raZe the roof

This is a special episode of raZe the roof featuring a discussion about the just released Los Angeles Statement on Race, Justice and Unity . This discussion was hosted by the Center for Biblical Unity where I serve as a member of their Academic Advisory Board. Our conversation was so good, and so important that I wanted to share it here with you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...

Welcome to raZe the roof , where worldviews get tested through winsome dialogue. This is our fourth episode of our seven-part series based on Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader . Christian co-hosts Joe Miller and Leroy Hill sit down with atheist guest Richard Suttles—known as the Fallen Ape-Theist—to tackle Sean D. Kelly’s response to the concern that atheism cannot overcome nihilism. S...

Welcome to raZe the roof , where worldviews get tested through winsome dialogue. This is our third episode of our seven-part series based on Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader . Christian co-hosts Joe Miller and Leroy Hill sit down with atheist guest Richard Suttles—known as the Fallen Ape-Theist—to tackle Carl Cederström’s concern over “The Dangers of Happiness.” In a world without God...

Welcome to raZe the roof , where worldviews get tested through winsome dialogue. This is our second episode of our seven-part series based on Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader . Christian co-hosts Joe Miller and Leroy Hill sit down with atheist guest Richard Suttles—known as the Fallen Ape-Theist—to tackle Edward O. Wilson’s argument “Evolution and Our Inner Conflict” In a world withou...

Welcome to raZe the roof , where worldviews get tested through winsome dialogue. In this opening episode of our seven-part series , Christian co-hosts Joe Miller and Leroy Hill sit down with atheist guest Richard Suttles—known as the Fallen Ape-Theist—to tackle Todd Mays argument from Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader : “The Meaningfulness of Lives.” Is God necessary for life to have m...

Today’s raZe the roof is a blast from the past when Joe Miller and Leroy Hill sat down in 2018 to unpack Bart Campolo’s break from Christianity—showing it wasn’t born in a vacuum of urban hardship. The guys trace how his turn to Humanism flows naturally from the theology he inherited from his father, Tony, and explore how believers can pursue real compassion without slipping into the dead-ends of...

If you want to understand how feminism has shaped the mind of American women over the last seventy years—and the cultural arc from Doris Day, to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Rosanne; fromTaylor Swift to Dylan Mulvaney, the man who Bud Light imagines is a woman—then join Joe Miller and his co-host Leroy Hill as they unpack Betty Friedan’s 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique. H...

Ideas have consequences and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill and I are joined by Alex Fogassy to offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of Alfred Kinsey’s 1948 book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. hey expose how Kinsey—along with W.B. Pomeroy and C.E. Martin—manipulated data, rewrote sexual norms, and helped distort America’s moral imagination. The conversation wraps...

In 1925, the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’ turned a small Tennessee courtroom into a national showdown between the Bible and Darwin. A hundred years later, that clash of worldviews still shapes our laws, our schools, and how culture misrepresents Christianity. In today’s show, Dr. Miller is joined by Casey Luskin and Rick Townsend help parents, students, teachers, philosophers, historians, and scientists...

Ideas have consequences and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of Margaret Mead’s book The Pivot of Civilization and how her agnostic worldview has shaped many of today’s conflicts over sex, undermined science, vilified religion, and deformed the worldview of many Christians. Tune in live to see how these ideas have shaped the Western...

Ideas have consequences and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of Sigmund Freud’s book The Future of an Illusion and how his Atheist wish-casting of stand behind many of today’s conflicts over sex, science, and religion, shaped the Western worldview, and maybe even deformed the worldview of many Christians. Through their witty banter,...

This special episode of raZe the roof features Sean Myers, elder and lead pastor at Pella Communities in Glendale, Arizona . Sean casts a positive vision for formational worship, a practice rooted in Christian tradition designed to shape believers over time through active participation, contemplative practices, and an intergenerational style. To help contextualize Pella’s liturgical practice, Sean...

