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218. AI & Human Flourishing | The Practice
October 8, 2026 · 50 minIn the final episode of our series, we turn toward theology and practice. Christian thinkers have long argued that human dignity isn’t grounded in productivity, efficiency, or being better than everything else. The rise of AI gives us an…
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217. AI & Human Flourishing | The Machine
October 1, 2026 · 38 minArtificial intelligence can write poetry, generate images, diagnose patterns in enormous datasets, and carry on a remarkably human-sounding conversation. But what is actually happening inside the machine? In the second episode of our…
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216. AI & Human Flourishing | The Human
September 24, 2026 · 45 minArtificial intelligence can do remarkable things. It can recognize patterns humans miss, accelerate scientific research, and even help restore speech to someone who has lost the ability to communicate. But as these technologies become part…
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215. Janet Kellogg Ray | Woven and Rooted
September 10, 2026 · 54 minJanet Kellogg Ray returns to Language of God to talk with Jim Stump about her new book, Fish with Feet: Human Evolution in the Image of God. For many Christians, evolution becomes especially difficult when the story reaches human beings…
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214. Luke Bretherton | Scaling Up Love of Neighbor
August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minIn a time marked by rapid technological change, social fragmentation, political polarization, and declining trust in institutions, what does it mean to flourish as human beings together? Oxford theologian Luke Bretherton helps us explore…
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213. A Journey into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
August 13, 2026 · 41 minAfter spending five days camping above the Arctic Circle in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Jim Stump reflects on an experience that reshaped how he thinks about creation, wonder, and our place within it. Guided by the wisdom of…
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212. Alister McGrath | C.S. Lewis & Science
July 23, 2026 · 45 minC.S. Lewis is remembered by many as a novelist, apologist, and literary scholar, but his reflections on science remain surprisingly relevant. Alister McGrath argues that Lewis offers a surprisingly nuanced understanding of the relationship…
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143. The Ocean Declares | Horseshoe Crabs, Hospitality & Creatureliness
June 25, 2026 · 50 minWhen the wind is just right, on a small beach in Titusville, Florida, horseshoe crabs crawl out of the water and onto the beach to lay their eggs. Jim and Colin joined up with two marine biologists—Bob Sluka who works with A Rocha, a…
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183. Cool Creatures | Giant Pacific Octopus
June 18, 2026 · 41 minOctopuses and humans have been evolving separately for more than 500 million years, but still, we have a few things in common. We explore what this means about the octopus, what it means about humans, and what it tells us about the Creator…
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145. Dawn Wright | A Divine Abyss
June 11, 2026 · 53 minIn the summer of 2022 Dawn Wright became only the 27th person ever, the fifth woman, and the first Black person to descend into the deepest part of the ocean, a place called Challenger Deep. As a scientist, Dawn has been studying and…
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211. Cool Creatures | Coral
June 4, 2026 · 40 minCoral reefs are easy to mistake for rock or plant life. But corals are animals—colonies of tiny polyps living in partnership with algae, building vast reef structures over generations. They are complicated creatures and they stretch our…
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210. Charles Foster | The Significance of Edges
May 28, 2026 · 51 minIn this episode of Language of God, Colin Hoogerwerf and Jim Stump sit down in Oxford, England with writer, veterinarian, barrister, and philosopher Charles Foster to explore a provocative idea at the center of his newest book, The Edges…