In episode 4, it is a period of civil war.  Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base… wait, wrong franchise! Ahem, in episode 4, Dan Dawson hosts a discussion with…

The UNKingdom of God: Embracing the Subversive Power of Repentance by Mark Van Steenwyk 184 pp. Intervarsity Press. $16.00. The New Testament deals with empire at every turn, whether the…

A crushed rose. An unwrapped, dirt-encrusted lollipop. Something that has lost its value: goods that have been damaged beyond repair. We’ve all heard these sorts of descriptions applied to people,…

Imagine rolling green hills at twilight, speckled with the glow of round windows peeking from under eaves of turf, each opening to a scene of snug, domestic comfort. Imagine an…

I Believe in One God By Pope Benedict XVI 157 pp. St. Pauls. $14.95 Believe it or not (and if you know me at all, you’ll believe it), I did…

When we try to make sense of the world, narrative is everything.  And when we tell the story of theology in late modernity, we underestimate at our peril how important…

Introductions Knowing Why this episode? “Ally” as a term A big moment for feminism in the zeitgeist HeforShe Reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Dg226G2Z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEzgu7l4NI http://feministcurrent.com/7988/how-to-be-a-male-feminist-ally/ Allies in the Bible? Passing On http://www.amazon.com/Half-Church-Recapturing-Global-Vision/dp/0310325560 http://www.christianhumanist.org/why-christian-feminists/…

To be saved means to be in a story where the characters need saving.  That ground-floor reality motivated a generation of theologians and Bible scholars to think of Christianity in…

Christ Actually: The Son of God for a Secular Age By James Carroll 284 pp.  Viking Penguin.  $30.00 James Carroll tells a story of two wars against the Jews, two…

“To be utterly lost in the woods is unfortunate. To be absolutely unconcerned about it is unreasonable. Yet so many people who spend weeks mastering a new video game, months…

Intros Listener E-mails Knowing A short biography of Barbara Brown Taylor A summary of Learning to Walk in the Dark Reading Treasures of Darkness: Abandoning “ solar spirituality” Darkness and…

The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the work of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance By Albert J. LaChance and Rebecca LaChance Goodwin 192…

David and Nathan answer your listener emails today while Michial assesses outcomes for his college. [04:11] Let your sins be strong? [10:21] Robert Louis Stevenson [13:41] Some episode suggestions from…

Nathan Gilmour chats a spell with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Psalm 119. The trio ranges from the literary form of the verse to the ways that the Psalm…

For a generation now we’ve heard the numbers and the lingo. More than half depart the Church after high school, and only a remnant remain after college. They’re the spiritual-but-not-religious,…