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Dr. David Dark joins the show to talk Chance the Rapper, secular/sacred line dissolving, reading the Bible, Mr. Rogers, labels, Art, and his book Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious.

Jonathan Storment returns to discuss technology, ice cream, suffering, grief, sermons as songs, and all things April from the podcast. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Richard Beck returns to discuss Aaron Hernandez, laundry mats, self-forgetting, theology of lingering, earning the right to celebrate Easter, growing up conservative, eschatological creatures, meaning makers. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Church Planter  Jason Miller, a pastor who happens to be planting a church, talks singleness, Catholicism, sermons as songs, cuftburt, praying in community, silence, and starting a church where people can lose their faith. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Andy Crouch joins the show to discuss the power of screens, idolatry, entertainment, ice cream, technology's moral value, parenting and his new book The Tech-Wise Family. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Jason Jones' three year old son tragically passed away. Limping but Blessed is his story of keeping/finding his faith after the tragedy. For more on this month's sponsor Podbean click here.

Jonathan Storment returns to try (miserably) as a pitchman and then we discuss Brueggemann, the power of language in politics, marriage, and all things March from the podcast. For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann joins the show to discuss the intersection of sociology and theology, trading mystery for the material, imaginative preaching vs. moralistic preaching and Walter's new book (along with his sociologist son Dr. John Brueggemann) Rebuilding the Foundations. For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here.

The return of Ramjaane Niyoyita to discuss the Rwanda Genocide, dehumanization, reconciliation, Rick Warren, music and chicken fajitas. For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here.

Mike Cope returns to the show to discuss addictions to certainty, sufferings role in spiritual formation, Reading the Bible as a Muslim, Newsworthy after Dark in Malibu, and Mike's own spiritual journey's construction, deconstruction and reconstruction.  For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here.