Missio Alliance is grateful for the opportunity to partner with several leading podcast producers. Our podcasting partners are friends of Missio Alliance who resonate with the aims and objectives of our ministry. Likewise, we see these podcasts as resources of unique value in terms of the kind and quality of conversations they are generating related to how Christians and the Church are seeking to participate in God's mission in the world.
How is joy a source of strength?
Why was it joy for Jesus to endure the cross?
Is joy just happy-clappy sentimentality?
Mandy Smith and Scott Jones join Geoff Holsclaw to talk about the need to return to joy.
Sean and John, in partnership with The Lookout Magazine, talk race relations in America. Recorded specifically for The Lookout, this is a primer for those interested in where we are in terms of race in America and around the world and the church’s role.
What does it mean to be subject to the government?
What did Paul have in mind by that?
And how does it fit with being submitted to Christ?
Free Webinar Replay with Scot McKnight
The Great Gospel Experiment
Quote of the episode: “I need music.
Only half of eligible American voters opted-in during the 2016 election. Half of those people elected Donald Trump the 45th President of the United States. That means only 25% of Americans choose, through direct action, for Trump to be President.
Author and blogger Morgan Guyton joins the show to talk about his book, How Jesus Saves the World From Us: 12 Antidotes to Toxic Christianity. Here we talk about what’s right and wrong in contemporary Christianity and how Christians can better serve the world around us.
I first heard about Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 novel ‘Silence’ last year when artist, author, and director of Fuller Seminary’s Brehm Center, Makoto Fujimura wrote his reflections on the novel in his own book ‘Silence and Beauty’.
What’s the deal with Advent? When does Christmas actually begin? What’s Lent for? What’s Ordinary Time? Isn’t the Liturgical Calendar just a leftover vestige of Catholicism and Christendom?
Many folks who grow up in “free church traditions” don’t understand the liturgical calendar or why anyone would bother with it.
So how are you feeling after Donald Trump’s electoral victory? Ready to call him “President-Elect” or does the thought of it make you want to curl into the fetal position? Are you happy or stung by the fact that 81% of “evangelicals” (whatever that means) supported Trump?
Do you need a 1st Century Church Planting Manual?
Or, What does 1 Peter teach us about being faithful to Jesus?
David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk with Dennis Edwards, a pastor and scholar, about exiles, the vocation of the church, and submitting to all human institutions (and what that might mean).
A lot has been going on. Sometimes the best thing to do is listen.
With so much going on in America, Geoff Holsclaw and David Fitch slow down and talk with two area ministers, Juliet Liu Waite and Greg Armstrong, about what they are seeing, feeling, and experiencing, and how the future of the church is multiracial leadership.
David E. Fitch (PhD, Northwestern University) is the B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary. He is also the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community, a missional church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.
Paul Pavao is a teacher at Rose Creek village, a Christian community. He is married and has six children. Paul is a Mensa member and has studied early Christian history for over 20 years.
This Thanksgiving, what are you to do when your only relationship with someone is that they are your relative?
David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw offer three quick tips on how to bring Jesus into every Thanksgiving situation without being all religious.
Greg Boyd is an internationally recognized theologian, preacher, teacher, apologist and author.
He has been featured on the front page of The New York Times, The Charlie Rose Show, CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC and numerous other television and radio venues.
Live at CenterPeace’s e3 Conference, Sean and John welcome their friend and author Caleb Kaltenbach to discuss Caleb’s book, Messy Grace: How A Pastor With Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction.
Breaking from their script, David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw process their reactions to the election of Donald Trump. As two white males, nothing has changed about our lives, because we are privileged enough to be untouched by the recent events.
On Saturday October 29th Missio Alliance hosted She Leads: Reclaiming the Blessed Alliance for Faithful Mission. The main event was simulcast to regional venues all of the country. I had the privilege of moderating the local panel in my hometown of Austin, TX.
Is it Christian To Vote?
In this short episode, David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw discuss not who to voted for, but how to discern voting in general. Let us not confuse religious freedom with freedom in Christ.
Leonard I. Sweet is an American theologian, semiotician, church historian, pastor, and author. Sweet currently serves as the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew Theological School at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey; and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon.
Sean and John share their listener’s responses to “Episode 14” with Best-Selling Author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, and the recently released If You Can Keep It, and radio host, Eric Metaxas about Election 2016 and his outspoken advocacy for Donald Trump.
