Created in the Image of God

Wade Fransson
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Tune in every Tuesday for an inspiring journey on Created in the Image of God: Building Vibrant Communities. Wade Fransson and his distinguished guests explore the essence of human nature and the transformative power of unity in diversity through live-streamed discussions rooted in the Independent Investigation of Reality. This series advocates for authentic connections among individuals to foster thriving, inclusive communities. Anchored in spiritual truths and a collective quest for understanding, these conversations inspire growth and progress toward a harmonious world. soopllc.substack.com wadefransson.substack.com

  1. 2d ago

    Job in Exile with David Gushee | Created In The Image of God 292

    Rev. Dr. David Gushee is a Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University and a past president of both the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. Author or editor of more than 30 landmark books—including Kingdom Ethics, Changing Our Mind, and Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies—Dr. Gushee is recognized as one of today’s leading Christian moral thinkers. Frequently featured in global lectures, media, and ecumenical settings, he is known for bringing rigorous scholarship and compassionate insight to some of Christianity’s most pressing social and ethical questions.In this episode of Created In The Image of God, David joins Wade for a rich and sobering conversation about Job in Exile, his new book on one of Scripture’s most difficult and haunting texts. Together, they explore why the book of Job has both repelled and fascinated generations of readers, what it reveals about suffering, and how it challenges the “just world” theology that assumes blessings are always deserved and pain is always explainable. David reflects on Job not only as a literary and theological mountain, but as a companion for people whose lives no longer fit the tidy categories they once trusted.This is a conversation about protest, grief, exile, spiritual disillusionment, and the hard grace of continuing to seek God when old certainties have failed. For anyone who has suffered deeply, questioned honestly, or found themselves spiritually displaced, David offers a wise and compassionate guide into the mystery of Job and the faith that can endure within it. Get full access to Created in the Image of God at wadefransson.substack.com/subscribe

  2. 5d ago

    Awaken Delight with Stephanie Rousselle | Created In The Image of God 291

    Stephanie Rousselle is a Bible teacher, speaker, and the host of the Gospel Spice podcast, where she helps people savor Scripture and discover deeper delight in God. Born and raised in France, Stephanie came to faith from a background of atheism, and that journey now shapes a ministry centered on her life motto: God’s glory, our delight. She is the founder of Gospel Spice Ministries and the author of Awaken Delight: Satisfying Your Soul’s Longing for God, encouraging believers to engage the Bible with both theological depth and heartfelt joy.In this episode of Created In The Image of God, Stephanie joins Wade for a rich and personal conversation about atheism, trust, grace, and the God who reveals Himself with both truth and tenderness. She reflects on growing up in a secular French home, arriving in the United States as an exchange student, and encountering a Christian family whose love and intellectual honesty challenged everything she thought she knew about faith. What began as resistance slowly became surrender as Stephanie came to see that Christianity was not the abandonment of reason, but its fulfillment in relationship with the risen Christ.Together, they explore resurrection, belonging, delight, the fatherhood of God, and the difference between knowing about God and actually trusting Him. This is a conversation about what happens when the soul finally stops striving and learns to rest in grace. Get full access to Created in the Image of God at wadefransson.substack.com/subscribe

  3. Oct 14

    World Without Fear with Adi Kanda | Created In The Image of God 290

    Adi Kanda is an intuitive author, spiritual guide, and founder of World Without Fear, where she helps conscious leaders move through fear, shadow work, and deep personal transformation. For more than 25 years, she has guided thousands through a distinctive process that blends spiritual insight, energetic healing, and practical inner work aimed at uncovering hidden patterns and awakening purpose. She is the author of Dear Human Child: Love Letters From the Divine and the forthcoming Monster Most Feared, and her work includes live readings, oracular poetry, and transformational programs shaped by a deeply creative and contemplative vision.In this episode of Created In The Image of God, Adi joins Wade for a rich conversation about fear, meaning, suffering, and the mysterious transmissions that have shaped her life’s work. She explains how language can function as frequency brought into form, why certain words can awaken what lies buried within us, and how spoken messages can become tools for healing, clarity, and personal transformation. Along the way, the conversation touches on creativity, leadership, Viktor Frankl, and the question of whether suffering can become a path toward purpose rather than proof of meaninglessness.Together, they explore what it means to live courageously in a world shaped by fear, how hidden inner patterns can be brought into the light, and why purpose may be one of the most powerful answers we have to human pain. This is a conversation for anyone drawn to spiritual depth, honest transformation, and the inner work required to live with greater clarity and courage. Get full access to Created in the Image of God at wadefransson.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Oct 12

    Blessed Are the Rest of Us with Micha Boyett | Created In The Image of God 289

    Micha Boyett is an author, youth pastor, podcaster, and Down syndrome advocate whose work invites people into a slower, more attentive, and more grace-filled way of life. With a background in poetry and a voice shaped by motherhood, disability advocacy, and spiritual reflection, Micha writes about rest, limits, ableism, and the deep belovedness of every human being. She is the author of Blessed Are the Rest of Us, a moving exploration of how her youngest son’s disabilities helped her confront the culture of achievement and discover a fuller vision of wholeness and flourishing in Jesus.In this episode of Created In The Image of God, Micha joins Wade for a thoughtful conversation about slowness, vulnerability, disability, and the ways love resists efficiency. Drawing also from her forthcoming book Advent Unhurried and her Substack The Slow Way, she reflects on how much of modern life trains us to measure worth by output, speed, and performance—and how the way of Jesus keeps calling us somewhere gentler, truer, and more human.This is a conversation about belovedness, limits, sorrow, joy, and the holy work of learning to receive life as gift rather than as something to conquer. Get full access to Created in the Image of God at wadefransson.substack.com/subscribe

