Confronting Christianity with Rebecca McLaughlin
Oct 6, 2026 · 34 min · 9 segments
What if the Bible isn't just a collection of disconnected stories, but one big story that leads to Jesus? Rebecca talks with Trevin Wax and Thomas West about how seeing the whole story of Scripture…
Rebecca McLaughlinHost
Trevin WaxGuestThomas WestGuestShe will have them given back to her in a glorious technicolor that she had not previously experienced.
As I read more and more of the Bible, I don't feel more and more smug about how much I know.
I read things and think, I'm sure I've read this before, but I completely had missed that.
Or it feels like I'm just putting things together that once I've seen them seem obvious, but clearly weren't because I'd been reading the Bible for decades and I'd not actually made that connection.
Or I'll just massively misinterpret something and then need a friend to tell me that I'm stupid.
As you guys thought about digesting this or narrating this for a younger audience, because I think your book is aimed at eight to 12-year-olds.
Is that about the right age range? What differences would you say there are between explaining that big story to an adult versus explaining it to somebody at that sort of late elementary going into middle school age?
This was a tricky thing for us to try to pull off because we knew from the beginning we were doing a catechism, which generally is systematic in its approach.
Doctrines and how do you explain them in basic question and answer form in a very simplified way for adults or for kids.
And One of the things, though, that, I mean, on the very first day that we started ideating and thinking through what this would look like, which, Rebecca, some of your listeners will nerd out with us on this.
We at least got the 50 questions and answers in almost final form during a season in which I was living at the Kilns, which is the house that C.S. Lewis... lived in, and Thomas came down.
And we basically were in the common room of the kilns, which is where C.S. Lewis wrote a lot of his, you know, it's the famous room he wrote a lot of his work there.
She will have them given back to her in a glorious technicolor that she had not previously experienced.
As I read more and more of the Bible, I don't feel more and more smug about how much I know.
I read things and think, I'm sure I've read this before, but I completely had missed that.
Or it feels like I'm just putting things together that once I've seen them seem obvious, but clearly weren't because I'd been reading the Bible for decades and I'd not actually made that connection.
Or I'll just massively misinterpret something and then need a friend to tell me that I'm stupid.
As you guys thought about digesting this or narrating this for a younger audience, because I think your book is aimed at eight to 12-year-olds.
Is that about the right age range? What differences would you say there are between explaining that big story to an adult versus explaining it to somebody at that sort of late elementary going into middle school age?
This was a tricky thing for us to try to pull off because we knew from the beginning we were doing a catechism, which generally is systematic in its approach.
Doctrines and how do you explain them in basic question and answer form in a very simplified way for adults or for kids.
And One of the things, though, that, I mean, on the very first day that we started ideating and thinking through what this would look like, which, Rebecca, some of your listeners will nerd out with us on this.
We at least got the 50 questions and answers in almost final form during a season in which I was living at the Kilns, which is the house that C.S. Lewis... lived in, and Thomas came down.
And we basically were in the common room of the kilns, which is where C.S. Lewis wrote a lot of his, you know, it's the famous room he wrote a lot of his work there.
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