The Parrhesians
The Parrhesian Podcast
Episode notes for The Parrhesian Podcast: long-form conversation on the church and the culture with Nate Devlin, Peter Chace, and guests.
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The Essential Church
Is the church essential or non-essential? Does the Bible really teach that the church should occupy a place of primacy in our lives? Is the church really fundamental to our Christian identity or is…
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Racism and the EPC
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church recently released a document entitled “A Pastoral Letter of Racial Lament and Hope.” The paper is a pastoral word to the denomination regarding racism and the EPC’s response…
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The System is Down
Your system is perfectly designed to get you the results you are currently getting. As Christians, we are called to think Christianly, but every once in a while Christians should think a…
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Thinking Christianly
Being a Christian in our world today is hard. It is made all the more difficult when Christians fail to think in a distinctly Christian way. Join Peter, Kyle, and Nate as…
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What is Parrhesia?
The Greek word is parrhesia, which means “forthright truth-telling.” One who speaks with parrhesia doesn’t flatter, manipulate, or use rhetorical tricks. He doesn’t massage or bend the truth, and he doesn’t hedge. He’s confident truth…
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The Coup Document
People are hungry for the truth today, and evangelicals must be able and willing to be that source of truth in a negative world, even when their traditional, historic beliefs accord them…
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What Is the Point of My Salvation?
“People’s lives come to ruin not because they pursue intrinsically evil states, but because they prize lower goods to the neglect of higher goods.” Byron I. Bitar, Classical Christian Worldview: Ethics Worship…
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Why We Are Seeking to Leave the EPC
If evil pervades the church, you should not shrink back from breaking with the church organization, and you should not rest until Zion is revived. ~ Abraham Kuyper (1883) In this Special…
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A Theology of Friendship
Does the church rightly understand friendship? Does it possess an adequate theology of friendship? Or is the church confused about friendship? Has the category of friendship been co-opted in the church by the “gay Christian”…
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Critical Theory and its Discontents
In December 2022, Peter Chace, Kyle Bennett, and Nate Devlin sat down to record Season One of The Parrhesian Podcast. Sadly, those recordings were buried under the tyranny of other pressing matters in…