Author

  1. Pain and Sanctification

    book
    09/19/23
    5 mins
    By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik
    Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin discuss today the issue of pain in childbirth, and whether or not taking pain medication during childbirth effects your sanctification, or your moral standing.
    Pain and Sanctification

  2. All My Knotted Up Life BONUS Episode

    book
    08/31/23
    5 mins
    By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik
    In our monthly book club episode, these 2 Lutheran women (Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin) discuss Beth Moore's memoir, "All My Knotted Up Life."
    All My Knotted Up Life BONUS Episode

  3. Mental Illness and the Gospel with John Bryant

    book
    08/30/23
    5 mins
    By Kelsi Klembara
    This week’s episode is a conversation between author John Bryant and Kelsi about John’s new book (out in September), A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ.
    Mental Illness and the Gospel with John Bryant

  4. Accountability

    book
    08/27/23
    4 mins
    By Adam Francisco | Scott Keith | Caleb Keith | Bruce Hillman
    Are accountability groups a good idea? The Thinking Fellows discuss the potential use of accountability groups in the church.
    Accountability

  5. What's wrong with you, backslider?

    book
    08/04/23
    3 mins
    By Troy Neujahr | Craig Donofrio
    Craig and Troy work out the very nature of the Christian faith . . . but maybe it's not what you thought it was.
    What's wrong with you, backslider?

  6. A Good Man is Hard to Find BONUS episode

    book
    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."
    A Good Man is Hard to Find BONUS episode

  7. The Relationship Between Faith and Reason with David Andersen

    book
    07/18/23
    5 mins
    By Kelsi Klembara
    Author David Andersen joins Kelsi to discuss his book, "What Can We Really Know? The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding" and how the study of knowledge leads us to some inevitable truths about ourselves and the limits of knowledge, in general.
    The Relationship Between Faith and Reason with David Andersen

  8. Talking to Kids about Purity and Modesty

    book
    07/13/23
    5 mins
    By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik
    In this last episode with guest Rachel Joy Welcher, we discuss the concept of modesty, and how we talk to our children about their sexuality and their bodies if not through "purity culture" or the secular culture.
    Talking to Kids about Purity and Modesty

  9. Talking Back to Purity Culture

    book
    07/06/23
    5 mins
    By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik
    To continue our conversation of legalism that becomes cultish, we brought on Rachel Joy Welcher who wrote a book on the purity culture movement.
    Talking Back to Purity Culture

  10. The Limits and Expanse of Christian Belief with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

    book
    07/04/23
    6 mins
    By Kelsi Klembara
    Sarah Hinlicky Wilson joins Kelsi to talk about her new novel, A Tumblin' Down, the good and bad of church community, and how the Christian belief isn't always best defined by our own self-reflection.
    The Limits and Expanse of Christian Belief with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

  11. Supper of the Lamb BONUS episode

    book
    06/30/23
    4 mins
    By Gretchen Ronnevik
    For our June book club bonus episode, we are discussing Robert Farrar Capon's "Supper of the Lamb."
    Supper of the Lamb BONUS episode

  12. Living as Sinners and Saints with Steven Paulson

    book
    06/22/23
    6 mins
    By Kelsi Klembara | Steven Paulson
    Kelsi speaks with 1517 Senior Scholar in Residence, Dr. Steven Paulson, about the somewhat understated and yet essential Reformation idea that the Christian is simul iustus et peccator (simul), or simultaneously sinner and saint in this life.
    Living as Sinners and Saints with Steven Paulson