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🎙️ Soil and Roots is a Christian ministry featuring a podcast that explores deep discipleship in modern life.
💚 We help form and support small communities who actively listen to the stories and experiences of one another.
🌱 Let's dig in! In some ways, a life of apprenticing with Jesus is straightforward, but in other ways it’s confoundingly complex. Through our varied backgrounds and perspectives,
06/17/2026
Is it okay to doubt God’s goodness?
In this Greenhouse episode, Brian and Doc continue the conversation from Episode 142 by exploring what happens when our hearts wrestle with God’s goodness. Doc shares honestly about the tension between experiencing God’s kindness in his own life and grieving the suffering, injustice, and pain he sees in the world.
This is not a quick apologetics episode or a neat answer to the problem of suffering. It is a conversation about lament, doubt, secure attachment, authenticity, and the kind of community where people can bring their rawest questions without being rushed or shamed. Brian and Doc ask why modern church culture often struggles with lament, and why the question “Is God good?” may sometimes be less about theology and more about a deep cry for withness.
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05/20/2026
Brian Fisher continues his series on our unconscious “ideas of God” by exploring how living in deeply partial cultures may shape the way we relate to Him. From first-class airline seating to celebrity pastors and donor culture, he argues that modern life constantly reinforces the message that some people are simply more valuable, more connected, and more worthy of access than others. Over time, those experiences can quietly lead us to assume God operates the same way.
The article challenges the transactional spirituality many Christians unknowingly adopt — treating prayer, discipline, and church involvement as ways to earn greater intimacy with God. Brian suggests that if we believe God is partial, vulnerability becomes frightening because we fear rejection and disapproval. But he closes with a hopeful invitation: what if God does not relate to us the way our systems do? What if His love and presence are just as available to ordinary, wounded, unnoticed people as to the spiritually impressive?
Read the full version of "No Soup for You" on the Soil and Roots Substack page: https://vist.ly/54upk
No Soup for You How Partial Cultures Shape Our Ideas of God
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