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Ep87. Reading the Magnificat in Australia, Anne Elvey

I spoke with Anne Elvey about her new book, Reading the Magnificat in Australia. We discuss her approach to the project as a poet and biblical scholar who has creatively engaged the Magnificat for many years, and how this combination connects to a hermeneutics of creative imagination and need for creative writing to 'turn the breath' toward empathy and resistance. We talk about keeping an aspect of unknowing central to the book's epistemological frame and the hermeneutic of restraint. I also ask about how the Magnificat offers a call to "reconfigure the learned desire of the will of white possession", and finally the concept of entanglement as a way toward a broader (less anthropocentric) reading and rewriting of Magnificat. Buy the Book Anne F. Elvey is a poet, researcher, and editor. She is Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, and Honorary Researcher, University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. Find More EpisodesFollow the Show on Twitter: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87 Love Rinse Repeat is supported by Uniting Mission and Education part of the Uniting Church in Australia Synod of NSW/ACT. Check out their work and upcoming events: https://ume.nswact.uca.org.au/

Ep86. Appalling Bodies, Joseph A. Marchal

"Paul is probably the least interesting thing about Paul’s letters." I sat down with Joseph Marchal to talk the way his book reaches past questions of what Paul 'thought' (or how his texts can be read in 'inclusive' ways) toward far more fascinating queer figures before and after his letters: "androgynes, eunuchs, slaves, and barbarians—each depicted as perversely gendered and strangely embodied figures in their own distinctive, though interrelated ways”. We discuss his intentionally anachronistic style of juxtaposition, and how this leads his work on 1 Corinthians 11 and Paul's concerns about the women prophesying, to considerations of ancient figures of androgyny and contemporary work on female masculinity. And much, much more!Buy the BookJoseph A. Marchal is Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University. Dr Marchal teaches introductory religious studies courses, a range of biblical studies courses, as well as more advanced seminars on bodies and religions, and theories for religious studies. He is particularly passionate about introducing students to the ancient contexts of biblical texts and, then, helping them reflect upon their relevance for more recent cultures (including our own). This passion extends to his research, focused particularly on the dynamics of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and empire and the audiences of Paul's letters. Dr. Marchal has published three books and edited two others on these topics, alongside eighteen book chapters, and twelve articles in a wide variety of journals for biblical and religious studies, including: Journal of Biblical Literature, Biblical Interpretation, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Culture and Religion, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Theology and Sexuality, and Bible and Critical Theory. Find more episodesFollow the Podcast: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87 Love Rinse Repeat is supported by Uniting Mission and Education, part of the Uniting Church in Australia Synod of NSW/ACT. Check out their upcoming PreachFest 21, June 1st to 3rd, featuring a raft of amazing preachers and teachers. Sign up at ume.nswact.uca.org.au click upcoming events and then click Preachfest! https://ume.nswact.uca.org.au/calendar/preachfest-2021/

Ep85. A Passion for Preaching, Anna Carter Florence

I sat down with Anna Carter Florence to talk about her passion for preaching. We discuss lessons she's learnt from teaching preaching for two decades, overlap between acting and preaching, how to make Scripture more dynamic and accessible, and her book Rehearsing Scripture: Discovering God's Word in Community. Anna Carter Florence will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming PreachFest 2021 hosted by Uniting Mission and Education, June 1st to 3rd, featuring a raft of amazing preachers and teachers. Sign up at ume.nswact.uca.org.au click upcoming events and then click Preachfest! https://ume.nswact.uca.org.au/calendar/preachfest-2021/ Dr. Anna Carter Florence is Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary. She is interested in preaching and public proclamation, and preparing leaders who can speak and listen in multiple contexts for ministry. Her research focuses on testimony, pedagogies of preaching, the creative process by which communities engage and embody scripture, and how other fields—particularly poetry and theater—offer models for prophetic speech. Find more episodesFollow the Show on Twitter: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87

