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Religion for Realists with Professor Sam Perry (Podcast)
Read more: Religion for Realists with Professor Sam Perry (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Sam Perry, who is Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma is the Department of Sociology, and the author of several books, including, most recently, Religion for Realists: Why We All Need the Scientific Study of Religion (with Oxford University Press). In our conversation we…
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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 Nationalism with Professor Sam Perry (Podcast)
Read more: Christian Nationalism with Professor Sam Perry (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Sam Perry, who is Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma is the Department of Sociology and the author of several books, including two on the topic of Christian Nationalism, Taking America Back for God (with Andrew Whitehead, published by Oxford University Press), and The Flag and…
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Immigration and Apocalypse with Dr. Yii-Jan Lin (Podcast)
Read more: Immigration and Apocalypse with Dr. Yii-Jan Lin (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Yii-Jan Lin, who is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School and the author of the forthcoming book, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (with Yale University Press). Over the course of our conversation we discuss the conflation of America with…
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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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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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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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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…