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Mike Cope debases his soul by sitting next to Jonathan Storment for this month's wrapup to discuss eating beats with Rainn Wilson, entertainment's witness, cheapest form of thinking, parables, Pete Enns, tell me more, and race. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Don McLaughlin returns to the show to discuss race, tell me more, and his new book Love First. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Dr. Pete Enns joins the podcast from the Pepperdine Bible Lectures to discuss the problematic texts of the Bible, integrated faith, creation, the historical issues of Genesis 1, and the interaction of science and theology. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Rob Bell returns to infect people and discuss the Bible, standup comedy, where the Bible is headed, literalism, fancy pant pastors, omega points, and his new book What is the Bible . For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Rainn Wilson joins the show live from the Pepperdine Bible Lectures to discuss Bahai'i, fasting, the intersection of art and creativity,  bassoon-ing, farming, progressive manifestation, suffering, The Office, Dwight Shrute, Soulpancake ,  and his book The Bassoon King. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Dr. David Dark joins the show to talk Chance the Rapper, secular/sacred line dissolving, reading the Bible, Mr. Rogers, labels, Art, and his book Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious .

Jonathan Storment returns to discuss technology, ice cream, suffering, grief, sermons as songs, and all things April from the podcast. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Richard Beck returns to discuss Aaron Hernandez, laundry mats , self-forgetting, theology of lingering, earning the right to celebrate Easter, growing up conservative, eschatological creatures, meaning makers. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Church Planter  Jason Miller, a pastor who happens to be planting a church, talks singleness, Catholicism, sermons as songs, cuftburt, praying in community, silence, and starting a church where people can lose their faith. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Andy Crouch joins the show to discuss the power of screens, idolatry, entertainment, ice cream, technology's moral value, parenting and his new book The Tech-Wise Family . For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here .

Jason Jones' three year old son tragically passed away. Limping but Blessed is his story of keeping/finding his faith after the tragedy. For more on this month's sponsor Podbean click here .

Jonathan Storment returns to try (miserably) as a pitchman and then we discuss Brueggemann, the power of language in politics, marriage, and all things March from the podcast. For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here .

Dr. Walter Brueggemann joins the show to discuss the intersection of sociology and theology, trading mystery for the material, imaginative preaching vs. moralistic preaching and Walter's new book (along with his sociologist son Dr. John Brueggemann) Rebuilding the Foundations . For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here .

The return of Ramjaane Niyoyita to discuss the Rwanda Genocide, dehumanization, reconciliation, Rick Warren, music and chicken fajitas. For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here .

Mike Cope returns to the show to discuss addictions to certainty, sufferings role in spiritual formation, Reading the Bible as a Muslim, Newsworthy after Dark in Malibu, and Mike's own spiritual journey's construction, deconstruction and reconstruction.  For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here .

On this Mailbag episode we discuss bridging traditional and conservative Christianity, Calvinism, theological differences within marriage, the role of the pastor, Midrash and too many white male guests. For more on the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here .

In Part 2 of the February Wrapup Jonathan Storment discusses how he's just like Jimmy Kimmel, resurrection, evangelism, leadership and church wounds. We start the show by talking with the president of Missions Resource Network Dr. Dan Bouchelle.   For more on this month’s sponsor Missions Resource Network click here . Or email them at  missions@MRNet.org .   

Tripp Fuller returns to discuss the John Cobb interview including the divinity of Jesus, gender pronouns, the Gospel of John, Peter Rollin's divinity, and process theology vs. open theism.   For more on this month’s sponsor Missions Resource Network click here . Or email them at  missions@MRNet.org .

Rev. Carol Howard Merritt joins the show to discuss running from pain, church wounds, treating anger as a small child, backsliding atheists, absolution, and her new book Healing Spiritual Wounds .   For more on this month’s sponsor Missions Resource Network click here . Or email them at  missions@MRNet.org .

Jamin Goggin joins the show to talk guru vs sages, two ways of power, Jean Vanier, morality and his new book (with Kyle Strobel) The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb .   For more on this month’s sponsor Missions Resource Network click here . Or email them at  missions@MRNet.org .

Dr. Larry Hurtado joins the show to discuss early Christianity including Christian distinctiveness, what made Christianity bizarre, Christianity as a philosophy, God of love, the improbability of Resurrection in the first century and his book Destroyer of the gods . For more on this month’s sponsor Missions Resource Network click here . Or email them at  missions@MRNet.org .

Live from Theology Beer Camp Dr. John Cobb joins the show to discuss Process Theology, Open Theology,  divinity of Jesus, gender pronouns for God and Anslem. For more on this month's sponsor Missions Resource Network click here . Or email them at  missions@MRNet.org

Jonathan Storment returns to discuss conversions vs. deconversions, Morgan Freeman,  the inability to have neutrality, the story teller for Christianity, wish-fulfillment, spiral dynamics, cancer humor and all things January from the podcast.

James Younger, executive producer of National Geographic's The Story of God with Morgan Freeman , joins the show to discuss sharks, Lie Witness News and which religion wins. Dr. Barry Taylor co-host of the Story of Godcast discusses AC/DC, spirituality of music and sparkles.

United Methodist pastor Jason Micheli joins the show to discuss humor, grief, faith in stage serious cancer and his new book Cancer is Funny .