Hey friends, quick note before this episode starts. This is Nate speaking in 2026, and what you're about to hear comes from an earlier chapter of this podcast when it was called Almost Heretical. That show ran from 2018 until 2025 and got 2 million downloads. That chapter was me processing doubt and deconstruction out loud. I wasn't trying to tear Christianity down.

I was honestly trying to understand what I still believed and whether the Christian story actually

held up. As the show progressed, I genuinely thought it was leading to the end of Christianity

for me. These past episodes, like the one you're going to hear today, they don't always represent

what I think

today and where I am on different issues now. I chose to leave them up because they captured the

real journey I was on, and I hope they offer honesty for those who are still in the middle of

deconstruction, hope for those who can't see a way forward, and perspective for churches or

friends walking alongside people who are doubting.

I kept deconstructing, and to my surprise, that process led me back to Christianity in a

brand new way. Looking seriously at the historical evidence, especially around the first

century New Testament writers and the Gospels, it gave me far more confidence than I ever had before. I came to

believe these weren't myths or legends, but eyewitness-based accounts of something real, something

really significant that happened in history. So today, the show continues on as Faith Lab, where I talk

with scholars and experts about why they think Christianity can be trusted,

not as blind faith, but as confidence grounded in the evidence that I kept running into.

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