Episodes
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Friday Feb 10, 2023
What fresh possibilities open up with a narrative-historical approach to the Bible? Andrew Perriman discusses this in light of the gospel, salvation, hell, and then connecting dots to multifaith encounters. Perriman lives in London, UK. He is the author of several books, including Re: Mission: A Vision of Hope for a Post-Eschatological Church; The Future of the People of God: Reading Romans Before and After Western Christendom; End of Story: Same-Sex Relationships and the Narratives of Evangelical Mission; and his latest volume In the Form of a God: The Pre-existence of the Exalted Christ in Paul. He also published a collection of blog posts on hell and heaven called Hell and Heaven in Narrative Perspective.
Andrew Perriman's blog P.OST: https://www.postost.net/2008/10/about-me
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Monday Feb 06, 2023
Mohammed Dajani on rhe Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Mohammed Dajani addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dajani is a Jerusalem-born scholar and peace activist who holds two doctorate degrees. He is Founder of the Wasatia Islamic moderate movement in Palestine which he created in 2007 to promote moderation and reconciliation, peace, tolerance, and justice. He is Founder and Director of Wasatia Graduate Academic Institute.
Wasatia: http://www.wasatiamovement.com/
Our prior podcasts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Daniel Bar-Tal on the psychology of the conflict: https://youtu.be/wXf3itk4fSo
Munther Isaac and a Palestinian Christian perspective: https://youtu.be/RGxM2yegaHk
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
June Everett on After School Satan Clubs and a Response to Good News Clubs
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
June Everett is Campaign Director for the After School Club, and an ordained minister of The Satanic Temple. In this conversation she shares her personal journey, discusses the After School Satan Clubs, and responds to our prior podcast with Lydia Kaiser of Child Evangelism Fellowship and their Good News Clubs.
After School Satan Club: https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/after-school-satan
Lydia Kaiser of Child Evangelism Fellowship on the Good News Club: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-jh7nd-13725eb
Lucien Greaves on the After School Satan Club: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-zj835-11b1fe6
Stephen Bradford Long on The Satanic Temple: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cv29w-fa8d1c
For a good academic discussion of TST see Joseph Laycock's "Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion" (Oxford University Press, 2020). https://www.amazon.com/Speak-Devil-Satanic-Changing-Religion/dp/0190948493
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Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Lydia Kaiser on the Good News Clubs and the Response of After School Satan Clubs
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Lydia Kaiser, Corporate Communications Specialist for Child Evangelism Fellowship talks about the Good News Clubs in schools, and also responds to the controversy raised by the response of The Satanic Temple to the Clubs and their efforts at putting After School Satan Clubs in schools where the Clubs are present.
Good News Club at Child Evangelism Fellowship: https://www.cefonline.com/ministries/goodnewsclub/
Podcast with Lucien Greaves on After School Satan Clubs: https://johnwmorehead.podbean.com/e/lucien-greaves-of-the-satanic-temple-on-after-school-satan-clubs/
For a further exploration of these topics:
Stephen Bradford Long on The Satanic Temple: https://youtu.be/bg7TalPZ_Rs
For a good academic discussion of TST see Joseph Laycock's Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion (Oxford University Press, 2020) https://www.amazon.com/Speak-Devil-Satanic-Changing-Religion/dp/0190948493
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Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Darren Duerksen and Christ-Followers in Other Religions
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
In recent decades many people have begun following Christ while remaining a part of their non-Christian religious communities. These "insider" Muslims, Hindu, Buddhist, Native American, and other followers of Christ have generated much interest and controversy, particularly in Western mission agencies and churches. Darren Duerksen is our guest who discusses this topic as part of his new book "Christ-Followers in Other Religions: The Global Witness of Insider Movements." Along the way he defines things like "insider movements" and "contextualization," and "alternative missiological imaginaries," addresses questions about the definitions of "religion" and "culture," and comments on the realities of hybrid religiosity and syncretism.
Darren Duerkesen is Associate Professor of Intercultual and Religious Studies at Fresno Pacific University.
https://www.fresno.edu/person/001g000000g1rxbiau/darren-duerksen
Christ-Followers in Other Religions: The Global Witness of Insider Movements
https://www.amazon.com/Christ-Followers-Other-Religions-Witness-Movements/dp/1914454642/
Beyond Contextualization: Rethinking Religious and Cultural Boundaries
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-contextualization-rethinking-religious-and-cultural-boundaries-tickets-409911134237
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Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Andrew Chesnut and Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, is the heart of the fastest growing new religious movement in the Americas and the West. Andrew Chesnut is our guest who shares his research on the topic. Chesnut is Professor of Religious Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint (Oxford University Press, 2012), the first academic study of this topic in in English.
