• When author and podcaster Carlos Whittaker noticed that he used his phone for an average of seven hours a day, he realized it was time to make a change. This change started him on a journey in which he would give up all modern tech for seven weeks and stay with communities who lived at a slower, but more purposeful pace. Join Unscrolled host Matthias Walther and Carlos as he shares what it’s like to live at “God’s speed” and how the Bible became more alive through his experience.

• Carlos Whittaker is an author, speaker, podcaster, and storyteller “bringing hope to humans all over the world by cultivating spaces where people are free to engage in genuine dialogue.”

  • https://www.carloswhittaker.com/

  • https://www.carloswhittaker.com/reconnected

  • https://www.instagram.com/loswhit

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• Philip Yancey is an American author who grew up in a strict fundamentalist Christian home, which led to a mistrust and eventually deconstruction of his faith. Yancey turned his attention to books and the Bible and eventually began to reconstruct his faith in God. Join Unscrolled host Matthias Walther as he talks to author Philip Yancey about his faith journey, upbringing, and how his writing and reading helped reconstruct his faith.

• Guest bio:

  • Philip Yancey is a Christian, American author who has written 36 books, selling over 15 million copies. Philip Yancey grew up in a strict, fundamentalist church in the South, where he viewed God as a punishing figure and witnessed contradictions in teachings of love and grace. After his father died of polio despite fervent prayers, Yancey wrestled with faith, finding solace and new perspectives in books like “To Kill a Mockingbird” and C. S. Lewis’s works. He felt betrayed by the church’s racism and dogma, eventually discarding his beliefs and later rediscovering a faith marked by beauty and goodness. As a writer, he pursued answers to deep spiritual questions in bestsellers like “Disappointment with God,” and “What’s So Amazing aAbout Grace?,” often drawing from his own journey and guiding readers with similar struggles. His memoir, “Where the Light Fell,” recounts this personal evolution, while his life’s work aims to connect with those who feel marginalized by traditional religion.

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  • https://philipyancey.com/

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• In 2016, Associate Curator Herschel Hepler came across an image online of a small prayer book that would change what we know about the history of Jewish books and Jewish heritage in Afghanistan. After years of research, this small book turned out to be the oldest Hebrew prayer book known today, dating back to AD 700, which once traveled the Silk Roads and was preserved in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan.

  
  

In this episode, Osnat Gad, a Jewish jewelry designer who can trace her family heritage back to Afghanistan, and Hepler share how significant this find is and how it changed everything we knew about that region.

• Guest Bio:

  • Osnat Gad, Jewelry Designer and Owner of OGI Ltd
  • Herschel Hepler, Associate Curator of Hebrew manuscripts at Museum of the Bible

• https://www.jtsa.edu

• https://www.jtsa.edu/news/the-worlds-oldest-jewish-book-on-display-at-the-jewish-theological-seminary/

• “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes” By Anand Gopal

• https://www.museumoftheBible.org/exhibits/alq

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