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In this the 50th and final episode of The Denomination, Derek talks at length about his a key part of his life which ends up in a very strange place. For those that have always wondered why Derek is a little, let's say, "off", we present to you "The Underwear Story" in its entirety.
The final chapter in the Rational Faith series in which we briefly compare faith options and look for the odds on favorite.
Life without experimentation is boring but life with experimentation can sometimes be less than a magnificent success. Thus is this week's podcast where Chris and Derek try to run through the entire book of Matthew trying to make a point.
The last three chapters of Judges is one twisted tale full of all manner of nasty. Here is another episode of "Not Your Grandmother's Bible Study" where we tell it like it is proving again that The Denomination is your source for NSFW Christian podcasts.
In part seven of our Rational Faith series we talk about some philosophical odds and ends, deconstruction attempts, despair, and betting.
Even with the miscommunication about the topic, Chris and Derek push onward with the Lazarus story and get all Christological and whatnot.
Part 2 of a couple guys trying to figure out how to be guys. This time we bring in a guest host hoping that another guy will straighten the whole thing out for us. Spoilers: No, doesn’t help, still no help.
What does it mean to be a man? Derek and Chris--two actual men--try to answer this question and not look completely clueless. Spoilers: the mission was NOT accomplished.
With the usual lack of real signs of an imminent Apocalypse, we instead go look at all of the evil that Revelation 6 has to offer. If you thought the last book in the Bible was only about the end, listen in to get a very different point of view.
More OT narrative work in this episode as we attack the pericope of Sara and Hagar. How the world would have been a different place if that story had turned out more positively. If only....
Rational Faith Part VI is all about the subjective experience of spirituality and whether we can rely on that as evidence of a theistic worldview.
Derek and Chris celebrate the failure of the Apocalypse to occur when recreational marijuana started being sold in Colorado.
Chris and Derek get all OT biblical narrative text critical and rhetorical critical and just massively biblical scholarly as they attack a lesser-known passage in Samuel where Saul’s son Jonathan goes full Rambo. Attack!!!
In this episode we make up new definitions for words with perfectly good definitions already in order to talk about what happens with a faith crashes into an unsuspecting culture.
Never ones to back down from a dare, Derek and Chris make something beautiful and chaste out of the very raunchy passage that is Ezekiel 23.
At last there is a podcast that espouses the virtues of yummy Belgium waffles. You’re welcome.
After the Pathway Church in Denver closed last week, Derek and Chris ponder Church and personal failures.
The meta-context of the Sermon on the Mount is this week’s point of entry into what is wrong with all biblical scholarship ever. Derek and Chris work hard at explaining how these three chapters in Matthew are filled with hope and grace.
Riding the wave of super awesome chemicals flowing through our viens because of our first listerner email, Chris and Derek attempt to discuss the merits of doubt.
We never said The Denomination podcasts were safe for work, but this one is maybe even less. Derek gets angry about how prudish we’ve become while talking not very euphemistically about penis bones and getting it on. Chris wisely says all the right things about love, marriage, sex, and porn.



