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Ancient Slavery with Dr. Christy Cobb and Dr. Katherine Shaner (Podcast)
Read more: Ancient Slavery with Dr. Christy Cobb and Dr. Katherine Shaner (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Christy Cobb and Dr. Katherine Shaner to talk about their new edited volume, Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts (published by Eerdmans). Dr. Christy Cobb is Associate Professor of Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver, and Dr. Katherine Shaner is Associate…
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Ministers of Propaganda with Dr. Scott Coley
Read more: Ministers of Propaganda with Dr. Scott ColeyIn this episode we’re joined by Dr. Scott Coley, who is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, and the author of the book we’re discussing in this episode: Ministers of Propaganda: Truth, Power, and the Ideology of the Religious Right (published by Eerdmans). Over the course of our conversation, we…
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Racial Trauma with Pastor Juliet Liu
Read more: Racial Trauma with Pastor Juliet LiuCW: microaggressions, institutional trauma, intergenerational trauma Pastor Juliet Liu is a co-pastor of Life on the Vine in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, and she serves as Chair of the Board for Missio Alliance. In this episode, we talk about what constitutes racial trauma, how this occurs differently in different environments, how intergenerational trauma affects…
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Preaching to a Divided Nation with Rev. Dr. Paul Hoffman (Podcast)
Read more: Preaching to a Divided Nation with Rev. Dr. Paul Hoffman (Podcast)In this episode we’re talking about Preaching to a Divided Nation with Rev. Dr. Paul Hoffman, who is lead pastor of Evangelical Friends Church of Newport in Rhode Island, an adjunct professor of homiletics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and co-author with Matthew Kim of the book that we’re discussing today, Preaching to a Divided Nation:…
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Urban Apologetics & Whitewashing Christianity with Pastor Jerome Gay, Jr. (Podcast)
Read more: Urban Apologetics & Whitewashing Christianity with Pastor Jerome Gay, Jr. (Podcast)As the penultimate episode in our Apologetics series, we discuss the need for Urban Apologists in particular to address how Christianity has been whitewashed. For this conversation, we are joined by Pastor Jerome Gay, Jr., who is the founder and pastor of Vision Church in Raleigh, NC, the author of The Whitewashing of Christianity: A…
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Around the Table: Reflections on Cultural Identity (Podcast)
Read more: Around the Table: Reflections on Cultural Identity (Podcast)On this episode we reflect back on our Cultural Identity series and the things that stood out to us the most. We use the analogy of the table to highlight that these conversations need to happen in an egalitarian way, where we all bring something to the table for others to enjoy. The series began…
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After Whiteness with Dr. Willie James Jennings (Podcast)
Read more: After Whiteness with Dr. Willie James Jennings (Podcast)Concluding our series on Cultural Identity, we are joined by Dr. Willie James Jennings, who is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School, and the author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Yale University Press), and, more recently, After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Eerdmans). Dr….
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George Floyd: Reflections on Race One Year Later with Dr. Walter Augustine (Podcast)
Read more: George Floyd: Reflections on Race One Year Later with Dr. Walter Augustine (Podcast)In our third episode on Cultural Identity, we are joined by Dr. Walter Augustine, who is the Director of Intercultural Education and Research in the Division of Diversity and Inclusion at BIOLA University, to discuss the topic of race one year after the dehumanizing murder of George Floyd. To start Dr. Augustine shares some encouraging…
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Critical Race Theory & The Gospel with Dr. Nathan Cartagena, Dr. Jeff Liou, and Dr. Robert Chao Romero (Podcast)
Read more: Critical Race Theory & The Gospel with Dr. Nathan Cartagena, Dr. Jeff Liou, and Dr. Robert Chao Romero (Podcast)Continuing our series on Cultural Identity, we turn to discuss Critical Race Theory and its potential for intersection with the gospel. In previous episodes on Critical Theory (CT) and Critical Race Theory (CRT), we have primarily focused on the common characterizations and misunderstandings of the movement, the theories, etc. In this episode we are joined…
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Anger Amidst Lament: Reactions to Atlanta (Podcast)
Read more: Anger Amidst Lament: Reactions to Atlanta (Podcast)In this episode we process the horrific events that took place in Atlanta earlier this week in which a twenty-one year old white male attacked three Asian-owned business, including spas and massage parlors in the broader metro area. We also address the narrative that has emerged about the motivation for the murders. Was this a…