Regent College Podcast

We live in a society with many beliefs and practices. How should the church engage with the world? How should Christians preach the gospel into a world that is concerned with their ties to political parties? Should Christians only be concerned with evangelizing the world and not being involved in it? Join Ross Hastings, Andre Freitas and host Claire Perini as we discuss these questions and more on this week's episode of the Regent College Podcast.Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

How can you be prepared as a pastor to serve your congregation in a pluralistic society? What can you learn as a pastor from walking alongside your congregation? Why is it important to understand ministry as being tied to a journey with the rest of God's people? Join Ross Hastings, Darrell Johnson, and host Christina Lui as we discuss the upcoming Pastors and Leaders Conference - Ambassadors: Christ in the Public Square.https://www.regent-college.edu/Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

What is it like to visit Israel and Palestine in the 21st century? Is it anything like Israel in the time of Jesus? How can we talk about people on both sides of the conflict in a way that communicates the hope of Jesus Christ? Join Claire Perini, Bronwyn Spilsbury, and Walter Brynjolfson as we discuss these questions and more on this week's episode of the Regent College Podcast. Bronwyn Spilsbury is the director and pastoral host of Holy Land and Bible Land journeys. She’s a speaker, preacher, and writer, a mother, and a motivator . https://www.regent-college.edu/Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

Today's world is dominated by technology. We have access to iPhones, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, all of which are demanding our attention. How should Christians respond to the rapid development of technology happening all around us? Join Craig Gay, Ross Tuttle and host Claire Perini as we try to tackle this question in this week's episode of the Regent College Podcast. Craig Gay lectures in the area of Christianity, Society, and Culture, and directs Regent’s ThM degree program. He is the author of With Liberty or Justice for Whom? (Eerdmans, 1991), The Way of the (Modern) World (Eerdmans, 1998); Cash Values: The Value of Money the Nature of Worth (Eerdmans, 2004).https://www.regent-college.edu/Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

What do we discover about ourselves when we make art? Is art only for artists? How can the church engage with art? Join host Claire Perini, Jessica Morgun, Lauren Leith and Andrew Wilson as we discuss these questions and more on this week's episode of the Regent College Podcast.Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

What is Sabbath rest? How do we get it? Why do we need it? Join Josh Coutts, Matt Kitchener, and host Claire Perini as we discover what it means to take real Sabbath rest in today's incredibly busy world. Dr. Joshua Coutts joined Regent's faculty as a Lecturer in New Testament for the 2017-18 academic year. Over the course of his studies, Dr. Coutts has also had the opportunity to teach New Testament at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, Cornhill Training School (Glasgow), Prairie College (Three Hills, Alberta), and Evangelical Bible College (Zambia). He has published articles and book reviews in CRUX, Currents in Biblical Research, Expository Times, and the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology and presented papers at the Society of Biblical Literature, Seminar on the Old Testament in the New Testament, and the British New Testament Society Conference.https://www.regent-college.edu/Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:http

What value is there in engaging with fiction? How should Christians deal with other narratives? How can we avoid escapism? Join Mary McCampbell, Matt Nelson and host Amy Anderson as we tackle these questions and more in this week's episode of the Regent College Podcast. Dr. Mary McCampbell is a scholar-in-residence at Regent College for the 2018 winter term. She is an associate professor of humanities at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, where she teaches courses on postmodern theory and fiction, film and philosophy, and popular culture. A native Tennessean, she completed a doctorate in literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne focusing on the relationship between contemporary fiction, late capitalist culture, and the religious impulse.'https://www.regent-college.edu/Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://w

Early evangelicals like John Wesley and George Whitefield spoke much about 'true religion.' In his new book, The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism, Bruce Hindmarsh returns to the beginnings of evangelical spirituality by studying its 18th century pioneers.Bruce Hindmarsh is a professor of spiritual theology at Regent College. A past president of the American Society of Church History, he has published and spoken widely to international audiences on the history of early British evangelicalism. His previous books include John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition and The Evangelical Conversion Narrative.https://www.regent-college.edu/Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

