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Episode 108: Outrage Us: Faithful Theology in an Emotional Age with Dr. A.J. Swoboda

Release Date: 11/11/2020

Episode 118: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, an Interview with Award Winning Historian Dr. Wayne Flynt

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Dr. Flynt is active in a number of professional organizations, six of which have honored him with their highest awards for service. In 2003-04 he served as president of the Southern Historical Association, the largest professional organization devoted to the study of southern history and culture, with some 5,000 members worldwide. He was founding general editor of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama from which he retired in September 2008. I hope you enjoy our conversation today!

Episode 117: Changing Culture, an Interview with Tammy Dunahoo

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Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Famous words mistakenly attributed to Peter Drucker.It doesn’t matter who said it, it is TRUE. We can glibly talk about changing culture, but culture is a hard this to change. Yet, if you want real and lasting change, you must do more than change policies, you must change cultures.

Episode 116: Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good, and Interview with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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I first learned of Jonathan when I heard him interviewed on a podcast. His work sounded very interesting, so I bought his book, “Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good.” I ended up reading it twice. An evangelical Christian who connects with the broad spiritual tradition and its monastic witnesses, Jonathan is a leader in the Red Letter Christian movement and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Episode 115: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation, an Interview with Miroslav Volf

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Hey everybody! Today I am giddy! I am thrilled to be able to have Dr. Miroslav Volf as a guest today. He is probably one of my favorite living theologians. I think you will enjoy this week's episode. We explore his book Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation

Episode 114: Discovering New Riches from the Old Testament: An interview with John Goldingay

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Hey everybody! Welcome to this week's episode of all in. I have long wanted to interview John Goldingay and the day has finally arrived! You are in for a treat. John Goldingay (PhD, University of Nottingham; DD, Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth) is professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, but lives in Oxford, England.

Episode 113: Posting Peace: Why Social Media Divides Us and What We Can Do About It, an Interview with Doug Bursch

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Hey everybody! Welcome to the podcast. I have a confession to make: I have a love hate relationship with social media. Some days I feel really good and I check Facebook and I want to pull my eyes out. Some days I mess up and post something. I posted a really controversial post a while back (you can read it here). After I posted that I wondered: "why is everyone online so upset?" This week, I wanted to invite my friend Doug Bursch on the podcast to talk about his book Posting Peace.

Episode 112: How to Question Your Faith Without Losing It, an Interview with Dr, A.J. Swoboda

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Is there a way to walk faithfully through doubt and come out the other side with a deeper love for Jesus, the church, and its tradition? Can we question our faith without losing it? Today, we are going to explore this with Dr. A.J. Swoboda, author of the newly released book: After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It.

Episode 111: An Interview with Wendy Nolasco, General Supervisor of The Foursquare Church

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Today, we have Wendy Nolasco on the podcast. Wendy is the general supervisor for U.S. Foursquare Church. It is said she is able to leap tall egos with a single bound, able to freeze water with a single stare, and she's able to bring peace with a single word. I don't know if that's true, but what I do know is true, is she is a leader, a learner, and a passionate gatherer of people.

Episode 110: Jesus and John Wayne: Have Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Broken a Nation? An Interview with Kristin Du Mez

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Hey everybody! Welcome back to a new season of All In! I wanted to give fair warning that we will be talking about some fairly controversial topics in this week's episode. It is my privilege to welcome Dr. Kristin Du Mez, author of the book . I read this book recently and it put together a number of pieces that had been building in my mind, but I had not yet been able to put them together. I had been a lifelong member of the Republican Party since 1988 until 2015 when in my estimation, it became a personality cult. I've tried to figure out how evangelicals have come to support systems,...

Episode 109: How I Gained Perspective When I Lost My Sight with Andy Opie

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What happens when your life looks like it's going to go one way, and then reality hits you up broadside and knocks you a completely different way? This week, we're going to explore this a little and what it looks like when tragedy and obstacles happen but God still redeems it. Today I interview someone I've wanted to chat with for some time, Andy Opie.

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It's no secret that our society and culture are changing rapidly. Sometimes these changes create an expectation for ministry leaders to abandon good theology. Karl Barth used to advise his preaching students to “preach as though nothing had happened.” In other words, do not be controlled by or allow all the things happening around you to distract you from the central issue of preaching the Word of God. Unfortunately, Barth noticed that most preaching in his day was closer to anthropology spoken loudly than it was preaching the Word of God.

CS Lewis modeled this as well when he gave his famous BBC Radio talks that became Mere Christianity. We may argue that we must speak to the times we live in, and that is true, but we must also speak to the Eternal, not just the contemporary.

Life Pacific University recently hosted a webinar entitled, “Outrage Us: Faithful Theology in an Emotional Age,” led by Dr. AJ Swoboda who is a faculty member at Life Pacific University. I thought the content was important enough that I reached out to my friends at LPU and asked for their permission to rebroadcast AJ’s presentation on my podcast. They were excited for this to happen.

Life Pacific University exists for the transformational development of students into leaders prepared to serve God in the Church, the workplace, and the world. For more information about continuing your education, email LPU at [email protected]

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