Category: Culture
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An Introduction to Trauma with Rev. Dr. Chuck DeGroat (Podcast)
Read more: An Introduction to Trauma with Rev. Dr. Chuck DeGroat (Podcast)Revd Dr. Chuck Degroat is a licensed therapist, as well as a Professor of Pastoral Care and Christian Spirituality, and Executive Director and Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Western Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books, including When Narcissism Comes to Church, Leaving Egypt, and Toughest People to Love. In this episode…
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Ethics & A.I. with Dr. Jeremiah Coogan (Podcast)
Read more: Ethics & A.I. with Dr. Jeremiah Coogan (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Jeremiah Coogan, who is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, and he’s a co-author of Encountering AI: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations which is a book-length special issue of the Journal of Moral Theology, which we discuss in this episode.…
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Barbenheimer: Movie Reviews of Barbie and Oppenheimer (Podcast)
Read more: Barbenheimer: Movie Reviews of Barbie and Oppenheimer (Podcast)In this episode we give a joint review of the two Summer movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Over the course of our conversation we talk about the themes that emerge when the two ostensibly different films are juxtaposed and interpreted together, including: death, existential angst, technology, feminism, and power, and we have a lot of fun…
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Rehabilitation from Human Trafficking with Dr. Chris Gooding (Podcast)
Read more: Rehabilitation from Human Trafficking with Dr. Chris Gooding (Podcast)In this episode we talk with Dr. Chris Gooding about the process of rehabilitating from human trafficking. Dr. Gooding is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Theology Department at Marquette University, a member of the Mennonite Church USA, and the author of the new book that we discuss in this episode, Beyond Slavery: Christian Theology and…
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Non-Toxic Masculinity with Zachary Wagner (Podcast)
Read more: Non-Toxic Masculinity with Zachary Wagner (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Zachary Wagner to talk about Non-Toxic Masculinity. Zach is editorial director for the Center for Pastor Theologians, a doctoral candidate in New Testament at the University of Oxford, and the author of the book that we discuss in this episode, Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality (published by IVP).…
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Black Mirror Season 6 Review (Podcast)
Read more: Black Mirror Season 6 Review (Podcast)In this episode some of our team members get together to talk about the new season of one of our favorite TV shows, Black Mirror. The newest season (season 6) of this dystopian anthology just came out on Netflix last month and we discuss it all here. We start with some quick thoughts on the…
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Christians & Conspiracy Theories with Dr. Mike Austin, Dr. Marlena Graves, Dr. Dru Johnson, and Dr. J. Aaron Simmons (Podcast)
Read more: Christians & Conspiracy Theories with Dr. Mike Austin, Dr. Marlena Graves, Dr. Dru Johnson, and Dr. J. Aaron Simmons (Podcast)In this episode we’re talking about Christianity and Conspiracy Theories with Dr. Mike Austin (Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University), who is the co-editor (with Dr. Gregory L. Bock) of the new book, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories (published by Eerdmans). Joining him we also have three of the many…
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Faith & Fake News with Rachel Wightman (Podcast)
Read more: Faith & Fake News with Rachel Wightman (Podcast)In this episode we talk about Faith & Fake News with Rachel Wightman, who is Associate Director of Instruction and Outreach at the Concordia University library in St. Paul (MN) and the author of Faith & Fake News: A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely (published by Eerdmans). Over the course of our conversation, Rachel talks…
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The Evangelical Imagination with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior (Podcast)
Read more: The Evangelical Imagination with Dr. Karen Swallow Prior (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Karen Swallow Prior – writer, literary scholar, and professor – to talk about her new book, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created A Culture In Crisis (published by Brazos). As Dr. Prior explains, she is engaging the issue of evangelicalism as an insider, highlighting various…
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Jesus v. Evangelicals with Dr. Constantine Campbell (Podcast)
Read more: Jesus v. Evangelicals with Dr. Constantine Campbell (Podcast)In this episode we are joined by Dr. Constantine Campbell, who is Professor and Associate Research Director at the Sydney College of Divinity and the author of a number of works in biblical studies and ancient Greek, as well as the book we’re excited to discuss on this episode, Jesus V. Evangelicals: A Biblical Critique…