Latest Posts
-
Neither Complementarian Nor Egalitarian with Dr. Michelle Lee-Barnewall (Podcast)
Read more: Neither Complementarian Nor Egalitarian with Dr. Michelle Lee-Barnewall (Podcast)Continuing our conversation on gender dynamics in Scripture and the Church, in this podcast episode we talk about the binary of Complementarianism and Egalitarianism regarding how to conceive of the relationship of men and women in marriage and in the church. Has the entrenchment of the binary led us to miss aspects of the text?…
-
Women in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus with Dr. Jeannine Brown (Podcast)
Read more: Women in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus with Dr. Jeannine Brown (Podcast)In this episode we talk about the significance of the women mentioned in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus. For this conversation, Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Brandon Hurlbert are joined by Dr. Jeannine Brown, Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN), member of the NIV Translation Committee, and author of a few commentaries…
-
Revelation Advent Sermon (Why The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Not The Mark of the Beast)
Read more: Revelation Advent Sermon (Why The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Not The Mark of the Beast)At my local church here in Minneapolis, Mill City Church, we’ve been reading through and preaching through the New Testament, and the plan was always to preach through Revelation for Advent. This was planned long before 2020 became the “apocalyptic” year that we all think of it as. At present, one of the particularly relevant…
-
Women in 1 Corinthians with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt (Podcast)
Read more: Women in 1 Corinthians with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt (Podcast)Carrying on in our conversation on gender, we turn to discuss women in 1 Corinthians with particular attention given to the passage about head coverings in 1 Cor. 11 and women being silent in the church in 1 Cor. 14. In this episode, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Brandon Hurlbert, and Dr. Logan Williams are joined…
-
Until We Meet Again – Aloha, the Spirit, and Sharing our Air in Virtual Churches
Read more: Until We Meet Again – Aloha, the Spirit, and Sharing our Air in Virtual ChurchesIt is well-known that “Aloha” is the Hawaiian word for “hello” and “goodbye.” It is also their word for love and friendship. As someone who thinks quite a bit about the biblical understanding of “spirit,” I was interested to learn that “Aloha” conveyed a spiritual idea that could be illuminated by its two root words. …
-
Paul & Masculinity Revisited with Dr. Valérie Nicolet (Podcast)
Read more: Paul & Masculinity Revisited with Dr. Valérie Nicolet (Podcast)In this episode, Amber Bowen, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, and Grace Emmett are joined by Dr. Valérie Nicolet, Associate Professor of New Testament at the Protestant Institute of Theology in Paris, to continue an earlier podcast conversation on Paul and masculinity. Our conversation begins with Paul’s self-presentation, esp. in Galatians, and then extends to address…
-
Whiteness in Biblical Scholarship with Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu (Podcast)
Read more: Whiteness in Biblical Scholarship with Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu (Podcast)In this episode a group of team members from The Two Cities (Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Grace Emmett, Grace Sangalang Ng, Rev. Daniel Parham, Dr. Chris Porter, Dr. Logan Williams) are joined by Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu, who is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Portland Seminary, to discuss his recent piece published with the Public…
-
Recovering From Biblical Manhood & Womanhood with Aimee Byrd (Podcast)
Read more: Recovering From Biblical Manhood & Womanhood with Aimee Byrd (Podcast)Carrying on with our series on gender and the Bible, Amber Bowen and Dr. John Anthony Dunne are joined by Aimee Byrd, who is the author of several books, including Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Zondervan Academic, 2020). In this episode Aimee explains that, despite what one might suspect from her outspoken detractors, her…
-
Preaching & Gender (Podcast)
Read more: Preaching & Gender (Podcast)Continuing our discussion on gender from last week with Grace Emmett (“Paul & Masculinity”), we turn to look at the relationship between preaching and gender. In this episode, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Grace Sangalang Ng, Rev. Daniel Parham, and Dr. Chris Porter reflect on this topic from the vantage point of our different cultural and…
-
Paul & Masculinity with Grace Emmett (Podcast)
Read more: Paul & Masculinity with Grace Emmett (Podcast)Kicking off a discussion on gender in the Bible and how this syncs up the Western Church and broader culture, Amber Bowen, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, and Dr. Logan Williams chat with Grace Emmett, a PhD Candidate in New Testament at King’s College, London, who recently submitted a thesis entitled, “Becoming A Man: Unmanly/Manly Self-Presentation…