Ep84. Luke/Acts and the End of History, Kylie Crabbe

How does Luke's understanding of the end of history reshape experience in the present? I sat down with Kylie Crabbe to talk Luke/Acts, eschatology, history, and how ancient writers make sense of negative experience. I also ask Kylie to argue the case for Luke as the best gospel and attempt to disprove the theory that Acts is actually kind of boring. Buy the Book Dr Kylie Crabbe is Director of Graduate Research Programs and Senior Research Fellow Biblical and Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University. After her undergraduate studies (in Criminology, Psychology, and Theology at the University of Melbourne and Melbourne College of Divinity) she undertook a Master of Theology (in New Testament Studies), was ordained Minister of the Word in the Uniting Church in Australia in 2010, and engaged in congregational ministry in Melbourne. Following doctoral study at the University of Oxford, Kylie was Lecturer in Theology at Trinity College, Oxford, from 2015-2017, with additional responsibilities as Instructor in New Testament Greek for the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford University (2016), Assistant Welfare Dean at Trinity College, Oxford (2017), and Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Theological Studies (2013-2016). She then began work as Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University in late 2017. Find more episodes Follow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87 Love, Rinse, Repeat is part of the Uniting Mission and Education family. Check out their upcoming PreachFest 21, June 1st to 3rd, featuring a raft of amazing preachers and teachers. Sign up at ume.nswact.uca.org.au click upcoming events and then click Preachfest! https://ume.nswact.uca.org.au/calendar/preachfest-2021/

Ep83. How to Have an Enemy, Melissa Florer-Bixler

“No good comes from the denial of enmity.” I spoke with Melissa Florer-Bixler about her new book, How To Have an Enemy. The question, she emphasises, is not whether to have enemies, but how to have the right enemy. We also talk about the myth of the Christmas Day truce, problems of 'unity', and why Melissa's job as a pastor isn't "to create a politically diverse church where people share their ideas dispassionately in an attempt towards middle ground or mutual transformation.” We end with a discussion about what the church can offer in a society riddled by inequality, dispossession, and violence and how stepping out to work against the principalities and powers of this world might require us to make ourselves enemies of the community (even the family) in which we were once so lovingly rooted.Buy the BookMelissa Florer-Bixler is the pastor of Raleigh Mennonite Church, and a graduate of Duke University and Princeton Theological Seminary. She spent times studying in Israel/Palestine, Kenya, and England. Much of her formation took place in the L'Arche community of Portland, OR. Now she prefers the Eno River and her garden in Raleigh, NC. She is the chair of L'Arche North Carolina and a steering committee member in broad-based organizing in her county. Melissa's writing has appeared in Christian Century, Sojourners, Geez, Anabaptist Witness, The Bias, Faith&Leadership, and Anabaptist Vision. From time to time she publishes academic writing. She and her spouse parent three children. On twitter: @MelissaFloBix Website: https://www.melissaflorerbixler.com/​More episodesFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87

Ep82. A Christian Engagement with Shari‘a, Joshua Ralston

I sat down with Joshua Ralston to talk about his book Law and the Rule of God: a Christian Engagement with Shari’a (Cambridge, 2020). We discuss what lead him to this work, why discussions of law in Islam are missing in political theology (and why they matter), the problems of Protestant antinomianism, comparative theology and how recognising different conceptions of the law and its purpose assist interfaith work, and his account of public law as a provisional and indirect witness to the divine rule of justice Buy the bookCheck out the free course on Christian-Muslim relations Dr Ralston mentions at the end of the interview, produced by the University of Edinburgh. Joshua Ralston is Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh and director and co-founder of the Christian-Muslim Studies Network funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. He has published widely on Reformed Theology, Christian theological engagements with Islam, Arab Christianity, and on political theology. His monograph, Law and the Rule of God: A Christian Engagement with Shari'a was pubslished by Cambridge University Press (2020) and he has co-edited two books, Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body (Palgrave, 2015) and Religious Diversity in Europe: Comparative Political Theology (Ferdinand Schöning, 2020). He is currently working on a monograph tentatively entitled, Witness and the Word: An Approach to Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Prior to moving to Scotland, he was Assistant Professor of Theology at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy at Wake Forest University, before going on to study World Christianity at Edinburgh (MTh with distinction), divinity at Candler School of Theology (MDiv), and Christian Theology and Islamic Thought at Emory University.Follow the show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87

