Christianity is deeper than you've been shown. Nate Hanson sits down with scholars like N.T. Wright and Tim Mackie to talk through Jesus, the Bible, and the origins of Christianity in conversations you can actually follow.https://faithlabshow.com/https://faithlabshow.com/craig-keener/https://faithlabshow.com/craig-keener/Craig Keener on the historical case for the gospels, the evidence for miracles, and faith that survives doubt.Wed, 13 May 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/do-christians-go-to-heaven-pauls-gospel/https://faithlabshow.com/do-christians-go-to-heaven-pauls-gospel/Do Christians go to heaven when they die? NT scholar Nijay Gupta on Paul’s actual gospel and what we got wrong.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/early-church-view-of-the-atonement/https://faithlabshow.com/early-church-view-of-the-atonement/The early church view of the atonement was bigger than guilt and legal payment. The first Christians proclaimed rescue, not a courtroom.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/are-the-gospels-historically-reliable/https://faithlabshow.com/are-the-gospels-historically-reliable/Lydia McGrew on the evidence for Gospel reliability that most Christians have never been shown.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/who-was-polycarp/https://faithlabshow.com/who-was-polycarp/Polycarp bridges the gap between the apostles and the rest of church history. The chain is shorter than you think.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/nt-wright-do-christians-go-to-heaven-when-they-die/https://faithlabshow.com/nt-wright-do-christians-go-to-heaven-when-they-die/Do Christians go to heaven when they die? NT Wright says Christian hope is resurrection and new creation.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/nt-wright-did-jesus-rise-from-the-dead/https://faithlabshow.com/nt-wright-did-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.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:06:44 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/do-the-gospel-birth-narratives-contradict/https://faithlabshow.com/do-the-gospel-birth-narratives-contradict/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.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/do-the-gospel-genealogies-contradict-each-other/https://faithlabshow.com/do-the-gospel-genealogies-contradict-each-other/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.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:22:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/tim-mackie-the-bible-isnt-what-you-think/https://faithlabshow.com/tim-mackie-the-bible-isnt-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.Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:34:48 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/tim-mackie-how-to-read-the-bible/https://faithlabshow.com/tim-mackie-how-to-read-the-bible/The Bible wasn’t written like a rulebook. Tim Mackie joins Faith Lab to explain how Scripture actually communicates meaning.Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:22:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/rebecca-mclaughlin-confronting-christianity/https://faithlabshow.com/rebecca-mclaughlin-confronting-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.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:22:00 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/blind-faith-shane-rosenthal/https://faithlabshow.com/blind-faith-shane-rosenthal/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.Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:29:50 GMThttps://faithlabshow.com/deconstruction-led-me-back-to-christianity/https://faithlabshow.com/deconstruction-led-me-back-to-christianity/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.Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:46:58 GMT