Faith In Pieces | Ep. 2 | Faith, Fossiles, and the Miracle Lottery

Faith in Pieces | Episode 2: Faith, Fossils, and the Miracle Lottery
Because sometimes faith is weird, wonderful, and full of questions we don’t ask out loud.

Let’s be honest: if you grew up in church, there were probably some questions you just didn’t feel like you were allowed to ask. Like… Why is God so angry in the Old Testament? Or Did humans and dinosaurs ever live together? Or even Why didn’t God answer my prayer the way I hoped? Episode 2 of Faith in Pieces dives headfirst into those waters — and as it turns out, there’s grace there.

We talk about God’s anger, not as some unhinged cosmic rage but as heartbreak — the kind that comes from loving deeply and watching people pull away. We reflect on Jesus at the well, meeting a woman drowning in shame and offering her living water anyway. That same water? Still offered. Still flowing. Still hard to accept sometimes.

Then, yes, we talk about dinosaurs. And poetry. And Hebrew words that don’t mean what we think they mean. And how maybe the point of Genesis wasn’t to explain how the cosmos works but to show us who created it — and why. It’s not about arguing science versus Scripture. It’s about learning how to live with the mystery that both matter.

And finally, we talk about miracles. The big, flashy, healing kind — and the quiet, everyday, surprising kind. We wrestle with the hard stuff: why some people get them and others don’t, what we do with that tension, and how it feels when your prayers go unanswered. Spoiler: there’s no miracle point system. But maybe there is a God who still shows up in grief, in hope, and in the people who hold us when we’re falling apart.

So here’s your TL;DL (Too Long; Didn’t Listen) take:
God’s not mad at you. Dinosaurs are cool. And miracles might look different than you expected.

Got a question you’ve been carrying? Send it to faithinpieces@mosaicumctx.org — and who knows, it might just end up in a future episode.

Find Episode 2 at mosaicumctx.org/faithinpieces, on youtube or whereever you find your podcast (as long as those places are spotify and apple podcast)