To celebrate the release of the first episode of Uncertain Things, Vanessa and Adaam got together (virtually) with house expert on all things Christian Misha Thomas to drill further into some of the topics brought up by Tomer Perisco. Consider this part 2 of our “Christianity and the West” trilogy.

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On the agenda:

* Introducing Misha, our expert on all things evangelical [1:10]

* On religion as a literary expression [8:00]

* On ritual [12:41]

* Attending the college of contradictory ideals [15:35]

* How Paul gave us the concept of religion (with a hat tip to Plato, too) [24:30]

* Metaphorical tea time with Richard Dawkins [37:30]

* Revelation nation [41:00]

* God is dead, we’re all Gods [44:00]

* Surviving a chaotic universe, 1st century B.C. style [55:35]

* On identity, trauma, and resilience [1:00:49]

* Primed for compassion, a Misha fable for the future [1:09:15]