Beyond the Box

Beyond the Box is taking the week off from podcasting, but will return next week.  Hope you all have a great week!

No, Ray and Steve are not embarking on a nationwide speaking tour!  But thanks to Alex King’s WordPress Mobile plugin, if you access BtB from a mobile phone or handheld device, you will be presented with a streamlined, mostly-text version of the site.  You can still download the MP3 episodes on your device (depending on [...]

After being hacked several times over the course of just a few months, we finally were able to make the move to get off of the shared hosting that we were using and get on what we hope will be a much more secure VPS (Virtual Private Server). We apologize for the recent downtime and [...]

It seems that often, a certainty about a particular truth can lead to a lack of humility about that belief.  While it’s true that certainty doesn’t always equal arrogance, it’s equally true that humility doesn’t equate to a lack of belief or certainty. So, when people express humility about their beliefs, or a willingness to [...]

This question has appeared in various forms in response to some of the previous episodes.  In the recent discussions here on the blog, it has surfaced again, and so this episode takes a stab at providing some thoughts on the role/purpose of the Old Testament. Ray and Steve discuss the implication of Jesus’ comments that [...]

A listener recently emailed a question to us asking if we had considered the idea of ultimate reconciliation.  As Ray and Steve talk about this concept, they also discuss some other views of what happens to unbelievers after this life. No hard conclusions here, but the usual look at how scripture might not say exactly [...]