hot-button political topic of his day? • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a su...

When the intermingling of church and political parties becomes a major reason why people leave the church, how should churches respond? In part one of this two-part series, Robert traces the history of Christianity’s connection to western government, how we became so attracted to political power, and where Jesus sits in our political divide. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? C...

It‘s completely understandable why someone who has been abused by their religious leader would leave the church. In this week’s episode, Robert speaks to those who have left Christianity behind and shares a message of encouragement that he has shared with countless others affected by abuse. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and avail...

A common stumbling block for those who reject the Christian faith is the failure of those who call Christ their Savior to love their neighbor, especially when it comes to loving your LGBTQ+ neighbor. In this week’s episode, Robert looks to what Jesus called “the greatest commandment” to help us understand why and how we are to love our neighbors. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentuc...

After setting the table for this discussion in the first two parts of this mini-series on the “defeater ethic” of sexuality, Robert concludes by taking a direct look at the sexual ethic of modern culture and critiquing it through several unique lenses to demonstrate how this ethic ultimately falls short. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-...

When discussing the issue of sexuality in today’s culture, there is another underlying issue at play: identity. In this week’s episode, Robert gives a brief history of how we got to a place where someone’s sexuality is tantamount to their personhood, and why this topic is so much more supercharged than other defeater ethics. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help...

Continuing in our series about the ethical barriers that keep people from embracing Jesus and the Christian faith, Robert turns to the topic of the Bible’s sexual ethic, seeking to answer the question, “How can a good God make demands about my sexuality and my identity?” • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subsc...

Our last episode focussed on the philosophy behind the morality of a God who could allow pain and suffering, but in Robert’s experience, people first arrive at this objection through personal circumstances rather than philosophical debate. In this episode, he takes a more “pastoral” approach to this topic in the hopes of showing doubters the goodness of our God. • • • Want to support our work at C...

One of the most common barriers to the Christian faith is the idea that a God who loves us would let terrible things happen to us. How does the Christian reconcile what seems to be an irreconciable contradiction? In this episode, Robert focuses on the philosophy behind God’s morality and the kind of ideas that he would never communicate to someone who’s in the middle of a season of suffering (that...

Skeptics used to just doubt that hell existed. Today, skeptics question whether a good God would send people to hell. In this episode, Robert looks at the idea of God’s judgment and how Christians can show a skeptical world that God’s judgement is in fact good news. • • • Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscripti...

In the past, the reason for disbelieving Christianity was often due to underlying beliefs that were incompatible with the Bible. Today, these “defeater beliefs” have given way to something else: “defeater ethics.” In this episode, Robert explains what he means by defeater ethics and how Christians can share the gospel in spite of a culture that no longer views Christianity as good for society. • •...

After spending time in Nashville with his grieving friends, Robert contrasts the devastation of the school shooting at Covenant School with the hope of Easter Sunday. Rather than allowing our fallen world to lower our expectation of joy, the resurrection invites us to indulge in joyful hope. 

In part 1, we saw the “spheres” where God has given us influence, but it’s natural that some cynicism might still remain. How much change can we actually bring about? And even if we bring about change, will it actually last? Part 2 is all about helping us see past the cynicism to the potential we have to bring redemptive change our spheres, and the real, lasting impact it can have upon the world.&...

Now that we’ve established God’s redemptive plan for Kentucky, what does this plan mean for your seemingly ordinary life? In this episode, Robert helps us see that, no matter your vocation or stage of life, God has placed each of us in spheres of influence that we may not realize are there.

Now that we’ve looked at the name, mission, and strategy of Christ for Kentucky, this week Robert turns to the theological vision that is the foundation of all that this organization hopes to achieve: the grand story of God’s redemption.

When a university down the road is making headlines the world over for what many are calling a revival, what are we to think? Can we even call it a revival? On this week’s episode, Robert seeks to answer these questions by sharing his experience visiting Asbury and engaging with the school’s leadership.

Is Christ for Kentucky about evangelism or is it about social justice? On this week’s episode, Robert looks at how the Gospel was shared in the Bible and how that impacts his strategy for this organization. Support Christ for Kentucky at christforky.org/give

Christ for Kentucky seeks to be a resource for “public theology and strategy for the common good of the Commonwealth” but what does that look like in practice? In this episode, Robert goes into detail about each piece of that mission statement and explains how they represent three key components of societal change. Learn more about this new ministry at christforky.org

In this episode, Robert shares the name of his new ministry, how he arrived at starting this new endeavor, and the meaning behind the name “Christ for Kentucky”. Visit Christ for Kentucky at christforky.org .

In part two of this this two-part “Pastoral Reflections” series, Robert shares some thoughts for church members about the best ways to communicate with and encourage their pastor.