Welcome to Good Books Big Questions: Bold, Loving, and Sensible Conversations About Faith No one ducks the tough questions about faith on this show. Not the host and not the guests. If you’re disillusioned, doubting, discovering faith, or if you simply want a safe space to dig into some big questions you’ve had for a while, you will find good company here. You’ll discover thoughtful, honest, and civil conversations about the issues that keep us up at night. Also, the occasional laugh – and a ...
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Episode 4 Norman Hubbard: Loving brothers and sisters who drive you nuts
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48:09Do we have to sit with Christians whose politics offend and trouble us? Actually, yes, we should, says author Norm Hubbard. Even if it’s really hard. Norm is the author of More than Christians: Practicing Gospel-Shaped Community with the Language of the Early Church. Norm didn’t intend to write a book that speaks to the current polarized political …
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Welcome to Good Books Big Questions: Bold, Loving, and Sensible Conversations About Faith
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1:39No one ducks the tough questions about faith on this show. Not the host and not the guests. If you’re disillusioned, doubting, discovering faith, or if you simply want a safe space to dig into some big questions you’ve had for a while, you will find good company here. You’ll discover thoughtful, honest, and civil conversations about the issues that…
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Episode 1 Jared Ayers: Trusting a God with Scars
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36:52Can we still find beauty in being a Christian? Or in Christian institutions? Author Jared Ayers was disappointed with the church’s reaction to the growing number of religiously unaffiliated and wrote a book for people in the borderlands of faith. In You can Trust a God With Scars, Ayers walks readers through a gentle examination of the Christian fa…
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Episode 2 Kat Armstrong: God is in life’s gardens and deserts
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42:21“No one wants to be in a desert. Bad things happen there,” says Kat Armstrong, the author of The Storyline Project Bible study series. But when she drilled down into the Bible’s desert stories, she found that God provides in the wilderness. Kat talks with Karen Stiller about changing her expectations of God, running up against sexism and resentment…
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Episode 3 Dieula Previlon: You can ask God anything
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38:00Do you need to ask God some tough questions? Have you shaken your fist at God or cried out your most honest pain and heartbreak? For Dieula Previlon, the author of Does God See Me? speaking (or maybe even yelling) to God with complete earthy honesty is an important part of how we live with trauma and grief. Dieula set out to write a book as teacher…
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