Becoming Adam Podcast – Becoming Adam, Becoming Christ

Easter 2020. The churches are empty, and the shadow of death hangs over our land. Have we, as a society, lost something that we’ll never recover? Listen or Read. Your Choice. Easter 2020. The churches are empty, and the shadow of death hangs over our land. As Joni Mitchell sang, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it�

Like any human enterprise, culture can serve as a vehicle for good or evil. What of our culture? The values modeled by those in power give us a clue.... In Part 3 of Adam’s Evolutionary Journey, I said, “Human beings are indoctrinated into sin at the same time and in the same way that we learn language … and music, and art, and conformity to social norms, all of which are asp

Was Adam directly created from dust and placed in a sinless, deathless paradise? If so, how does he represent me before God? What does a perfect man in a perfect environment have in common with anyone? Listen or Read. Your Choice. Our focus in this episode is original sin and the Fall, which we’ll view through the eyes of an often-neglected source, Soren Kierkegaar

Are there any parallels between the political context 2,000 years ago and our own sad situation today? Listen or Read. Your Choice. Since everyone is obsessed with politics this week, the time seemed right for another episode of Becoming Christ. As I mentioned in the first episode, to understand Jesus, we must enter his story and view him through the eyes of his

Where is God in the evolutionary process? Did he just start the universe with the Big Bang and then step back? Listen or Read. Your Choice. Before my unexpected “vacation” due to flu, one of my podcast listeners had asked for clarity on my series, Adam’s Evolutionary Journey. “After listening to Episode 3,” she wrote, “I was left feeling a little empty. W

Listen or Read. Your Choice. Last week, I introduced the Becoming Christ aspect of the website, which draws from my forthcoming e-book The Anointed. In this episode, the time seemed right to share a bit of my personal journey. I hope it will shed some light on the book and the direction I’m headed. Since this essay is mostly personal, I’ll forego the usual footnotes

Listen or Read. Your Choice. We’re starting the New Year with a new subject – Jesus the Anointed. I hope everyone noticed that the website’s full name is “Becoming Adam, Becoming Christ.” The first half of that equation describes how God used evolution to create humanity, but when we chose evil rather than good, we were alienated from him. “Becoming

Biologist Joshua Swamidass claims the ‘fall’ took place as recently as 4000 BC. Are murder, cannibalism, magic, and idolatry not sinful? Listen or Read. Your Choice. In my previous review of Genealogical Adam & Eve, I focused mainly on the scientific problems with the book. Specifically, the isolation of Tasmania adds at least 10,000 years to the scenario, so

Can the ‘fall’ be an actual event in human history? Is ‘original sin’ something real, or just a Christian fairytale? Listen or Read. Your Choice. This is the third of three episodes giving a broad overview of the concepts behind Becoming Adam. In the first installment, we identified two controlling metaphors and three “points of contact” in Genesis for sc

Computational biologist Joshua Swamidass says a literal Adam & Eve could have lived as recently as 6,000 years ago. Tasmania says otherwise. Listen or Read. Your Choice Today, I’ll hit “pause” on Adam’s Evolutionary Journey to review a new book by computational biologist S. Joshua Swamidass, The Genealogical Adam and Eve. What does genealogy have to d