BONUS: Why Todd McFarlane Denies God (but "loves" Spider-Man, His Family, and Life)

How should Christians think about the discipline of archaeology and how it intersects with our faith? What are the top archaeological discoveries that support the Bible? How do we best respond when a discovery seems to undermine the Christian faith? Our guest today, Dr. Paul Weaver, is the author of the new book Faith-Affirming Findings: 50 Archaeological Discoveries that Validate the Bible. Prior to teaching at Dallas Theological Seminary, Dr. Weaver taught for eighteen years at the Word of ...

Televised Execution of the Fort Hood Shooter: Scott and Sean analyze Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's announcement that the U.S. military plans to execute Fort Hood shooter by firing squad and live-stream the event for public deterrence. Screen Time and Youth Mental Health: Examining a New York Times opinion piece, the hosts evaluate whether compulsive device usage is the root cause of rising youth anxiety or merely an anesthesia masking underlying relational voids and mental health...

Do the latest discoveries in cosmology point beyond the limits of philosophical naturalism? In this episode, Sean welcomes Dr. Stephen Meyer to discuss a profound dilemma at the heart of modern cosmology. Responding to recent criticisms from renowned mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose, Meyer argues that many discussions about the origin of the universe miss a deeper issue. He calls it a "pick your poison" argument: either the universe arose from a set of highly improbable conditions tha...

The Botched Execution of Christa Pike: The hosts evaluate the ethical and theological implications surrounding death row inmate Christa Pike, who survived a botched lethal injection attempt in Tennessee. They examine whether procedural flaws in capital punishment undermine its moral justification under a biblical worldview. The Sexual Revolution and the Cornell Incident: In light of reopened investigations into an alleged fraternity gang rape at Cornell University, Scott and Sean analyz...

Does God cause our suffering? How does our suffering undermine our sense of life’s meaning? What does it mean to say that God redeems our suffering? We’ll answer these questions and a good deal more with our guest, Dr. Jason McMartin around a new book he’s co-authored with two other Biola faculty members, entitled, When the Journey Hurts. Dr. Jason McMartin Is Professor of Theology and teaches systematic theology and theological integration for Rosemead School of Psychology and for Talbot Sch...