Category: Controversies

Beautiful Union (with Joshua Ryan Butler)

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Joshua Ryan Butler’s recently released book, Beautiful Union: How God’s Vision for Sex Points Us to the Good, Unlocks the True, and (Sort of) Explains Everything has occasioned considerable online controversy. Matt, Andrew, and I get into it all with him.

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Analogies for God

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The full Mere Fidelity cast gets together for a discussion of the use of analogies for God. We consider scriptural imagery and controls upon our theological language.

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If you would like to support the production of the podcast, you can do so over on Patreon. If you want to find out more about the show, take a look at our website.

Neo-Calvinism (with Cory Brock and Gray Sutanto)

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Cory Brock and Gray Sutanto, the authors of the recent Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction join Matt, Derek, and me for a discussion of neo-Calvinism

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If you would like to support the production of the podcast, you can do so over on Patreon. If you want to find out more about the show, take a look at our website.

Protestants & History (with Paul Gutacker)

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Paul Gutacker, the author of The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past, joined us for a discussion of how American Protestant understandings of sola scriptura and biblical authority played out in the context of the Civil War and debates around slavery.

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If you would like to support the production of the podcast, you can do so over on Patreon. If you want to find out more about the show, take a look at our website.

The Man of Lawlessness

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Derek, Matt, and I discuss the identity and significance of the man of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2.

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The Genesis of Gender (with Abigail Favale)

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Abigail Favale joins us for a discussion of her book The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, exploring the contemporary ‘gender paradigm’ its character, its dangers, and how we ought best respond to it.

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If you would like to support the production of the podcast, you can do so over on Patreon. If you want to find out more about the show, take a look at our website.

MAID in Canada

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Susannah joins Derek, Matt, and me to discuss Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), recently discussed in a New Atlantis piece and in a Substack post by Richard Hanania.

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Antisemitism in Thessalonians

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Andrew, Matt, and I discuss a difficult text in 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16, which has seemed antisemitic to many and has been misused in such a manner.

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