The Bible For Normal People

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The Bible For Normal People

by Peter Enns and Jared Byas

A weekly podcast talk show having serious talks about the sacred book. Hosted by Peter Enns and Jared Byas.

100 episodes

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All Episodes

1

[Bible] Episode 319: Matthew Vines - The Bible Isn't Against Gay Marriage

52:38 Mar 9, 2026

2

[Bible] Episode 318: Mark S. Smith - The Many Gods of Israel

1:08:05 Mar 2, 2026

3

[Bible] Bonus Episode: Jennifer Garcia Bashaw & Aaron Higashi - Nobody “Just Reads” the Bible

13:07 Feb 27, 2026

4

[Faith] Episode 71: Jared Stacy - The Evangelical to Conspiracy Theory Pipeline

57:43 Feb 23, 2026

5

[Bible] Episode 317: N.T. Wright - The Book of Ephesians

48:46 Feb 16, 2026

6

[Faith] Episode 70: A Holiday Roast

18:07 Dec 22, 2025

7

[Bible] Episode 316: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - Is the Bible the Word of God? & Other Easy Questions

57:27 Dec 8, 2025

8

[Faith] Episode 69: Diana Butler Bass - Resisting Christmas (And Why the Christian Calendar Still Matters)

58:48 Dec 1, 2025

9

[Bible] Episode 315: Kent Sparks - The Beginnings of Israelite Religion

48:42 Nov 24, 2025

10

[Faith] Episode 68: Kristin Kobes Du Mez - A Modern Church History of Toxic Masculinity (REISSUE)

56:31 Nov 17, 2025

11

[Bible] Episode 314: Shayna Sheinfeld - The Complicated World of Second Temple Judaism

54:07 Nov 10, 2025

12

[Bible] Episode 313: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Song of Songs

48:04 Nov 3, 2025

13

[Faith] Episode 67: Liz Charlotte Grant - The Gift of an Unclear Text

51:40 Oct 27, 2025

14

[Bible] Episode 312: Sarah Emanuel - The Meaning of Messiah

50:42 Oct 20, 2025

15

[Faith] Episode 66: Angela Patterson - The Faith of Gen Z

1:07:00 Oct 13, 2025

16

[Bible] Episode 311: Chauncey Diego Francisco Handy - The Afterlife of the Conquest of Canaan

51:36 Oct 6, 2025

17

[Bible] Episode 310: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Ecclesiastes (REISSUE)

1:12:08 Sep 29, 2025

18

[Faith] Episode 65: James Kimmel, Jr. - This Is Your Brain on Revenge

1:07:44 Sep 22, 2025

19

[Bible] Episode 309: Elizabeth Shively - The Gospel of Mark, Explained

58:18 Sep 15, 2025

20

[Faith] Episode 64: Drew G. I. Hart & Jarrod McKenna - Creative Resistance & the Joy of Nonviolence

1:05:50 Sep 8, 2025

21

[Bible] Episode 308: Bill Schniedewind - The Scribes Who Wrote the Bible

53:24 Sep 1, 2025

22

[Bible] Episode 307: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Proverbs (REISSUE)

53:39 Aug 25, 2025

23

[Faith] Episode 63: Mariko Clark - Helping Kids Grow an Expansive Faith

55:24 Aug 18, 2025

24

[Bible] Episode 306: Pete Enns & the Old Testament Nerds - Ask a Scholar Anything (About the Hebrew Bible)

1:03:59 Aug 11, 2025

25

[Faith] Episode 62: Zach W. Lambert - The Lenses Through Which We Read the Bible

52:16 Aug 4, 2025

26

[Bible] Episode 305: Brian K. Blount - Revelation for Today (REISSUE)

50:08 Jul 28, 2025

27

[Bible] Episode 304: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Psalms

1:05:07 Jul 21, 2025

28

[Faith] Episode 61: David P. Gushee - Living the Teachings of Jesus

1:00:57 Jul 14, 2025

29

[Bible] Episode 303: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - Is the Bible Even Important Anymore?

52:47 Jul 7, 2025

30

[Faith] Episode 60: Beau Underwood & Brian Kaylor - Christian Nationalism Across the Political Spectrum

1:02:07 Jun 30, 2025

31

[Bible] Episode 302: Julie Faith Parker - How Interpretation Made Eve a Villain

46:21 Jun 23, 2025

32

[Bible] Episode 301: Walter Brueggemann - Resurrecting the Bible in the Mainline Church (REISSUE)

50:40 Jun 16, 2025

33

[Faith] Episode 59: Malcolm Foley - The Connection Between Racism and Greed

54:35 Jun 9, 2025

34

[Bible] Episode 300: Caroline Blyth & Emily Colgan - What to Do About Violence in the Bible

46:28 Jun 2, 2025

35

[Faith] Episode 58: Adis Duderija - The Diversity of Islam

1:03:08 May 26, 2025

36

[Bible] Episode 299: Garrick Allen - Something’s Hiding in the Margins of Your Bible

44:22 May 19, 2025

37

[Bible] Episode 298: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Job (REISSUE)

55:33 May 12, 2025

38

[Faith] Episode 57: Janet Williams - What We Can (and Can’t) Say About God

1:04:03 May 5, 2025

39

[Bible] Episode 297: Alexiana Fry - Trauma in the Hebrew Bible

55:43 Apr 28, 2025

40

[Bible] April Bonus Episode: Jared Byas & the New Testament Nerds - Ask a Scholar Anything (About the New Testament)

9:40 Apr 25, 2025

41

[Faith] Episode 56: Wylin D. Wilson - Womanist Wisdom for a Wounded World

1:05:27 Apr 21, 2025

42

[Bible] Episode 296: Richard Rohr - Seeing Through the Eyes of the Prophets

50:53 Apr 14, 2025

43

[ATBW] Episode 5 - She Refused to Take the Bed

58:39 Apr 10, 2025

44

[Bible] Episode 295: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Esther

52:16 Apr 7, 2025

45

[ATBW] Episode 4 - People Who Have Consensual Affairs Don't End Up With PTSD

59:33 Apr 3, 2025

46

[Faith] Episode 55: Matthew Paul Turner - The Challenge of Raising Kids with the Bible

59:59 Mar 31, 2025

47

[ATBW] Episode 3 - Loopholes

45:07 Mar 27, 2025

48

[Bible] Episode 294: Roberto de La Noval - Universalism as a Doctrine

52:47 Mar 24, 2025

49

[ATBW] Episode 2 - The Invisible Woman

1:03:34 Mar 20, 2025

50

[Faith] Episode 54: Erin Hicks Moon - Disentangling Faith

1:03:20 Mar 17, 2025

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