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God‘s story is the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But it‘s also humanity‘s story, the story of a world fallen and blown apart and of a world reshaped and restored. It‘s the beginning of all beginnings and the end of all ends. Join Brent Siddall and the Rev Ian ‘Reido‘ Reid as they explore God, time, salvation and the cosmos. Explore the stories of Western culture as they pivot and interact with the main narrative of salvation history.
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Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Is ‘The Night of the Hunter’ a Christmas movie about spiritual warfare?
Brent talks to Hannah Long about the classic 1955 movie starring Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish and directed by Charles Laughton.
Hannah is a passionate cinephile. She writes cultural commentary and film criticism for a number of publications including ‘The Dispatch’, ‘Angelus News’, ‘American Consequences’ and ‘American Cinema Production’.
Hannah’s article ‘Why the Night of the Hunter is a Christmas Movie’ is published In ‘First Things’.
- (1:05) What is ‘The Night of the Hunter’?
- (5:30) A Christmas movie;
- (7:35) The movie and spiritual warfare;
- (10:30) Why has the movie been seen as ‘anti-Christian’?
- (12:45) The culture of Appalachia;
- (17:30) Robert Mitchum;
- (20:15) Evil as both powerful and ridiculous;
- (23:30) What the movie has to say about children;
- (26:30) Apples.
Links mentioned in this episode:
/www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/01/why-the-night-of-the-hunter-is-a-christmas-movie
letterboxd.com/hannah_long/films/
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Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
In what sense is the crucifixion the crowning moment of history?
Brent and Ian discuss Mark 15:16-39.
- (1:08) A key moment of salvation history;
- (2:50) The soldiers and Jesus;
- (4:00) The crown of thorns;
- (7:50) Golgotha;
- (7:43) The wine with myrrh;
- (8:55) The third hour;
- (9:35) The two robbers;
- (12:00) The sixth hour and the ninth hour. An undoing of creation?
- 14:20) The symbolism of darkness;
- (15:10) Psalm 22;
- (18:00) The temple curtain.
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Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Brent is joined by Jennifer Holberg to talk about the poetry and life of the great Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Hopkins was no staid conventional Victorian but a poet-priest who used innovative language and form to communicate the spiritual essence of nature and things.
Jennifer is professor and chair of the English Department at Calvin University in the States and co-director of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing. She’s also the author of the book ‘Nourishing Narratives’ and she thinks that Hopkins could be in the running for ‘the best Christian poet ever’.
- (2:30) Hopkins – the ‘best Christian poet ever’?
- (9:15) ‘Inscape’ and ‘instress’;
- (11:00) ‘As Kingfishers Catch Fire’;
- (17:15) The ‘Terrible’ Sonnets;
- (23:00 Where to start with Hopkins?
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Narratives-Power-Story-Shape/dp/1514005247
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Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
How did the Bible come into being?
Brent talks with Robert Suggs about his new Whitaker House book ‘The Book that Conquered Time: How the Bible Came to Be’.
Rob has written or collaborated on more than 60 books. His clients have included New York Times best-selling authors such as Lee Strobel, Mark Batterson, David Jeremiah, and Bruce Wilkinson. He worked with Jeremy and Jennifer Williams on ‘Tenacious’ which is being turned into a movie. Rob served for three years as a senior editor at ‘Walk Through the
Bible Ministries’ and is an experienced teacher and preacher. For two decades, Rob contributed many cartoons to ‘Christianity Today’ and ‘Leadership Journal’.
- (1:05) Rob and cartoons;
- (2:50) Rob’s memories of the Bible;
- (5:00) The Bible as the world’s greatest love story;
- (6:30) The Bible in our culture;
- (8:15) How was the Old Testament put together?
- ( 10:20) The Dead Sea Scrolls;
- (13:00) The New Testament;
- (16:30) Oral tradition;
- (19:00) Canon formation;
- (20:40) Non-canonical books;
- (22:00) When was the New Testament canon formed?
- (26:00) English translations. The KJV.
Links mentioned in this episode:
/www.amazon.com/Book-that-Conquered-Time-Bible-ebook/dp/B0BXGD4XRN
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Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Brent talks with Julie Seals the author of a new Bridge-Logos book called ‘All My Hope: A Prisoner No More’. Julie unveils her extraordinary journey of overcoming a 17 year addiction to crystal meth and being transformed by the power of God.
Julie is now an ordained minister and prison evangelist, is a popular keynote speaker for women’s conferences and also ministers in church services and youth ministry events. She co-founded her Hope Recovery Ministry in 2022.
- (1:15) Crossing the border;
- (3:20) Julie’s background;
- (3:50) God;
- (6:00) The drugs;
- (13:30) God reaches out;
- (14:30) Julie’s conversion;
- (17:15) Rehab in prison;
- (24:40) Julie’s prison ministry.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/All-My-Hope-Prisoner-More/dp/1610361628
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Saturday Feb 24, 2024
Saturday Feb 24, 2024
‘The modern church is immersed in a competitive, polarized, and status driven society. It’s hard to have conversations about important issues when so many are defensive and unwilling to learn. Too often, Christians fall into these same traps. The health and witness of the church urgently depend on recovering an essential biblical virtue, humility’.
Brent talks with Dennis Edwards about his new IVP book ‘Humility Illuminated: The Biblical Path Back to Christian Character’.
Dennis is associate professor of New Testament as well as vice president for church relations and dean of North Park Seminary, Chicago. He has worked in urban ministry for over three decades, including serving as a church planter in Brooklyn and Washington DC.
