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Episode 213: Amanda Held Opelt - The Honesty of Grief
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Amanda Held Opelt joins Pete and Jared to talk about how her faith was impacted by her own experience with grief, and how rituals of mourning practiced by other cultures throughout history can encourage Christians to make room for grief, pain, and suffering within the church and their own lives.
Episode 212: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Numbers
Get your calculators ready…in this episode of The Bible for Normal People Podcast, Pete explores the book of Numbers in all its numerical and narrative glory—census lists, marches around the tabernacle, geopolitics, and even a talking donkey. What’s not to love?
Episode 211: David P. Gushee - Christian Ethics & the Memory of Jesus
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People Podcast, Pete and Jared talk with David Gushee about the role of the Bible in modern Christian ethics.
Episode 210: Sidnie White Crawford – What You Really Need to Know about the Dead Sea Scrolls
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Dr. Sidnie White Crawford joins Pete and Jared to discuss the most important manuscript find in Hebrew Bible studies and how it impacts the New Testament.
Episode 209: Jared Byas – Making of the Modern Mindset, Part 4
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People Podcast, Jared Byas concludes his four-part series exploring the shortcomings of evangelicalism’s ties to the modern mindset and how leaving the modern mindset behind can help us live out a more authentic faith.
Episode 208: David Farrier – What’s Going On With Megachurches?
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, David Farrier joins Pete and Jared to discuss what he has uncovered while researching the downward spiral of megachurches.
Episode 207: Pete Enns & Jared Byas – Respecting the Bible for What It Is (And Isn’t)
Does the Bible address modern moral questions? In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared dive into a discussion on the uniquely modern tension between an ancient text and modern ethics.
Episode 206: Dale C. Allison – Approaching the Resurrection of Jesus as a Historian
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Dale Allison joins Pete and Jared to discuss historical criticism and the resurrection.
Episode 205: Amy Kenny – My Body Is Not a Prayer Request
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Amy Kenny joins Pete and Jared to discuss what we have been taught about disability and invites us to reconsider how we think about disability being portrayed in Scripture.
Episode 204: Pete Enns – Pete Ruins Leviticus
We almost named this episode of The Bible for Normal People “Pete Rescues Leviticus,” because for most of you, Leviticus is ruined already.
Episode 203: Andre Henry – Systemic Racism in the Church
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Andre Henry joins Pete and Jared to discuss the cultural and theological underpinnings of systemic racism in the church.
Episode 202: Jeff Chu – Grief as a Biblical Practice (REISSUE)
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Jeff Chu joins Pete and Jared to discuss what the Bible has to say about grief and what grief looks like as a personal, communal, and spiritual practice.
Episode 201: Debra Rienstra – Eco-Theology: Beyond Stewardship
How are faith and nature interwoven? In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Debra Rienstra joins Pete and Jared to discuss the value of the created world in scripture and what it looks like to care for the earth properly.
Episode 200: Pete Enns & Jared Byas – Does the Bible Still Matter?
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared celebrate their two-hundredth episode by discussing why the Bible still matters, looking at the Bible as a book of wisdom, and approaching the Bible without being an expert.
Episode 199: Becca Stevens – Reimagining Scripture for a Suffering World
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Becca Stevens joins Pete and Jared to share how the embodiment of faith can be an engine toward great good in the world.
Episode 198: Anna Sieges – The Minor Prophets and Why We Shouldn’t Call Them That
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Anna Sieges joins Pete and Jared to elaborate on the benefits of viewing the Minor Prophets as a literary whole.
Episode 197: Jared Byas – Making of the Modern Mindset, Part 3
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People Podcast, Jared Byas explores how fundamentalist evangelicalism has bought into the modern mindset in some important ways, while condemning it in other ways.
