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Ep42. The Second Annual Advent Special Spectacular! with Kara N Slade

I sat down with the Rev’d Canon Dr Kara N Slade to talk Advent. We discuss judgment, hope, time and the church calendar, progress, music, navigating symbols of light and dark, preaching as invitation, Christmas coming with a bang, liturgy, and important Advent theologians such as Fleming Rutledge and Karl Barth. Welcome to the Second Annual Love Rinse Repeat Advent Special Spectacular!! Kara N. Slade is an Adjunct Professor of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. She serves as associate rector at Trinity Church, associate chaplain of the Episcopal Church at Princeton, and Canon Theologian of the Diocese of New Jersey. A native of Pensacola, Florida and lifelong Southerner, she received her PhD in Christian theology and ethics at Duke University in 2018, with research interests that include Karl Barth, Søren Kierkegaard, and the ethics of science, technology, and medicine. She serves on the Committee for the Priesthood of the Diocese of New Jersey and the General Board of Examining Chaplains, and is also the past chair of the Society of Scholar-Priests.

Ep 41. Christian Women in the Patristic World, Lynn H. Cohick and Amy Brown Huges

I sat down with Amy Brown Hughes and Lynn H. Cohick to talk about their book Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries (Baker, 2017). We discuss responsible remembering, the emphasis on martyrdom, asceticism, virginity, and the renunciation (or at least creative use) of money during the era, the ways women were impacting the development of the dynamic theology of the early church, how Thecla “becomes what any specific generation of the church needs her to be”, and which woman from the era needs their own, sprawling, high-budget mini-series on whatever streaming platform needs quality content.Lynn H. Cohick is provost and dean of Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado. She is the author of Women in the World of the Earliest Christians and commentaries on Philippians and Ephesians. She is also coauthor of The New Testament in Antiquity.Amy Brown Hughes is Assistant Professor of Theology at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. in historical theology with an emphasis in early Christianity from Wheaton College, and is the co-host of the On Script Podcast, which has conversations on current biblical scholarship.Buy the BookFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod /// Follow me: @liammiller87Music by FyzexFind More

Ep40. The Stations of the Cross, Katherine Sonderegger and Margaret Adams Parker

“The Stations speak to us in the political, social, and economic conflicts and dilemmas that descend on us all. And to a culture, to individuals, and, sadly, even to a church that scrupulously turn away from the reality of death, the Stations speak an important word about that final frontier.” I sat down with Mary Adams Parker and Katherine Sonderegger to talk about their book, Praying the Stations of the Cross: Finding Hope in a Weary Land (Eerdmans, 2019). We talk about their own approaches to the Stations as visual artist and preacher respectively, what we learn about the contact of the body of Jesus with the body of others across the Stations, what the Stations reveal about Mary, the power of the Stations in times such as these, finding ways to hold the together the suffering and glory of Christ, preparing art for ecclesial settings, why preaching should be invitation rather than exhortation, and why we should attend to beauty, to the sublime, when writing theology or creating artworks to the glory of God and guidance of a Christian community. Margaret Adams Parker is a professional artist and theological educator, deeply committed to the visual arts as a means of biblical interpretation and an aid to prayer. Her works can be found in her earlier collaboration with Ellen Davis, Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth Through Image and Text and on her website: http://www.margaretadamsparker.com/ Katherine Sonderegger is the William Meade Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary, the first volume of her Systematic Theology, The Doctrine of God was released in 2015, and volume 2 The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons will be released in 2020. Buy the book: https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7664/praying-the-stations-of-the-cross.aspx Music by FyzexFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod Follow Me: @liammiller87 Find more: loverinserepeat.com/podcast

Ep39. Theology, Animals, and the Melbourne Cup; David L. Clough

With the Melbourne Cup on our doorstep I sat down with David L. Clough to talk about ethics, theology and the relationships between human and non-human animals. We talk about the problems with a human-centred view of creation (where animals exist for our purpose), the surprising concern for animals demonstrated throughout the Christian tradition, the vocation of all creatures to live particular lives before God. I also ask what the anthropomorphism of Peppa Pig illuminates about our creaturely similarity, and a question based on The Octonaughts about the ethics of intervention to care for animals as if they are our neighbours.David L. Clough, Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chester, UK. His books include, Ethics in Crisis: Interpreting Barth's Ethics, and Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War. He co-edited Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Animals, and Animals as Religious Subjects. In 2015, he launched the CreatureKind project, which engages churches in the UK and North America with farmed animal welfare as a faith issue. In 2018 he launched the DefaultVeg project encouraging organisations to make a simple change to events catering policy that benefits humans, animals, and the planet. He is a Methodist Local Preacher and has served on national ecumenical working groups on the ethics of modern warfare and the theology of climate change. Today’s discussion centres on his recently completed, landmark two-volume work, On Animals (Volume I Systematic Theology was published in 2012; and Volume II Theological Ethics, came out this year – both published with Bloomsbury).Follow David on twitter: @DLCloughFollow the show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87More: www.loverinserepeat.comMusic by Fyzex

