Episodes
Why the gospels hold up as history
Craig Keener on the historical case for the gospels, the evidence for miracles, and faith that survives doubt.
13Nijay GuptaIs the gospel just a ticket to heaven?
Do Christians go to heaven when they die? NT scholar Nijay Gupta on Paul’s actual gospel and what we got wrong.
12What the first Christians believed about the cross
The early church view of the atonement was bigger than guilt and legal payment. The first Christians proclaimed rescue, not a courtroom.
11Lydia McGrewThe Gospels are more reliable than you think
Lydia McGrew on the evidence for Gospel reliability that most Christians have never been shown.
10After the apostles died, did the faith survive?
Polycarp bridges the gap between the apostles and the rest of church history. The chain is shorter than you think.
09N.T. WrightDo Christians go to heaven?
Do Christians go to heaven when they die? NT Wright says Christian hope is resurrection and new creation.
08N.T. WrightDid Jesus rise from the dead?
NT Wright on the historical evidence for the resurrection. Not theology, history. We discuss women witnesses, the empty tomb, and why skeptics struggle.
06Caleb FriedemanWere the Christmas stories history?
New Testament scholar Caleb Friedeman tested a longstanding scholarly claim that ancient birth narratives were never meant to be historical. What he found in the ancient biographers reframes how we should read Matthew and Luke’s opening chapters.
07Caleb FriedemanWhy the genealogies don't match
New Testament scholar Caleb Friedeman tested a longstanding scholarly claim that ancient birth narratives were never meant to be historical. What he found in the ancient biographers reframes how we should read Matthew and Luke’s opening chapters.
05Tim MackieThe Bible isn't what you think
Tim Mackie walks through one of Genesis’s most disturbing stories to show how biblical authors built narrative riddles that unlock across the entire Bible and why that changes everything about how we read it.
04Tim MackieHow the Bible actually works
The Bible wasn’t written like a rulebook. Tim Mackie joins Faith Lab to explain how Scripture actually communicates meaning.
03Rebecca McLaughlinThe best arguments against Christianity
Rebecca McLaughlin joins Faith Lab to talk about Confronting Christianity, the historical credibility of the Gospels, suffering, gender, and why the Christian story continues to provoke both skepticism and belief in 2026.
02Shane RosenthalIs faith supposed to be blind?
Is faith meant to be a blind leap, or was it originally grounded in evidence? In this episode, Nate and Shelby talk with Shane Rosenthal about what faith meant to the first Christians, why evidence mattered, and how blind faith became the modern assumption.
01I hosted a deconstruction podcast. It led me back to Jesus.
After spending nearly a decade deconstructing Christianity, questioning faith, Scripture, and the resurrection, I didn’t expect where the journey would lead. This is the story of how doubt, evidence, and honest investigation led me back to taking Christianity seriously again.
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