The Freethinking Podcasts

Who Decides What Is Good? Atheism, Genesis & Two Very Different Debates

Two debates. Two very different settings. But underneath both conversations was a surprisingly similar question: Who gets to decide what is actually good? Tim Stratton re

Is Beauty Evidence for God? | Jim Spiegel

Is beauty really just in the eye of the beholder, or does objective beauty tell us something important about the nature of reality and the existence of God? In this episo

The Creation Dilemma Backfires on Mormonism?

Does Hayden Carroll's "Creation Dilemma" successfully challenge traditional Christianity, or does the argument create an even bigger problem for Mormonism? In this episod

Should Christians Forgive Without Repentance? | Counterfeit Forgiveness w/ Teasi Cannon

Does biblical forgiveness require repentance? And have Christians sometimes confused forgiveness with simply "letting go" of what someone has done? Teasi Cannon joins Jos

Is William Lane Craig a Heretic? The Trinity Controversy Explained

Is William Lane Craig of  @ReasonableFaithOrg  a heretic for questioning the doctrine of eternal generation? And does his view actually put him outside the boundaries of

Are You Just a Biological Machine? | Dr. Joshua Farris on Why Souls

What difference would it make if you really are more than your physical body? Dr. Joshua Ryan Farris of  @soulsciencemin  joins us to discuss his new book, Why Souls? A M

What Makes Human Life Valuable? | The Abortion Debate Goes Deeper.

What makes human life valuable—and can a purely naturalistic worldview adequately explain human dignity? Jacob Vazquez of  @TruthfulHope  joins Dr. Tim Stratton and Josh

Can Traditionalism, Annihilationism, & Universalism ALL Be Right?

Can Traditionalism, Annihilationism, and Universalism all be right in some sense? In this episode, Josh Klein and Dr. Tim Stratton sit down with Chad McIntosh to discuss

Can We Know Jesus Rose from the Dead? | Phil Bair

Can we really know that Jesus rose from the dead—or are Christians limited to saying the resurrection is merely the best explanation of the evidence? ⁨ @philbair  joins u

Leighton Flowers: What Stands Out in Mere Molinism

Leighton Flowers of  @Soteriology101  joined us live to discuss what stood out to him in the second edition of Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism—and one

Restored Truth Mocked Tim Stratton's Debate... Our Response

Recently, Dr. Tim Stratton joined  @TheWaywithBrianDavila  alongside fellow Protestants Micah and Marcus to debate three members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d

Inside the Dan Barker vs. Adam Lloyd Johnson Debate Book

Can an atheist and a Christian debate God's existence... and become genuine friends? In this conversation, Dr. Adam Lloyd Johnson and Andrew Drinkard join Dr. Tim Stratto

Nebraska Baseball Stars Dylan Carey & Joshua Overbeek on Faith, Pressure, and Purpose

Sports can teach us things that apologetics can't. Nebraska baseball stars Dylan Carey (1st Team All-American and Brooks Wallace Award Winner for best College SS in 2026)

You DON'T Have Freedom of Religion in America (Here's Why)

You don't have freedom of religion in America... you never did... and that's a GOOD THING. Happy 250th birthday USA! Check out Tim's article here: https://www.freethink

LIVE: Mere Molinism 2nd Edition Release + Call-In Discussion with Tim Stratton

(This was a live call-in show on YouTube. It is NOT live on audio.) It's official! All the edits have been processed, all the typos clarified and fixed. All the I's dot

Can an all-loving God create hell-bound people? Christianity & LDS Theology with Hayden Carroll

Dr. Tim Stratton and Josh Klein invite Hayden Carroll, host of  @LetsTalk-HaydenCarroll  to discuss his Creation Dilemma, The Trinity and the differences between The Chur

The Strange Reasons Mindshift Thinks God Can't Exist

​ @MindShift-Brandon  YouTube Channel is back with what he believes are several reasons the Christian God cannot exist. This time, the discussion focuses on divine emotio

Dr. Ryan Mullins Says William Lane Craig's Molinism Is Incoherent—But Is It?

Molinism is one of the most influential models for reconciling human libertarian freedom and divine sovereignty. While Dr. William Lane Craig is among its most well-known

Alex O'Connor vs William Lane Craig | What Really Happened?

Recently, Dr. William Lane Craig and  @CosmicSkeptic  met in England for a major discussion on arguments for God's existence, the Kalam Cosmological Argument, the beginni

If Dogs Go to Heaven… Why Not My Child? The Question That Broke a Mother's Heart

It's Question Time, and today's episode features an engaging question from one of our listeners based on Tim's argument that animals (including beloved pets) go to heaven