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Reclaiming Hope After the Election with Kaitlyn Schiess (Podcast)
Read more: Reclaiming Hope After the Election with Kaitlyn Schiess (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Kaitlyn Schiess, who is a Doctoral Student at Duke Divinity School, the Co-host of the Holy Post podcast and host of the Curiously Kaitlyn podcast, and the author of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from…
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Christian Dominionism & Nationalism with Dr. Valerie Hobbs (Podcast)
Read more: Christian Dominionism & Nationalism with Dr. Valerie Hobbs (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Valerie Hobbs (@vhobbs5), Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield and author of No Love in War: A Story of Christian Nationalism (@MayflyBooks). In this episode we discuss Dr Hobb’s autoethnographic book about growing up in Christian Dominionism and the violence she witnessed…
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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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God & Guns with Prof. Carly Crouch and Prof. Christopher B. Hays (Podcast)
Read more: God & Guns with Prof. Carly Crouch and Prof. Christopher B. Hays (Podcast)In this conversation we’re taking about American Gun Culture with Prof. Carly Crouch and Prof. Christopher B. Hays. Prof. Carly Crouch is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Ancient Judaism, and Chair of the Department of Textual, Historical and Systematic Studies of Judaism and Christianity at Radboud University Nijmegen, and Prof. Christopher B. Hays is…
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Jesus and John Wayne with Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Podcast)
Read more: Jesus and John Wayne with Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Podcast)In this episode of The Two Cities podcast we talk with Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor of history at Calvin University, about her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted A Faith and Fractured A Nation (Liveright, 2020). Over the course of the conversation Dr. Du Mez tells us about some of…
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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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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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‘How can you hate me when you don’t even know me’ – Breaking Down Social Boundaries
Read more: ‘How can you hate me when you don’t even know me’ – Breaking Down Social BoundariesThe Johannine epistles have a lot to say about group boundaries and who is in and who is out. It is in 1 John that we get the enigmatic and confusing saying that ‘those who went out from us did not belong to us because if they had, they would have remained with us…’ These…
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Everyone Believes My Stories
Read more: Everyone Believes My StoriesMy life is a series of ridiculous, over the top, unlikely stories. I’ve confronted a neighbor on meth whose reply to me was, “The shadow people are coming.” As a kid, I was chased down by a teenager in a car who, in his own words, was hell-bent on killing us. The first time I…
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A Word on Character
Read more: A Word on CharacterSelf-mastery, ordered love, and self-examination are key elements to a life of character and virtue. In this post, I will unpack the myths and kernels of truth in each of these elements. Self-Mastery Self-Mastery is not akin to “finding oneself.” I heard a story of a young woman who was headed to medical school but deviated…