
Peter Enns
American scholar and theologian
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Aug 11, 2026
Is God Good? Rethinking the Bible's Most Difficult Question
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19:34Zale MednickHOST
And that seems to be jiving more with the way you view how the Old Testament was written.

Peter EnnsGUEST
It's Richard Elliott Friedman, who wrote The Bible, where he, he focuses on Torah, but it's th- that's, the principle is the same throughout.

Peter EnnsGUEST
See, I, I really try to impress upon my students, for example, that it's not just that the Bible was written at different times.

Peter EnnsGUEST
And, and it's those circumstances and those experiences of people that drive them to think differently about this God that's a part of their tradition.
Deep Dive episode: What if our leaders are actually more responsive to public opinion than we think?
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So Peter, how about you walk us through what we're looking at in this graph?

Peter EnnsGUEST
So what we have is we're looking at on the X axis, so horizontally, the preferences of the lowest income group.

Peter EnnsGUEST
And so as it goes to the right, there's more support among the low income group.

Peter EnnsGUEST
And then the vertical axis, the Y axis, is the probability of this policy change happening.

Peter EnnsGUEST
And so this is plotting... policy responsiveness to the preferences of the low-income group.
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