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Monica Coleman, "Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s...
Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years...
47 min
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Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (O...
Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...
76 min
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Francis J. Beckwith, "Never Doubt Thomas: The C...
Should you care how Protestant theologians and philosophers view a man generally regarded as of interest primarily to Catholics and as a pillar of Catholic thinking? Absolutely...
81 min
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David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around:...
Tavarez and his colleagues tackle the big questions of the Christianization of Mexico after the Spanish Conquest and using sources in several indigenous languages...
86 min
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Nyasha Junior, “Reimagining Hagar: Blackness an...
Junior sought to understand how Hagar become Black and what purposes that served...
48 min
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Samuel Morris Brown, "Joseph Smith's Translatio...
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...
53 min
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Nathan Carlin, "Pastoral Aesthetics: A Theologi...
Carlin critically engages Beauchamp and Childress by revisiting the role of religion in bioethics and argues that pastoral theologians can enrich moral imagination in bioethics by cultivating an aesthetic sensibility...
46 min
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Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: T...
Jesus was Jewish? Yes, he was...and how.
65 min
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Marika Rose, "A Theology of Failure: Žižek Agai...
Rose argues that failure should be welcomed as a core element of Christian identity....
60 min
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Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Rel...
Scott focuses on the Basque seroras, a category of uncloistered religious women that were employed by parishes to perform a wide variety of functions...
75 min
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Leslie Dorrough Smith, "Compromising Positions:...
Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...
59 min
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Andrea L. Robinson, "Temple of Presence" (Wipf ...
Robinson helps readers understand how John utilizes Ezekiel’s imagery to portray Jesus Christ as the eschatological temple...
25 min
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Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western Histo...
Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...
59 min
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Sohrab Ahmari, "From Fire, by Water: My Journey...
Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....
60 min
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polym...
In this episode, we focus on one of Eisler’s most controversial works, a reconstruction of the 1st-century Roman Jewish historian Josephus’ account of the events surrounding the death of Jesus...
39 min
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Christian Kleinbub, "Michelangelo’s Inner Anato...
Kleinbub challenges the notion that Michelangelo, renowned for his magnificent portrayals of the human body, was merely concerned with “superficial” anatomy....
55 min
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Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age o...
Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy...
60 min
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Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evoluti...
Turner challenges assumptions regarding the intersection between black religion and politics in this “signal moment of political and cultural transformation in the African-American experience.”
54 min
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Alastair J. Roberts, "Echoes of Exodus: Tracing...
The exodus—the story of God leading his chosen people out of slavery in Egypt—stands as a pivotal event in the Old Testament...
31 min
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Edward J. Robinson, "Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A ...
Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church’s improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression...
29 min
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Katherine Stewart, "The Power Worshippers: Insi...
For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage....
58 min
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Matt Tomlinson, "God is Samoan: Dialogues Betwe...
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God...
49 min
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Derek R. Sainsbury, "Storming the Nation: The U...
Sainsbury uncovers the significant but previously unknown contributions of the electioneers who advocated for Joseph Smith’s 1844 presidential campaign....
41 min
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Alec Ryrie, "Unbelievers: An Emotional History ...
Ryrie offers a new vision of the birth of the secular age, looking to the feelings of ordinary men and women―so often left out of the history of atheism...
64 min
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Hilde Løvdal Stephens, "Family Matters: James D...
Stephens shows how Dr. James Dobson reached millions of American evangelical households and shaped the cultural sensibilities and political attitudes of the U.S. culture wars...
33 min