Language of God
A podcast on faith and science.
Public discourse has become more polarized than ever. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking political parties, or culture wars, or science and religion. There are two extreme sides, both claiming the other is completely wrong and misguided. Extreme rhetoric fires up its base, but does little to persuade others. And it has become exhausting.
At BioLogos, we think there is a better way. A way of dialoguing graciously with others. A way of respecting the insights of both sides. A way of living within the tensions.
Join us for conversations about finding the harmony between science and Christian faith.
#Episodes
Elaine Howard Ecklund | Shared Values in Science and Faith
Elaine Howard Ecklund is a sociologist who has devoted her career to understanding the attitudes and perceptions that scientists and religious people have toward each other.
Tim Mackie | What is the Bible?
Tim’s transformation from West-coast skateboarder, to Bible student, to video producer may seem surprising, but his unorthodox journey to faith has given him a unique perspective and passion for the Bible.
Prayer in the time of COVID
We explore the intersection of science and faith when it comes to prayer.
Katharine Hayhoe | Climate in the time of COVID
Katharine Hayhoe discusses the climate crisis along with an update on thinking about climate in a post-COVID-19 world.
Praveen Sethupathy | Goodness, Civility, and Transformation (rebroadcast)
Praveen shares his story of conversion to Christianity and what it means to be made in the image of God in light of scientific understanding.
Philip Yancey | Pain and Healing
Philip Yancey returns to the podcast to dig deeper into his many years spent traveling and writing with Dr. Paul Brand.
N.T. Wright & Francis Collins | A Christian Response to Coronavirus
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, what should be the Christian response? Bible scholar N.T. Wright and BioLogos founder Francis Collins, ponder this question and more.
Shauna Niequist | Let’s Sit Here a Little Longer
Shauna Niequist brings her passion for food and her Christian experience to a conversation about food and spirituality.
Joseph Graves | The Genetics of Race (Part 2)
We dig into the genetic science of race and we talk about some common misconceptions, such as whether race affects athletic abilities and what you can actually find out from genetic ancestry testing.
Joseph Graves | The Genetics of Race (Part 1)
Dr. Graves tells the story of his journey through higher education discusses some basics of evolution and what it even means to be a species.
Lynette Strickland | God's World is a Diverse World
Lynette tells some of her own stories that highlight the ways that science as a discipline can benefit from increased diversity and inclusion.
Deb Haarsma | Caring for Our Community in Crisis
Jim and Deb take a moment to talk about the cultural moment we find ourselves in.
Tim Keller & Francis Collins | Where is God in a Pandemic?
Tim Keller joins Francis Collins in a conversation that includes updates on the latest COVID-19 research and much more.
Bishop Claude Alexander | A Common Vulnerability
Jim talks with Bishop Claude Alexander about his growing up in the south with parents esteemed in the medical field and about the role of science in racial reconciliation in America today.
Richard Middleton | Image of God
Richard Middleton joins Jim Stump in an attempt to answer some questions about human identity through the lenses of the bible and ancient worldview.
John Walton | Coronavirus and the Book of Job
John Walton leads us through the book of Job with an eye toward our current situation. He walks through three elements of the story of Job that might help us today: rest, peace, and coherence.
Water | Exploring Spiritual & Scientific Depths
Water is interesting both scientifically and biblically, so it’s only fitting that we explore it. And in this episode Jim Stump is joined by Kent Frens, Jenni Brandon, Sandra Postel, and Ben McFarland to do just that.
Brian McLaren | A Galapagos Spirituality
Brian McLaren shares about his book, The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey, and about a theology that is informed by wild places and the scientific knowledge that helps us understand those places.
Francis Collins | Coronavirus Updates with NIH Director
Francis Collins answers questions from listeners about the current scientific knowledge of the virus and talks about how he views the pandemic through the lens of his own faith.
Resurrection in the Time of Coronavirus
Jim reflects on what the resurrection means in this time of uncertainty and fear—in this time of coronavirus.
Sean McDowell | Finding Common Ground
Jim Stump is joined by Sean McDowell, their conversation centers around the science of evolution and the degree to which it should influence Christian belief.
Coronavirus | Science & Faith in Pandemic Times
Three interviews from scientists in the fields of microbiology, biochemistry, and infectious disease, all of them speaking about coronavirus from the Christian Perspective.
Katharine Hayhoe | Global Weirding
Katharine Hayhoe joins Jim Stump to talk about climate change: the science and the effects we see in the world today. She ends with some practical solutions and a call for rational hope.
Darrel Falk | The Bridge from Biology to Faith
Darrel Falk joins Jim Stump to reminisce about some of his experiences with the early genetic sciences as well as his role in the beginnings of BioLogos.
Kutter Callaway | Ministry in Theater Five
Jim Stump and Kutter Calloway discuss how art and pop-culture have become an underlying meta-narrative through which we understand our spirituality.
Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet | Forward in Forgiveness
Jim Stump sat down with Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet to learn about what forgiveness is and how it can be fruitful toward a theological and spiritual journey.
Mari Clements | Relationship as Revelation
Jim Stump is joined by clinical psychologist, Mari Clements to talk about how psychology can provide tools to help ensure the health of our relationships.
Justin Barrett | Why Theology Needs Psychology
Justin Barrett joins Jim Stump in this episode to discuss why he believes psychology and theology can help each other.
April Maskiewicz Cordero | Teaching in the Tension
April Maskiewicz Cordero joins Jim Stump and Kathryn Applegate to discuss what it’s like to teach college biology at a Christian college.
