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Faith Lab

Nate Hanson & Shelby Hanson

What if Christianity could handle your toughest questions? Most Christians have never heard the depth of evidence that exists for the faith they already hold. Faith Lab changes that. Every episode, scholars like N.T. Wright and Tim Mackie explain what they've spent their careers studying about Jesus, the Bible, and the origins of Christianity, in conversations you can actually follow. Hosted by Nate and Shelby Hanson. Nate spent years in ministry alongside Francis Chan before a season of deconstruction led him to question everything. What brought him back wasn't blind faith. It was the scholarship.

Episodes

  1. FEB 11 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Tim Mackie: The Full Conversation (Parts 1 & 2, Uncut)

    The full, uncut conversation with Tim Mackie, founder of BibleProject, released exclusively for Faith Lab premium members. This is the complete two-part interview covering how the Hebrew Bible was actually composed, how its ancient authors communicated through literary design patterns, and why understanding their methods changes everything about how we read Scripture today. Tim walks through how the biblical authors used repetition, hyperlinking, and narrative riddles to build one of the most sophisticated literary works in human history, and why most modern readers miss it entirely. What's covered: * How the Dead Sea Scrolls reshaped our understanding of how biblical texts were composed * The aspen forest metaphor and why the Old Testament is a single interconnected root system rather than a collection of separate books * How Genesis 1 through 3 teaches you to read the rest of the Bible through patterns of repetition and the keyword "good" * Why narrative patterning is normal human communication, illustrated through Star Wars * How later stories intentionally echo and reframe earlier ones, including Abraham in Gerar as a replay of Genesis 3 * What "literal" actually means and why the modern debate misses the point * How biblical authors represented history through literary conventions rather than video-camera accuracy * The Noah and Ham story as a narrative riddle and how intentional ambiguity works across the biblical storyline * Why our expectations about the Bible blind us to what it actually is * How Jesus understood the Hebrew Bible as a narrative pointing to himself * Why "inerrancy" is the wrong word and "faithfulness" is more biblical * Tim's approach to controversial topics and why head-on theological confrontation almost always fails * How Tim personally encounters God through Scripture and the outdoors * Why reading multiple Bible translations is better than trying to find the best one

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About

What if Christianity could handle your toughest questions? Most Christians have never heard the depth of evidence that exists for the faith they already hold. Faith Lab changes that. Every episode, scholars like N.T. Wright and Tim Mackie explain what they've spent their careers studying about Jesus, the Bible, and the origins of Christianity, in conversations you can actually follow. Hosted by Nate and Shelby Hanson. Nate spent years in ministry alongside Francis Chan before a season of deconstruction led him to question everything. What brought him back wasn't blind faith. It was the scholarship.

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