Shane Claiborne graduated from Eastern University and did graduate work at Princeton Seminary. In 2010, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Eastern. His adventures have taken him from the streets of Calcutta where he worked with Mother Teresa to the wealthy suburbs of Chicago where he served at the influential mega-church Willow Creek.
N.T. WRIGHT is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St.
Nekeisha Alayna Alexis is an independent scholar with wide-ranging interests related to human and other animal liberation. She orients her life toward undoing oppression through her vegan practice, teaching and writing, and various types of organizing in her community.
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John Alan Turner sits down with Best-Selling Author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, and the recently released If You Can Keep It, and radio host, Eric Metaxas about Election 2016 and his outspoken advocacy for Donald J.
Locker Room Talk, the Power of Words, Political Strategies, and the Hope for Revival
When Christian leaders claim #Trump’s misogynist and racists words are “no big deal” are they sharing in the sin of another?
Greg Boyd is an internationally recognized theologian, preacher, teacher, apologist and author.
He has been featured on the front page of The New York Times, The Charlie Rose Show, CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC and numerous other television and radio venues.
Are you a pastor, professor, Christian school teacher, church youth worker, children’s pastor, Executive Director of a Christian organization, or otherwise work for a Christian institution or organization? If so, your livelihood is connected to behaviors and thoughts that oftentimes has little to do with your job competency.
Does Jesus seek Proselytes or Converts? And what is the difference?
David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw discuss why the Apostle Paul was so angry with the Galatians, and whether we are called to renounce one cultural identity in favor of a new one (Proselyte Model) and or called to take up the same identity in a new way (Conversion Model).
Ann Voskamp’s the wife of one fine, down-to-earth farmer; a book-reading mama to a posse of seven; and the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Gift and Unwrapping the Greatest Gift, and the sixty-week New York Times bestseller One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into more than eighteen languages.
Why do pastors burn out? And what can be done about it?
Are you burning out? Is your church leading you to the brink?
Like Pete Wilson or Perry Noble, pastors of churches of any size are constantly facing burning out.
Mike McHargue (better known as Science Mike) is the best-selling author of Finding God in the Waves, host of Ask Science Mike and co-host of The Liturgists Podcast. He’s a leading voice on matters of science and religion with a monthly reach in the hundreds of thousands.
Maybe the most important episode to date!
Once evangelicals were on the frontline of social issues. Now the often take a backseat. What happened? And more importantly, from where might a renew of evangelicalism come?
Sean and John sit down and talk the 5 GREATEST temptations of Christian leaders and what we can do about them. Do you find yourself trying to keep up with the Joneses, to not say anything, to whine, to be important, or to merely be a “professional” Christian?
Brandon is an author, biker, humanitarian, and a huge fan of the underdog.
After more than 20 years of working in the local church, He co-founded and is now the Managing Partner of The Legacy Collective (www.legacycollective.org) and The Legacy Investor Group LLC which focuses on partnering, pioneering, and funding sustainable solutions to systemic social issues.
Does systematic theology have a future?
And if so, where should it begin?
And what does it matter?
Geoff Holsclaw and regular guest Scott Jones (because Fitch is big-timing it in Pasadena) discuss the three major critiques of systematic theology and then talk about three possible ways to begin theology and how we need them all.
A Connecticut native and granddaughter of Italian and Irish immigrants, Cathleen is a graduate of Wheaton College, the alma mater of the Rev. Billy Graham, former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and horror film director Wes Craven.
Are we all just reacting to various Fundamentalisms here in America? Is there a doctrinal identity or a practical mission at the center of American Evangelicalism? Is there a hidden affinity between conservative and progressive Evangelicals?
Dr. James has two doctorates, a D.Phil. in History from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. Dr. James has taught at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida (where he also served as president) and at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA (where he also served as provost).
Is there a difference between female and male? And if there is, why? And how do we explain it?
These are the pertinent questions that our culture casts before the church.
Todd Adkins is the Director of Leadership at Lifeway Christian Resources. He is passionate about the development of leaders, especially within the church. Todd served in student ministry and as an executive pastor for several years before joining the leadership at Lifeway to head up Ministry Grid, Lifeway’s dynamic new leadership development platform featuring over 3,700 videos and a fully customizable learning management system for churches.
Why does it seem that more information does not lead to better transformation?
Why does correcting false facts always seem to backfire on us?
From political conflicts to pastoral care, we must dig deeper in every conversation.
