#9 Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity w/ Miguel De La Torre
Release Date: 01/23/2020
#32 Pt 2- You Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Unsettle You w/ Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah
RTN Theology
This podcast is the second of a special 2-part episode of RTN Theology features co-authors Soong-Chan Rah & Mark Charles talking about lament, imagination, history, politics, and a call to conciliation. Deeply theological thinkers, Charles and Rah, their partnership came about from repeatedly crossing paths speaking about the topics of the Doctrine of Discovery and lament. Currently Mark Charles is running for Presidency of the United States of America as an independent.
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#32 Pt 1- You Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Unsettle You w/ Mark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah
RTN Theology
This podcast is the first of a special 2-part episode of RTN Theology features co-authors Soong-Chan Rah & Mark Charles talking about lament, imagination, history, politics, and a call to conciliation. Deeply theological thinkers, Charles and Rah, their partnership came about from repeatedly crossing paths speaking about the topics of the Doctrine of Discovery and lament. Currently Mark Charles is running for Presidency of the United States of America as an independent.
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#31- Faith on Stage: Bob's CHQ Conversation w/ Bishop Gene Robinson
RTN Theology
Bob joins Bishop Gene Robinson, the chaplain of the Chautauqua Institution for a special talk about his life of faith as a professional musician, father, and friend. Their remarkable CHQ Assembly conversation comes during such a difficult time for so many, and remembers how his faith in Jesus grew amidst the crisis of his daughter, Hallie’s, brain tumor and treatment. Featured music comes from Winston-Salem’s The Pharaoh Sisters and their album Civil Dawn.
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#30- D.L. Mayfield on Protests, Portland, & the Myth of the American Dream
RTN Theology
RTN Theology #30 features two longtime Portlanders— D.L. Mayfield and Liz Vice (little known fact: before she was a gospel and R&B star she worked on Portlandia!). D.L. Mayfield is the author of "The Myth of the American Dream" (IVP, 2020). Liz and Danielle reflect on their own experiences of Portland's virtues and vices, and how protest might just be the mode of worship we all need right now. The sacred music collective, Common Hymnal, provides our soundtrack for the episode.
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#29- Mother Augustine w/ Natalie Carnes & James K.A. Smith
RTN Theology
RTN Theology #29 features two theologians who’ve both recently written brilliant books about 4th Century N. African Bishop and theologian St. Augustine: Natalie Carnes & James K.A. Smith. This wide-ranging and luminous conversation spotlights Dr. Carnes’ new book, Motherhood, and branches out to talk about her previous writing on iconoclasm and monuments, justice, memory, and parenting during COVID-19. Paul Zach (ft Liz Vice) provides our soundtrack with songs from his EP, God is the Friend of Silence.
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#28 Pt 2- Fight Evil with Poetry w/ Liz Vice & Micah Bournes
RTN Theology
This podcast is the second of a special 2-part episode of RTN Theology features guest host Liz Vice and spoken word artist Micah Bournes talking faith, art, and activism. Liz and Micah have collaborated on each’s albums, including Micah’s most recent record, A Time Like This. This wide-ranging conversation between two brilliant artist of faith was too good to cut short, so we kept the tape running and turned it into a two-part episode.
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#28 Pt 1- Fight Evil with Poetry w/ Liz Vice & Micah Bournes
RTN Theology
This podcast is the first of a special 2-part episode of RTN Theology features guest host Liz Vice and spoken word artist Micah Bournes talking faith, art, and activism. Liz and Micah have collaborated on each’s albums, including Micah’s most recent record, A Time Like This. This wide-ranging conversation between two brilliant artist of faith was too good to cut short, so we kept the tape running and turned it into a two-part episode.
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#27- Mending to Make New w/ Scott Avett & Makoto Fujimura
RTN Theology
This special RTN Theology conversation features two renowned artists, Scott Avett and Makoto Fujimura, at the table to talk creativity, hope, artistic process, and faith in a time of pandemic. Scott Avett is a member of the Avett Brothers and a visual artist recently exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Makoto Fujimura is internationally known for his Nihonga works. His book, Art + Faith: A Theology of Making releases in January 2021 via Yale UP. Josh Garrels provides our soundtrack.
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#26- In Your Light We See Light w/Ellen F. Davis & Sandra McCracken
RTN Theology
RTN Theology #26 partners with the NC Study Center for a brilliant end-of-semester concert and conversation between Duke Divinity bible scholar Ellen Davis and Nashville songwriter Sandra McCracken. Director of Spiritual Formation, Bill Boyd guides a conversation around the hopeful resources of the Psalter in times of disorientation and displacement. (Some performances were augmented with studio recordings, all featured music is available for purchase and stream.)
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#25- Analog Church: Setting a Quiet & Kind Table in a Digital Crisis w/ Jay Kim
RTN Theology
Everyone is working and worshipping at home these days and all of our social lives outside of our homes are mediated by technology. RTNT 25 enlists guest co-host John Jay Alvaro to join in on a conversation with author Jay Kim (Analog Church: Why We Need Real People, Places, and Things in the Digital Age, IVP 2020). about the ways we use technology to connect to each other and to God in this time of our widespread reliance. The Welcome Wagon provides our quarantime soundtrack.
info_outlineIn this episode of RTN Theology, Bob talks with Christian social ethicist-activist, author, and Professor at Iliff School of Theology, Dr. Miguel De La Torre. Bob and Miguel discuss liberation theology and the connection between the theology shared by slaveholders during the antebellum and Civil War periods with the theology professed by many prominent evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. Del La Torre’s 36th book, Burying White Privilege, was based on his article November 2017 article, “The Death of Christianity in the US,” which went viral after it appeared in Baptist News Global. De La Torre does not mince words as he takes on white Evangelicals, Catholics, and Protestants, who he believes have made a Faustian bargain, trading the gospel for political influence.
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