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🎧The best in Biblical Scholarship for everyday people with Pete Enns and Jared Byas 😇The Only God-Ordained Podcast on the Internet 🎉17 million downloads linktr.ee/thebiblefornormalpeople
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When you start your prayer with 'Bless the Lord, O my soul' and end it with 'How long, O Lord?'
If the Bible isn't inerrant, why bother reading it?
From Episode 213 with Amanda Held Opelt — a moving conversation about grief, honesty, and how God values our emotions, not as liabilities, but as holy assets. Listen to The Honesty of Grief now!
From Episode 109 with Megan DeFranza — a powerful reminder that you can’t have solidarity with the marginalized while seeking popularity with the powerful. In this conversation, we talk about The Bible and Intersex Believers and what true solidarity looks like.
And He didn’t even use a hint.
Join Zach W. Lambert LIVE on Thursday, August 21 at 8:00 PM ET as we explore how the Bible has been misused—and how to read it through a more Christlike, justice-centered lens. (Link in bio)
Revisiting Episode 211 with David P. Gushee, where we unpacked how certain readings of the Bible can fuel Christian authoritarianism—and why reclaiming the memory of Jesus might be the antidote.
"I don’t think that there’s a whole lot in the New Testament of that substitution idea of Jesus died in your place. You should have been on that altar. But I do think you’re getting that imagery of Jesus as a sacrifice."

Check out episode 306 of B4NP!
Throwing it back to Episode 03 with Anil Seth, where we explored the big question: What is consciousness? (And why the way we see ourselves in relation to nature might be shaping the world—for better or worse.)
Check out this week's episode of Faith for Normal People, The Lenses Through Which We Read the Bible, with Zach W. Lambert!
“Every single word that was written in the entirety of Scripture was written by someone who was either colonized at the time or under threat of colonization and enslavement.”
— Lisa Sharon Harper, Episode 193
In this episode of Faith for Normal People, Pete and Jared are joined by Zach Lambert to talk about the journey from biblical literalism to a more liberative approach to scripture.
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Join Zach W. Lambert LIVE on Thursday, August 21 at 8:00 PM ET as we explore how the Bible has been misused—and how to read it through a more Christlike, justice-centered lens. (Link in bio)

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What are The Dead Sea Scrolls? With Pete Enns!
Do you fly under the radar as a Christian? How do we use our gifts, talents, and resources to transform the world around us?

Rev. Dr. Brian K. Blount joins Pete and Jared to help us make sense of one of the Bible’s weirdest and most misunderstood books: Revelation.
Ever felt like the Psalms are beautiful but... confusing?

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The book of Revelation is just plain weird. In this reissue of episode 180 of The Bible for Normal People, Rev. Dr. Brian K. Blount joins Pete and Jared to discuss how to read and understand the book of Revelation.
In this episode, Pete and Jared sit down with Malcolm Foley and, drawing from his book The Anti-Greed Gospel, discuss how economic self-interest has fueled racial injustice, how the church has been complicit & resistant, and what it means to practice economic solidarity rooted in the life of Jesus.
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Whenever women start moving toward equality, history shows us there’s often a cultural backlash—an effort to “restore order” by putting them back in their place.

Check out episode 231 with Beth Allison Barr! thebiblefornormalpeople.com/episode-231-...
Do you have a sneaking suspicion that the Bible isn’t the simple guidebook your church told you it was?

Join Bible scholars @maklelan.bsky.social and Pete Enns as they share their aha! moments that shifted their entire perspective on the Bible.

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