Beyond the Box

As a special Christmas treat to our listeners, here are a few tracks from Steve’s “Christmas Solitude” CD for you to enjoy and download free of charge.  You may stream the entire album, if you wish, at Steve’s Indieheaven site.  Additionally, the entire CD can be purchased as a digital download from iTunes. To download [...]

In the institutional church, “discipleship” is a process only performed by professionals in the confines of the church program.  Listener Judy Gale (who impresses us with her knowledge of the Chinese language during the intro) asked a question on the Facebook page about discipleship outside the institutional church.  For those of us not in the [...]

In this episode, Steve and Ray discuss the difference between a motivation of law and a motivation of love. Should our relationships be contractually based, or based on unconditional love? You probably know the answer, but have a listen anyway! Tweet This Post Post to Delicious Digg This Post Post to Facebook Post to FriendFeed [...]

Many of you have been interacting with Michael Hardin on the Facebook page regarding Mimetic Theory among many other things. Michael was kind enough to send us this chart which he made to demonstrate the differences between negative, human mimesis (or imitation) and positive, divine mimesis. This chart demonstrates the two sides of mimesis (human [...]

In this last segment of a two-part episode, Ray talks with Michael Hardin (executive director of PreachingPeace.org and author of The Jesus-Driven Life) about Mimetic Theory and reading the Bible through the lens of Jesus. In this episode Michael continues to explain the Mimetic Theory and tries to help us understand it’s potential significance for [...]

In this first of a two-part episode, Ray talks with Michael Hardin (executive director of PreachingPeace.org and author of The Jesus-Driven Life) about Mimetic Theory and reading the Bible through the lens of Jesus. Rene Girard, developer of the Mimetic Theory, has said that Michael is “a gifted and effective advocate who is able to make [...]

This is part 2 of a two-part conversation with Brad Jersak about his book Her Gates Will Never Be Shut. We encourage you to listen to part 1 before listening to this second half of the conversation. After talking about the etymology of hell and the two traditions surrounding the word “gehenna”, Brad and Ray continue [...]

In this first part of a two part episode, Ray talks with Brad Jersak about his book Her Gates Will Never Be Shut. Brad and Ray talk about the history of the Hebrew and Greek words behind the word “hell”, the development of Gehenna, and more. Brad delves into the history of our ideas about [...]

What started out as a response to the Brad Jersak interviews turned into a lengthy discussion that ended up becoming an episode of its own.  If the opening sounds a little like it’s picking up in the middle of a conversation, that’s why!  Steve’s “Maaaaan, that’s good stuff” is in response to the Brad Jersak [...]

In this conclusion of Ray’s 2-part interview with Brad Jersak (part 1 is here), Ray and Brad continue their discussion about the atonement, our role in the death of Jesus, the role of the Father in the death of Jesus, and the implications of atonement theory on our view of the Father as well as [...]