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Wine, Soil, and Salvation with Rev. Dr. Mark Scarlata (Podcast)
Read more: Wine, Soil, and Salvation with Rev. Dr. Mark Scarlata (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Rev Dr Mark Scarlata, who is Tutor and Senior Lecturer in Old Testament at St. Mellitus College, the Vicar-Chaplain at St. Edward, King and Martyr Church in Cambridge, and the author of Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament (published by Cambridge University Press). In…
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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…
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Neo-Calvinism & The Cultural Mandate with Dr. N. Gray Sutanto (Podcast)
Read more: Neo-Calvinism & The Cultural Mandate with Dr. N. Gray Sutanto (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Rev. Dr. N. Gray Sutanto, who is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and the author or editor of several books on Neo-Calvinism and the theology of the Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck, including translating into English some of his previously untranslated works. Over…
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Ecological Trauma with Dr. Tim Middleton (Podcast)
Read more: Ecological Trauma with Dr. Tim Middleton (Podcast)Dr. Tim Middleton is Tutorial Fellow in Theology & Director of the Centre for Baptist Studies at Regent’s Park College at Oxford University. In this episode, we talk about ecological trauma—the trauma experienced by the earth and as a result of climate change and other ecological conditions. Dr. Middleton explains how his work intersects with…
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Josef Pieper on Spirituality with Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Warne (Podcast)
Read more: Josef Pieper on Spirituality with Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Warne (Podcast)In this episode we are joined by Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Warne, who is priest-in-charge at St. Paul Episcopal Church in Mishawaka, Indiana, to talk about his new book, Josef Pieper on the Spiritual Life: Creation, Contemplation, and Human Flourishing (published by Notre Dame University Press). Rev. Dr. Warne explains that he came to the work…
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Limits with Dr. Kelly Kapic (Podcast)
Read more: Limits with Dr. Kelly Kapic (Podcast)In this episode we talk about limits with Dr. Kelly Kapic, who is Professor of Theological Studies at Covenant College (in Lookout Mountain, Georgia), and the author of You’re Only Human: How Our Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News (published by Brazos). Over the course of our conversation, Dr. Kapic talks about…
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Place Matters: Reflections on Place and the Armenian Genocide
Read more: Place Matters: Reflections on Place and the Armenian GenocideI am an Armenian-American. This is something in which I take great pride. It roots my own spiritual and racial identity. April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day and for some reason, it never occurred to me until this year that Earth Day (April 22) and the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day are so close. Upon…
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Ecological Grief with Hannah Malcolm (Podcast)
Read more: Ecological Grief with Hannah Malcolm (Podcast)On today’s episode we begin the season of Lent with a discussion on ecological grief with our guest, Hannah Malcolm, who is PhD Candidate in Theology at Durham University studying ecological grief as a form of theological knowledge. She is also the editor of Words for a Dying World: Stories of Grief and Courage from…
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St Augustine, Nature, and Truth
Read more: St Augustine, Nature, and TruthI’m currently participating in an extracurricular reading group with students here at Bethel Seminary. We just finished reading through the first five books of St Augustine’s Confessions. It’s been a blast to read and discuss, and I thought I’d share one of my reflections so far. As I was reading the beginning of Book V, I…
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Mother May I?
Read more: Mother May I?SPOILERS AHEAD! RUN FOR THE HILLS! Darren Aronofsky’s new film, mother!, is absolutely stunning. I was mesmerized and blown away. Let me say at the outset that one’s enjoyment of this movie is almost entirely based upon two factors: (a) knowing as little about the film as possible before seeing it, and (b) actually figuring out…