Podcast Overview

Author

Episode 282: Lifelong Learning for Ministry

07/19/24

6 mins

By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston

In episode TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO, Mike, Jason, and Wade discuss the importance of lifelong learning, especially for clergy.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

06/11/24

13 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember David C. Cook, his ministry, and his legacy.
- Christian History
- Education
Being Christian in academia

05/01/24

5 mins

By Adam Francisco | David Andersen

David and Adam recall their time as students and professors in higher education and discuss the issues associated with being a Christian in academia today.
345: Peterson - We Live in a World Filtered Through the Imagination

03/23/24

10 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Just My Imagination. In this episode, we read Eugene Peterson’s book, Under the Unpredictable Plant, and discuss theological imagination at length. What are the consequences when the church takes its cues from a culture with no imagination? Can Christians tell biblical stories without a theological imagination? What happens when the earthly and heavenly are divided by a lack of imagination into merely rationalized explanations?
- Art
- Literature
- Music
- Visual Arts
- Image of God
Story and Theology

02/29/24

6 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

In this episode, Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin talk about the impact of story on our theological understanding, and the use of story in the life of Christians.
The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Dorothy Sayers- Sleuthing the Mind of the Maker

02/24/24

5 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Weekend Edition for February 24-25. 2024
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

12/20/23

12 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Today on the Christian History Almanac, we have a question about the faith of Charles Dickens.
Ratzinger, voluntarism, and Islam

12/06/23

4 mins

By Adam Francisco | David Andersen

Nearly two decades ago, Pope Benedict XVI (formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) delivered what is often called the Regensburg lecture. Though it was meant to rekindle the relationship between faith and reason (or science and theology) in higher education, much of the world—or at least the Muslim majority world—got distracted by a brief reference he made to a fifteenth-century dialogue about Islam, its theological voluntarism, and the consequences of such a view of God.
Episode 256: Education as Formation

12/05/23

8 mins

By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston

In episode TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX, Mike and Wade are joined by Prof. Joshua Johnson from the college to discuss education as formation. Despite Wade’s best efforts, the guys got a little distracted at a few points, but we think it was fun, and the topic is one we hope to return to in the future.
- Education
C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia with Michael Ward

10/24/23

13 mins

By Kelsi Klembara

Dr. Michael Ward is an English literary critic and theologian. He works at the University of Oxford where he is a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion. He is the author of the award-winning Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis.
- Literature
- C.S. Lewis
Episode 243: Lutheran Colleges and the Formation of Students

08/09/23

11 mins

By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston

In episode TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE, Mike, Wade (even though he was just supposed to work the board), Jason, Nick Schmoller, and Dave Scharf discuss Lutheran higher education and the formation of students.
A Good Man is Hard to Find BONUS episode

07/31/23

7 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

This month's Book Club, we are doing a short story by Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find."