Recovering Evangelicals
Hosted by Scott · Luke Jeffrey Janssen
4.6from 115 ratings
- 222
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 115
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 4K
- YouTube views
About Recovering Evangelicals
A podcast for people who were once very comfortable in their Christian faith … until the 21st century intruded and made it very hard to keep on believing. And for those who are intrigued by science, philosophy, world history, and even world religions …. and want to rationalize that with their Christian theology. And for those who found that’s just not possible … and yet there’s still a small part of them that … … won’t let it go.
- Publisher
- Luke Jeffrey Janssen
- Category
- religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Jan 2020
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 222 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#224 – human memory isn’t as reliable as we think!
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#223 – Cells and proteins are NOT machines!
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#222 – Evolution v. Intelligent Design … again!
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#224 – human memory isn’t as reliable as we think!
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They'll emphatically say, I know what I saw. I remember it clearly. But your research and your professional experience over many decades says otherwise. So tell us about that. I've been studying what we now refer to as the malleability of memory for quite some time. Yeah. You know, from early experiments I did where we exposed people to an event like a simulated crime or a simulated accident. And then after the event was over, we tried to deliberately contaminate their memory, contaminate it by asking leading questions or contaminate it by delivering them false information about what had happened and And what we found is that these post-event activities could distort people's memories, transform the memory, and make people remember things that were different from the way they really were, or even remember things that did not happen at all. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Recovering Evangelicals
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Elizabeth Loftus
- Thomas Jay Oord
- Luke
- New Testament scholar
- Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 4,112
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 55 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 60 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 74
- Engagement
- 93
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Who hosts Recovering Evangelicals?
Scott host the show. Published by Luke Jeffrey Janssen.
How often do new episodes come out?
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Does Recovering Evangelicals take guests?
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