Podcast Overview

Author

Dare to Lead BONUS Episode

01/31/24

5 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

In this month's extra book club episode, we are discussing Brené Brown's book: "Dare to Lead." We talk about mixing secular and Biblical sources and the right and wrong way to do that.
The Decline of Christianity in Europe and the West

01/16/24

5 mins

By Scott Keith | Caleb Keith | Magnus Persson

agnus Persson joins Scott and Caleb Keith to discuss the decline of Christianity in Europe.
335: Gregory the Great - Pastoral Rule

01/12/24

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

The Art of Noise. In this episode, we discuss the ins and outs of pastoral care — the art, the discipline, and the experience of pastoral care — while reading The Rule of Gregory the Great. It’s all about church leadership and pastoral ministry in this week’s episode of Banned Books.
Reading the Bible in a Year with Chad Bird

01/09/24

4 mins

By Kelsi Klembara | Chad Bird

In the first episode of 2024, Kelsi chats with 1517 Scholar in Residence, Chad Bird, about the benefits to reading the Bible in a Year, some helpful and guiltless ways to approach this goal and reading Scripture in general.
- God's Word
- Scripture
334: MacDonald - The Cause of Spiritual Stupidity

01/08/24

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

The Man Who Sold The World. In this episode, we discuss what attachment to things rather than Christ gets us while reading George Macdonald’s Unspoken Sermons. The conversation leads us through the topics of higher and lower things, bread-making, willing and wanting, God-gifted vocations, and how to properly end a sermon.
- Preaching
- Vocation
Your pastor is a tool

01/05/24

4 mins

By Troy Neujahr | Craig Donofrio

How are we filled with the knowledge and spirtiual wisdom and understanding of God?
- Truth
- God's Word
- Wisdom
The Soul of Shame BONUS Episode

12/28/23

6 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

This month, we discuss the book "The Soul of Shame" by Dr. Curt Thompson. It was a really fun conversation, and Katie called it her top read of the year.
- Grace
- Hurt and Shame
- Book Review
- Sin
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
Idolatry of Growth with Bob Hiller

11/24/23

5 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik | Bob Hiller

Gretchen and Katie have a conversation with Rev. Bob Hiller about prosperity gospel, and how it sneaks into churches in a way that we start targeting the healthy people, the young families, and those who have something to offer the church.
Marriage and Forgiveness with Harrison Scott Key

11/21/23

7 mins

By Kelsi Klembara

Kelsi interviews author Harrison Scott Key about his latest book, "How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told."
Art and Faith BONUS episode

11/14/23

6 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

In this book club episode, we discuss "Art and Faith" by Makoto Fujimura. This was a book recommended to us, and we sort out the parts of this book that we appreciated, and the parts where we would disagree.
- Art
- Faith
- Book Review
- Vocation