Cuckoos in Our Nest
IAIN PROVAN
Author and speaker Iain Provan joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Cuckoos in Our Nest: Truth and Lies About Being Human. Contemporary Western culture offers up various visions of what it means to be human, visions that many within the church have unknowingly adopted yet which contrast sharply with biblical revelation. Like the murderous offspring of the cuckoo bird, once these ideas take root, they drive out biblical assumptions of anthropology, even while masquerading as Christian. In this episode, Iain highlights three of these “cuckoos” and explains their effects on Christian thinking, addressing such questions as: What is the relationship between science and faith? What are the origins of current ideas about the self? Which sources should Christians consider authoritative? How does culture catechize the church? How can the church identify and dethrone the cuckoos that have already taken hold?
Iain Provan is an author and speaker who formerly worked as an Old Testament scholar at the Universities of London, Wales, and Edinburgh in the UK before working at Regent College in Canada. Having retired from higher education, he now serves the church through writing and speaking. He has written numerous articles, essays, and books, covering a variety of topics. His most recent work is Cuckoos in Our Nest: Truth and Lies About Being Human (Cascade, 2023).
