Full Proof Theology

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Summary
Tou Thao was raised in a Hmong Christian home in Minnesota, walked away from church at fourteen, and spent eleven years as a Minneapolis police officer. On May 25, 2020, he was Derek Chauvin's partner at 38th and Chicago. Within a day he was fired. Within days he was charged. He walked into a jail cell calling himself a "part-time Christian," picked a Bible off the book rack, and hoped it would get him out.
It did not get him out. It got him saved.
In this episode Thao tells the story: a brother who asked whether his life matched his profession, a stranger's letter about the book of Job, a deputy who walked into his cell and opened the Bible to Job 1–2, and the moment a man who did not cry at his own father's funeral wept and repented. He describes the years that followed: an attempt on his life his first day in federal prison, a ministry to sick inmates in the hospital ward, a plea offer he refused because he believed signing it would be a lie and a sin, and a sentencing hearing where he preached the trials of Jesus to the judge.
Thao also gives his own account of the day George Floyd died, the training he says the officers followed, and why he maintains his innocence after state and federal convictions. He closes with a word to the church from John 7:24 and Ephesians 5: judge with right judgment, and do not confuse silence with faithfulness.
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Whistling Springs Trout Farm (the Madden family trout farm, Brigham City, UT) https://whistlingspringstroutfarm.com/
Ellie's Pet Hotel (the family dog boarding business, Brigham City & Willard, UT) https://elliespethotel.com/
Summary
Why can't Christian families do the basic things Scripture commands of them? Chase sits down with Adam Madden, pastor in Brigham City, Utah, father of nine, and author of The Productive Household , for a conversation about the household as an economy. Adam moved his family to one of the least reached regions in the country, spent twenty-five years in pastoral ministry on the envelope system, and then bought a dog boarding business with no money down and leased a trout farm his kids could work. Along the way he came to a conviction: when a man goes to the Word and gathers up his duties as a husband and father, he does not need less time with his family. He needs more. They talk through Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6 on leveraging content and context, the objective standard of 1 Timothy 3:4, why "family integrated" is a tool and not the goal, what baby steps actually look like for a two-income family that can't buy a farm, and Baxter's claim that there is no general reformation of the church without a reformation of the household.
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Summary

Can a machine be sentient without being conscious? Should a pastor ever let AI touch his sermon? And what does a fourth-century hermit who lived to 105 in the Egyptian desert have to say about Ray Kurzweil? Chase sits down for a third time with C.R. Wiley, pastor, novelist, and author of the new Canon Press book Manmade: Saint Anthony's Guide to Surviving the AI Apocalypse, to work through what AI actually is and what it is doing to us. They cover Harari's claim that humans are hackable animals, the golem legends of Prague as the better metaphor for what we've built, why embodiment and vulnerability are the ground of moral intelligence, where the line falls between therapeutic and vanity uses of technology, and the hard pastoral question of whether AI belongs anywhere near the work of preaching. Wiley is neither a doomer nor a booster. He wants you to use the thing without being used by it.
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The Rafiki Foundation (classical Christian education across ten African countries) https://www.rafikifoundation.org/

Summary

Is gender a social construct, or is it more real than your body? C.S. Lewis said the second one and he meant it literally. Chase sits down with Josh Herring, director of the Logres Institute and author of Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve, to trace Lewis's account of masculinity and femininity from Perelandra to That Hideous Strength. They cover the linguistic history of "sex" and "gender" in the OED, Simone de Beauvoir and the three waves of feminism, why Lewis's Platonism puts the idea before the biology (and why Chase pushes back as an Aristotelian), what evangelical men's ministry gets wrong, and whether we will still be male and female in the resurrection. A conversation about receiving reality instead of constructing it.
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Note: Neither guest is a physician. Nothing in this episode is medical advice — get your own bloodwork and your own doctor.
Summary
Is your body a discipleship issue? Chase sits down with Anthony Diehl — pro strongman turned metabolic health coach, founder of MODUS — and Matt Patrick, co-lead pastor at The Well and an operator in the health space, for a conversation that starts with testosterone and ends up in anthropology. The three of them work through the collapse in male T levels, what actually causes it, and the difference between deficiency, optimization, and enhancement. But the real question underneath is theological: what do we make of a faith that confesses the resurrection of the body and then treats the body as spiritually irrelevant? Anthony calls it latent Gnosticism, and he traces the biblical alternative — David's aching bones, Paul's bowels of mercy, a Scripture that assumes your physiology and your affections are not sealed off from one another. Along the way: whether Adam and Jesus had "optimal" T, what low testosterone does to a man's agency and appetite for sin, why the myth of roid rage is mostly a myth, how to tell a good clinic from a predatory one, the honest case against steroids from a man who used them, and where the line falls between a biological deficiency and plain old spiritual laziness. If you've ever suspected the split between body and soul was doing damage in your church, this one names it.
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