Ep81. Dying to be Normal, Brett Krutzsch

I sat down with Brett Krutzsch to talk about his book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics. The book highlights how, through the process of commemoration, secular gay activists deployed Protestant Christian ideals to present gays as similar to upstanding heterosexuals and, therefore, as deserving of equal rights. Our conversation centres on the treatment of Harvey Milk, Matthew Shepard, and Tyler Clementi who, in the wake of their deaths, had aspects of their life, politics, and personality erased in order that they might make more appropriate martyrs in the eyes of white Protestant America. Through this we see the way Christian language of sacrifice and redemption, and the symbol of crucifixion still hold sway in American society and thus limit the ways (and the who) of seeking equality and dignity. As Krutzsch writes, "Ultimately, this is a story of exclusion, built on a politics of inclusion, shaped and foreclosed by a white Protestant vision of “normal” American citizens." Brett Krutzsch is a scholar of religion at New York University’s Center for Religion and Media where he serves as Editor of the Revealer, a monthly online magazine about religion and society. He is an expert on religion and LGBTQ history and is the author of Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics from Oxford University Press, a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist for best LGBTQ nonfiction book of the year. Buy the Book Check out the Revealer Find more episodes: www.loverinserepeat.com/podcast Follow the show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87

Ep80. The Veiled God, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft

I sat down with Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft to talk theology, finitude, and Schleiermacher. I ask about her journey into theology, the importance of reading Schleiermacher with his biography close at hand, and what she's learnt with sharing Schleiermacher beyond the halls of theology, before engaging with her work on finitude (in particular the freedom and unity found therein).Buy the book.Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft hails from Bury in Greater Manchester. She studied Theology and Religious Studies as an undergraduate here at Sidney Sussex, before moving to Corpus Christi College Cambridge for her doctoral research. In 2015, she took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at CRASSH, on the ERC-funded project ‘Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture’. In the 2016-2017 academic year, she was Director of Studies for Theology at Corpus Christi College. Ruth’s research sits at the intersection of theology, philosophy, literature, and intellectual history, and has focussed on late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century thought in particular. Her first monograph, The Veiled God, reappraises the early work of the German theologian and philosopher, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834). Her research interests include hermeneutics, religious language, gender and epistemology. Find more episodesFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87Love, Rinse, Repeat is part of the Uniting Mission and Education family. Check out their upcoming PreachFest 21, June 1st to 3rd, featuring a raft of amazing preachers and teachers. Sign up at ume.nswact.uca.org.au click upcoming events and then click Preachfest! https://ume.nswact.uca.org.au/calendar/preachfest-2021/

Ep79. A Bridge Between, Katharine Massam

I sat down with Katharine Massam to talk about Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in New Norcia in Western Australia. We discuss the way this strange, surprising, complex, and sad story helps chart a path for thinking about religious and colonial history in these lands now called Australia. We talk about the way this small mission town both reflected and balked the broader trends in the colonial project of assimilation, changes in C20th Catholicism, and the experience of women in religious orders (with particular attention to the story of Sr Veronica Therese Willaway OSB). We also cover how one writes history that doesn't praise anyone, and holds the complexity of a story that should never have been with the fullness of feeling of those most impacted.Download a free copy of the book here: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/bridge-betweenKatarine Massam is a historian of religion who teaches at Pilgrim Theological College within the University of Divinity in Melbourne. She has published on monastic theology, the history of education and, mostly widely, on the lived experience of faith and belief.Find more: www.loverinserepeat.com/podcastFollow the show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87Love, Rinse, Repeat is part of the Uniting Mission and Education family. Check out their upcoming PreachFest 21, June 1st to 3rd, featuring a raft of amazing preachers and teachers. Sign up at ume.nswact.uca.org.au click upcoming events and then click Preachfest! https://ume.nswact.uca.org.au/calendar/preachfest-2021/

Ep78. The Messianic Theology of the New Testament, Joshua W. Jipp.

I sat down with Josh Jipp to talk about the messianic identity of Jesus as the presupposition for and primary content of New Testament theology. We discuss balancing unity and plurality within the New Testament, the benefits and risks of centring the messianic identity in light of the history of Christian supersessionism, the kind of kingdom this messiah brings, and (just in time for Easter) how the Passion narratives establish Jesus' messianic identity - hint, it has much more to do with the Psalmist's Davidic King than Isaiah's suffering servant.Buy the BookJoshua W. Jipp is associate professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. His books include The Messianic Theology of the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2020) Christ Is King: Paul's Royal Ideology (Fortress, 2015) and Saved by Faith and Hospitality (Eerdmans, 2017), which won the Academy of Parish Clergy's Book of the Year award in 2018.Find More: www.loverinserepeat.com/podcastFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87Love, Rinse, Repeat is part of the Uniting Mission and Education family. Check out their upcoming PreachFest 21, June 1st to 3rd, featuring a raft of amazing preachers and teachers. Sign up at ume.nswact.uca.org.au click upcoming events and then click Preachfest! https://ume.nswact.uca.org.au/calendar/preachfest-2021/