Brian R. Doak, PhD
Rooted in tradition and creating new things
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I BELIEVE

Here are the podcasts for the course THEO 101-102 at George Fox University. The host website here is the website of one of the professors for the course. (This course used to be called “I Believe,” which is why it is labeled that way in the URL!)

THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: PROPHETS TODAY

There are prophets in the Bible—many of them. Christians today claim the Bible is their authoritative book, setting a pattern for life and practice. However: Are there prophets today, in the Biblical sense of the word “prophet”? How would we know? Why would there be? Why would there not be? Some Christians think yes, others, no. Our artifact for discussion: A story in the Washington Post from 2020 featuring a man who claims he is, in fact, a “prophet” today. If you browse around on the internet for a while, you can find many more examples, too.
***Episode note: For reasons we don’t understand, this episode gets cut off at the end, just before Dr. Doak reveals his true view! We have no clue how it happened and our original recording file itself gets cut off at this point. Super weird, and we apologize. For the record, Dr. Doak’s view on this is similar to (even if not exactly like) the view he argued in the debate portion.

Brian Doak