Podcasts

Seminary Dropout 135: Suzanne Burden, Author of “Reclaiming Eve: The Identity and Calling of Women in the Kingdom of God”

4 years ago

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.

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Episode 009: Why It May Be Time To Consider “The Benedict Option”?

4 years ago

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?

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Episode 008: Why Are People So Easily Offended?

4 years ago

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.

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134: Jessica Kelley, Author of “Lord Willing?: Wrestling with God’s Role in My Child’s Death”

4 years ago

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.

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Evangelicals Discover the Trinity: Recent Debate

4 years ago

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. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND WRITE US A REVIEW TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD.

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Seminary Dropout 133: Lisa Sharon Harper on The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

4 years ago

*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.

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Episode 007: What’s An “Evangelical” Anyway?

4 years ago

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.”

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Episode132: Jonathan Martin, Author of “How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here”

4 years ago

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.

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Seminary Dropout 131: Brian Zahnd Author of “Water to Wine: Some of My Story”

4 years ago

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.

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Episode 006: Terrorism & A Christian Response Outside the Fear Factory

4 years ago

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.

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Episode 005: Reviving Old Scratch w/ Richard Beck

4 years ago

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.”

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Seminary Dropout 130: Makoto Fujimura, Author of Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering

4 years ago

Makoto Fujimura is an internationally renowned artist, writer and speaker who serves as the director of Fuller Theological Seminary’s Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. He is also the founder of the International Arts Movement and served as a presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 2003 to 2009.

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Episode 004: American Politics, Faith Convictions, & Where To Draw The Line

4 years ago

Sean and John follow up their conversation about the 5 Views of Christianity and Politics by moving the conversation forward and offering the story of Daniel as a potential model for political and cultural engagement.

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Episode 003: 5 Views of Christianity & Politics

4 years ago

Sean and John discuss the 5 dominant ways Christians have, and do, approach political engagement in America – Anabaptist, Lutheran, Historically Black Church, Reformed, and Catholic. We all talk about the rise of a 6th approach, Dominionism.

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Episode 002: What Politics Is And Where Jesus Fits In

4 years ago

Sean and John talk about what politics are, where they come from and frame the current political discussion. Email the show: [email protected]

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Seminary Dropout 129: Christine Caine on Shame, Immigration, and Freedom

4 years ago

Christine Caine is a recognized teacher, preacher, author, and activist. As a founder of The A21 Campaign, Christine leads one of the largest non-profit organizations in the world dedicated to rescuing victims of human trafficking in twelve countries.

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Episode 001: The Show about The Show (Listen To This First)

4 years ago

Sean and John talk about their new venture in partnership with Missio Alliance and how it can help your church. Here you’ll find out what Missio Alliance, Sean, and John are up to and what you can expect in the future as one of our wonderful, loyal subscribers and friends.

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Seminary Dropout 128: Soong-Chan Rah, on Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

4 years ago

Soong-Chan Rah is the Milton B. Engebretson Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity and Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church, as well as coauthor of Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith and contributing author for Growing Healthy Asian American Churches.

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The Pursuing God (with Joshua Ryan Butler)

4 years ago

Are we pursuing God, or is God pursuing us? And what does it matter if we reverse the emphasis? With special guest Joshua Ryan Butler, Geoff and Dave discuss talk about God’s pursuit of us.

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Seminary Dropout 127: Rethinking Hell with Chris Date & Graham Ware

4 years ago

Graham Ware is currently Pastor of Centre Street Baptist Church in St. Thomas, Ontario. He holds a BA in History, minoring in Biblical Studies from Atlantic Baptist University (now Crandall University) and an M.Div.

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The Aftermath of Revival

4 years ago

Is it always great to experience revival? Or is there pain and waiting in the coming of new life? Mandy Smith and Cyd Holsclaw join Geoff to talk about the hopes and disappointments of the Spirit at work among us as things are torn down and built up.

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Seminary Dropout 126: Nijay Gupta on Bridging the Gap Between Seminary and the Church Pew

4 years ago

Nijay K. Gupta (Ph.D, University of Durham) serves as Assistant Professor of New Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary. He is the author of several articles and books including a commentary on Colossians (Smyth & Helwys, 2013).

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Is There a Future for The Reformation?

