Karen Swallow Prior On Reading Well (& Why Virtue is Tricky for Women)
Today on the Betwixt Podcast, Dr. Karen Swallow Prior talks about her newest book On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Literature. Her book walks readers through twelves literary works that show us how to live virtuously.
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Why Intersex Christian Slip Through the Pew Cracks: Lianne Simon Shares Her story of Fraught Faith Amidst the Culture Wars.
“Intersex is a broad label for people with differences of sex development (DSDs)—people whose bodies show physical characteristics of both male and female.” – Intersex and Faith
In this latest Betwixt Podcast episode, Deb Gregory talks with Lianne Simon about her experience as a Christian intersex woman.
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Larycia Hawkins on Stepping Out onto the Bridge of Solidarity.
“What does it mean to be an embodied question mark wherever you are on your journey?” This was the question Dr. Larycia Hawkins presented to her students at Wheaton College. “Our bodies do work for us.”
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Dominion with Richard Middleton: The Image of God & the Feminine Experience Part 5
Near the end of the twentieth century, the Functional View of the Image of God emerged with virtual consensus among Old Testament scholars. The discovery of ancient texts which used “image of God” language in reference to kings and cult images led scholars to recast the imago Dei in terms of how a king or priest functions as a royal representation of God.
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Sex Difference & the Image of God with Megan DeFranza (Part 4: Image of God & the Feminine Experience)
Theologian Megan DeFranza is a bridge-builder in a war zone. As culture battles rage around issues of gender and sexuality, Megan assists Christian communities through controversial conversations related to sex, gender, and sexuality.
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Betwixt Podcast on the Passage to Manhood with Craig Glass
Has the erosion of rites of passage adversly impacted men in Western culture? Craig Glass thinks so.
“The boys in the village must be initiated or they will burn down the village just to feel the heat.”
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Walter Brueggemann on Failed White Domination & the Door of Hope
“The old world of white domination has failed . . . we are seeing the anger and the fear and the hate about how uneasy we are of having to live in that moment.”
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02 Image of God & the Feminine Experience (Part 2): “Female Men of God” and the Early Church
In conversation with Church Historian Dr. Hannah Hunt, we explore the Substantive view of the imago Dei with an eye to Hellenistic influences on early Christian thought. These cultural and theological views led many virtuous women to reject their feminine bodies, forsake marriage and to perform spirituality through masculinization.
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Gender Differences: 3 Views
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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.
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