Category: Culture
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Reviewing Squid Game 3 (Podcast)
Read more: Reviewing Squid Game 3 (Podcast)Spoiler alert and content warning! In this episode we review the third season of the smash hit Korean show on Netflix, Squid Game. As we debrief our experience watching the third season, we talk about the crazy ending, what surprised us the most about what the third season did and didn’t do, what we appreciated…
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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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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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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…
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The Last Temptation of Christ with Dr. David Bennett (Podcast)
Read more: The Last Temptation of Christ with Dr. David Bennett (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. David Bennett is a post-doctoral research fellow in theology and ethics at the University of Oxford and he’s the author of A War of Loves: The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus (published by Zondervan). In our conversation we review and discuss the portrayal of Jesus’s…
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The Marriage You Want with Sheila Wray Gregoire (Podcast)
Read more: The Marriage You Want with Sheila Wray Gregoire (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Sheila Wray Gregoire, who is a speaker, author of several books, and manager of the podcast and website, BareMarriage.com. She’s also the author (along with her husband, Keith) of the book that we’re discussing on this episode: The Marriage You Want: Moving Beyond Stereotypes for a Relationship Built on…
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Climate Change, Preaching, and the Apocalypse of Place with Dr. Jerusha Neal (Podcast)
Read more: Climate Change, Preaching, and the Apocalypse of Place with Dr. Jerusha Neal (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Jerusha Neal, who is Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Duke Divinity School and the author of Holy Ground: Climate Change, Preaching, and the Apocalypse of Place (published by Baylor University Press). In this conversation we talk about climate-informed homiletics and specifically what Dr. Neal gleaned from indigenous preaching…