Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Acts 16:16-40: Songs at Midnight
Paul and Silas get beaten and thrown in the deepest cell for the crime of freeing a girl from the spirit that made her owners rich. At midnight, backs raw and feet in stocks, they are singing hymns loud enough for the other prisoners to hear, when an earthquake opens the doors and Paul stays to keep the jailer from taking his own life. By morning the man who locked them up is washing their wounds and bringing his whole household to baptism. It is hard to read this chapter and keep believing that any situation is past hope.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Acts 15:36-16:15: When Good Men Part Ways
Two great missionaries get into an argument sharp enough to end their partnership, and the subject is whether to give a young man named Mark a second chance. Out of that painful split, two mission teams go out instead of one, and the work spreads further than it would have. God keeps building his church through imperfect people and even through their disagreements. This episode is honest medicine for anyone who has watched a falling-out in the family of faith.
The Rev. Dan Torkelson, pastor of Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Madison, WI, joins the Rev. Dr. Phil Booe to study Acts 15:36-16:15.
The Shocking History of Theistic Evolution
Is it enough to reconcile faith and science by simply claiming that "God used evolution"? On this episode of ID the Future, host Andrew McDermott sits down with Father Michal Chaberek and Steve Greene to discuss their new book, Creation or Evolution: A Catholic Dilemma. Together, they dissect how theistic evolution became the quasi-official default position across Catholic academic institutions. Father Michal tracks the historical shift back to the 1920s and the aftermath of Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical Humani Generis, revealing how a "Galileo complex" and cultural pressures led theologians to surrender direct creation in favor of a materialistic paradigm. Steve Greene provides clarity by defining the four primary pillars of the origins debate—Materialist Evolution, Theistic Evolution, Progressive Creation, and Young Earth Creationism—and explains why classical Tomistic philosophy and modern scientific evidence ultimately expose the fatal flaws of the Darwinian model.
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