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Ep56. Intersex, Theology, and the Bible. Susannah Cornwall

I sat down with Susannah Cornwall, Associate Professor in Constructive Theologies at the University of Exeter, to talk about her edited volume Intersex, Theology, and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text, and Society. We discuss gender reveal parties, the limits of gender binaries, the ethics of performing ‘surgical corrections’ on infants, why theology often overlooks intersex people, and intersex's capacity to positively trouble unquestioned norms and dubious assumptions in religion and beyond.Susannah Cornwall is Associate Professor in Constructive Theologies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ (Routledge, 2010), Controversies in Queer Theology (SCM Press, 2011), and Un/familiar Theology: Reconceiving Sex, Reproduction and Generativity (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017). She also edited the volume at the heart of today’s discussion, Intersex, Theology, and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text, and Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).Follow the Show: @RinseRepeatPodFollow Me: @liammiller87Find More: loverinserepeat.com

Ep55. Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border, Gregory Cuéllar

I interviewed Gregory L. Cuéllar about his book Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border: A Borderland Hermeneutic (Routledge, 2020). We talk about the way the sacred is weaponsised by elite powers to shape social reality, the way it grants permanence to the negating of the inherent sacred worth of the black and brown bodies of those approaching or crossing the border, while sacralizing the Anglo-American project of colonisation, violence, and manifest destiny. We talk about how – counter intuitively – appealing to the sacredness of the other can provide a way toward a healing strategy, and how this book seeks to “attend in a healing way to the recurring, open wounds of postcoloniality at the US-Mexico border” – wounds that are, for the author, personal.Gregory L. Cuéllar is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA. He is the author of Voices of Marginality (2008) and Empire, the British Museum, and the Making of the Biblical Scholar in the Nineteenth Century: Archival Criticism (2019).Buy the book: https://www.routledge.com/Resacralizing-the-Other-at-the-US-Mexico-Border-A-Borderland-Hermeneutic/Cuellar/p/book/9780367348335Find More: www.loverinserepeat.comFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow me: @liammiller87Music by Fyzex

Ep54. A Liberation Journey, Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev

I sat down with Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev to talk about the Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets. We talk about the world's need for courage, wisdom, and vision, the three qualities inherent in every prophet: “an encounter with divine love and concern for the world, courage to name oppression, and a moral imagination to articulate an alternative future.” We also discuss the importance of art, imagination, and dialogue in the prophetic tasks, the overlapping concerns of the Hebrew Prophets and the Book of Deuteronomy, and the way biblical liberation themes are found in various contemporary figures. We end with a discussion on how the prophetic critique of stability and immutability as "currency of empire" and the importance placed on a liberation journey in increasingly mutual relationships speaks with hope and care into our current COVID19 climate, and an impassioned plea to join the work of birthing a new world.Rabbi Nahum Ward-Lev founded and leads Beit Midrash of Santa Fe, a multi-faith sacred learning community. He has led workshops at retreat centers, synagogues, churches and seminaries across the United States, including Union Theological Seminary, Ghost Ranch, Santa Maria de la Vid Abbey and Stony Point Center. His teaching invites learners into an adventurous exploration that engages the body, heart and soul as well as the mind. He is an experienced spiritual director, accompanying people of many faiths. Nahum is the Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe, NM and a Fellow of the Rabbis Without Borders Initiative. Find out more: https://rabbinahum.com/ The book is The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets: Then and Now (available with Orbis Books)Find more: www.loverinserepeat.comFollow: @RinseRepeatPod and @liammiller87Music by Fyzex

Ep53. Participating in Christ, Michael Gorman

I interviewed Michael J. Gorman about his book Participating in Christ: Explorations in Paul’s Theology and Spirituality (Baker Academic, 2019). I ask Michael how some common refrains stack up against Paul’s understanding of participation, how the cross not only reveals Christ and God, but also what it means to be human. We talk about co-resurrection and how that shapes how we speak of justification, how Michael’s work on theosis is more narrative than metaphysical, and if there’s a relationship between Paul’s union with Christ language and Matthew 25’s presence of Christ in the least of these. Finally we talk about his deuteron-Pauline letter to the contemporary church in North America.Michael J. Gorman holds the Raymond E. Brown Chair in Biblical Studies and Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of numerous books, including The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant, Reading Revelation Responsibly, Abide and Go, as well as his “participation trilogy”: Cruciformity, Inhabiting the Cruciform God, and Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission. Participating in Christ: Explorations in Paul’s Theology and Spirituality was released by Baker Academic in 2019 (Buy Book)Find more: www.loverinserepeat.com/podcastFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow Me: @liammiller87Music by Fyzex

Ep52. A Changing Church, Charissa Suli

Liam sat down with Rev Charissa Suli, a National Consultant with the Uniting Church in Australia's Assembly Resourcing Unit. They discuss resourcing the church for increasingly changing times, working with and in churches that are becoming increasingly multicultural, how the UCA has lived up to its 1985 declaration "we are a multicultural church. We also talk about her work with youth and young adults in the church, what she has learnt in those encounters, and how churches might think about 'growing young.' Finally we talk about church during COVID-19 and what she hopes might stick around once we are allowed to gather again. Hint: a key to all three of these discussions is relationships.