- (1:15) Why the church needs to recover humility;
- (2:10) Why has the church become so polarized?
- (3:55) What is humility?
- (7:20) Humility and submission to God;
- (8:30) Repentance and humility;
- (12:10) Physical tasks in church!
- (14:00) How can churches embody humility?
- (15:15) Humility in times of conflict;
- (17:10) Humility and suffering;
- (18:30) Humility and endurance;
- (21:30) Church worship and humility;
- (24:15) How is humility empowering?
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Humility-Illuminated-Biblical-Christian-Character/dp/151400044X
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Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
‘A former officer grapples with the reality of our broken police culture’.
Daniel Reinhardt spent 24 years as a police officer near Cleveland, Ohio in the States. He was long unaware of the ways the culture of the police department was shaping him, but gradually, through his own experiences as a police officer and through the mentorship of Black Christians in his life, his eyes were opened to a difficult truth: police brutality against racial minorities was endemic to the culture of the system itself.
Daniel’s new book from IVP America is ‘Rethinking the Police: An Officer’s Confession and the Pathway to Reform’.
Daniel served as a police officer for 24 years. After retiring from the police force, he was assistant professor at the Heart of Texas Foundation College of Ministry at the Memorial Unit, a prison in Rosharon, Texas. Currently, he’s associate director of student life and applied ministry at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
- (1:20) What made Daniel want to become a policeman?
- (1:55) Police brutality and police culture;
- (2:30) Police culture in the States;
- (5:10) Daniel’s experience of policing;
- (8:50) The experience that changed Daniel’s view;
- (12:00) History of policing in England and the States;
- (14:10) Policing in the 60’s;
- (15:30) Rodney King;
- (20:00) Michael Brown and George Floyd;
- (21:50) Servant leadership and reform;
- (25:45) Community policing;
- (29:00) Investing in local communities.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Police-Officers-Confession-Pathway/dp/151400612X
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Saturday Feb 17, 2024
Saturday Feb 17, 2024
‘People with disabilities are often excluded from full participation in church communities’. Churches must both consider the theological implications of disability and also become places where people with disabilities lead.
Brent talks with Jody Michele and Andrea Mae, two of the authors (with Andrew Draper) of a new IVP book called ‘Disabling Leadership: A Practical Theology for the Broken Body of Christ’.
Jody is a locally licensed minister at Urban Light Community Church in Muncie, Indiana and an independent consultant on issues relating to disability.
Andrea is a leader at Urban Light Community Church where she serves on the church board and chairs the pastor/parish committee. She works in special education and advocacy for the disability community, presenting at multiple organisations and universities.
- (1:35) Are our churches safe places for people with disabilities?
- (3:20) Experience of disability;
- (5:30) The church and disability;
- (11:30) Why is it important for people with disabilities to lead in the church?
- (14:40) The image of God;
- (16:45) Resurrection and disability;
- (21:55) People with disabilities in ministry.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.christianbook.com/disabling-leadership-practical-theology-broken-christ/9781514003350/pd/003358
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Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
‘Cancer is an overgrowth, a kudzu:/Tangling and strangling legitimate life. Chemo is a killing, a burning out: Burning down to ashy carbon, indiscriminately But cancer, did you know that I am a poet’?
Brent talks with poet Katy Bowser Hutson about her new IVP America book called ‘Now I Lay Me Down to Fight: A Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer’ (second edition).
Katy is a forming member of the children’s band ‘Rain for Roots’. She is the co-author with Tish Harrison Warren and Fio Paris Oakes of ‘Little Prayers for Ordinary Days’ and a contributing author to ‘It Was Good: Making Music to the Glory of God’.
- (1:20) Why do we need poets?
- (2:30) Cancer;
- (3:45) Katy’s cancer diagnosis;
- (5:15) Poetry as a tool;
- (12:00) ‘Meeting my Oncologist’;
- (13:30) Cancer as a battle;
- (14:30) Bach’s Goldberg Variations;
- (15:15) ‘Sleep As War’;
- (17:15) Jesus in these poems;
- (19:50) ‘Frustration’;
- (21:20) God’s comfort.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Now-Lay-Me-Down-Fight/dp/1514007991
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Saturday Feb 10, 2024
Saturday Feb 10, 2024
‘Loving our neighbor isn’t just a nice idea – its one of Jesus’ most important commands’. But who is our neighbor?
Brent is joined by Dr. Emily Smith to talk about her Zondervan book ‘The Science of the Good Samaritan: Thinking Bigger about Loving Our Neighbors’.
Emily is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine/surgery at Duke University and at the Duke Global Health Institute. During the Covid pandemic she also became known as the Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist through her social media outlets which reached 10 million people.
- (1:00) What is an epidemiologist?
- (2:10) Emily and science;
- (4:50) The story of the Good Samaritan;
- (6:10) Jesus and our neighbor;
- (7:30) Racism and health disparities;
- (12:10) Discrimination and pregnancy;
- (15:00) Children’s surgery and the UN;
- (16:30) Access to healthcare;
- (18:00) A ‘trickle up’ economy;
- (20:00) Climate change;
- (21:30) Our food insecurity;
- (27:00) Coping with Covid;
- (30:00) Emily’s influences.
Links mentioned in this episode:
www.amazon.com/Science-Good-Samaritan-Thinking-Neighbors/dp/0310366690
Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist | Dr. Emily Smith | Substack
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