Alister McGrath | Journey of Science, Story of Faith
A conversation that ranges from Einstein’s religious beliefs to the importance of storytelling for Christian Apologetics.
Finding Harmony | Garrett & Amanda
The stories from two young people who were deeply connected to young-earth creation—that is, until they started to see some cracks developing in their reasoning, which sent them on a journey to discover how to reframe their scientific view of the world while holding closely to their Christian faith.
Dialogue with Reasons to Believe | Hugh & Deb
Hugh Ross and Deb Haarsma talk about how a background in astrophysics led them to their current work as leaders of Christian organizations and about how their faith might hold up to new scientific discoveries.
Dialogue with Reasons to Believe | Fuz & Darrel
Fuz Rana and Darrel Falk talk about how the relationship between BioLogos and Reasons to believe was developed and then discuss how they have come to such different conclusions when working with the same data.
Science Mike | Intimate Mysticality
Mike McHargue, aka Science Mike, shares his own faith journey and talks about trends of faith transitions in the United States.
Oliver Crisp | Truth Apt Truth Aimed
Theology is a tool we use to better understand God. But how does it work? How do we know when a theological claim is true?
Adam & Eve
Jim Stump is joined by BioLogos president Deb Haarsma to talk about one of the perennial science and faith topics—Adam & Eve.
Marcelo Gleiser | Oceans of the Unknown
Jim Stump and Marcelo Gleiser dive into the ocean of the unknown, discussing the nature of science and how we know what we know.
Rick Lindroth | Hope in a World of Wounds
Ecologist Rick Lindroth discusses how his faith and his science have interacted.
BONUS Episode | Identifying Hope
A multimedia essay on finding hope in the outdoors.
Lynette Strickland | Finding Beetles with God
Lynette Strickland shares how her childhood curiosity in the natural world has helped her understand God’s creation.
Aaron Niequist | Learning to Swim
Aaron and Jim also discuss reviving liturgy and the seeing faith in light of the Kingdom of Heaven.
John Walton | More Than History
Discussing interpretation with biblical scholar John Walton and exploring the answers his work offers.
Fossils | A Window to God's Creation
A journey into the world of fossils and what they can teach us about God.
Krista Tippett | Life Together
Krista talks about how her work attempts to feed a hunger for honest conversation and where science and faith live in that discussion.
Jonathan Merritt | Reimagining Sacred Conversation
Jonathan Merritt discusses the decay of sacred conversation—and how to revive it.
John Ortberg | Sacred Habits
Pastor John Ortberg discusses the forgotten practice of spiritual disciplines and how biological predispositions affect human character.
Season 2 Trailer
Introducing the second season of Language of God.
BONUS Episode | Listeners Ask
Jim Stump and a few BioLogos staff members sit down to try and wrestle with some of the questions we received from listeners.
BONUS Episode | STEAM
A panel from Science and Theology for Emerging Adult Ministries (STEAM) offers resources to help teens and young adults to think through issues of science and faith.
BONUS Episode | Cool Creation
From walking whales to the largest organism on earth, these astonishing snippets of God’s creation offer a reinvigorated view of the world around us.
Rick Potts | A Long Becoming
Dr. Potts tells Jim stories of excavations in China and southern Kenya and of people encountering the exhibit on Human Origins around the US.
Elizabeth Conde-Frazier | Dynamic Theology
Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier discusses the growth of a Latino/a theology which expresses the community’s experience in all its rich variety.
Peter Enns | God is Not a Helicopter Parent
Exploring the potential behind reading the Bible creatively, the dangers of our modernist sense of truth, and the growing desire for spiritual authenticity.
Richard Mouw | An Eternal Gentleness
Dr. Richard Mouw shares his experiences from working in interfaith dialogue and lays out a compelling vision for Christian civility.
Bethany Sollereder | Lion Tennis in Heaven
Jim Stump is joined by Dr. Bethany Sollereder to wrestle with the problems of natural evil and the origin of death. They delve into the traditional answers to these questions, probing their strengths and deficiencies, and grapple with challenging Biblical passages on these issues.
Francis Collins | Dig Deeper
In the second half of our conversation with Francis Collins he discusses the beginnings of BioLogos, which questions science can answer and which ones it cannot and the future of science—the exciting new horizons afforded by single-cell analysis, cryogenic electron microscopy, and treatments for genetic diseases.
Philip Yancey | What Good is Disappointment?
In this episode’s conversation, Philip Yancey and Language of God host Jim Stump discuss rediscovering faith after messy first encounters, disappointment with the state of the world, and stepping into a life colored with hope.
Faith and Soil
In this episode we seek to understand the role dirt has played in our lives, how it has evolved since Biblical times, and how this may be connected to humility by examining etymology, reflecting on the biblical call to be stewards of creation, and reviewing findings in soil science.
Praveen Sethupathy | Goodness, Civility and Transformation
Praveen shares his insights on what it means to be made in the image of God in light of our understanding of evolution and DNA.
Francis Collins | Finding a New Story
Collins sat down with us at his home to talk about his own journey in finding a harmony between faith and science and he shares stories of some of the people in his life who were influential in his conversion from atheism to Christianity.
Jennifer Wiseman | Light in Space
As she recounts her life in science, astronomer Jennifer Wiseman discusses faith in her work, human significance in a vast universe, and the mysterious awe inspired by investigating the cosmos.
Language of God Trailer
Introducing Language of God, a new podcast on science and Christian faith from BioLogos.