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Biblical insights: The gospel and the land of the Bible
by Philip Church and Lauren Domigan
Today: #90 in Religion & Spirituality, New Zealand on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11 | #90 | #92 | #56 |
Latest episodes
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An Inside Perspective: Interview with Dr Lamma Mansour and Dr Yousef Al Khouri
September 22, 2026 · 47 minIn this episode, Philip welcomes Cole Martin again, who has been travelling around Aotearoa with two visitors to our country. Together we interview Dr Lamma Mansour, a sociologist and theologian who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel from…
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Their pain is our pain - or should be
June 30, 2026 · 58 minIn this episode Lauren and Philip speak with Cole Martin a photo journalist who recently spent 6 months living in a refugee camp in the West Bank making friends with Palestinians and sharing their lives.
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What about the Rapture and the Tribulation: will it really happen, and will anybody be left behind?
December 18, 2025 · 59 minIn this episode, Lauren and Philip examine the theology behind the popular Left Behind series of novels, specifically the Rapture, by which the church will be whisked away to escape the so-called Great Tribulation. For many of us, this…
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Why do so many Christians support the state of Israel?
November 13, 2025 · 53 minIn this episode, Lauren and Philip ask why so many Christians continue to support Israel. They explore a popular understanding of the end times, where some Christians believe that the formation of the state of Israel is a prelude to the…
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Love, Reconciliation and Forgiveness: Interview with Dr Hanna Massad
September 29, 2025 · 45 minIn this episode, we interview Dr Hanna Massad, former pastor of the Gaza Baptist Church. We were moved by his message of love, reconciliation, and forgiveness in the face of persecution, and learned of various aspects of his current…
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The land of Jerusalem and the temple in the New Testament
March 7, 2025 · 1 hr 6 minWe remind ourselves of the importance of the land, Jerusalem and temple in ancient Israel and what the New Testament says about that. At the end of the episode, we consider what Paul the Apostle meant when he said, "In this way all Israel…
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Living in God’s land
March 6, 2025 · 29 minWe go back to the Old Testament and look at how God's people are to live in God's land, the exile as the consequence of disobedience, followed by the promises of the return from exile.
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Restorationism and Zionism
March 5, 2025 · 44 minThis episode defines restorationism, political Zionism, and Christian Zionism, and it gives a history of the development of Zionism since it emerged at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Jewish and Palestinian perspectives of the land
March 4, 2025 · 26 minWe go back to the Old Testament and consider the importance of the land of the Bible for ancient Israel and why Jewish people today consider the land important. We end with a brief look at what some Palestinians say about the land.
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Life in the land of the Holy One: It's complicated
March 3, 2025 · 30 minWe take a no-holds-barred look at what it is like to live in the West Bank and Gaza today and some Christian responses to that.
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4000 years in 40 minutes
March 2, 2025 · 44 minA brief potted history of the promised land from the promises to Abraham of Genesis 12 to the present day.
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Biblical insights: Introduction
March 1, 2025 · 20 minBiblical scholar Philip Church and host Lauren Domigan introduce themselves and the background of this series about the gospel and the land of the Bible.
About the show
In this podcast, biblical scholar Philip Church and host Lauren Domigan discuss the political situation in the Middle East following the unconscionable events of 7 October 2023, when Hamas broke into Israel and killed numerous people and took many hostages. These events and their aftermath have been in the news media and our social media feeds almost daily. In this podcast, Philip sets these events into their historical context and suggests what he believes to be an appropriate theological and biblical response.