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Reviewing Black Mirror Season 7
Read more: Reviewing Black Mirror Season 7In this episode we review and debrief the seventh season of Black Mirror, the technologically-dystopian anthology series on Netflix (on which Amber Bowen and John Anthony Dunne produced a collection of essays). We talk about key themes and new emphases that appear this season as we work through each of the six episodes in detail….
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Reviewing Severance Season 2 with Dr. Nick Fox (Podcast)
Read more: Reviewing Severance Season 2 with Dr. Nick Fox (Podcast)In this episode we review season 2 of the hit streaming show on Apple+ called Severance. We’re joined by Dr. Nick Fox, who is Assistant Professor of Christian Studies and the Chair of the Biblical, Theological, and Ministry Studies at Crown College, and the editor of the forthcoming volume, Theology, Philosophy, and Severance (published by…
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Bearing Witness with Dr. Daniel Hill (Podcast)
Read more: Bearing Witness with Dr. Daniel Hill (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Daniel Hill, assistant professor of Christian Theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and the author of Bearing Witness: What the Church Can Learn from Early Abolitionists (published by Baker Academic). In our conversation Dr. Hill helps us to think about the…
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Interpreting Jesus with Professor Dale Allison (Podcast)
Read more: Interpreting Jesus with Professor Dale Allison (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Dale C. Allison Jr., who is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of Interpreting Jesus (published by Eerdmans). Over the course of our conversation we talked about why Prof. Allison chose to write this book as a collection of…
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Ancient Slavery with Dr. Christy Cobb and Dr. Katherine Shaner (Podcast)
Read more: Ancient Slavery with Dr. Christy Cobb and Dr. Katherine Shaner (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Christy Cobb and Dr. Katherine Shaner to talk about their new edited volume, Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts (published by Eerdmans). Dr. Christy Cobb is Associate Professor of Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver, and Dr. Katherine Shaner is Associate…
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Saving Face with Aimee Byrd (Podcast)
Read more: Saving Face with Aimee Byrd (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Aimee Byrd, who is the author of eight books, including the new one that we discuss in this episode, Saving Face: Finding My Self, God, and One Another Outside a Defaced Church (published by Zondervan). Over the course of our conversation we talk about the rich value of faces,…
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The Anti-Greed Gospel with Rev. Dr. Malcolm Foley (Podcast)
Read more: The Anti-Greed Gospel with Rev. Dr. Malcolm Foley (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Rev. Dr. Malcolm Foley, Pastor at Mosaic Waco, Special Advisor to the President for Equity and Campus Engagement at Baylor University, and the author of The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (published…
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Boy Jesus with Professor Joan Taylor (Podcast)
Read more: Boy Jesus with Professor Joan Taylor (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Joan Taylor, who is Professor of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism at King’s College, London, and the author of Boy Jesus: Growing Up Judean in Turbulent Times (Zondervan Academic). Over the course of our conversation we talk about what our sources are for accessing Jesus’s childhood, what…
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Writing and Rewriting the Gospels with Dr. James Barker (Podcast)
Read more: Writing and Rewriting the Gospels with Dr. James Barker (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. James Barker, who is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Western Kentucky University and the author of Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics (published by Eerdmans). In this episode we discuss Dr. Barker’s theory of Gospel development, which entails the idea that each…
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A History of Sex and Christianity with Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch (Podcast)
Read more: A History of Sex and Christianity with Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch (Podcast)Over the course of our conversation, Prof. MacCulloch explains the impetus behind his book as unsettling many “settled facts” about the Christian history of sexuality. We talk about differing views on sex before the Fall, sex in the eschaton, modern approaches to sexuality like purity culture, when weddings began to be held in churches, and…