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  1. 200th Episode! Critical Race Theory Explored!

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    09/07/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Who is right in these crazy times? The only oppressed One who is not the oppressor: Jesus.
    200th Episode! Critical Race Theory Explored!

  2. What to Wear to a Funeral

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    08/31/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Walking on water is what we need. Jesus does it. We got baptism. Float through it all as the Modest Mouse song says!
    What to Wear to a Funeral

  3. A Postmodern Pandemic Still Needs the Gospel - with Scott Keith of 1517

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    07/21/20
    2 mins
    By Scott Keith | Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Kids - you'll never know the freedom of "come home with the streetlights on". But don't worry, be nostalgic for the Gospel of Jesus!
    A Postmodern Pandemic Still Needs the Gospel - with Scott Keith of 1517

  4. What Color Is Jesus?

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    07/09/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Throughout the centuries and throughout earthquakes, famines, kingdoms falling and rising, God's Word has moved forward. Picking up pieces, people, lives, sins, and hopelessness only to turn them into diamonds through His Grace!
    What Color Is Jesus?

  5. Smoking Pot a Sin? and other topics

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    05/04/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Is man essentially good? Most people think so despite the evidence. Since pot is now essentially legal - is it good? ok? What do you tell Johnny?
    Smoking Pot a Sin? and other topics

  6. 123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god

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    03/22/20
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    I’m Not Really A Joiner. Gillespie and Riley finish their reading and discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Antichrist.” This episode, state religion, Christian civil religion, and being your own god.
    123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god

  7. 122: Friedrich Nietzsche, Neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality

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    03/19/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Welcome to A Church of Pure Imagination. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Antichrist.” This episode, what happens when Christianity disconnects itself from what’s concrete and real, especially the incarnation of God.
    122: Friedrich Nietzsche, Neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality

  8. 121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

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    03/14/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    All right, let's put a pin in this, I gotta help your pathetic faith. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." How does the Christian church promote weak piety and a denial of life? How does Christianity as a religion of pity weaken believers and society? What happens to Christianity when it mixes philosophy and theology together?
    121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

  9. 120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea

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    03/11/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    That was really traumatizing! I quit! I'm out! Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." This episode, we talk about how Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity can help us check our presuppositions about what Christianity is and is not today. 
    120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea

  10. Season 2, Chapter 2, Episode 4 with R.J. Grunewald

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    02/10/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis | RJ Grunewald | Debi Winrich
    In this chapter's "bonus" episode, both Debi and Producer Dan talk with a guest from Chapter One of this Season, R. J. Grunewald. R.J. is writing a book about those who have left the church for one reason or another, and are, as he puts it, "left for dead." We discuss R.J.'s research and how we might talk about the faith and the church for those who think they've had enough.
    Season 2, Chapter 2, Episode 4 with R.J. Grunewald

  11. Season 2, Chapter 2, Episode 3 with Ed Killian

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    02/10/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis | Edward Killian | Debi Winrich
    In this episode, you hear one of the more dramatic and exciting stories we found. Michael is someone who has indeed left the church, but only for a season, and now is the pastor of a church in Louisiana that is especially sensitive to the plight of those who think they have nowhere left to go. Despite a ministry and church that is flourishing, sometimes Michael feels as if the message might be "too good to be true" and other times feels the loneliness of one trying to stand up for the lost.
    Season 2, Chapter 2, Episode 3 with Ed Killian

  12. Season 2, Chapter 2, Episode 2 with Bruce Hillman

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    02/10/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis | Debi Winrich | Bruce Hillman
    In this episode, Debi talks to Jason in New Jersey—a man who grew up with some kind of faith, seemed to lose whatever he had, and now has questions as to whether any of it is with it at all. After talking to Jason, Debi talks with Pastor Bruce Hillman, also from New Jersey, about Jason's plight. Pastor Hillman is an exceptionally well-read and fun conversation, and he and Debi discuss reasons for leaving, for doubting, but ultimately resting in Christ Alone.
    Season 2, Chapter 2, Episode 2 with Bruce Hillman