Past Episodes

Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018

PART I President Bush becomes ‘our brother George’: Biblical truths behind the state funeral for George H.W. Bush

PART II The end of a religious dynasty: Are the Bushes the last establishment Protestant family in American public life?

PART III 2018 words of the year: What our language reveals about our culture?

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018

PART I Burial and the Christian worldview: What does Scripture tell us about rituals that take place after someone dies?

PART II State funerals: What are they, where did they come from, and why do we recognize them?

PART III What the National Cathedral tells us about America's history and national identity

PART IV The false promise of civil religion in a secular age

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018

PART I Thomas Altizer, theologian associated with 'God is dead' theology, dies

PART II What Einstein’s ‘God letter’ teaches us about the source of our theological authority

PART III ‘It’s the real me’: Human cloning is in the headlines, but it’s not what you think

Monday, Dec. 3, 2018

PART I A portrait of the American past: When a boy could be raised to be president

PART II The call of duty and the Greatest Generation: The teenage Naval aviator who became president

PART III President George H.W. Bush and the transformation of American politics in the 20th century

Friday, Nov. 30, 2018

PART I Why celebrity influence is not easily transferred to political candidates

PART II The death of shared stories: Exploring the dangerous effects of individualistic media consumption

PART III The real story behind the dearth of conservative late night TV hosts

PART IV How a TV show reveals human’s desire for a personal, intervening deity

Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018

PART I Why the election of the next Speaker matters far beyond the House of Representatives

PART II The drama of dealmaking: Why?

PART III Liberal parents, radical kids: The generational divide in America is a worldview divide

PART IV Watch out—Kentucky politician proposes expanded gambling as the financial fix

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018

PART I How a public debate between the President and the Chief Justice may reshape the American political landscape

PART II Custody battle over transgender issues exposes the massive fallout of the moral revolution

PART III After journey of 300 million miles, NASA’s latest Mars vehicle lands safely. What does this say about us as a species?

Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018

PART I As scientist claims first babies have been born using gene-editing technology CRISPR, the ethical implications are massive

PART II Why having absolute access to what we ‘want’ will never lead us to a new heaven of our own making

PART III Architectural aesthetics and the Christian worldview: Why we don’t need courthouses that look more like high school hangouts

Monday, Nov. 26, 2018

PART I The morality of global missions: How should those in the developed world look at hunter-gatherer tribes?

PART II Motivation vs. methodology: What the modern missions movement has taught us about how to most effectively reach the unreached

PART III Why Christians should pay close attention to major issues raised in new climate change report

Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018

PART I Why thanksgiving, rightly understood, is a deeply theological act

PART II An apologetics of thanksgiving: Examining the intellectual and moral problem of giving thanks for those who don’t believe in God

PART III The theological story of Thanksgiving: How the history of this holiday explains our celebration today

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