Ep51. Wondrously Wounded: theology, disability, & the body of Christ, Brian Brock

I sat down with Brian Brock to talk about his book Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ (Baylor University Press, 2019). We discuss his motivation for writing the book, what it was like to try and ‘witness to the witness’ of his son, reclaiming wonder, pre-natal screening and how liberal societies establish norms, the need to be rescued from seeing ourselves as ‘abled’, where the doctrine of sin fits in a theology of disability, the body of Christ as a circulator of divine gifts, and going beyond charity and inclusion.Brian Brock is Professor of Moral and Practical Theology, Department of Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen. His works include Christian Ethics in a Technological Age; Captive to Christ, Open to the World; and, edited with John Swinton, Disability and the Christian Tradition: A Reader.“Redemption is learning to receive the wonder of life, hearing the particular call that comes to each one in love”Buy the BookFollow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod // Follow Me: @liammiller87More: www.loverinserepeat.com/podcast

Ep50.7 Seven Last Words: ”Father, into your hands...” with W. Travis McMaken

To celebrate 50 episodes of the Love Rinse Repeat podcast, Liam Miller interviewed seven guests about Jesus' seven last words from the cross. Here, Travis McMaken discusses the final words, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit". This commendation signifies the climax of the relationship between the Spirit and Jesus throughout Luke, and the shift to the ongoing role of the Spirit in the lives of those who follow after. W. Travis McMaken is Associate Professor of Religion, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies program, and Assistant Dean of Humanities in the School of Humanities at Lindenwood University's St. Charles, MO campus. He engages primarily with 20th century theology (esp. Protestant theology, with specialization in Karl Barth, Helmut Gollwitzer, and T. F. Torrance) while working constructively on the subjects of sacramentology, ecclesiology, and political theology. He is the author of Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer (Fotress Press 2017), The Sign of the Gospel: Toward an Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism after Karl Barth (Fortress Press, 2013), and coeditor of Karl Barth in Conversation (2014). Follow him on Twitter @WTravisMcMaken, check out his website: https://derevth.blogspot.com/ and listen to The McKrakenCast on Spotify Visit www.loverinserepeat.com/podcast to find more Follow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod Follow me: @liammiller87 Music by Fyzex

Ep50.6 Seven Last Words: ”It is finished” with Lauren R.E. Larkin

To celebrate 50 episodes of the Love Rinse Repeat podcast, Liam Miller interviewed seven guests about Jesus' seven last words from the cross. Here, Lauren Larkin discusses, with care and passion, Jesus declarative words "it is finished" and its relation to what has past, what is, and what is possible - both cosmically and personally. A decisive shift has occurred and we should think carefully before trying to go back to before - which has potent implications for a post-COVID society. Lauren R. E. Larkin is a PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen. Her academic work engages with the writing of Friedrich Gogarten, Dialectical Theology, Personhood and Embodiment, and Political Ethics. She is the host of Sancta Colloquia. Her blog is: http://LaurenRELarkin.com. Visit www.loverinserepeat.com/podcast to find more Follow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod Follow me: @liammiller87

Ep50.5 Seven Last Words: ”I thirst” with Sean Winter

To celebrate 50 episodes of the Love Rinse Repeat podcast, Liam interviewed seven guests about Jesus' seven last words from the cross. Here, Sean Winter reflects on the words "I thirst", and both their simplicity, as a basic human need for a small mercy in the midst of trauma, and their powerful symbolic and theological overtones. We explore what the words teach us about presence, absence, and the completion of Christ's work. And how Jesus' own thirst shapes how we read the many other times thirst is employed in the Gospel of John. Rev Associate Professor Sean Winter is currently the Academic Dean, Co-ordinator of Studies in New Testament, at Pilgrim Theological College and Associate Professor within the University of Divinity. He teaches across a range of New Testament subjects, is involved in the formation of candidates for ordained ministries within the UCA and speaks regularly at conferences, churches, and other events within and beyond the Uniting Church. To explore studying at Pilgrim visit: https://pilgrim.edu.au/ Visit www.loverinserepeat.com/podcast to find more Follow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod Follow me: @liammiller87

Ep50.4 Seven Last Words: ”My God, my God...” with David W. Congdon

To celebrate 50 episodes of the Love Rinse Repeat podcast, Liam Miller interviewed seven guests about Jesus' seven last words from the cross. Here, David Congdon discusses the scandal of the words "my God, my God, why have you foresaken me?" Why there is hope in allowing these words to ring out a true disruption, resisting the urge to incorporate them neatly into our theology, piety, or liturgy. David W. Congdon is acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kansas (overseeing the publishing program in political science and law) 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. His current research explores the intersection of hermeneutics, intercultural theology, and modern Protestant theology, particularly the work of Rudolf Bultmann and Karl Barth. He is currently working on an introduction to Bultmann for Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, a Bultmann reader for Fortress Press, a volume of Barth and Bultmann’s writings during the height of their debate for Cascade Books, and an edited volume on universalism for Baker Academic. Follow him on Twitter @DWCongdon Visit www.loverinserepeat.com/podcast to find more Follow the Show: @RinseRepeatPod Follow me: @liammiller87Music by Fyzex