Almost Heretical - Deconstruct Christianity

By Nate Hanson & Shelby Hanson

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 Oct 22, 2019
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Are you ready to relearn what you thought you knew about the Bible? Almost Heretical invites you on a journey of reclaiming the Bible and revolutionizing Christianity as we know it. Led by Nate Hanson (a former Crazy Love pastor) and Shelby Hanson (MA Biblical Studies & Dead Sea Scrolls). We challenge traditional teachings and offer a sanctuary for those questioning and reshaping their faith. 7 years running, with over 2 million downloads, this is a space for authentic exploration and tough questions. You're not alone! Join 850+ others and get bonus episodes and access to our listener-only community: https://almostheretical.com/subscribe

Episode Date
#134 – Dr. Laura Anderson: Sex, Dating, Courtship and Trauma
Mar 20, 2024
#133 – David Fitch: Is God's Love Coercive?
Mar 13, 2024
#132 – Elaine Pagels: Trump and Doubting Thomas
Mar 06, 2024
#131 – Peter Rollins: The Philosophy of Deconstruction
Feb 28, 2024
#130 – Anna Gazmarian: Religious OCD and Mental Illness
Feb 21, 2024
#129 – Did Noah's Ark Actually Happen?
Feb 14, 2024
#128 – Nephilim and Gender Dynamics (Genesis 6:1-4)
Feb 07, 2024
#127 – Eve and the Apple (Genesis 3)
Sep 27, 2023
#126 – Marriage, Gender, and Homosexuality (Genesis 2:24)
Sep 20, 2023
#125 – Rethinking Adam and Eve (Genesis 2:7)
Sep 13, 2023
#124 – How was light created before the sun? (Genesis 1:6-31)
Aug 09, 2023
#123 – Rainn Wilson: Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
Jul 19, 2023
#122 – Neil deGrasse Tyson: Christianity and the Cosmos
Jun 14, 2023
#121 – Many Creation Stories (Genesis 1:1-5)
May 31, 2023
#120 – Sex, Orgasm, Masturbation and Purity Culture with Sheila Gregoire
May 17, 2023
#119 – Sarah Bessey: Evolving Faith
May 03, 2023
#118 – Deconstructing Worship Music
Apr 19, 2023
#117 – William Matthews: The Evolution of Worship
Apr 05, 2023
#116 – Worship: Revisiting the Melodies of Our Past
Mar 22, 2023
#115 – Remembering 16 Lesser-Known Women of the Bible
Mar 08, 2023
#114 – Teaching Your Kids While Deconstructing Christianity
Feb 22, 2023
#113 – Cindy Wang Brandt: Raising Children During a Spiritual Transition
Feb 08, 2023
#112 – From Outreach to Outsider: Katherine's Story
Jan 25, 2023
#111 – Canon: Extra-Canonical Text
Jan 11, 2023
#110 – Canon: The Criteria of the New Testament
Dec 07, 2022
#109 – Canon: Is the Bible Inspired, Inerrant and Infallible?
Oct 19, 2022
#108 – Canon: Timeline of New Testament Writings
Sep 07, 2022
What is Almost Heretical?
Aug 31, 2022
#107 – The January 6th intersection of politics and religion
Aug 04, 2022
#106 – Barbara Brown Taylor: Religious Pluralism
May 11, 2022
#105 – Matt Chandler's Views on Deconstruction
Apr 27, 2022
#104 – Woman: Jesus, Paul and Mary Magdalene
Apr 06, 2022
#103 – Woman: Sexual violence and God's silence
Mar 23, 2022
#102 – Woman: Silenced voices of the Bible
Mar 02, 2022
#101 – What Bible translation should I use? (Bonus Episode Preview)
Feb 23, 2022
#100 – Woman: Men wrote the Bible
Feb 09, 2022
#99 – Woman: The Gender of God
Jan 20, 2022
#98 – Audrey Assad - Psychedelics, Christian Music and Parenting
Apr 28, 2021
#97 – Dr. Mario Livio - Galileo and science deniers
Mar 24, 2021
#96 – Krispin and D.L. Mayfield: Mister Rogers, Dave Ramsey and Attachment Theory
Mar 10, 2021
#95 – Julie Anne Smith - Spiritual and Sexual Abuse
Feb 24, 2021
#94 – Kristin Du Mez: From Jesus to Trump
Feb 10, 2021
#93 – What happened in 2020
Feb 03, 2021
#92 – Unequally yoked
Mar 18, 2020
#91 – The Disappointment of the Spirit
Mar 11, 2020
#90 – Sacrifice after Jesus
Feb 26, 2020
#89 – Shower first, spirit second
Feb 12, 2020
#88 – Atonement must be Universal
Feb 05, 2020
#87 – What Does Ransom Mean?
Jan 29, 2020
#86 – Chemistry and Scapegoats
Jan 22, 2020
#85 – Did Jesus have to die?
Jan 15, 2020
#84 – Holiness is the Gospel
Jan 08, 2020
#83 – Hillary McBride: Getting healthy
Dec 11, 2019
#82 – Why blood?
Dec 04, 2019
#81 – Contagious
Nov 13, 2019
#80 – Cosmic campout
Nov 06, 2019
