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Language of God
Sharing stories of people who have found a better way of understanding the harmony between science and Christian faith.
Episodes
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77. Bill Newsome | Neuroscience, Faith & Free Will
In this conversation with acclaimed Stanford neuroscientist Dr. Bill Newsome, we hear about his journey to becoming a neuroscientist, how hundreds of millions…
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15. Krista Tippett | Life Together
The roaring current of stubborn partisan standoffs challenges us to cement ourselves in our views; dialogue erodes as we ditch the public conversation to wrap…
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76. Stephen C. Meyer | Is God a Hypothesis?
Proponents of intelligent design and evolutionary creation have some different ideas about the relationship of science and faith, and relations between…
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75. Sandra Richter | We Are Only Renters Here
Earth Day has not always been a holiday widely celebrated by the Christian Church. It might have something to do with the fact that many Christians have been…
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74. Francis Collins & David Anderson | How Christians Can End the Pandemic
Polling data tells us Christians are the most hesitant group in the United States about receiving the COVID-19 vaccines. Yet research on the vaccines show that…
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73. Joel Chopp & Geoffrey Fulkerson | Creation Theology
Joel Chopp and Geoff Fulkerson are the editors of a new book called Science and the Doctrine of Creation: The Approaches of Ten Modern Theologians…
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72. Dan Kuebler | Fact & Mystery
Dan Kuebler got his undergraduate degree in English—it was not until his senior year that he joined his first lab and fell in love with biology. He joins Jim…
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71. Curtis Chang and David French | Christians and the Vaccine
With the rollout of several different COVID-19 vaccines and the prominence of anti-vaxx groups, gracious conversations between opposing sides are increasingly…
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70. Amy & Andy Crouch | Finding the Off Switch
In 2017 Andy Crouch wrote My Tech Wise family, a practical book about how to have a healthy relationship to technology. In that book was a foreword by his…
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69. Fatima Cody Stanford | Care & Disparity
Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford has seen the effects of how healthcare is provided differently across the population, both in her work and in her own experiences as a…
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68. Lori Banks | The Gift of Science
The way she sees it, when Lori Banks was in line for spiritual gifts, she was given the aptitude for understanding amino acid structures and figuring out how…
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49. Joseph Graves | The Genetics of Race (Part 2)
There is probably no one who has done more scientific work on the genetics of race than Dr. Joseph L Graves. Dr. Graves has been writing, thinking, and doing…
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48. Joseph Graves | The Genetics of Race (Part 1)
There is probably no one who has done more scientific work on the genetics of race than Dr. Joseph L Graves. Dr. Graves has been writing, thinking, and doing…
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67. Esau McCaulley | Justice & the Bible
A common refrain at BioLogos is “you don’t have to choose,” and usually it is in the context of the Bible and science. Esau McCaulley, assistant professor of…
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32. Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet | Forward in Forgiveness
In a small laboratory, a participant sits with electrodes attached to her brow and a heart rate monitor humming in the background as she considers a time in…
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27. Garrett & Amanda | Finding Harmony
In this episode we tell two stories of finding harmony in faith and science. The stories come from Garrett and Amanda, two young people who were deeply…
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66. Agustín Fuentes | To Believe is Human
The question, what does it mean to be human, demands answers from many fields of study. Agustín Fuentes has looked to anthropology for answers to this question…
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65. Rosalind Picard | Flourishing in an Age of Computers
Sometimes it seems that the gap between humans and computers is growing increasingly small. But as scientists have worked to develop intelligent computers…
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64. Thomas Jay Oord | Uncontrolling Love
There is a dilemma that has plagued philosophers and theologians for centuries. It goes like this: how could it be true that God is all powerful and all…
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63. Julia Wattacheril | Caring for the Caretakers
Julia Wattacheril is a hepatologist—a liver doctor—but in April she found herself walking into her first shift working with COVID patients during the peak of…
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62. Denis Lamoureux | God Meets Us Where We Are
Denis Lamoureux didn’t just stumble unto evolutionary creation, though, as he will tell you, there was a great deal of stumbling on his path to get there. In…
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61. Alister McGrath | Doorway to Wonder
Alister McGrath joins Jim Stump to talk about his book Born to Wonder. McGrath describes his early conversion to Christianity as feeling like he walked through…
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60. David Lahti | Nature, Culture & Evolution
David grew up exploring the natural places where there were few people but his love for nature led him back to people and to a deep desire to understand why we…
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59. Deb Haarsma | Break Forth into Praise
Deb Haarsma, president of BioLogos, takes a turn in the interviewee’s seat as she tells her own story of an interest in science from a young age and how she…
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58. Humility | How to Hold Knowledge
Both science and the Christian faith share a commitment to humility. Each also provides us with a perspective of the world which we believe to be true. How…
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57. Justin Brierley | Transformed Yet Steadfast
Justin Brierley has been the host of the Unbelievable? Radio Show and Podcast for almost 15 years and in doing so has been a part of conversations with…
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56. Elaine Howard Ecklund | Shared Values in Science and Faith
Elaine Howard Ecklund is a sociologist who has devoted her career to understanding the attitudes and perceptions that scientists and religious people have…
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55. Tim Mackie | What is the Bible?
