
Faith Improvised
Exploring what it means to be faithfully Christian in our always-changing world with its challenges and opportunities. I like to think out loud and talk with friends about biblical texts, books, politics, sports, music, films, and basically anything that interests me. This is all an attempt to be fully alive in God’s good world and to enjoy the liberating reality of the Christian gospel.
Latest episodes

Sep 19, 2023 • 42min
Pursuing Happiness, Wholeness, and Healing, Pt. 2
In this episode, Steve and I continue talking about happiness, with some references to the Book of Job and A Serious Man.

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Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 7min
Pursuing Happiness, Wholeness, and Healing: Introducing Season 5
The podcast discusses pursuing happiness, wholeness, and healing. They explore the challenges of personal growth and reflect on their friendship. They also examine the consequences of judgmental attitudes and the need to break free from unhelpful family dynamics.

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Aug 29, 2023 • 1h 9min
Evangelism Is Not the Task of the Church
The podcast discusses various topics including visiting a church, criticizing driving patterns, confusion about Indiana license plates, the role of intellectuals in language manipulation, reconsidering evangelism as not the task of the church, the misconception of evangelism, and redefining evangelism as forming genuine relationships.

Aug 22, 2023 • 31min
Concluding Season 4
In this episode, I talk about my big move and new location in Louisville, and answer a few listener emails.

Aug 1, 2023 • 43min
Reading New Testament Letters, Pt. 3
In this episode I finish talking about interpreting New Testament letters as occasional literature.

Jul 25, 2023 • 35min
Reading New Testament Letters, Pt. 2
In this episode, I recommend my friend Max Botner's book, Beyond the Greek New Testament: Advanced Readings for Students of Biblical Studies (Baker Academic), and I talk about New Testament letters as occasional literature.

Jul 18, 2023 • 45min
Reading New Testament Letters, Pt. 1
In this episode, I recommend Louis Menand's new book, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), and I begin talking about reading and interpreting New Testament letters.

Jul 11, 2023 • 52min
Reading Biblical Narratives, Pt. 3
In this episode, I catch up with the 17 listeners on what I've been up to the last few months, I recommend Beth Moore's new memoir, called All My Knotted Up Life (Tyndale Momentum), and I finish talking about some features of biblical narratives.

May 16, 2023 • 55min
Reading Biblical Narratives, Pt. 2
In this episode, I recommend a brilliant new book by Daniel G. Hummel, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation (Eerdmans, 2023), and I talk a bit more about reading biblical narratives.

Apr 25, 2023 • 58min
Reading Biblical Narratives
In this episode, I catch all 17 listeners up on what I’ve been doing the last month or so, and I talk a little about reading biblical narratives.