Poet Christian Wiman once provocatively observed that "poetry often does theology better than theology." In this episode, Amy Anderson sits down with Dr. Chad Wriglesworth to talk about poetry and faith in a post-modern world, and how poetry can bear witness to participation in the life of God. Chad Wriglesworth is the Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Waterloo University. This episode was recorded in Summer 2017 when Chad taught two courses at Regent: "The Mindfulness of Marilynne Robinson" and "The Poetics of Faith in a Postmodern World."Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

How do we maintain regular spiritual practices in our busy daily lives? What is the meaning of contemplative listening? Join Claire Perini and Susan Phillips, Execute Director of New College Berkeley and author of The Cultivated Life, as they discuss these questions and more. Susan Phillips will be teaching Contemplative Listening in Spiritual Friendship and Direction at Regent College Summer School 2018. Go to https://www.regent-college.edu/summer to find out more about this and the rest of our summer courses. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

In this episode, Amy Anderson sits down with leading church historians Mark Noll and Mary Noll Venables to discuss the Reformation, how there were actually many Reformations, and how we are still feeling their effects today. Mark Noll will be teaching the course HIST 533: Six-Continent Christianity in the Winter 2018 term Reading Weeks: February 13-16 and March 26-29. If you are interested in this course, or other courses at Regent College, visit https://www.regent-college.edu/course-listing.Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

Iain Provan returns to the podcast to discuss his book, The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture, releasing on October 31, 2017. Join us as he and Amy Anderson talk about the importance of the Reformation, clarity of Scripture, literal reading, and how to approach difficult texts in the Bible. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

Activist, Feminist. Imperialist. Liberal. Evangelical. These are just a few of the labels applied to Josephine Butler (1828-1906) and her legacy. Join Dr. Amanda Russell-Jones and host James Smoker for a conversation on Josephine's life, her passion to abolish the exploitation of women, the poor and slavery, and how her life speaks to us today. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

Claire Perini sits down with David O. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, to discuss the arts, worship, their integration and challenges, and what it was like to talk the Psalms with Eugene Peterson and Bono. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.edu.Recordings of lectures and courses with David O. Taylor may be found at www.regentaudio.com. His most recent course at Regent was offered in Summer 2017, "APPL/INDS 568: Worship & the Arts".https://www.regent-college.edu/Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

In this episode, Claire Perini sits down with the Founding Director of Home for Good and former President of the London School of Theology to discuss the refugee crisis around the world and the Christian response. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.edu.Home for Good's website is www.homeforgood.org.ukRecordings of courses by Krish Kandiah at Regent College can be found at www.regentaudio.comThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

In this episode, upcoming Pastors Conference speakers Karen Wilk and Eric O. Jacobsen joins host Claire Perini to talk about what it means to be the church and to join God's work in your neighborhood. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.edu.Thanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

In this episode, Dr. Mariam Kovalishyn joins hosts Amy Anderson and James Smoker to talk about why she studies the New Testament Epistle of James. The short letter, famously maligned by Martin Luther, contains wisdom, grace, and a deep social concern still relevant today. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

Lydia Corriveau, a nurse, came to Regent College in Fall 2016 seeking answers to questions about medicine, ethics, and suffering. Theological ethicist Ashley Moyse also joined the Regent community in Fall 2016, beginning a post-doctoral fellowship in science and theology. In this week's podcast, Claire Perini hosts a conversation between Lydia and Ashley about the broken body, the unity of body and soul, and technology's impact on our experience of suffering and death. Dr. Ashley Moyse joins Regent College as part of a three-year initiative to advance conversations about the relationship of theology and science at the college and beyond, made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.

We're talking music in this week's podcast! Music historian and composer Janet Danielson and worship leader Dave Siverns discuss the historical connection between music and Christianity and music's essential contributions to human relationships. The musical piece heard in this episode is Bach's Fugue in G Minor. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe

Join Dr. Iain Provan, Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College, and host Amy Anderson as they talk about scriptural interpretation, what we mean when we say Scripture is "clear," and what we can recover from the leaders of the Reformation on these issues. Dr. Provan's book on biblical interpretation will be released in Fall 2017 by Baylor University Press. As of this recording, it was tentatively titled Seriously Literal Interpretation. The name has since been changed to The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.eduThanks for listening!Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.To learn more about our summer programs visit:https://www.regent-college.edu/summerSubscribe to our newsletter to hear all about Regent College:https://www.regent-college.edu/about-us/subscribe