The Live Christianly Podcast: Recent Episodes
Live Christianly
Podcast by Dan and Elijiah of Live Christianly, exploring the frequently messy intersection of Christ and culture as we see it. Complete with controversial (and sometimes borderline heterodoxical) commentary, we’ll also be unpacking the latest Christian culture commentary/news and offering unique insight to learn from it.
The existence of suffering in a world created by a God we refer to as good and almighty (aka "the problem of pain”)... it's a fundamental theological dilemma, a serious and understandable objection to the Christian religion, and definitely a question that begs an answer from our faith. Recently, Elijiah had the opportunity at a youth conference to share with a number of the attending students some of his own thoughts and studies on this matter and offer some insight and explanation as to how we can approach a question like this.
In this special edition of the Live Christianly podcast, Elijiah and Dan follow up the previous episode with an extended interview of Jacob Thompson. We talk about his passion for video games and dive into aspects of gaming culture, Biblical themes in gaming, and the need for creativity in the world of game development. Whether you have a lot of experience with and love for video games already, join us for some great perspective and you may learn something new about it... I sure did.
In this episode, Elijiah and Dan, along with special guest Jacob Thompson, take some time to discuss some of the facts, issues, and dangers surrounding the 50 Shades of Grey movie/book phenomenon. Elijiah takes the time to share about a new blog he's begun to counter the arguments and viewpoints of a good-looking fellow by the name of David G. McAfee. We also take a few moments to cover Tetris gaming records, a little show called Parenthood, and provocatively-titled new podcast Dan's been all about recently. Also, Kanye. All this and more...
In this episode, Elijiah and Dan take some time to talk about the evangelically infamous ex-Pastor, Rob Bell, along with some thoughts on his new career move. Additionally, we’re going to take a look at a recent New York Times article about by Eric Metaxas that got quite a bit of attention from both the scientific and religious communities. And lastly, we bring up the topic of criticism both in and of the church. Where is it appropriate? How should it be approached? Is it even beneficial? We’ll talk about it…
Elijiah and Dan take the opportunity in this (not 1st) episode to introduce themselves and this show by– 1) telling you a little about their lives and experiences, 2) offering some perspective as to where they find themselves now in their faith, 3) explaining out the reason for our passion when it comes to this podcast, and 4) boring you with other super awesome things you probably don’t really care about. Thanks for listening, it’s nice to meet you!