Author

  1. Presidents and Pastors, Public Speaking is Hard

    book
    10/04/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    How many presidents does it take to make us question our confidence in this country? No problem, Jesus will be back soon! Just listen to the preachers tell it like it is, and everything will be ok.
    Presidents and Pastors, Public Speaking is Hard

  2. In the Ring: Debate in an Age of Deconstruction with Dr. Ben Haupt

    book
    10/01/20
    3 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Forget prayer, America needs the use of logic and civilized discourse! So do preachers. What if preachers actually honestly engage the culture instead of cry “martyr”? Ringside meets The Craft of Preaching with special guest Dr. Ben Haupt.
    In the Ring: Debate in an Age of Deconstruction with Dr. Ben Haupt

  3. 200th Episode! Critical Race Theory Explored!

    book
    09/07/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Who is right in these crazy times? The only oppressed One who is not the oppressor: Jesus.
    200th Episode! Critical Race Theory Explored!

  4. What to Wear to a Funeral

    book
    08/31/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Walking on water is what we need. Jesus does it. We got baptism. Float through it all as the Modest Mouse song says!
    What to Wear to a Funeral

  5. A Postmodern Pandemic Still Needs the Gospel - with Scott Keith of 1517

    book
    07/21/20
    2 mins
    By Scott Keith | Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Kids - you'll never know the freedom of "come home with the streetlights on". But don't worry, be nostalgic for the Gospel of Jesus!
    A Postmodern Pandemic Still Needs the Gospel - with Scott Keith of 1517

  6. What Color Is Jesus?

    book
    07/09/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Throughout the centuries and throughout earthquakes, famines, kingdoms falling and rising, God's Word has moved forward. Picking up pieces, people, lives, sins, and hopelessness only to turn them into diamonds through His Grace!
    What Color Is Jesus?

  7. Smoking Pot a Sin? and other topics

    book
    05/04/20
    2 mins
    By Joel Hess | Paul Koch
    Is man essentially good? Most people think so despite the evidence. Since pot is now essentially legal - is it good? ok? What do you tell Johnny?
    Smoking Pot a Sin? and other topics

  8. 123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god

    book
    03/22/20
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    I’m Not Really A Joiner. Gillespie and Riley finish their reading and discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Antichrist.” This episode, state religion, Christian civil religion, and being your own god.
    123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god

  9. 122: Friedrich Nietzsche, Neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality

    book
    03/19/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Welcome to A Church of Pure Imagination. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Antichrist.” This episode, what happens when Christianity disconnects itself from what’s concrete and real, especially the incarnation of God.
    122: Friedrich Nietzsche, Neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality

  10. 121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

    book
    03/14/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    All right, let's put a pin in this, I gotta help your pathetic faith. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." How does the Christian church promote weak piety and a denial of life? How does Christianity as a religion of pity weaken believers and society? What happens to Christianity when it mixes philosophy and theology together?
    121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

  11. 120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea

    book
    03/11/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    That was really traumatizing! I quit! I'm out! Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." This episode, we talk about how Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity can help us check our presuppositions about what Christianity is and is not today. 
    120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea

  12. Season 2, Chapter 2, Episode 4 with R.J. Grunewald

    book
    02/10/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis | RJ Grunewald | Debi Winrich
    In this chapter's "bonus" episode, both Debi and Producer Dan talk with a guest from Chapter One of this Season, R. J. Grunewald. R.J. is writing a book about those who have left the church for one reason or another, and are, as he puts it, "left for dead." We discuss R.J.'s research and how we might talk about the faith and the church for those who think they've had enough.
    Season 2, Chapter 2, Episode 4 with R.J. Grunewald