October 23, 2026 • The BACK40 Leadership Podcast
Episode 132 — Privacy, Honesty, Medicalizing Evil
Mel, Joel, and Michael discuss privacy — whether valuing it is righteous when God sees everything, why “God knows my heart” is no defense for bad behavior, and how to hold firm moral lines without becoming a Pharisee. Then honesty: why it does not mean saying everything to everyone, why love is the filter for truth, and why loving is not the same as nice. They close on spiritual malignancy and mental illness — how much of human evil has been medicalized, why the spiritual and the mental are both real, and why pastors should not hand every struggle off to clinicians.
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