Episodes
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
A Poem about Love and Death (Song 8:6-7) - Brent Strawn
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Episode: A meditation on Song of Songs 8:6-7, a poem about love and death, written and narrated by Brent Strawn. This is from our podcast In Parallel. For future episodes, please subscribe wherever you listen (Apple Podcasts, Spotify). In Parallel is a new podcast that explores biblical and contemporary poetry.
For more information about the podcast, see HERE and to learn more about Brent, see HERE.
Poetry: This episode makes reference to Sharon Olds' poem "The Signs," from The Golden Cell, p. 78.
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Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Introducing In Parallel with Brent Strawn - Ecclesiastes 3
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Episode: We're thrilled to introduce our first episode of In Parallel, a new podcast that explores biblical and contemporary poetry. Our first episode is a poetic reflection on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 by poetaster Brent A. Strawn. In Parallel will begin with a 7-episode series that features the rich resonances between the Bible's poetry and poetry from some of today's best.
For more information about the podcast, see HERE and to learn more about Brent, see HERE.
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Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Chris Green - All Things Beautiful: An Aesthetic Christology
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Episode: What role does art play in the forming of our theological imagination about Christ? What does it mean to respond to the cross as witness instead of spectator? In this interview, Chris Green joins co-host Amy Hughes to talk about his new book on art, beauty, and Christology. The topics range widely from the role of story, art, and liturgy in formation to quite the discussion about Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
Guest: Chris EW Green is Professor of Public Theology at Southeastern University and a pastor at Sanctuary Church in Tulsa, OK, where he lives with his wife, Julie, and their three kids: Zoë, Clive, and Emery. He’s the author of several books, including Surprised by God, The End is Music: A Companion to Robert W. Jenson’s Theology (Cascade), Toward a Pentecostal Theology of the Lord’s Supper(CPT Press) and Sanctifying Interpretation: Vocation, Holiness, and Scripture (CPT Press). Chris is the author most recently of All Things Beautiful (Baylor Univ Press, 2021), and his current work focuses on the place of Mary and other saints in Christian theology and spirituality.
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If you liked this episode ... Listen to our earlier episode with Chris about his book Sanctifying Vision.
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Charles Halton - A Human-Shaped God
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Episode: Charles Halton joins to discuss divine embodiment and its theological implications. We discuss the role of tensions and diversity in Scripture, Old Testament antecedents to the incarnation, theological method, and much more!
Guest: Charles is an Episcopal priest currently serving as Associate Rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Kentucky. He taught Old Testament and Semitic languages for almost ten years at the seminary and college levels and earned a PhD in Bible and ancient Near East with an emphasis in cuneiform languages from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is External Affiliate at the Centre of the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary's University, Twickenham. He's also a founder, managing editor, and director of media for The Marginalia Review of Books, which is part of the LA Review of Books. He edited Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? (Zondervan, 2015) and is coauthor, editor, and translator (with Saana Svärd) of Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors (Cambridge, 2017). Finally, he's the author of the book discussed in this episode, A Human-Shaped God: Theology of an Embodied God (WJK 2021). He translated the cuneiform collection of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
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