The Church on the Other Side: Faith That Keeps Evolving

Released November 12, 2026 · With Mac

The Rev is away this week. Mac has the mic all to himself. What could go wrong?

Faith has never held still. Mac walks from the early church to Vatican II and shows how much shifted along the way. He uses Calvinism's TULIP to show that sincere Christians don't even define faith the same way. Then he gets personal about his own move from a theistic view of God as an all-loving universal source. Pretty big shift. It's an invitation, not an argument. Take it or leave it.

In this episode

• How Christian belief and practice changed from the early church through Vatican II

• Calvinism's TULIP as one example of sincere Christians defining faith differently

• Mac's own shift from a theistic view of God toward panentheism, plus a vision statement he wrote years ago

• Voices along the way, including Brian McLaren, John Shelby Spong, Richard Rohr and Rob Bell

This one is for you if

“I’m changing, but it’s hard.”

A question for your table

What did you believe ten years ago that you would have defended at the dinner table?

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