The Christian Skeptic cover art

The Christian Skeptic

The Christian Skeptic

Written by: The Christian Skeptic
Listen for free

Hey, we’re Adam and Aaron, and we have a simple belief: faith should be rooted in truth, not tradition. On this show, we question everything—doctrines, traditions, cultural expectations, and religious dogma—not to dismantle Christianity, but to restore it to its biblical and historical essence. Whether you’re wrestling with doubt, deconstructing your beliefs, or just longing for some intellectual honesty, The Christian Skeptic is a space for real conversations about what it truly means to follow Jesus. New episodes drop every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts. Follow along and be part of the conversation at thechristianskeptic.org.Copyright © 2025 The Christian Skeptic. Art Christianity Ministry & Evangelism Philosophy Social Sciences Spirituality
Episodes
  • The Difference Between Right and Almost Right | The Last Battle

    The Difference Between Right and Almost Right | The Last Battle
    Jul 14 2026
    Every world ends. The question C.S. Lewis asks in the final Chronicle is what you’ll be able to see when it does. The Last Battle is the darkest book in the series and arguably the most beautiful. This week we work through the finale of our Narnia series — the book that opens with an ape draping a lion’s skin over a donkey and selling the whole world a fake Aslan, and ends with the end of everything. We dig into why the most dangerous counterfeit isn’t the one that takes things away from the gospel but the one that adds to it, the difference between right and almost right, Emeth the devout follower of the wrong god and what Aslan’s welcome does and doesn’t mean, Susan and “once a queen, always a queen,” and the Dwarfs — who got burned so badly by a fake that they stopped believing in anything at all. Let’s get to it. In this episode: (00:00) Intro (01:46) Lewis’s eschatology and Platonism (03:56) The Shadowlands: does Lewis devalue this life? (06:42) Recap: Shift, Puzzle, and the fake Aslan (09:16) The door of death into the new Narnia (10:46) The questions this book forces (12:05) Emeth and the followers of Tash (15:29) Not universalism, not a second chance (17:28) Two modes of salvation and the edges of orthodoxy (22:38) False religion: what gets added to the gospel (24:44) The difference between right and almost right (29:53) The Dwarfs, deconstruction, and deconversion (32:55) Susan: once a queen, always a queen? (37:31) Biggest takeaways from the whole series Links C.S. Lewis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia The Last Battle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Battle How You Lose Faith Without Noticing | The Silver Chair: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/how-you-lose-faith-without-noticing-the-silver-chair/ Is God Really In Control? | The Horse and His Boy: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/is-god-really-in-control-the-horse-and-his-boy/ Plato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato J.R.R. Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien Have We Tamed Jesus? | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/have-we-tamed-jesus/ Donald Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump Are We Living in the Last Days?: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/are-we-living-in-the-last-days/ Mere Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_Christianity Doug Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Wilson_(theologian) Rob Bell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Bell Charles Spurgeon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon Lordship ep: Paul Washer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Washer What Paul Washer Gets Wrong About God’s Love | TCS Reacts: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/what-paul-washer-gets-wrong-about-gods-love-tcs-reacts/ Should Christians Judge Each Other? Steve Lawson and the Problem with Lordship Salvation: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/should-christians-judge-each-other-steve-lawson-and-the-problem-with-lordship-salvation/ The Gospel Coalition: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/ Connect with Adam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avclark Connect with Aaron Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fromgreytown Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://thechristiansekptic.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/christianskepticpod Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-christian-skeptic/id1761285349 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4HlSAPHewfbLESl61D3XH9 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thechristianskeptic Get full show notes and links at https://www.thechristianskeptic.org. Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thechristianskeptic.
    Show More Show Less
    40 mins
  • How You Lose Faith Without Noticing | The Silver Chair

    How You Lose Faith Without Noticing | The Silver Chair
    Jul 9 2026
    This week, we go underground in The Silver Chair, the Narnia book about how people actually lose their faith — not argued out of it, but slowly seduced out of it. We dig into Puddleglum’s answer to the witch as the best response to atheism in the series (and why it isn’t an argument at all), why Lewis treats spiritual deadness as environmental and not just moral, faith as remembered obedience, and more. Let’s get to it. In this episode: (00:00) Intro (01:07) Why this book grew on us (04:44) Experiment House and Lewis on education (06:09) “Will you promise not to eat me?” (07:37) The four signs and our habit of forgetting (09:17) The lost prince and the underworld (10:38) Puddleglum stamps out the fire (14:05) Why he doesn’t out-argue the witch (15:13) You can’t reason with two different planes (17:34) Seduction, not force (18:54) Spiritual deadness as an environment (20:18) The coffee shop and losing your discernment (26:10) “There is no other stream” and the God who won’t promise safety (31:04) Passing the torch, generation to generation Links C.S. Lewis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia The Silver Chair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Chair The Silver Chair (movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098912/ Plato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato J.R.R. Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien The Pilgrim’s Progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim’s_Progress John Bunyan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan Is God Really In Control? | The Horse and His Boy: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/is-god-really-in-control-the-horse-and-his-boy/ Have We Tamed Jesus? | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/have-we-tamed-jesus/ Donald Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump Mere Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_Christianity The Screwtape Letters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters The Great Divorce: Weight of Glory: Connect with Adam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avclark Connect with Aaron Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fromgreytown Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://thechristiansekptic.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/christianskepticpod Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-christian-skeptic/id1761285349 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4HlSAPHewfbLESl61D3XH9 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thechristianskeptic Get full show notes and links at https://www.thechristianskeptic.org. Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thechristianskeptic.
    Show More Show Less
    35 mins
  • Why Can't You Fix Yourself? | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

    Why Can't You Fix Yourself? | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Jun 16 2026
    This week, we sail east through The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, an often overlooked book in the series, and the one where the villain isn’t “out there”, but inside the characters themselves. We dig into Eustace’s un-dragoning as one of the clearest picture of grace in the series, why the transformation has to hurt, Reepicheep as Lewis’s “argument from desire”, and more. Let’s get to it. In this episode: (00:00) Can you fix yourself? (01:01) Why Dawn Treader gets underrated (05:15) The book with no villain (07:21) The “un-dragoning” (12:24) More Calvinist than Lewis realized (15:39) Does grace have to be painful? (17:37) Reepicheep and the argument from desire (21:12) Longing, not fear, as the engine (23:11) “By another name” and the Emeth problem (26:17) The hiddenness of Aslan: “Courage, dear heart” (28:09) The Lamb and the Lion: supposal, not pluralism (31:19) Favorite moments and Reepicheep’s exit (33:22) Looking ahead to The Silver Chair Links C.S. Lewis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader The Silver Chair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Chair Plato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato J.R.R. Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien Is God Really In Control? | The Horse and His Boy: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/is-god-really-in-control-the-horse-and-his-boy/ Have We Tamed Jesus? | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: https://www.thechristianskeptic.org/have-we-tamed-jesus/ Doug Wilson: https://dougwils.com/ Mere Christianity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_Christianity Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis: https://www.amazon.com/dp/019973870X Connect with Adam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avclark Connect with Aaron Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fromgreytown Subscribe and stay in touch Website: https://thechristiansekptic.org Instagram: https://instagram.com/christianskepticpod Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-christian-skeptic/id1761285349 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4HlSAPHewfbLESl61D3XH9 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thechristianskeptic Get full show notes and links at https://www.thechristianskeptic.org. Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thechristianskeptic.
    Show More Show Less
    35 mins
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet