Why I Am (Still) a Christian (Re-broadcast)

Religion on the Mind

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Spirituality

4.7 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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*Re-broadcast* - Why I Am (Still) a Christian (#60) I’m joined by my dear friend Ben Bishop, who is both a fantastic interviewer in his own right and a former patron-only episode guest. I asked Ben to interview me on the topic of why I am (still) a Christian. No one ever asks me, “Why are you a Christian?” Or very rarely, anyway. But pretty regularly, in the context of conversations about deconstruction or Biblical inerrancy or something similar, people will ask, “Why are you *still* a Christian?” I thought it might be helpful to answer that and give one more data point for listeners as they figure out their own faith allegiances, theologies, etc. We talk about religious/Christian pluralism a good bit, as that is particularly interesting to Ben, and toward the end is when I give probably my most succinct answer to the question, drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord’s Prayer, and other basics I don’t think I could live without. Feel free to skip forward to 1 hour or so if you want to hear that concise answer before going into the weeds with us. Follow Dan on IG: https://www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia@gmail.com -- he is accepting more work!) Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.com YHP Patron-only FB group: https://tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: youhavepermissionpod.com Join Dan's email list: dankochwords.com Artwork by http://sprungle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're listening to this podcast, you must recognize the value of asking questions.
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0:08.8	How can today's resources fuel our shared tomorrow?
0:12.3	How can we deliver energy to a world that can't stop?
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0:32.3	My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.
0:42.9	And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.
0:50.1	I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as former
0:55.4	Christians and non-religious folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions
1:01.3	about God, science, prayer, fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions,
1:13.5	often by people with pure intentions. I want to say that you have permission to take both
1:19.8	Christianity and the modern world very seriously. And I hope to facilitate that by introducing
1:26.2	you to people seeking God across the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways.
1:33.5	Thanks for listening.
1:43.2	Hey, everybody. We're going to start releasing you have permission episodes weekly for a few months here and see how that goes. I've got a bit of a backlog of interviews that I've already done. And I'm anxious to get those out to you. Sometimes, though, I like to put old episodes that maybe current listeners never heard for instance
2:05.3	if they were 50 or a hundred episodes ago that's like upwards of two to three years ago and this
2:12.7	one is one that is a perennial favorite of listeners but I bet a lot of new listeners have not heard it
2:19.8	because it was about 100 episodes ago. So I hope you'll enjoy this conversation. It's slightly
2:26.2	edited. It's about 15 minutes shorter in the first hour than the original version. So if you
2:32.2	really want to be a completest, you can go back and find the original.
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