Category: Culture
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Leadership and Abuse in the Church with Aimee Byrd and Dr. Michael Bird (Podcast)
Read more: Leadership and Abuse in the Church with Aimee Byrd and Dr. Michael Bird (Podcast)In this episode we talk about the recent scandals committed by major leaders in the church, most notably Ravi Zacharias. For this conversation we are joined by Aimee Byrd, the author of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (published by Zondervan), and Dr. Michael Bird, who is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley…
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Reframing Sexual Addiction with Dr. Samuel Perry (Podcast)
Read more: Reframing Sexual Addiction with Dr. Samuel Perry (Podcast)(CW: Adult Themes). On this episode we discuss sexual addiction with Dr. Samuel Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants (published by Oxford University Press). Our discussion begins by addressing the original claim made by the Atlanta shooter,…
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Place Matters: Reflections on Place and the Armenian Genocide
Read more: Place Matters: Reflections on Place and the Armenian GenocideI am an Armenian-American. This is something in which I take great pride. It roots my own spiritual and racial identity. April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day and for some reason, it never occurred to me until this year that Earth Day (April 22) and the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day are so close. Upon…
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Art & Film with Dr. Kutter Callaway (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Film with Dr. Kutter Callaway (Podcast)Concluding our Art & Culture series with our fifth and final episode, we turn to discuss the artistic nature of film with Dr. Kutter Callaway, who is Associate Professor of Theology and the co-director of Reel Spirituality at Fuller Seminary. With the 93rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony (“the Oscars”) just around the corner, we discuss…
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Art & Cultural Engagement with Dr. Greg Thornbury (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Cultural Engagement with Dr. Greg Thornbury (Podcast)For the penultimate episode in our Art & Culture series we are joined by Dr. Greg Thornbury to discuss Art & Cultural Engagement. Dr. Thornbury is Vice President for Development at the New York Academy of Art in New York City and the author of Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music: Larry…
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Art & Faith with Makoto Fujimura (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Faith with Makoto Fujimura (Podcast)Continuing our series on Art and Culture, we are joined by Makoto Fujimura, who is the founder of the International Arts Movements and the Fujimura Institute and the author of Art and Faith: A Theology of Making (with Yale University Press). Over the course of our conversation we talk about the relationship of art to…
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Five Iron Frenzy – Until This Shakes Apart » Album Review
Read more: Five Iron Frenzy – Until This Shakes Apart » Album ReviewThere comes a point where you know you are getting old, which was hammered home to me recently when it was revealed that apparently “ska has been uncool forever.” I remember the 90s, and forever seems a little bit longer than that. However, when your favourite band of the late 90s has now reformed twice…
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Art & Knowing with Dr. Esther Meek (Podcast)
Read more: Art & Knowing with Dr. Esther Meek (Podcast)To kick off our series on Art & Culture we are joined by Dr. Esther Meek, who is Professor of Philosophy at Geneva College, and the author of a number of important works on epistemology, including Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (with Brazos) and Loving to Know: Introducing Covenant Epistemology…
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Anger Amidst Lament: Reactions to Atlanta (Podcast)
Read more: Anger Amidst Lament: Reactions to Atlanta (Podcast)In this episode we process the horrific events that took place in Atlanta earlier this week in which a twenty-one year old white male attacked three Asian-owned business, including spas and massage parlors in the broader metro area. We also address the narrative that has emerged about the motivation for the murders. Was this a…
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Reflections on the Gender Series (Podcast)
Read more: Reflections on the Gender Series (Podcast)In this episode we recap and reflect on the gender series that we’ve been doing since mid-November 2020. The series spans eighteen episodes, beginning with “Paul & Masculinity with Grace Emmett” (November 11, 2020) and ending with “The Great Sex Rescue with Sheila Wray Gregoire” (March 10, 2020). As we explain in this conversation, we…