Ideas have consequences and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill are joined by Richard Weikart to offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf and how these ideas stand behind many of today’s moral conflicts, shaped the Western worldview, and maybe even deformed the worldview of many Christians. Through their witty banter, the guys till the soil of...

In this episode of raZe the roof we go back in time to April 2020 when Dr. Miller went 1 on 1 with Clay Jones to talk about his book, Immortal: How the Fear of Death Drives Us and What We Can Do About It . This was a timely conversation in the midst of the global fears about COVID-19. Our conversation exposed the failed attempts, even by some Christians, to rationalize our fear of death and run aw...

Ideas have consequences and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill are joined by Kevin Briggins to offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of Margret Sanger’s 1922 book The Pivot of Civilization. They’ll show how Sanger’s Social Darwinism shaped the eugenic mission of Planned Parenthood, influenced the Western worldview, and maybe even deformed the theology of many Christians. T...

Ideas have consequences and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill are joined by the president of Ratio Christi Corey Miller to offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of Vladimir Lenin’s 1917 book The State and Revolution. They’ll show how Lenin applied the philosophy of Marx and Engels to justify the killing of millions and how many folks today practice Lenin’s politics of vio...

Back in December 2021, I had the chance to sit down with Dr. Casey Luskin to talk about the science of human origins in William Lane Craig’s book, In Quest of the Historical Adam. Given Casey’s expertise in both the scientific and legal dimensions of the debate over evolution, I think you will find his observations insightful. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subs...

The culture is shifting, but transgenderism remains a divisive issue among many Christians. Today we’re going back in time to 2020 when Dr. Miller went 1 on 1 with Professor Nancy Pearcey, the author of the powerful book, Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexuality . Professor Pearcey shares her research and advice to parents of transgender kids on how to navigate the medical...

Ideas have consequences so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill are joined by Owen Anderson to offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche 1886 book Beyond Good and Evil. They’ll show how Nietzsche’s atheist morality lies beneath many of today’s social conflicts. Through their witty banter, the guys till the soil of culture to sow the seed of the Gospel. Listen...

Joseph R. Miller is joined by co-host Leroy Hill and their friends Kevin Briggins and Owen Anderson to talk about Christian education and the influence of progressive politics. Today, they unpack Charlie Sykes’ interview of Wesleyan University President Michael Roth—another Blind Fox—who’s positioned himself as the brave defender of liberal education and academic freedom, Gandalf standing in the g...

Ideas have consequences and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill are joined by Richard Weikart to offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of Darwin's 1871 book, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. They’ll show how Darwin’s embrace of the godless philosophy of human evolution stands behind many of today’s moral conflicts. Through their witty banter, the guys ti...

Today Joe interviewsSteven B Sherman, his colleague at Grand Canyon University, about his new book, An Introduction to Philosophy: A Christian Guide to the Things that Really Matter which is coauthored by Richard A Holland, Gary S. Osmundsen, and Peter J. Rasor. About the Book Designed for students in Christian colleges and seminaries, An Introduction to Philosophy surveys the four main areas of p...

Ideas have consequences, and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of John Stuart Mill’s 1863 essay titled Utilitarianism. They’ll show how Mill’s loveless atheism stands behind many of today’s moral conflicts, shaped the Western worldview, and maybe even deformed the worldview of many Christians. Through their witty banter, the guys till...

Today we’re going back in time to 2020 when Dr. Miller went 1 on 1 with Richard Weikart to discuss how the Darwinian worldview helped create the scientific racisms of the 20th century through the eugenics movement. The show goes beyond the history and explores how this Darwinian thinking influences science, religion, and public policy today. RESOURCES FROM THE SHOW * The Death of Humanity: And the...

Ideas have consequences and so today Joe Miller and Leroy Hill are joined by George Haraksin to offer a biblically sound and philosophically robust discussion of The Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. They’ll show how this treatise is behind many of today’s biggest headlines. Through their witty banter, the guys till the soil of culture to sow the seed of the Gospe...