R. Andrew Chesnut: https://vcu.academia.edu/AndrewChesnut
Additional resources on Santa Muerte: https://skeletonsaint.com/
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Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Massimo Introvigne discusses the Korean cultural context of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly known as the Unification Church, as well as various developments within the church, its mention in the news in connection with the assassination of the former Prime Minister of Japan, as well as questions related to deprogramming and brainwashing.
Introvigne is an Italian sociologist, the managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), in Torino, Italy, and the author of some 70 books in the fields of new religious movements and pluralism.
“The Unification Church: Studies in Contemporary Religion” by Massimo Introvigne https://www.amazon.com/Unification-Church-Contemporary-Religion-Religions/dp/1560851457/
“’Brainwashing:’” Career of a Myth in the United States and Europe” by Massimo Introvigne https://www.cesnur.org/conferences/BrainWash.htm
“The Making of a Moonie: Choice or Brainwashing?” by Eileen Barker https://www.amazon.com/Making-Moonie-Choice-Brainwashing/dp/0631132465
CESNUR: https://www.cesnur.org/
Bitter Winter: https://bitterwinter.org/
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Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Monotheism and Multifaith Engagement
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Christians recognize and emphasize monotheism in the Bible, but on closer look at appears to have developed over time. This is important not only for a more careful understanding of the Bible and the Christian faith, but also as we develop arguments and critiques of other religions on their view of God such as the Latter-day Saints. In this episode we discuss the development of monotheism with Kenneth Seeskin, a Jewish scholar.
Seeskin is the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization. After receiving his PhD from Yale in 1972, he joined the faculty of Northwestern and has remained there ever since. He served for nearly 20 years as Chair of the Philosophy Department and with the start of the 2010-11 academic year, served as Chair of Religious Studies. He has won several teaching awards since coming to Northwestern and served as the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence from 1995-1998.
Seeskin is best known for his interpretation and defense of the rationalist tradition in Jewish Philosophy, including such figures as Maimonides, Spinoza, and Cohen. His most recent books include the Cambridge Companion to Maimonides (CUP, 2005), Maimonides on the Origin of the World (CUP, 2005), Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy (CUP, 2001), and Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides (OUP, 2000). The latter was awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award in 2001. The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, co-edited with Judith Baskin, is scheduled to appear in 2010.
His published articles dealing with religious themes are wide-ranging including studies on the Book of Job, the meaning of the Holocaust, negative theology, the concept of holiness, and recent studies on the role of reason in Jewish philosophy, the role of miracles in Jewish philosophy, and the Greek background to Jewish Philosophy. He is currently working on a book on messianism that will take up issues pertaining to evil, rationality, and the philosophy of history.
Kenneth Seeskin: https://religious-studies.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/emeritus-faculty/kenneth-seeskin.html
Related journal article by Dr. Seeskin: "When Did the Bible Become Monotheistic?" at TheTorah.com: https://www.thetorah.com/article/when-did-the-bible-become-monotheistic
For a discussion that connects the dots between a careful discussion of monotheism in relation to Mormonism see the chapter by Carl Mosser, "Classifying Mormon Theism:" https://www.academia.edu/219780/_Classifying_Mormon_Theism_
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Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Public Theology with Ted Peters
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Public theology seeks to articulate a theology beyond church and academy for the broader public and the common good. Ted Peters helps us understand how this can be done in light of the credibility challenges the church faces in America and the West. Dr. Peters teaches systematic theology and ethics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He co-edits the journal, Theology and Science at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. He is the author of God-The World's Future: Systematic Theology for New Era, and God in Cosmic History: Where Science and History Meet Religion. He is co-author of Evolution from Creation to New Creation. Along with colleagues he has edited, Astrotheology: Science and Theology Meet Extraterrestrial Life, as well as Astrobiology: Science, Ethics and Public Policy.
Ted Peters: https://www.gtu.edu/faculty/ted-f-peters
Journal article: "Public Theology: Its Pastoral, Apologetic, Scientific, Political, and Prophetic Tasks": https://brill.com/view/journals/ijpt/12/2/article-p153_2.xml
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Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Zoe Alderton and the fiction-based religion Snapewives
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Popular culture and the internet help resource various fiction-based religions. In this episode Zoe Alderton discusses one such religion known as Snapewives or Snapeism, a new religion taking inspiration from the literary work of J.K. Rowling and the book and film franchise of Harry Potter and a character within it, Professor Severus Snape.
Zoe Alderton is a trans-disciplinary researcher specializing in academic communications and the promotion of scholarly excellence. She is the creator of Way of the Scholar. She has been employed by a wide range of universities and has helped them in their development of exciting curricula and innovative course design. These include the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, Australian Catholic University, and the University of New England.
Zoe Alderton: https://wayofthescholar.com/about-dr-zoe
Alderton's journal article on Snapewives: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/5/1/219
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