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PIVOT with Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer (Podcast)
Read more: PIVOT with Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer (Podcast)CW: adverse religious experiences, church-related trauma, narcissistic leaders Dr. Scot McKnight is Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary and Laura Barringer is an author and a Kindergarten Teacher. In this episode, they summarize their two recent books (A Church Called Tov and Pivot). In the first part, in light of abuse related to Willow…
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Reviewing the Rise & Fall of Mars Hill with Aimee Byrd and Dr. Michael Bird (Podcast)
Read more: Reviewing the Rise & Fall of Mars Hill with Aimee Byrd and Dr. Michael Bird (Podcast)In this episode we debrief our experiences listening to Christianity Today’s podcast series, The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill, which is all about Mark Driscoll’s leadership at a megachurch in Seattle from 1996 to 2014. Joining us for this conversation are Aimee Byrd, the author of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (published by…
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Leadership and Abuse in the Church with Aimee Byrd and Dr. Michael Bird (Podcast)
Read more: Leadership and Abuse in the Church with Aimee Byrd and Dr. Michael Bird (Podcast)In this episode we talk about the recent scandals committed by major leaders in the church, most notably Ravi Zacharias. For this conversation we are joined by Aimee Byrd, the author of Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (published by Zondervan), and Dr. Michael Bird, who is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley…
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Women in the Patristic Era with Dr. Lynn Cohick (Podcast)
Read more: Women in the Patristic Era with Dr. Lynn Cohick (Podcast)As part of our broader series on gender in biblical scholarship, Christian tradition, and the contemporary church, we turn to discuss Women in the Patristic Era. In this episode, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Grace Sangalang Ng, and Dr. Chris Porter are joined by Dr. Lynn Cohick, who is Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs, and…
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Neither Complementarian Nor Egalitarian with Dr. Michelle Lee-Barnewall (Podcast)
Read more: Neither Complementarian Nor Egalitarian with Dr. Michelle Lee-Barnewall (Podcast)Continuing our conversation on gender dynamics in Scripture and the Church, in this podcast episode we talk about the binary of Complementarianism and Egalitarianism regarding how to conceive of the relationship of men and women in marriage and in the church. Has the entrenchment of the binary led us to miss aspects of the text?…
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Jaws is the Most Relevant 4th of July Film To Watch This Weekend
Read more: Jaws is the Most Relevant 4th of July Film To Watch This WeekendDuring much of quarantine I was helping to co-run an “Equipping Hour” class at my church (our version of Adult Sunday School). The class was called “The Gospel According to Oscar,” which I co-led with my good friend J. D. O’Brien, a filmmaker, documentarian, and videographer (check out his documentary about homelessness in Minneapolis called…
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How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Group Discussion
Read more: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Group DiscussionI’ve had the privilege of being part of several group discussions lately in several different situations. Some of these discussions were fruitful and led in a positive direction. Others were excellently hampered by certain individual’s conscious efforts to be a proverbial “spanner in the works” (as they say on this side of the pond). If…
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Faith, Doubt, and Justin Welby
Read more: Faith, Doubt, and Justin WelbyJust before the weekend, the Guardian and the Huffington Post reported that Justin Welby, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, sometimes doubts the existence of God. When I saw this story pop up on my Facebook newsfeed I almost neglected to read the article. “So what?” was my initial thought. Making this a news story stems…
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Pondering the Potency of the Papacy Today
Read more: Pondering the Potency of the Papacy TodayThis Wednesday, the cloudy puffs of the fumata bianca from the Sistine chapel told the world that, in unexpectedly quick passion, the Catholic Church would have a new world leader. At the age of 76, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, former leader of the Arch Diosese of Buenos Aires, will become a Pope of many firsts. Not…
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The Macho Version of Biblical MANhood
Read more: The Macho Version of Biblical MANhoodSo far on this blog we’ve had some discussion led by Ryan about how the biblical manhood movement (mis)uses statistical cultural analysis when applying it to the Church (For the relevant posts in the 6-part series: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6). I do not intend here to pick up the discussion further, or to…