With – Skye Jethani on SBE

Erik Guzman November 18th, 2011

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Are you a Christian who is confused and disappointed by God? You're not alone. Millions are stumbling in the darkness among forms of religion that are based on fear and control.

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Join Skye Jethani on Steve Brown Etc. as he talks about the misguided ways people try to relate to God, and then invites us to a life with God in freedom!

Skye is senior editor of Lead … (Read More)

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Religion: Sickness or Cure? – John Armstrong on SBE

Erik Guzman May 27th, 2011

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Radical Islam, Catholics vs. Protestants, Harold Camping, those people with the "God hates fags" signs…Is religion the cause of the world's problems or is it the solution?

John H. Armstrong is here to talk about pursuing unity with diversity through religion. Don't miss this week's Steve Brown Etc.

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The Truman Show (1998)

Watching Theology March 8th, 2010

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Call it satire, call it an allegory, but The Truman Show is about something. In this production-delayed episode Duke and Joe look over Peter Weir's oddly prophetic take on television. Join us as we examine how Jim Carey represents a helpless philosophical captive striving for enlightenment, a brave seeker battling demonic forces, or an innocent thinker tormented by a cruel deity. How does a satire on reality television turn into an adaptation of Plato's Republ … (Read More)

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The Village (2004)

Watching Theology January 19th, 2010

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People respond to trauma in different ways. Some find religion. Others re-evaluate their priorities. Some people, like those in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, put themselves into an isolated 19th century town hiding away from the world. In this edition, Duke and Joe look at Shyamalan's parable of fear through the Watching Theology lens and ask, "What's the difference between a mythology of monsters and the Amish?" This episode is the second i … (Read More)

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It really is going to be okay!

Steve Brown December 14th, 2009

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I'm writing this from the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove in the mountains of North Carolina. I'm at this wonderful conference center teaching two seminars-one for pastors/leaders and the other for "normal" people.

They house the speakers in log cabins (there are three or four of them) up on a mountain overlooking the natural cove while the people who come to the conferences stay at two fairly large and nice hotels. The log cabins are closed … (Read More)

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Recover Your Good Heart (The Brown Session) – Jim Robbins

Erik Guzman July 27th, 2009

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Last week on Steve Brown Etc., we talked with Jim Robbins about his book, Recover Your Good Heart: Living Free from Religious Guilt and the Shame of Not Good-Enough.

Now, available for the first time anywhere, fresh from the SBE vault for an unlimited time (all things remaining equal), here's the entire interview with all the juicy chunks we didn't have time for on the talk show.

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