Podcast Overview

Author

429: Lewis - "'Nature gives most of her evidence in answer to the questions we ask her"

02/20/26

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

A Church as Big as the Cosmos! In this episode, we enter into Lent with a reading from C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image. We discuss the medieval understanding of life, the universe, and everything— how it can help the churches today deepen their “vision” of how God orders the universe, the church, and the human being. We converse about the Grail legend, how God’s Word encounters and changes people, being lost in the Garden, how Christ ministers through others, and being annoyed by death. This and much, much more on this week’s episode of Banned Books.
- C.S. Lewis
- Creation
428: Postman - A great narrative... has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power to enable one to organize one's life around it

02/14/26

12 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

We Don’t Need No Education. In this episode, we read The End of Education by Neal Postman, discussing the mechanisms of public education, religious catechesis, the influence of the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis on contemporary learning, and what happens when fiction replaces truth as the basis of meaning. This and much, much more on today’s show!
How Education Problems Affect Handing Down the Faith

12/30/25

4 mins

By Caleb Keith | Scott Keith | Adam Francisco | Bruce Hillman

Reading and education outcomes in the United States have been declining for decades. In this episode, the Thinking Fellows examine how these trends have impacted Christian education and what Christians can contribute to America’s education crisis.
- Education
- Catechesis
419: C.S. Lewis - All that Christianity adds to Paganism is the cure

12/05/25

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Pagan Neart, Christian Soul. In this episode, we read C.S. Lewis’ “A Christmas Sermon for Pagans.” Why does the post-Christian person need to become pagan again to be prepared to hear the gospel? How has a mechanistic view of nature led us to kill each other? Why do we reject the good news that Jesus ended the need for guilt-offerings, sin-sacrifices, and fear about the afterlife? What happened as a consequence of moderns pushing heavenly truth out of the material world? What is the message of Christmas that offers a cure for all that ails us?
The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: The Animal Show!

11/15/25

5 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Weekend Edition for November 15-16, 2025
- Christian History
- Creation
Proclamation Not Speculation

09/24/25

5 mins

By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith

In this episode of Outlaw God, hosts Steven Paulson and Caleb Keith look into the theological implications of law and gospel as presented in Genesis.
The Law Before Sin

09/17/25

5 mins

By Caleb Keith | Steven Paulson

In this episode of the Outlaw God, hosts Steven Paulson and Caleb Keith delve into the theological implications of the law before sin, exploring Luther's perspective on prelapsarian law and its distinction from postlapsarian law.
Individual and community w/ Dr. Mickey Mattox

08/06/25

3 mins

By Adam Francisco | David Andersen

In this episode of Faith and Reason Exchange, David and Adam are joined by Dr. Mickey Mattox of Hillsdale College to discuss individualism and community.
402: Tolkien - Certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth

07/31/25

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Got A Machine Head. In this episode, we read J.R.R. Tolkien’s letter to his son, Christopher, about a question of Genesis’ unfashionable status amongst Christians and those who value beautiful ‘stories.’ He also discusses Eden as it was, as it is to faith, and will be on the last day, the war of the machine, its triumph, and the consequences for modern man.
Imagine The World Before The Fall

05/28/25

4 mins

By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith

Dr. Paulson continues to analyze the appeal Erasmus makes to Sirach in chapter 15.
Philosophy amidst theology (with Dr. Dan Deen)

05/14/25

4 mins

By Adam Francisco | David Andersen | Daniel Deen

Dr. Dan Deen of Concordia University Irvine joins David and Adam to discuss how he approaches philosophy at a college dominated by theology.
Are Lutherans Evangelicals?

05/10/25

5 mins

By Scott Keith | Caleb Keith | Bruce Hillman | Adam Francisco

The Fellows continue their conversation about Lutheran identity. This time, they discuss the term "evangelical."