Podcast Overview

Author

429: Lewis - "'Nature gives most of her evidence in answer to the questions we ask her"

02/20/26

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

A Church as Big as the Cosmos! In this episode, we enter into Lent with a reading from C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image. We discuss the medieval understanding of life, the universe, and everything— how it can help the churches today deepen their “vision” of how God orders the universe, the church, and the human being. We converse about the Grail legend, how God’s Word encounters and changes people, being lost in the Garden, how Christ ministers through others, and being annoyed by death. This and much, much more on this week’s episode of Banned Books.
- C.S. Lewis
- Creation
422: Post-Christmas and Post-New Year Debrief

01/03/26

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? In this episode, we gather for a post-Christmas, post-New Year pastoral debrief. We talk about symbols and meaning, Christmas and holidays, signs and seasons, and how modern churches quietly cleared the path for culture to push Christ out of Christmas without much resistance. We explore the strange and largely arbitrary ways the world measures time, along with the old Adam’s never-ending pyramid project. That is, his need to build meaning upward by effort, progress, and control rather than receive it as a gift. From there, we return to symbol and meaning. We ask why ancient liturgy’s nostalgia or ornamentation, but the distilled shape of reality itself, why the Lord’s Supper isn’t a side practice, but the beating heart of the Church, of worship, and of the Christian life. And why stories’ decorations for faith, but the way truth takes on flesh and finds us where we actually live. This is a conversation about time, worship, memory, and why the Church invents meaning but receives it again and again at the table.
The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: The Animal Show!

11/15/25

5 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Weekend Edition for November 15-16, 2025
- Christian History
- Creation
Proclamation Not Speculation

09/24/25

5 mins

By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith

In this episode of Outlaw God, hosts Steven Paulson and Caleb Keith look into the theological implications of law and gospel as presented in Genesis.
The Law Before Sin

09/17/25

5 mins

By Caleb Keith | Steven Paulson

In this episode of the Outlaw God, hosts Steven Paulson and Caleb Keith delve into the theological implications of the law before sin, exploring Luther's perspective on prelapsarian law and its distinction from postlapsarian law.
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

08/13/25

13 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the 7th century’s “most interesting man” and a link between the East and West.
- Christian History
- Church Fathers
The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: A Brief History of Bad Ideas (and What We Can Learn From Them) Part 1

08/09/25

5 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Weekend Edition for August 9-10, 2025
402: Tolkien - Certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth

07/31/25

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Got A Machine Head. In this episode, we read J.R.R. Tolkien’s letter to his son, Christopher, about a question of Genesis’ unfashionable status amongst Christians and those who value beautiful ‘stories.’ He also discusses Eden as it was, as it is to faith, and will be on the last day, the war of the machine, its triumph, and the consequences for modern man.
Episode # 433 Featuring Pastor Darrin Sheek "The Holy Trinity For You"

07/27/25

5 mins

By Darrin Sheek

Pastor Sheek Teaches On John 8:45-59
The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: The Legend of Honey Mouth—St. Bernard and the Middle Ages

07/12/25

5 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Weekend Edition for July 12-13, 2025
- Christian History
- Church Fathers
John 8:48-59 – Holy Trinity (C)

06/09/25

5 mins

By Steven Paulson | John W. Hoyum

On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the texts for Holy Trinity Sunday.
Imagine The World Before The Fall

05/28/25

4 mins

By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith

Dr. Paulson continues to analyze the appeal Erasmus makes to Sirach in chapter 15.