Ep38. Theologising Brexit, Anthony G. Reddie

I sat down with Professor Anthony G. Reddie to talk about his book Theologising Brexit: a Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique (Routledge 2019). We discuss what lay beneath the Brexit vote – unexamined colonial attitudes of exceptionalism, the legacy of Imperial Christian ecclesiology and missiology, the scourge of White supremacy, entitlement and privilege. I ask him about writing theology that is “polemical and subjective”, what drew him to Black Liberation Theology, the array of tools he employs to help people grapple with race, history, and privilege, wrestling with the Bible in churches, and the treatment of the Windrush generation and assumptions about who gets to be a ‘British Christian’. We really do cover a lot!Anthony G. Reddie is Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systemic Theology at the University of South Africa. He was recently appointed the Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture. He is leading scholar in the field of Black Theology; editor of Black Theology journal, and the author of over 70 essays and articles on Christian Education and Black Theology, and the author or editor of 18 books including Working Against The Grain: Re-imaging Black Theology in the 21st Century, Black Theology In Transatlantic Dialogue, Dramatizing Theologies: A Participative Approach To Black God Talk, and, the focus of our conversation today, Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique (out now with Routledge).Find out more about Anthony.Buy the Book.Follow Anthony on Twitter: @AnthonyGReddieFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow Me: @liammiller87Music by FyzexFind more interviews and writing.

Ep37. Mission After Pentecost, Amos Yong

“The divine wind rustles, hovers, and swoops ‘over the face of the waters’, touches the created orders and catches the world up in the divine witness”I sat down with Amos Yong to discuss his new book , Mission after Pentecost: The Witness of the Spirit from Genesis to Revelation. We talk about what underpins his prolific and widespread writings, what is gained from approaching theology with pneumatology in the foreground, his approach to mission as an opening up to others, his commentary on the Gerasene demoniac and what it means for the church to participation in the mission of the Spirit – when that mission is one of deliverance both cosmic and socio-political, and much more.Amos Yong is Dean of the School of Theology and the School of Intercultural Studies and Professor of Theology and Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary. Some of his books include, Spirit of Love: A Trinitarian Theology of Grace, The Bible, Disability and the Church, In the Days of Caesar: Pentecostalism and Political Theology, Hospitality and the Other, Theology and Down Syndrome, Discerning the Spirit(s): A Pentecostal-Charismatic Contribution to Christian Theology of Religions, and Renewing Christian Theology: Systematics for a Global Christianity, with Jonathan A. Anderson. He has also authored 200 (and counting) scholarly articles in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals, edited book collections, and other venues. Dr. Yong is past president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies.Buy the BookFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87Music by FyzexMore: loverinserepeat.com

Ep36. Hip Hop Missiology, Daniel White Hodge

Hip Hop theology allows us to live in ambiguity while still seeking the face of God.I sat down with Daniel White Hodge to talk about his book Homeland Insecurity: A Hip Hop Missiology for the Post-Civil Rights Context (IVP 2018). We talk about his concept of the wild, learning theology and missiology from Hip Hop, the gospel messages of Tupac Amaru Shakur and Kendrick Lamar, the deep problems of short-term mission and white led urban ministry, missiology as civil disruption, why most conversations on non-violence are too simplistic, and his claim that, generally, “reconciliation has no meaning other than marketable charm.” It is a wide-ranging and passionate conversation and I am very excited to get to share it with you all.Daniel White Hodge, is professor of communication at North Park University in Chicago. He is the editor in chief of the Journal of Hip Hop Studies, and author of Heaven has a Ghetto, The Soul of Hip Hop, Hip Hop’s Hostile Gospel, and Homeland Insecurity: a hip hop missiology for the post-civil rights context. He is also the host of the podcast Profane Faith now in its fourth season.Buy the BookFind out more about Daniel White Hodge: Website, Twitter: @danwhitehodgeFollow the show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87Find more interviews and writings: www.loverinserepeat.comMusic by Fyzex