4 years ago

Is there a future for Reformed theology? Yes, there is! But it might look different. This internationally diverse panel discusses how the Reformation can still impact the West. This round table consists of Ruth Padilla Deborst, Carl Ellis, Jin Kim, Cherith Fee Nordling and David Fitch, hosted as ever by Geoff Holsclaw.

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Seminary Dropout 125: Michelle Higgins on That Sermon at Urbana

4 years ago

Michelle is the director of Faith for Justice in St. Louis. Late last year Michelle spoke at Urbana 2015, one of the largest student missions conferences in the world, her sermon was talked about online for months after the conference ended.

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Joining God & Changing the World (with special guest Alan Roxburgh)

4 years ago

Is the Spirit at work in the world? Or in the Church? Yes, the Spirit is. The Spirit of Mission is at work in the neighborhoods in and through the local churches.

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Seminary Dropout 124: Amy & Ryan Green, Creators of ‘That Dragon, Cancer’ on the Death of Their Son, Grief, and Hope

4 years ago

Ryan and Amy Green’s son Joel was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer just after his first birthday. During Joel’s fight with cancer Ryan had an idea, to make a video game about the experience.

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The Spirit of Leadership

4 years ago

What does Pentecost have to do with leadership? And how does it look in a local church? Beyond Hierarchy (one on top) and Democracy (all on bottom) is a Spirit-guided leadership through gifts and calling.

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Seminary Dropout 123: AJ Swoboda, on Wandering, Doubt, and Hope

4 years ago

Subscribe/Rate/Review Seminary Dropout in iTunes Dr. A. J. Swoboda is a professor, author, and pastor of Theophilus in urban Portland, Oregon. He teaches theology, biblical studies, and Christian history at George Fox Evangelical and Fuller Seminaries.

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Seminary Dropout 122: Osheta Moore on Being a MennoNerd from New Orleans to Boston to L.A.

4 years ago

Osheta Moore is an Anabaptist-y, wife, mom, writer and podcaster in Los Angeles. She’s passionate about racial reconciliation, peacemaking, and community development in the urban core. At the top of her bucket list is dance in a flash mob—all the better if it’s to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” or Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy.”

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Does God Love You? Have a Plan for You?

4 years ago

What does it mean that “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life?” Is this messages distorted amid a culture of affluence and ease? Are we prepared for bad things to happen?

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Reformation, We Have a Problem!

4 years ago

Does the Reformation though help us engage in mission? Does typical protestant theology have a power problem and a context problem which work against mission? And what does it matter anyway?

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Seminary Dropout 121: Shawn Duncan, on Truly Helping those in Poverty, Gentrification, and the Role of the Church

4 years ago

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Dr. Shawn Duncan is the Director of Training and Education for Focused Community Strategies (FCS), a Christian community development organization that has been partnering with distressed urban neighborhoods in Atlanta for the last 40 years.

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Seminary Dropout 120: Elizabeth Esther, Author of Spiritual Sobriety: The Promise of Healthy Faith When Good Religion Goes Bad

4 years ago

Elizabeth Esther is the author of “Girl at The End of the World: my escape from fundamentalism in search of faith with a future.” She is a popular, award-winning blogger and advocate for children’s rights.

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The Art of Bi-Vocational

4 years ago

Is being a bi-vocational pastor a necessary evil or a positive opportunity? In this re-broadcast of the most popular episode of “Theology on Mission”, David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw discuss bi-vocational ministry, how it is an opportunity to rethink pastoral vocation and church ministry, all wrapped in personal stories.

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Jesus and the Other Bridge Illustration

4 years ago

Does your understanding of salvation makes sense of the entirety of Jesus’ life? Does your theory of the atonement integrate every part of Jesus’ life, his life, his death, his resurrection?

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Seminary Dropout 119: Brad Lomenick, Author of H3 Leadership

4 years ago

Brad Lomenick is a strategic advisor and leadership consultant. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences, churches and colleges as well as author of The Catalyst Leader (Thomas Nelson, 2013).

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Seminary Dropout 118: Derwin Gray on Playing in the NFL, Money, & the Challenges of a Multiethnic Church

4 years ago

Derwin L. Gray is the founding and Lead Pastor of Transformation Church (www.TransformationChurch.tc), a multi-ethnic, multi-generational, mission-shaped community with two campuses in South Carolina (Indian Land and Rock Hill), both just south of Charlotte, North Carolina.

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