Show Notes
The book-end to our conversation last week with a conservative scholar, this time with a leading thinker on the opposite end of the spectrum. Last week, Dr. Roger Olson — a highly-credentialed conservative Christian theologian — gave us his critique of liberal Christian theology. In that discussion and in his book, he referred often to […]
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