Jun 26, 2023

Ted asks about struggling to determine God’s plan for my life and for work. Rod talks about ‘talking to God’ and getting answers back, how Reformation thinkers approached questions like these, and the idea of ‘breaking through’ to a transcendent God in some kind of mystical experience to determine His secret...

Jun 19, 2023

Ted asks about Rod’s path of faith after becoming an agnostic after his church experience. Rod talks about going to the University of Washington as an agnostic, what turned him back to the idea of theism, the idea of a conflict between science and the Christian faith, and how his connection to the hard...

Jun 12, 2023

Ted asks about Rod’s experience in church in his youth and what it did to his faith. Rod talks about Lutheran pietism and how law-focused and improvement-focused teaching and preaching affected him, and how that church experience affected his view of God and the Christian faith even when he was older in college as a...

Jun 5, 2023

Ted asks about the idea of having a vocation related to our faith along with our regular vocations. Rod talks about the Lutheran doctrine of vocation, and how freeing it can be for people to learn that God is pleased with our daily (secular) God-honoring vocations for our neighbors.

Produced by: Rick Ritchie

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