#79 – Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg - Forgiveness and Pharisees
Oct 30, 2019
#78 – Priests are holy bouncers
Oct 23, 2019
#77 – God might kill us
Oct 16, 2019
#76 – Distance and Separation
Oct 09, 2019
#75 – Blood and Guilt
Oct 02, 2019
#74 – Should you go to church? (Bonus Episode)
Sep 25, 2019
#73 – Did Jesus just call her a dog?
Sep 18, 2019
#72 – The clearly unclear Bible
Sep 11, 2019
#71 – Who is the Bible?
Sep 04, 2019
#70 – Choose your own adventure Bible
Jul 24, 2019
#69 – Does the Bible condone rape? (Part 2)
Jul 10, 2019
#68 – Yes, David raped Bathsheba (Part 1)
Jun 26, 2019
#67 – Christena Cleveland: Toxic Christianity
Jun 12, 2019
#66 – LGBTQ: Why do people marry?
Jun 05, 2019
#65 – LGBTQ: The so-called Divine Ideal
May 31, 2019
#64 – Rob Bell - Outside the camp
May 15, 2019
#63 – Rachel Held Evans tribute
May 05, 2019
#62 – The Heaven Ethic
Apr 24, 2019
#61 – Bodies for Both Worlds
Apr 17, 2019
#60 – Heaven as a Revolution
Apr 03, 2019
#59 – I'll fly away, old glory
Mar 27, 2019
#58 – Who the hell knows (Hell Part 3)
Mar 20, 2019
#57 – To hell with hell
Mar 13, 2019
#56 – Scared to Death (Hell Part 1)
Mar 06, 2019
#55 – Wade Mullen - Church abuse and cover-up
Feb 27, 2019
#54 – Brandi Miller: Racial Justice and Evangelicalism
Feb 06, 2019
#53 – John Piper says to marry the bible
Jan 30, 2019
#52 – Is divine healing real?
Jan 23, 2019
#51 – Why do Christian's evangelize?
Jan 16, 2019
#50 – 1 year in
Jan 09, 2019
#49 – Making Hezekiah Great Again
Dec 19, 2018
#48 – Old Testament jerks
Dec 12, 2018
#47 – Tim Mackie - Theology and LGBTQ (Part 2)
Dec 05, 2018
#46 – Tim Mackie - Deconstructing Christianity and the Bible (Part 1)
Nov 28, 2018
#45 – Why Seams & Stitching Matter
Nov 01, 2018
#44 – Ancient Scroll Technology
Oct 30, 2018
#43 – Literary Layers & Ananias and Sapphira
Oct 24, 2018
#42 – Copy, Paste & Psalm 108
Oct 24, 2018
#41 – How does the Bible work?
Oct 17, 2018
#40 – Lisa Sharon Harper - Brett Kavanaugh and Women
Oct 09, 2018
#39 – Science Mike McHargue - Anger and Hope
Oct 02, 2018
#38 – How to Fix Gender Dynamics in the Church
Sep 19, 2018
#37 – What does Paul think about Women Elders? (1 Timothy 3)
Sep 12, 2018
#36 – How Do Women Experience Gender Dynamics in the Church?
Aug 29, 2018
#35 – Adam, then Eve (1 Timothy 2:11-15)
Aug 22, 2018
#34 – Authority over a man (1 Timothy 2:11-15)
Aug 15, 2018
#33– Silencing women (1 Cor 14:34-35)
Aug 06, 2018
#32 – Husbands and slave masters (Eph 5:22-6:9, Col 3:18-4:1)
Jul 23, 2018
#31 – Authority over her own damn head (1 Cor 11:2-16)
Jul 19, 2018
#30 – Jesus ended hierarchy
Jul 16, 2018
#29 – Why Can't Women Teach in Church?
Jul 11, 2018
#28 – Jeff Sessions used the Bible to justify separating families
Jun 25, 2018
#27 – Kaepernick, #churchtoo, and Christian nationalism
Jun 20, 2018
#26 – Jesus and Self Defense
Jun 06, 2018
#25 – Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - Slaveholder Religion
May 30, 2018
#24 – Post Traumatic History Disorder
May 23, 2018
#23 – Mark Charles: Is America a Christian Nation?
May 16, 2018
#22 – The risk of believing differently
May 09, 2018
#21 – Brian Zahnd - Making Christianity possible again
May 02, 2018
#20 – Rachel Held Evans: Faith and Doubt
Apr 25, 2018
#19 – The myth of the slippery slope
Apr 18, 2018
#18 – Wrath and Liberation
Apr 11, 2018
#17 – God isn't the problem
Mar 28, 2018
#16 – I used to be terrified of God
Mar 21, 2018
#15 – Mako Nagasawa - Beyond penal substitution
Mar 14, 2018
#14 – Give up power like Jesus (Part 4)
Mar 07, 2018
#13 – Power for the powerless (Part 3)
Feb 28, 2018
#12 – The Bible speaks truth to power (Part 2)
Feb 14, 2018
#11 – The Bible is a story about power (Part 1)
Feb 07, 2018
#10 – When theology hurts
Jan 31, 2018
#9 – Taking responsibility for our theology
Jan 24, 2018
#8 – Giants and genocide
Jan 17, 2018
#7 – Is God more tolerant of other religions than we are?
Jan 11, 2018
#6 – God gives up (sort of)
Jan 08, 2018
#5 – Eve and a war for power
Jan 05, 2018
#4 – Nate has questions
Jan 02, 2018
#3 – Why is there a snake in the garden?
Jan 01, 2018
#2 – In the beginning
Jan 01, 2018
#1 – Ex-pastors in a shed
Jan 01, 2018