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In this episode we talk about three different positions Christians take on the question of origins, not to advocate for any one of them but to better understand them, their appeal, their challenges, and talk about how they interact with the early chapters of Genesis. 

We continue our discussion of faith and science, and we move into a general discussion of views of origins, knowing this is much debated ground in the church, hoping to model a reasoned and respectful reflection on some of the issues in these conversations.

In this interview we begin by reflecting on our shared history growing up at the same church, discussing our experience being rooted in that community of faith, and then move into a discussion of faith and science which continues into the next episode.

In this episode Jason Van Bemmel and I follow up on the conversation about devotional poetry and its value that I had with Leland Ryken, discussing poetry in general and looking more closely at another Holy Sonnet by John Donne and a poem by Emily Dickinson. 

This episode includes the second half of my conversation with Dr. Leland Ryken on devotional poetry as we look more closely at two sample poems, John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14 and John Milton’s Sonnet 19, also known as Milton’s sonnet on his blindness.

This episode contains the first half of my conversation with Dr. Leland Ryken on devotional poetry, as we talk about how poetry does its work, and why it is worth taking time to invest in it.

This episode concludes my conversation with Dr. Leland Ryken about his role on the ESV and Tyndale’s New Testament, focusing mainly on the story of Tyndale’s NT and the enormous impact it had on the English Bible.

This episode contains the first half of my conversation with Dr. Leland Ryken on the ESV and Tyndale’s New Testament, focusing here on his work on the ESV as literary stylist and focusing in on things like the importance of getting as close in translation to what the original authors wrote as possible. 

This episode concludes the conversation I was having in the last episode with Max Benfer and Jason Van Bemmel, by moving to both the need for depth in the church and to discussing how we can pursue that depth.

In this episode, I welcome in two of my pastor friends, Max Benfer and Jason Van Bemmel, and we discuss one of the central assertions of this podcast, that the American Church is shallow.