80 episodes
Thinking Out Loud with Alan Shlemon Alan Shlemon
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- Religion & Spirituality
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4.8 • 163 Ratings
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STR speaker Alan Shlemon provides a monthly update while answering questions across a wide range of topics including criticisms of Christianity.
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Eight Tips to Become a Professional Apologist
Alan offers eight tips to help someone who is interested in pursuing part-time or full-time apologetics ministry.
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The Problem with a Christian Attending a Same-Sex Wedding
Should a Christian attend a same-sex wedding? Alan has attended a same-sex wedding in the past, but believes he made the wrong decision. In this episode, he unpacks his past reasoning, explains why he was mistaken, and offers a practical alternative.
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If Pro-Gay Theology Advocates Could Change the Past, Would that Change the Future Like They Want?
Alan explains what would happen if someone was to go back in time to 1946 and stop the RSV Bible translation team from using the word “homosexuals.” He unpacks whether this would change the Bible’s teaching on marriage, homosexuality, and sexual ethics today.
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Problems with Creating Your Identity When You Reject God
When a person rejects God, they’re left to determine for themselves their own identity. Alan unpacks some problems with this approach.
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Why It’s Reasonable to Refuse to Use Preferred Pronouns
Alan addresses whether it’s reasonable to refuse to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns.
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Should You Violate Your Conscience to Maintain Your Relationship with an LGBT Person?
People who identify as LGBT routinely ask their Christian friends and family to accommodate various requests. Are you justified in declining to go along even if it might damage your relationship with them? Alan unpacks his thoughts on this thorny dilemma.
Customer Reviews
My new favorite podcast for 2024
Short but very informative on questions I’ve thought a lot about but are rarely addressed straightforwardly. Learning from this podcast will make having discussions about difficult issues so much easier. Thank you Alan and Stand to Reason!
Not learning anything of use.
Alan reduces the most complex issues of our time into 5-20 minute sound bytes, because he bypasses any explanation of "X" belief/theology and jumps straight into practical application of "X" belief. Sound logic cannot be built on unexplained premises.
But if you want to feel a sense of martyrdom, listen to the latest episode (3/14/24) in which Alan compares declining to attend a gay wedding to... refusing to worship idols? As in, the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who decided to die rather than publicly bow down to an idol. Not sure how that comparison follows.
Clear thinking, concise points
I love Alan’s ability to take difficult, controversial issues and present them clearly, analyze them from a biblical perspective, and provide concise points to make his case. So helpful!
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