Context Matters
By Dr. Cyndi Parker
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This podcast is for people who are curious about the ancient context that influenced the final shape of the Bible…AND ALSO…how our modern context influences the way we understand the Bible and God and all things spiritual.
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Healing our Imagination
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Undragoning our Imaginations
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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No Discipleship without Justice
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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The Soul as Wax
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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The Winding Road
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Public Theology with David Bailey
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Trauma Informed Reading of Isaiah 40-55
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Remembering Isaiah 40-55
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Women in the Salvation Story
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Redeeming Eden
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Bringing Heaven Here
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Our Father in the Heavens
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Christmas in Jerusalem
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Nazareth's Role in Christmas
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Jesus, Hillel, and Shammai
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Leading Sages of Jewish Thought
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Roman Republic to Empire
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Rome Appears on the Horizon
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Anticipating Advent
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Discernment and the Spiritual Realm
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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The Spiritual Realm and Learning to be a Pastor
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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The Spiritual World and Spiritual Beings Part 2
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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The Spiritual World and Spiritual Beings Part 1
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Spiritual Cosmology with Dan Darko Part 2
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Spiritual Cosmology with Dan Darko Part 1
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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You Cannot Get Away from This Conversation...
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Disagreeing with Sincerity, Vulnerability, and Discomfort
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Learning to Disagree Well
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Non-toxic Disagreements
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Exploring Literary Geography
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May 29, 2025 |
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Historical Geography for the Win!
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May 22, 2025 |
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Music and Emotional Intelligence
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May 15, 2025 |
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Feeling the Music
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May 08, 2025 |
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Art and Spiritual Growth
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May 01, 2025 |
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The Power of Art
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Healing from Spiritual Abuse, Part 2
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Healing from Spiritual Abuse, Part 1
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Presumption of Canaanite Guilt: Valid or Unjust?
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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What Curse of Noah?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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The Preacher of Hebrews Teaches Us Today
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Preaching with the Epistle of Hebrews
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Show Me Your Glory, Part 2
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Show Me Your Glory, Part 1
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The Mary to Remember
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Her Faithful Witness: Unveiling Mary's True Story
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Deuteronomy and Advent
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and Textual Criticism
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Why Do We Need Textual Criticism?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Part 2: No Such Thing as 400 Years of Silence
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Are There 400 Years of Silence?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Listening to the Prophets Today
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Biblical Justice in the Minor Prophets
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Hybrid Beasts in the Bible
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Depicting Gods
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Behold to Become
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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What Shapes Your Imagination?
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Food Systems, Consumer Choice, and Faith
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Food and Faith
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Faith Embodied Part 2
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Faith Embodied Part 1
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Improvising Church, Part 2
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Harmony, Scripture, and Jazz
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May 30, 2024 |
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Trafficking Hadassah: A New Look at the book of Esther
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May 23, 2024 |
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When Genre Influences Interpretation
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May 16, 2024 |
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Growing Pains of the Early Church
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May 09, 2024 |
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Early Christians did not Wear Halos!
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May 02, 2024 |
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Deuteronomy: A Challenge to the Modern Church
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Deuteronomy in Action
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Centering Discipleship with E K Strawser
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Rethinking Church around Discipleship
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Revelation for the Modern Church: Avoiding the Babylon Creep
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Paving the Way to Understand Revelation
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Discipled in Justice Today
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Becoming People Who Do Justice
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Blessed are the Peacemakers
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Is There a Biblical Theology of Violence?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Story-Shaped Faith
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Story-Shaped People
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Medieval Christianity
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The Challenge and Beauty of Suffering in Isaiah 53
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Isaiah's Servant Songs
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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END OF YEAR SPECIAL: Where have we been?
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Being God's Image, Part 2
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Being God's Image
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Studying the Bible with Technology
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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The Careful Use of Technology
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Art as Teacher
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Reading the Bible with Artists
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Reading the Bible Mystically
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Reading with Mystics
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Reconstructing Faith
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Reading with the Spiritually Wounded
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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A Translation for Turtle Island
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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First Nations Translation of the New Testament
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Can Science and Faith Enhance Each Other?
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Reading the Bible with Scientists
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Reading with Disability Theology
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Reading the Bible with a Disabled God
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Is an Illustration THAT Important?
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Reading Children's Bibles
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May 25, 2023 |
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Reading the Bible with Questions
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May 18, 2023 |
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Reading the Bible with Different Cultural Lenses
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May 11, 2023 |
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EASTER SPECIAL! The Geography of Passion Week
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Two Halves Yet One Whole
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The Two Halves of Daniel
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Circular Beauty in John's Epistles
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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John's Epistles in All Their Strangeness
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Lamentations for the Modern Church
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Walking through Grief and Pain
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Community, Christianity, and Slavery
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Philemon: Master, Host, and Christian
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Gems in Genealogy
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Beauty in Chronicles
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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The Surprise Twist in Jude
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Why Jude?
