Recently on the way back home from the coffee shop just a couple miles from my house, I got lost. Twice. Each time I went down the right road, but in the wrong direction. As I reflected upon the experience, I felt this moment begin to speak to me...
"I Kissed Dating Goodbye" by Josh Harris represented the height of "purity culture" in the Evangelical church. Its teachings, and some of its more extreme practices, have largely died. But with its death, what can the church look to say that speaks...
Do you believe in soulmates? Has the universe or God predestined you to be with just one special person? In this podcast, I explore the idea of a soulmate in our culture, and look at how the gift of marriage is better than the soulmate mythology...
Christianity has become really good at reducing the mystery of faith to magical formulas of mathematical exactitude. But, in trying to make everything so certain, we might just be destroying the faith we claim to ultimately believe in and preach. In...
"Are we there yet?" is a common question kids ask on long car trips. And why? They are bored and feel stuck. Sometimes our lives can feel that way. We get to a place where we simply feel stuck. In today's podcast, I talk about how we can navigate...
There can often be a stigma associated with going to therapy, especially in Evangelical Christian circles. In this podcast, I talk about how the skeptical attitude I had previously about seeing a psychologist has changed, and how it has personally...
There are signs of a housing "bubble" forming according to the U.S. Federal Reserve. In this podcast, I explore the reasons behind the bubble, whether or not there will be a housing crash like we saw in 2008, or what other scenarios we might see...
With the war between Ukraine and Russia waging, and possibly threatening a global nuclear war, it made me wonder if we've ever lived in a world without war, and if such a world is possible. In this podcast, I explore the history of war in the world...
Lia Thomas is a transgender athlete in the NCAA. Her dominating recent swimming competitions has created quite the splash, as our culture debates the place of transgender athletes in sports. In today's podcast, I discuss our concept of what it means...
We are hearing of "wars and rumors of wars" in the news. Russia's war with Ukraine has sparked apocalyptic concerns with some people. Some see these current events as having prophetic "end times" significance. In this podcast, we attempt to wrestle...