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One Spirit with Dr. Kris Song (Podcast)
Read more: One Spirit with Dr. Kris Song (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by one of our very own co-hosts here at The Two Cities podcast, Dr. Kris Song, who is an instructor in New Testament at Bethel Seminary and the author of One Spirit: Pneumatology and Unity in the Corinthian Letters (published by Baylor University Press). In our conversation we talk about…
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Contesting Languages: Tongues vs. Multilingualism with Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu (Podcast)
Read more: Contesting Languages: Tongues vs. Multilingualism with Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu (Podcast)In this episode we discuss whether “tongues” in 1 Corinthians refer to ecstatic and unintelligible speech, or whether they refer to multilingualism. For this conversation we’re joined by Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu, who is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Portland Seminary and George Fox University, and the author of the new book that we’re discussing…
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Gender & The Trinity with Dr. Madison Pierce (Podcast)
Read more: Gender & The Trinity with Dr. Madison Pierce (Podcast)On this episode we discuss various topics related to gender and the Trinity, including: the gendered language about the family of God (i.e. “sons”) and the gendered language for the persons of the Trinity (i.e. Father and Son), the representation of God with maternal imagery in the Bible, and the topic of the Eternal Functional…
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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…
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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…
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The Participatory Anthropology of 1 Corinthians: Reflections on Susan Eastman’s Paul and the Person
Read more: The Participatory Anthropology of 1 Corinthians: Reflections on Susan Eastman’s Paul and the PersonReading through Susan Eastman’s wonderful little study Paul and the Person over Christmas break has afforded me a chance to re-examine the kind of anthropology Paul takes for granted in his first letter to the Corinthians. The task of reevaluating traditional concepts of anthropology as a whole is enjoying something of a moment in biblical…
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Send Them Well
Read more: Send Them WellA few weeks ago my wife and I were officially appointed as missionaries for a sending agency based out of Orlando Florida. For many, being accepted by a mission agency represents an important milestone on the path to the mission field. In our case, this moment was exciting but it was not the most significant…
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Women Be Silent in Church! …Uhm, Did Paul Actually Write 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36?
Read more: Women Be Silent in Church! …Uhm, Did Paul Actually Write 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36?What I want to discuss here is controversial. Additionally, what I want to address is not novel. Here is the thought I’d like to ‘think aloud,’ so to speak, in the provocative world of the blogosphere: Is 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36 original? I should say up front that my focus is not on Complementarianism vs. Egalitarianism per…
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“Karl Barth is Evil”: The Strong and the Weak
Read more: “Karl Barth is Evil”: The Strong and the WeakIn the undergraduate class I am teaching this semester, one of the research assignments students can choose is an analysis of the Barth and Bultmann debate over the nature of Jesus’ resurrection. One student who chose this assignment later changed their mind; this person sent me an email asking if it would be possible change…
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Memphis Church Hosts Ramadan
Read more: Memphis Church Hosts RamadanIn an interesting story made more intriguing by its setting, last year a church in the Bible belt joyfully agreed to host Ramadan. The Memphis Islamic Center was closed for renovations, sending the leaders of the mosque looking for an alternate venue with relatively little notice. Having a hard time finding a place that could…