Christianity has always been about being saved. But today what Christians need saving from most is the toxic understanding of salvation we’ve received through bad theology. The loudest voices in Christianity today sound exactly like the religious authorities who crucified Jesus.
Sean and John sit down with Director of Relationship IQ at Pepperdine University, Hannah Parmelee, to talk about helping kids and young adults make meaningful connections in a disconnected world. Hanna talks dating, making friends, sex, and basic friendship formation.
What has authority for you?
Where do you find answers to your deepest questions?
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Too often Science and Scripture are pitted against each other as people swing from one “pure and uncorrupted” authority to another, from Scripture to Science.
Does the missional movement have a low Christology?
Does our view of Jesus affect how we understand his mission?
Does Christology matter for everyday living for us?
Is Christology practical in any way?
Chris Marlow, founder of the global advocacy organization Help One Now, once felt paralyzed in the face of global problems. They seemed too numerous, too complicated, too big—and after all, how much can one person really do?
Gerald R. McDermott (PhD, University of Iowa) is Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also associate pastor at Christ the King Anglican Church. His books include The Other Jonathan Edwards: Readings in Love, Society, and Justice (with Ronald Story), The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (with Michael McClymond), A Trinitarian Theology of Religions (with Harold Netland), Cancer: A Medical and Spiritual Guide (with William Fintel, MD), Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods and World Religions: An Indispensable Guide.
As a Christian communicator, (preacher, Bible class teacher, speaker, worship leader, etc…) what are you doing? What’s your plan? As a church member, what might you listen for and how are you being shaped by the public proclamation of scripture in your local church.
“In the beginning God raised Jesus from the dead” ~Michael W. Pahl
(From Resurrection to New Creation: A First Journey in Christian Theology)
Where does theology come from? Where is it going?
Suzanne is a graduate of Cornerstone University and Grace Theological Seminary and serves part-time as discipleship pastor at Three Rivers Wesleyan Church. She writes and speaks on living in the Kingdom of God as a joyful, right-now reality.
What should a Christian do when they feel that culture is declining, wayward, and corrupt? How should we think when major political parties — not only fail to represent historical Christian virtues — but, perhaps, celebrate standard-bearers antithetical to those values?
Have you noticed how easily and frequently people are offended? Some are outraged if your language isn’t PC, others irritated if it is. It seems that no one can say anything without getting upsetting someone.
Jessica Kelley is a writer, speaker, and survivor of child loss. She has a B.S. in Psychology, a M.S. in Counseling & Human Development, and experience as a School Counselor. Born and raised in the South, Jessica now lives with her husband and five-year-old daughter in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
What does the Trinity have to do with anything anyway? Well, a lot! But sometimes it feels like Evangelicals are just discovering the Trinity.
In this special crossover episode Geoff Holsclaw, with the hosts of “New Persuasive Words“, Scott Jones and Bill Borror, talks about the Trinity, reading the Bible, and connecting with the tradition.
*Originally Posted at MissioAlliance.org
Lisa Sharon Harper is the chief church engagement officer at Sojourners, a nonprofit organization committed to putting Christian faith into action in the pursuit of social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship.
With Donald Trump naming his “Evangelical Executive Advisory Board,” populated with Charismatics, TV Personas, former radio host, former politicians, and others, Christians – again – are asked to define what exactly we mean by the term “evangelical.”
Sean and John explain the historical roots of evangelicalism and whether or not 21st-Century Christians want to consider themselves “evangelicals” or not.
Jonathan Martin is a writer, speaker, and dreamer currently living in Tulsa, OK, where he serves as Teaching Pastor at Sanctuary Church. He holds degrees from Gardner-Webb University, The Pentecostal Theological Seminary, and Duke Divinity School.
Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor, of Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri. He is a passionate reader of theology and philosophy, an avid hiker and mountain climber, and authority on all things Bob Dylan.
Sean and John discuss the recent mass-shooting in Orlando, the suicide-bobming at Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey, terrorism’s effect on the 2016 Presidential Election, and how Christians might balance the reality and perception of the terrorist threat against the truth of the threat and calls for to fight fire with fire.
Dr. Richard Beck, professor, psychologist, author, mega-blogger, and one of our favorite people joins the show to talk about his recently released book, “Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted.”
Richard shares with Sean and John what drove him to study the Satan and the nature of evil and why Progressive Christians, like him, are reluctant to take the devil seriously.