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Faith Lab is a podcast for people who want more than easy answers about Christianity. I'm Nate Hanson. I was a pastor and planted churches with Francis Chan, then spent most of a decade taking my faith apart. What brought me back was the scholarship: the history, the earliest sources, and the Bible read in its own world.

Each episode takes one question, like what the first Christians believed about the cross, and walks through what the Bible and careful scholars actually say, drawing on people like Tim Mackie, Michael Heiser, and Wesley Huff. If hard questions have shaken your faith, or someone told you to just believe harder, this is a place to think it through honestly. Serious scholarship can strengthen faith, and for me it's what rebuilt it.