In this episode, Jim Stump is joined by Tim Mackie, one of the founders of BibleProject. Tim’s transformation from West-coast skateboarder, to Bible student…
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54. Prayer in the time of COVID
Prayer is a central tenet to the Christian faith. In this episode we explore the intersection of science and faith when it comes to prayer. Can the…
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53. Katharine Hayhoe | Climate in the time of COVID
Our last conversation with Katharine Hayhoe aired in early March, the same week as the United States declared a state of emergency because of COVID-19. We’re…
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2. Praveen Sethupathy | Goodness, Civility & Transformation
Today we revisit one of our favorite early episodes. From Praveen’s childhood, growing up in a Hindu family, to his later conversion to Christianity and his…
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52. Philip Yancey | Pain and Healing
Philip Yancey returns to the podcast to dig deeper into his many years spent traveling and writing with Dr. Paul Brand and learning about the marvel of the…
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51. N.T. Wright & Francis Collins | A Christian Response to Coronavirus
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, what should be the Christian response? Bible scholar N.T. Wright and BioLogos founder Francis Collins, two…
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50. Shauna Niequist | Let’s Sit Here A Little Longer
Shauna Niequist brings her passion for food and her Christian experience to a conversation about how food connects us to the created world and to each other…
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49. Joseph Graves | The Genetics of Race (Part 2)
There is probably no one who has done more scientific work on the genetics of race than Dr. Joseph L Graves. Dr. Graves has been writing, thinking, and doing…
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48. Joseph Graves | The Genetics of Race (Part 1)
There is probably no one who has done more scientific work on the genetics of race than Dr. Joseph L Graves. Dr. Graves has been writing, thinking, and doing…
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47. Lynette Strickland | God‘s World is a Diverse World
Last time we talked to Lynette Strickland, she told us all about the work that she was doing to show that tortoise beetles, which vary greatly in their…
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46. Deb Haarsma | Caring for our Community in Crisis
We find ourselves three months into a global pandemic, and one week into a movement of nationwide protests in response to the death of George Floyd. For this…
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45. Tim Keller & Francis Collins | Where is God in a Pandemic?
Leading evangelical thinker Tim Keller joins Francis Collins, who heads our country’s biomedical research, in a conversation that includes updates on the…
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44. Bishop Claude Alexander | A Common Vulnerability
In the episode, Jim talks with Bishop Claude Alexander about his growing up in the south with parents esteemed in the medical field--his mother was the first…
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43. Richard Middleton | Image of God
We were made in the image of God, but what does that really mean? Whom does that apply to? What does that call us to? The Bible is very central to…
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42. John Walton | Coronavirus and the Book of Job
Many of us find rest and comfort in having good health, secure jobs, and a vibrant community. Of course we do. But what happens when that is taken away, like…
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41. Water | Exploring Spiritual & Scientific Depths
Water is mysterious. It is cleansing, it is dangerous, and it is life-giving. In our everyday life we can tend to overlook just how fascinating and important…
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40. Brian McLaren | A Galapagos Spirituality
When Brian McLaren got a call from his editor asking if he’d like to travel to the Galapagos Islands and write about it it took all of a few seconds to agree…
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39. Francis Collins | Coronavirus Updates with NIH Director
With an overwhelming amount of news about the coronavirus coming out daily, we thought it would be best to go all the way to the top, with updates on the…
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38. Resurrection in the Time of Coronavirus
The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is central to our identities as Christians. We believe that Christ died for our sins and that he will come again one…
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37. Sean McDowell | Finding Common Ground
In this episode, Jim Stump is joined by author, speaker, and professor Sean McDowell. They talk about how apologetics has changed from his father’s original…
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36. Coronavirus | Science & Faith in Pandemic Times
It’s not every day that we come face to face with science in such a drastic way as we have with the coronavirus, sweeping through our communities and upending…
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35. Katharine Hayhoe | Global Weirding
Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist. And she’s a Christian. You may have noticed that climate change is not a topic that is often brought into the church…
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34. Darrel Falk | The Bridge from Biology to Faith
In this episode, Jim Stump is joined by Professor Emeritus of Biology at Point Loma Nazarene University, Darrel Falk. Darrel reminisces about some of his…
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33. Kutter Callaway | Ministry in Theater Five
Kutter Callaway started leading youth ministry in Theater 5 with the big screen as a backdrop. Film, music, and art have always been one of his main entries…
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32. Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet | Forward in Forgiveness
In a small laboratory, a participant sits with electrodes attached to her brow and a heart rate monitor humming in the background as she considers a time in…
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31. Mari Clements | Relationship as Revelation
From marriage and parenting to managing life in a world of social media, relationships are very central to our lives, and in some cases to our happiness and…
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30. Justin Barrett | Why Theology Needs Psychology
Science helps us to explain many things in the natural world. When it comes to psychology, it may even be able to help us understand why we think, behave, and…
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29. April Maskiewicz Cordero | Teaching in the Tension
April Maskiewicz Cordero joins Jim Stump and BioLogos’ Resources Editor, Kathryn Applegate, to discuss what it’s like to teach college biology at a Christian…
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28. Alister McGrath | Journey of Science, Story of Faith
Alister McGrath is one of the iconic voices in the dialogue between science and faith. After receiving his doctorate in biological sciences from Oxford…
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27. Garrett & Amanda | Finding Harmony
In this episode we tell two stories of finding harmony in faith and science. The stories come from Garrett and Amanda, two young people who were deeply…
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25. Dialogue with Reasons to Believe | Fuz & Darrel
This is Part 1 of our dialogue with Reasons to Believe. For many years BioLogos and Reasons to Believe have been having a dialogue about faith and science. The…
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26. Dialogue with Reasons to Believe | Hugh & Deb
This is Part 2 of our dialogue with Reasons to Believe For many years BioLogos and Reasons to Believe have been having a dialogue about faith and science. The…
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24. Science Mike | Intimate Mysticality
Mike McHargue, aka Science Mike, is the cofounder of The Liturgists podcast and host of the podcast Ask Science Mike. In this episode he shares the story of…