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Fiery Content in Peter's Writings and the Modern Church
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Peter's Letters, Part 1
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Prophets and Advent?
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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What is the Book of the Twelve?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Archaeology with Steven Ortiz
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Clash of Two Noble Struggles
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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A Voice to All People
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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A Sense of Wholeness
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Accountable to All Generations
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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How Does "Christian" Define "Palestinian"?
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Common Existence
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Curiosity in Conversation
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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One Body and One Meal
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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You Cannot Do It Alone
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Why Go To Church?
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May 26, 2022 |
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Voices from the Past
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Voices Long Silenced: But No More!
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Gentile and Jewish Women in the New Testament World
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Reading People in Context
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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When God is Absent
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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A Tale of Two Queens: Esther and Vashti
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Facing the Challenges in Ruth
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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African Jews and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Jews in Africa
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Luke as Story
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Is there Theology in Story?
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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How to Talk about Sexuality
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Sexuality and the Bible: Eunuchs and Intersex Included
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Sexuality and the Bible
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Is God Vulnerable and Regretful?
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Complex Emotions
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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The Beauty of Hebraic Philosophy
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Is Philosophy Compatible with the Bible?
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Does Community Form in Virtual Worlds?
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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A Place of Design
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Riddles, Word Puzzles, and Parables
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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From Rabbinic Text to the Parables of Jesus
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Why the Conquest isn't a Conquest
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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What Violence in the Old Testament?
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Agriculture, Slaves, and the Church's Identity
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Do Not Bear God's Name in Vain
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Is the Exodus Event Historical?
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Old Testament Controversies
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Jesus in His Real World
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Encountering Jesus in Place
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Womanist Midrash is What Again?
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Questions That Come from Grief
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Silence and Imagination
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May 27, 2021 |
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Cute Monsters and the Problem of Evil
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May 20, 2021 |
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Epic Fantasy Stories and Theology?
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May 13, 2021 |
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The Journey toward Shalom
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May 06, 2021 |
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Restoring Broken Walls
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Lament and Resilience in Jeremiah
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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The Weeping Prophet
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The Voice of a Prophet
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Freedom and Protest in Jazz
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Blues Moan and Gospel Shout
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Slavery, the Blues, and Biblical Law
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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The Networks of Sailors
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Sailing Acts
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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What the Bible Says about Environmental Terrorism
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Is Environmentalism Christian?
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Angst, Devotion, and Love
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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The Embodiment of Wisdom
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Advent Part 3: Women in Luke
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Advent Part 2: caves and Magi
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Advent Part 1
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Feast or Fast?
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Food as Gift or Commodity?
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Redemption and Celebration
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Wine That Makes Glad the Heart
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Imagination and Diversity in Place
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Race and Place
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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A Multitude of Voices!
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Is Christianity a White Religion?
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Patristics and the Stories we DON'T Tell
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Patristics and the Stories We Tell
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Pilgrimage to Sacred Places
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Invoking the Sacred in Place
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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How to Create an Icon
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Icon or Idol
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Encountering Mary, Part 2
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Encountering Mary, Part 1
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Season 1 Finale
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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The Divide between East and West: Part 2 with Meredith Riedel
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Forming Christian Beliefs: Part 1 with Meredith Riedel
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Creating the Bible
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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An Introduction to the Apostle Paul: Part 2 with Dr. Nijay Gupta
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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An Introduction to the Apostle Paul: Part 1 with Dr. Nijay Gupta
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Steven Notley: Parting of the Ways
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May 28, 2020 |
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Kyuboem Lee: Does Place Influence Your Theology?
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May 21, 2020 |
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Kyuboem Lee: A Search for "Home"
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May 14, 2020 |
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Ken Kihlstrom: A Partnership Between Faith and Science
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May 07, 2020 |
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Tamar Kamionkowski: Aspiring towards Holiness
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Tamar Kamionkowski: Why Does Leviticus Matter Now?
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Muhia Karinjahi: The Power of Rights of Passage
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Muhia Karinjahi: When Context Changes Beliefs
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Rob Ribbe: Experiential Learning
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Cynthia Shafer Elliott (Part 2): Archaeology and Religion
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Cynthia Shafer Elliott (Part 1): Why Does Archaeology Matter/
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Lawson Stone: How Context Influences a Career
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Craig Mayes (Part 2): Embodied Theology
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Craig Mayes (Part 1): When Ideas of Lived Theology Change
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer: Speaking Across Differences (Part 2)
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer: Speaking Across Differences (Part 1)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Lisa Abaya (Part 1): Geography and Art
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Lisa Abaya (Part 2): Art, Culture, and Religion
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Introduction: Part 2
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Introduction: Part 1
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Jan 30, 2020 |