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Sociologist Dr. Josh Packard along with pastor/philosopher Jeff Cook join the show to discuss why spiritual people are leaving the church, the Dones, Shadow Missions, the recent Pew Study on people leaving church, and Church Refugees. Luke also defends Josh's brutal attack on preaching.

For more on Josh Packard's ongoing work understanding the current trend in the religious landscape and finding a way to provide more religious spaces for people who feel that traditional religion has cast them aside check out dechurched.net.

Nadia Bolz-Weber returns to the show to discuss Luke's visit to House for All Sinners and Saints, Nadia's re-connection with the churches of Christ, twelve minute sermons, church plants as a birthday party you throw for yourself, well-differentiated leaders, democratizing church and of course, CrossFit.

Don't forget to pre-order Nadia's book Accidental Saints.

Paul Nevison of the Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, joins the show to discuss who is a bigger Richard Rohr fan, how Eucharist is the great leveler, and all things newsworthy in the June wrapup.

For more on this month’s sponsor, ACU’s Graduate School of Theology.

Brian McLaren returns to the show to discuss the legacy of Phyllis Tickle, the questions that sustained the Emergence Church, Gatekeepers, The Righteous Mind, the scandal of continual incarnation, Racism, Phyllis Tickle: Evangelist of the Future and Luke's silly questions.

For more on this month’s sponsor, ACU’s Graduate School of Theology.

Dr. Tony Jones returns to the show to discuss why he stopped blogging, the legacy of his friend Phyllis Tickle, Emerging Church, the five hundred year rummage sale, and Phyllis Tickle: Evangelist of the Future.

For more on this month's sponsor, ACU's Graduate School of Theology.

Two of our favorite scholars, Pete Enns and Chris Green, return to the podcast to have a Hunger Games style showdown on how to read the Bible. We discuss the Historical-Grammatical approach, favoring texts, Chris Green bashes N.T. Wright (farewell Chris Green), personal formation as an interpretive tool, who wrote the 10 commandments and the problematic texts of the Old Testament.

For more on this month's Sponsor, ACU's Graduate School of Theology, click here.

Josh Cobia, author of the viral blog post ""  joins the show to discuss planting a church with the reality television stars as the first members, youth ministry at the Kardashian's home, sharing the table with the LGBTQ community, the one thing he would say to his friend Caitlyn Jenner.

For more about this month's sponsor, The Abilene Christian University Graduate School of Theology, click here.

Jonathan Martin and Ian Morgan Cron join us for another podcast from the Praxis Conference in Houston, TX.

Jonathan Martin discusses the centrality of the Eucharist, the awkwardness of a preacher not preaching and Jonathan announces his new job.

Ian Morgan Cron rejoins the show to talk Catholic imagination and what would make him get in a dumpster.

For more on Abilene Christian University's Graduate School of Theology click here.

Science Mike returns to the show to discuss why he's been talking with people in the adult entertainment business, parenting in an age of accessible porn, and the science of viewing pornography.

For more about this month's sponsor, Abilene Christian University's Graduate School of Theology, click here.

At the 8:00 minute mark Sara Barton returns to the show to discuss breaking gender barriers, the book of James, and the grief of a missionary. At the 31:00 minute mark Luke's Dad returns to the show to discuss all things Rob Bell and Richard Beck.

We start the show hearing from Derek McNeal talking about this month's sponsor The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.