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Fake News & Misinformation with Rachel Wightman (Podcast)
Read more: Fake News & Misinformation with Rachel Wightman (Podcast)Concluding our series on the intersection of faith and politics we turn to address fake news and the spread of misinformation. In this episode Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Dr. Chris Porter are joined by Rachel Wightman, who is Associate Director for Instruction and Outreach at the library at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota….
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Abortion & Single Issue Voting with Jennie Riley (Podcast)
Read more: Abortion & Single Issue Voting with Jennie Riley (Podcast)As another installment in our series on faith and politics, we discuss abortion and single issue voting in the United States. Joining Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Brandon Hurlbert, Tim McNutt, and Dr. Chris Porter for this discussion is our special guest, Jennie Riley, who recently submitted her PhD thesis in Theology at Durham University (England),…
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The Deeply Formed Life
Read more: The Deeply Formed LifeRecently, my wife and I had the opportunity to stay at an Airbnb cabin for a little romantic getaway. It was an amazing opportunity for the two of us to focus on just us and the presence of our relationship. If there was one unique feature of the trip, it was this: we were so…
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Watchmen & 2020 Politics with Matthew William Brake (Podcast)
Read more: Watchmen & 2020 Politics with Matthew William Brake (Podcast)In the run up to Election Day in the United States (Tuesday, November 3rd), here at The Two Cities we’ve been doing a series of political podcasts. This episode extends that conversation further, but situates it as part of a conversation with a major pop-cultural artifact—Watchmen. Originally a comic series in the mid-1980s, Watchmen is…
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Social Identity & Political Discourse (Podcast)
Read more: Social Identity & Political Discourse (Podcast)Continuing further our recent conversations on politics and political engagement from a Christian perspective (cf. the episodes entitled, “Faith and Politics with Rev. Baroness Maeve Sherlock” and “War & Political Theology with Michael Spalione”), Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Dr. Chris Porter discuss social identity theory and how our social identity shapes our present lack…
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War & Political Theology with Michael Spalione (Podcast)
Read more: War & Political Theology with Michael Spalione (Podcast)Continuing our conversation on the role of faith in our political discourse and political engagement, in the present episode Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Brandon Hurlbert talk with Michael Spalione about his doctoral research on the topic of war within political theology. Having just recently passed his viva in pursuit of a PhD in political…
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Faith and Politics with Rev. Baroness Maeve Sherlock (Podcast)
Read more: Faith and Politics with Rev. Baroness Maeve Sherlock (Podcast)In this tumultuous election season in the States, in which partisan entrenchment often leads to a lack of kindness and respect across the aisle, we have brought in a guest from across the pond to help sort us out. Joining Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Brandon Hurlbert is special guest Rev. Baroness Maeve Sherlock, who…
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The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife with Dr. Christian Askeland (Podcast)
Read more: The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife with Dr. Christian Askeland (Podcast)In 2012 there was global interest in a small Coptic fragment the size of a business card that records Jesus saying the words “my wife.” The fragment was presented to a group of scholars at a Coptology conference in Rome by Dr. Karen King of Harvard Divinity School, who herself had received it from a…
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The Enneagram, Childhood Wounds, and Attachment Theory with Dr. Eurice Lee-Seo (Podcast)
Read more: The Enneagram, Childhood Wounds, and Attachment Theory with Dr. Eurice Lee-Seo (Podcast)Continuing our conversation on the Enneagram, we wanted to dive deeper into some of the lesser known aspects of the popular personal formation tool. In particular, we wanted to discuss the issue of Childhood Wounds, which essentially deal with the way that our personality types were shaped by experiences that we had with our primary…
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My Essay with Dr. Lynn H. Cohick In New Book on Human Flourishing
Read more: My Essay with Dr. Lynn H. Cohick In New Book on Human FlourishingI had the privilege of participating in a symposium put on by the Oikonomia Network back in January 2019 in Dallas, TX. The proceedings from our respective biblical and theological colloquia have now been compiled into a brand new volume published by Wipf & Stock, in their Pickwick imprint, called Human Flourishing: Economic Wisdom For…