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 church and life. They were buried but not forgotten. The recordings resurfaced this week when Christianity Today published its 2024 Book Awards. Book of the Year was awarded to Christopher Watkin’s Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture. When the book was released last year, it prompted a lively (critical?) conversation among the Parrhesians about critical theory and its challenges to and acceptance within the evangelical church. Now that the awards for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture have been awarded, what better time to inaugurate episode one of the podcast? We hope you find the conversation enlightening if not mildly entertaining.
