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Dr. Danny Carroll from Wheaton College joins Mark and Rex to discuss his book The Bible and Borders: Hearing God’s Word on Immigration in preparation for his lecture at Jessup’s Faculty of Theology Annual Spring Lecture.

Fellow Jessup faculty member Brad Swope joins Mark and Rex to discuss the nature of truth. Is there such a thing as absolute truth? Do we have access to it? Can we be certain of anything? The trio discusses these

New York Times’ Bestselling author, Jemar Tisby, joins Mark and Rex again to discuss his new book How to Fight Racism. TRANSCRIPT 0:01 Welcome to Jessup think I’m your host Mark Moore, and your co host, Rex Gurney. And Rex,

Mark and Rex discuss one of their topics: theology. Specifically they ruminate on the fact that we are all theologians and how much our thoughts about God truly matter.

Author and cohost of the popular podcast Bible for Normal People, Jared Byas, joins Mark and Rex to discuss his new book Love Matters More: How Fighting to be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus.

Author and pastor Dan Kimball sits down with Mark and Rex to discuss his new book, How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture.

WJU Psychology professor Stephanie Caine joins Mark and Rex to discuss the idea of race as a social construct. The classification system based on skin color developed over the last four centuries is not grounded in biology or theology but

Rex and Mark discuss the scope and influence of dispensational theology in traditional evangelical thought.

Theologian Esau McCaulley joins the show to talk about his new book Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope.

Author and theologian Kelly M. Kapic joins Mark and Rex to discuss his book Embodied Hope: A Theological Medidation on Pain and Suffering.

Mark and Rex highlight two powerful Christian voices of the 20th century: Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. TRANSCRIPT 0:00 Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore, and your co host Rex Gurney. And Rex On today's episode, we're gonna highlight two American writers, okay, bankers, who also both happened to be Catholic, who have have made an impact on American culture. But maybe you're not as well known within the evangelical community. So we want to highlight them today. Okay. 0:27 And and these are two people that I for one had never heard of until I got into college, actually. And maybe even after that, I sort of grew up in a Catholic free world. And Ryan, I would never even know these people. I'm only to find out like, I found a whole lot of things out that they're like world famous, and I just had never heard of. So. 0:49 Yeah, so we're excited to dive into kind of a story of Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton. So hope you enjoy. 1:02 Rex in 2015, Pope Francis actually became the first pontiff to

Derek Martin, director of the Theatre program at Jessup, joins Mark and Rex to discuss the precarious landscape of Christian aesthetics. In other words, the trio discusses why sometimes Christians make bad art.

New York Times’ Bestselling author, Jemar Tisby, joins Mark and Rex to discuss his book The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism.

Dr. David VanDrunen from Westminster Seminary California joins Mark and Rex to discuss his recent book, Politics after Christendom.

Musical guest Timothy John Stafford joins Mark to talk about his most recent EP Letters from Lancaster Prison. On the album Tim tells the stories of five different inmates serving a life sentence without parole. The songs cover themes of

Dr. Michael McGrann, chair of Jessup’s Institute of Biodiveristy and the Environment, joins Mark and Rex for part two of their series on theology and environmentalism. Dr. McGrann helps them understand how science and faith teach us the interdependence of

Dr. Meghan McMahonJohnson rejoins Mark and Rex to further discuss issues of race and equality. The three look to identify ways forward to speak out against racism and inequality.

Dr. Meghan McMahon Johnson joins Mark and Rex to discuss the current unrest in America regarding racial injustice. The Church has much to learn from King's prophetic and profound "Letter from Birmingham Jail". TRANSCRIPT 0:02 Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore, and I'm your co host Rex Gurney. In today's episode, we'll explore the current unrest in America concerning racial injustice and inequality. And the conversation will be framed by Dr. King's profound and prophetic letter from a Birmingham Jail. The church in the white church most explicitly has so much to learn from his wisdom and insight. We're joined by Dr. Megan McMahon Johnson, who's our Director of Student care here at Jessup. And we hope you enjoy the sale. We hope it challenges you to think more deeply about issues of race in the church's response. 0:49 All right, well, we've we've got a pretty easy topic today, we can just smooth sailing through this one. It's clear in our world today, and particularly our nation, that we nee

Dr. Matt Godshall joins Mark and Rex to explore the important topic of how theology positively or negatively affects our view of environmental ethics.

Dr. Libby Backfish joins Mark and Rex to discuss another area of the Old Testament that we often misread: the Law. Dr. Backfish encourages us to look at the Law through a covanental lens.