  5. Oct 7

    Food, Faith & the Limits of Nature with Mollie Engelhart | Created In The Image of God 288

    Mollie Engelhart is a chef, farmer, entrepreneur, and regenerative agriculture advocate whose work connects food, faith, and the healing of the land. Best known as the founder of Sage Regenerative Kitchen & Brewery and Sovereignty Ranch, she has become a bold voice in conversations about farming, stewardship, sustainability, and the future of our food systems. Her journey from vegan restaurateur to regenerative farmer has challenged assumptions far beyond the kitchen, opening deeper questions about creation, truth, and what it means to live in right relationship with the earth.In this episode of Created In The Image of God, Mollie joins Wade for a wide-ranging conversation about nature, ideology, death, abundance, and the hard but necessary lessons that come from living close to the land. Reflecting on her own public change of mind, she explains how farming exposed the limits of abstract moral systems disconnected from the realities of creation. From compost and livestock to reproduction, food, and the cycle of death that sustains life, Mollie argues that real stewardship begins not in fantasy, but in reverence for the world as God actually made it.Together, they explore regenerative agriculture, free will, natural law, religious liberty, and the consequences of losing touch with the “laboratory” of creation itself. This is a conversation about humility, courage, and the costly work of aligning human life with truth rather than illusion. Get full access to Created in the Image of God at wadefransson.substack.com/subscribe

  6. Oct 5

    Second Half Faith with Andrew Arndt | Created In The Image of God 287

    Andrew Arndt is a pastor, author, and spiritual formation teacher who serves as teaching pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs and lead pastor of New Life East. He is the author of All Flame: Entering into the Life of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and host of the Essential Church podcast, where he explores the life of the church with theological depth and pastoral clarity. Deeply shaped by the Christian contemplative tradition, including the wisdom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, Andrew helps modern believers recover a richer, more Spirit-filled vision of life with God.In this episode of Created In The Image of God, Andrew joins Wade for a thoughtful conversation about pastoral work, spiritual maturity, and what Andrew calls the “second half” of life and leadership. As he reflects on turning 45, the discussion turns to elderhood, discernment, and the shifting vocation that comes with time: what we are no longer meant to carry, what we are finally ready to receive, and how God forms us through seasons of growth we could not have understood earlier.Together, they explore the life of the church, the contemplative path, Scripture, and the deepening work of becoming more rooted, prayerful, and alive to God’s presence over time. Get full access to Created in the Image of God at wadefransson.substack.com/subscribe

  7. Sep 30

    Reason, Reality & the Public Square with Greg Koukl | Created In The Image of God 286

    Greg Koukl is the founder and president of Stand to Reason, an apologetics ministry he launched in 1993 to help people think more clearly and confidently about the Christian faith. A longtime radio host, public speaker, and campus debater, Greg has spent more than three decades engaging tough questions about truth, morality, and Christianity on university campuses, in the media, and in public forums across the U.S. and abroad. He is the bestselling author of Tactics, The Story of Reality, Street Smarts, and Relativism, and also serves as an adjunct professor in Christian apologetics at Biola University.In this episode of Created In The Image of God, Greg joins Wade for a rich conversation about Christianity, reason, and the long return of thoughtful faith to the public square. Reflecting on the cultural aftershocks of the Scopes Trial, the abdication of serious Christian engagement, and the later rise of a new generation of apologists, Greg explains how believers began recovering the intellectual confidence to address truth, morality, and reality in a skeptical age.Together, they explore public witness, orthodoxy, apologetics, cultural change, and what it means to engage hard questions without surrendering either conviction or grace. Get full access to Created in the Image of God at wadefransson.substack.com/subscribe

  8. Sep 28

    Judgment, Masculinity & the Hidden Leaven with Chase Replogle | Created In The Image of God 285

    Chase Replogle is a pastor, author, and podcast host who serves as pastor of Bent Oak Church in Springfield, Missouri. He is the author of A Sharp Compassion and The 5 Masculine Instincts, drawing on Scripture, history, psychology, and literature to help readers think more deeply about faith and life. Chase also hosts the Pastor Writer Podcast, where he interviews Christian authors on writing and publishing, and his work has been featured by outlets such as Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and Good Morning America.In this episode of Created In The Image of God, Chase joins Wade for a wide-ranging conversation about Scripture, judgment, masculinity, and the slow work of spiritual formation. Drawing from his expository preaching, his Let’s Talk Bible teaching project, and his own writing, Chase explores judgment as something more than punishment: a revealing, an uncovering, a bringing into the light of what is false and what is true.Together, they also discuss the pressures surrounding modern masculinity and why Christian maturity is not about denying masculine instinct or blindly indulging it, but letting it be shaped into wisdom, character, and compassion. This is a conversation about identity, discipleship, and the hidden leaven of the kingdom working its way through ordinary lives. Get full access to Created in the Image of God at wadefransson.substack.com/subscribe

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Tune in every Tuesday for an inspiring journey on Created in the Image of God: Building Vibrant Communities. Wade Fransson and his distinguished guests explore the essence of human nature and the transformative power of unity in diversity through live-streamed discussions rooted in the Independent Investigation of Reality. This series advocates for authentic connections among individuals to foster thriving, inclusive communities. Anchored in spiritual truths and a collective quest for understanding, these conversations inspire growth and progress toward a harmonious world. soopllc.substack.com wadefransson.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Wade Fransson
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    291
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Wade Fransson
  • Show Website
    Created in the Image of God

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