Every Square Inch Podcast

Parents are the most influential relationships in a person’s life, and none of them model Christ perfectly. In this week’s episode, Robert asks everyone (and especially those who left the faith due to their parents’ failings) to take a fresh look at the God of the Bible, whose call to “honor your father and mother” may not mean what you think.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

The history of slavery and racism goes back for millennia in our species, and Christians have certainly participated in some of the worst examples of it. In this week’s episode, though, Robert highlights how Christians have also been fighting against slavery from the very beginning, starting with Jesus and his extremely counter-cultural views on the topics.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

It’s not uncommon for someone living in today’s culture to be turned-off by apparent misogyny that seems to define the Christian religion. But what does the Bible actually have to say about the value of women? This week’s episode is all about the beauty and importance that Jesus ascribed to women.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry. 

Time to get practical. Parts 1 and 2 focussed on the history of Christians in politics and showed us Jesus’s own political ethic. This week, Robert offers three practical ways that Christians can be faithfully engaged in politics without giving in to the idols of our culture.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry. 

After tracing the history of Christianity’s attraction to political power, this week Robert turns to Jesus’ response to our attraction to political power. What did Jesus’ political ethic look like, and what did he have to say about the hot-button political topic of his day?• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

When the intermingling of church and political parties becomes a major reason why people leave the church, how should churches respond? In part one of this two-part series, Robert traces the history of Christianity’s connection to western government, how we became so attracted to political power, and where Jesus sits in our political divide.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

It‘s completely understandable why someone who has been abused by their religious leader would leave the church. In this week’s episode, Robert speaks to those who have left Christianity behind and shares a message of encouragement that he has shared with countless others affected by abuse.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

A common stumbling block for those who reject the Christian faith is the failure of those who call Christ their Savior to love their neighbor, especially when it comes to loving your LGBTQ+ neighbor. In this week’s episode, Robert looks to what Jesus called “the greatest commandment” to help us understand why and how we are to love our neighbors.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

After setting the table for this discussion in the first two parts of this mini-series on the “defeater ethic” of sexuality, Robert concludes by taking a direct look at the sexual ethic of modern culture and critiquing it through several unique lenses to demonstrate how this ethic ultimately falls short.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.

When discussing the issue of sexuality in today’s culture, there is another underlying issue at play: identity. In this week’s episode, Robert gives a brief history of how we got to a place where someone’s sexuality is tantamount to their personhood, and why this topic is so much more supercharged than other defeater ethics.• • •Want to support our work at Christ for Kentucky? Click here to help keep our content ad-free and available without a subscription by donating to our ministry.