#142 – Putting together a new Christian worldview (part 6)

A brief retrospective on Season 4, and a longer one on the journey that the podcast has taken us on through Christian belief.

Well, we kept it going for over a year, and added 54 more episodes to our archive. But all good things must come to an end. And so this will be the finale for our fourth season of episodes.

This podcast grew out of a blog site I started almost 10 years ago. Both were vehicles for my own personal quest to find a new Christian worldview to replace the one that was handed to me in my teen years, and which no longer worked for me. And it also didn’t seem to work for others of my generation who grew up in it: it seems that most of them no longer follow that version of Christianity, and almost none of our own children seem to do so either.

The podcast was a vehicle … a catalyst … for my journey out of 20th century North American Evangelicalism, and into a new version of Christian belief. And it has become a public record of that personal journey.

After taking a brief look back at this fourth season of episodes, and trying to decide whether we started to get mired in the science weeds, Scott and I talked about where this podcast has taken each of us in our respective personal belief systems, and shared our new perspectives on:

• the Bible, and Divine inspiration
• God, Divine intervention in human affairs, Deism and mysticism
• Hell, and the second coming of Christ
• the ever-elusive “personal relationship” with the Divine
• humans need something transcendent, or we slip into anarchy and savagery
• the relative merits of Christianity versus humanism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam.

As always, tell us your thoughts on this topic …

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