Newsworthy With Norsworthy

Jonathan Storment returns to discuss racism, texts of terror, gold medals, his hollywood fame, and all this June from the podcast. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.  

Paul Nevison returns with Ben Field of the Hillsong Channel to discuss their upcoming movie about the Bali Nine and to hear Luke's outstanding suggestions for the movie.  For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Dr. Greg Boyd returns to discuss the cross-centeredness of the New Testament, Old Testament violence, podrishoners, unjustifiable texts, preaching the destruction of Jericho, and his new book The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

The return of Fate Hagood to discuss racial misconceptions, if white people are always on time, how we are different, communication, authority, white preachers being nicer, learning grace, church growth, and why we should continue to discuss race. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Four-time Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross joins the show to discuss humility in victory, grace in defeat, taking down communists, abortion, finding God in failure, PEDs, and her new book Chasing Grace. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Mike Cope debases his soul by sitting next to Jonathan Storment for this month's wrapup to discuss eating beats with Rainn Wilson, entertainment's witness, cheapest form of thinking, parables, Pete Enns, tell me more, and race. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Don McLaughlin returns to the show to discuss race, tell me more, and his new book Love First. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Dr. Pete Enns joins the podcast from the Pepperdine Bible Lectures to discuss the problematic texts of the Bible, integrated faith, creation, the historical issues of Genesis 1, and the interaction of science and theology. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Rob Bell returns to infect people and discuss the Bible, standup comedy, where the Bible is headed, literalism, fancy pant pastors, omega points, and his new book What is the Bible. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Rainn Wilson joins the show live from the Pepperdine Bible Lectures to discuss Bahai'i, fasting, the intersection of art and creativity,  bassoon-ing, farming, progressive manifestation, suffering, The Office, Dwight Shrute, Soulpancake,  and his book The Bassoon King. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Dr. David Dark joins the show to talk Chance the Rapper, secular/sacred line dissolving, reading the Bible, Mr. Rogers, labels, Art, and his book Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious.

Jonathan Storment returns to discuss technology, ice cream, suffering, grief, sermons as songs, and all things April from the podcast. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Richard Beck returns to discuss Aaron Hernandez, laundry mats, self-forgetting, theology of lingering, earning the right to celebrate Easter, growing up conservative, eschatological creatures, meaning makers. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Church Planter  Jason Miller, a pastor who happens to be planting a church, talks singleness, Catholicism, sermons as songs, cuftburt, praying in community, silence, and starting a church where people can lose their faith. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Andy Crouch joins the show to discuss the power of screens, idolatry, entertainment, ice cream, technology's moral value, parenting and his new book The Tech-Wise Family. For more on this month’s sponsor Podbean click here.

Jason Jones' three year old son tragically passed away. Limping but Blessed is his story of keeping/finding his faith after the tragedy. For more on this month's sponsor Podbean click here.

Jonathan Storment returns to try (miserably) as a pitchman and then we discuss Brueggemann, the power of language in politics, marriage, and all things March from the podcast. For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann joins the show to discuss the intersection of sociology and theology, trading mystery for the material, imaginative preaching vs. moralistic preaching and Walter's new book (along with his sociologist son Dr. John Brueggemann) Rebuilding the Foundations. For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here.

The return of Ramjaane Niyoyita to discuss the Rwanda Genocide, dehumanization, reconciliation, Rick Warren, music and chicken fajitas. For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here.

Mike Cope returns to the show to discuss addictions to certainty, sufferings role in spiritual formation, Reading the Bible as a Muslim, Newsworthy after Dark in Malibu, and Mike's own spiritual journey's construction, deconstruction and reconstruction.  For more about the Pepperdine Bible Lectures click here.