Ep35. The Big Story in Romans, Beverly Roberts Gaventa

"A prolonged and careful study of Romans means finding that salvation is more complex, more cosmic, more challenging than we have usually imagined."I sat down with the esteemed New Testament scholar Beverly Roberts Gaventa to talk about her book "When in Romans: an invitation to linger with the Gospel according to Paul". We talk about why she was drawn (and remains drawn to Paul), her big picture approach to Romans centring on the themes of salvation, Israel, ethics, and community, Terrence Malick’s film Tree of Life, taking seriously the "all" in conversations on salvation, writing on Romans in the shadow of Der Romerbrief, and why Phoebe goes to show that Pauline theology is not just a guy thing.Beverly Roberts Gaventa (PhD, Duke University) is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She is also Emerita Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. Gaventa served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2016 and is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Our Mother Saint Paul, Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus, and commentaries on 1 and 2 Thessalonians and Acts.Buy the Book Follow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87Music by Fyzex

Ep34. Christian Mission in the New Millennium, David Congdon and John Flett

I sat down with David Congdon and John Flett to talk about their new edited volume, Converting Witness: the Future of Christian Mission in the New Millennium. We talk about why David and John keep writing about mission, the present state of the field of missiology, how the Bible is/should be read for mission, the issues with the “Theological Interpretation of Scripture” movement, the problematic way the term “Christendom” is employed, and John offers the hottest of takes on a certain trinitarian ontologies conference.The essays in Converting Witness are a celebration of the life and work of Darrell L Guder, and if you don’t know who that is, we begin by talking about his impact and importance.John G. Flett is associate professor of missiology and intercultural theology at Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne, Australia. His books include The Witness of God: The Trinity, Missio Dei, Karl Barth and the Nature of Christian Community, and Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective. He has lived and taught in the USA, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Korea, Germany, the DRC, and Australia. Follow him on Twitter @FlettJohnDavid W. Congdon is acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kansas and adjunct instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. His books include, The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology, Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology, and The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch. He also coedited (with W. Travis McMaken) Karl Barth in Conversation. Follow him on Twitter @DWCongdonBuy the BookFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow Me: @liammiller87See more: www.loverinserepeat.comMusic by Fyzex.

Ep33. Healing our Broken Humanity, Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Joseph Hill

I sat down (in person!) with Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Joseph Hill to talk about their new book, Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalising the Church and Renewing the World. We talk about the process of co-authoring, why they focused on practices, justice, lament, race, beauty, hospitality, and how writing the book has shaped their experience with The Sermon on the Mount.Grace Ji-Sun Kim received her M.Div. from Knox College (University of Toronto) and her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She is an Associate Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion. She is the author or editor of 16 books, Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide (Fortress Press) cowritten with Dr. Susan Shaw; Healing Our Broken Humanity, co-written with Graham Hill, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Holy Spirit, Mother Daughter Speak, co-written with Elisabeth Sophia Lee; Planetary Solidarity (Fortress Press) co-edited with Hilda Koster; Intercultural Ministry co-edited with Jann Aldredge-Clanton (Judson Press); Making Peace with the Earth (WCC); Embracing the Other (Eerdmans); Here I Am(Judson Press); Christian Doctrines for Global Gender Justice (Palgrave) co-edited with Jenny Daggers; Theological Reflections on “Gangnam Style” (Palgrave Macmillan) co-written with Joseph Cheah; Contemplations from the Heart (Wipf & Stock); Reimagining with Christian Doctrines co-edited with Jenny Daggers (Palgrave Macmillan); Colonialism, Han and the Transformative Power (Palgrave Macmillan); The Holy Spirit, Chi and the Other (Palgrave Macmillan); and The Grace of Sophia (Pilgrim Press). Follow Grace on Twitter: @GracejisunkimGraham Joseph Hill (PhD, Flinders University) is Research Coordinator at Stirling Theological College (University of Divinity) in Melbourne, Australia. Graham has planted and pastored churches, and been in theological education for twenty years. He is the author or editor of 6 books (with 5 more coming in 2019) including Global Church (IVP, 2016), Healing Our Broken Humanity, (IVP, 2018), and Salt, Light and a City (Cascade, 2017). Graham also directs The Global Church Project. Follow Graham on Twitter: @GrahamJGHillBuy the Book Follow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87Music by Fyzex