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Queen of the Sciences2025 Bonus 3: Good Friday/Easter Crossover with All About AgathaSarah once again joins Kemper on the All About Agatha podcast to discuss Agatha Christie's very Christian (though also very weird) short story, "In the Cool of the Evening" ... and theology abounds!
2025-05-061h 54Queen of the SciencesBible to Doctrine (and Back Again)We are theologians who read the Bible. That is not a self-evident statement. But let's back up further... why does Christianity have a Bible at all? And now that we have it, how do we read it? In this episode we explore how we as theologians depend on the discipline of biblical studies, our appreciations and critiques thereof, and how Bible gives rise to doctrine... or is it maybe the other way around?!
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Outside OurselvesForty Facets of the Ascension with Sarah Hinlicky WilsonSarah Hinlicky Wilson is back to talk about her latest book, Forty Facets of the Ascension. She breaks down the two Biblical accounts of the Ascension in Luke and Acts and talks about what the ascension tells us (and what it doesn't tell us) about Jesus as well as what it means for Christians. Find her kickstarter for the book linked below! Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is a prolific author of theology, fiction, and poetry. She is the founder of Thornbush Press and hosts the podcast Queen of the Sciences: Conversations between a Theologian and Her Dad. Born and raised...2025-03-251h 02
Fresh TextHebrews 9:24-28 with Dr. Sarah Hinlicky WilsonWelcome back to another episode of Fresh Text. In this episode John and Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson continue their conversation on the Ascension. This time they use a passage from Hebrews to help pastors better understand the Ascension and to give sermon ideas. Sarah has a book coming out on the Ascension, to check out the details use the link below. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarahhinlickywilson/ascension-book Produced by:Tyler Sanders (@tylerwsanders) and The Called Collective (@thecalledcollective) Edited by:Nathan York2025-03-241h 16Fresh TextJohn 13:1-4 with Dr. Sarah Hinlicky WilsonWelcome back to Fresh Text! This week John and Sarah Hinlicky Wilson dive into the Ascension. The passage that they primarily use today is John 13:1-4. Sarah has a book on the Ascension coming out soon, check out the link for details!https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sarahhinlickywilson/ascension-book Produced by:Tyler Sanders (@tylerwsanders) and The Called Collective (@thecalledcollective) Edited by:Nathan YorkGraphics created by:Hannah Harris (@hannahrae.of.sunshine)2025-03-171h 13Queen of the SciencesAscension in Luke and ActsForty Facets of the Ascension, Sarah's new book, is coming to Kickstarter in mid-March! Sign up now to be notified the moment it launches.
In this episode, Dad and I discuss whether Jesus was a rocket ship, a hot air balloon, a cosmonaut... or maybe just the risen Lord whose bodily existence is integral to gospel proclamation! We look at some of the differences between Luke 24 and Acts 1's version of the Ascension (be prepared for some surprises) and the many things Luke had to argue against in order to argue for Jesus. If the Ascension has le...2025-02-181h 03Queen of the Sciences2025 Bonus 2: The Metamorphosis of JesusFrom Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration, Sarah reads the first chapter, "Metamorphosis : Jesus." Keep listening, or read by getting your copy at Thornbush Press, Audible, Amazon, or Bookshop.org!
2025-02-0428 minQueen of the SciencesThe Nicene CreedHow often do you celebrate the 1700th anniversary of anything? 2025 marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicea, which gave us most (though not quite all) of the Nicene Creed (completed and perfected at the Council of Constantinople in 381, but frankly, nobody wants to say "The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed"). Dad and I talk you through what's at stake in the trinitarian assertions of this Creed, compare and contrast it with the Apostles' Creed, and strongly urge you to make it a centerpiece of your preaching and teaching in this year of grace!
We're in our SEVENTH year!2025-01-211h 08Queen of the Sciences2025 Bonus 1: Crossover with All About AgathaSarah makes her third appearance on the fantastic All About Agatha podcast! With host Kemper Donovan she discusses Agatha's short story "Promotion in the Highest."
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All About Agatha ChristieA Special Christmas Episode: Promotion in the Highest by Agatha Christie Mallowan (with Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson). . . and Some Holiday Poems, Too!It's always a joy to have the Reverend Doctor Sarah Hinlicky Wilson on the show to explain to us what the heck Agatha Christie Mallowan is getting at in the extremely personal and extremely Christian short stories she wrote within her Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories collection. Happy holidays to all who celebrate; we certainly know that Agatha Christie did! Please note there are a few minor spoilers for Passenger to Frankfurt littered throughout our discussion, which I did not note at the top of the episode. But there is an argument to be made that t...2024-12-222h 01Queen of the SciencesLooking Back at 2024 and Ahead to 2025We have a quick look over our stats for 2024, and unveil some big news about 2025!
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2024-12-1734 minQueen of the Sciences2024 Bonus 11: Crossover with Fresh TextThe first of a series of five episodes in which Sarah discusses I Thessalonians with John Drury of the Fresh Text podcast. Remarkably apt for the end of one church year and the beginning of another!
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2024-12-101h 05Queen of the SciencesApocalyptic versus Salvation HistoryIt's the ultimate smackdown! In this episode we discuss the covert work done by theories and doctrines of history, in church and saeculum alike, and why we can't stop theorizing about history once we've noticed it. We also drill down on two particular approaches to time and history within Christian discourse, what they mean, what they imply, and how (and how not) to deploy them.
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1. Related episodes: Second Peter and the Second Coming, Unbaptized...2024-12-031h 11Queen of the Sciences"Our Democracy" ?You may have missed the recent U.S. presidential election, since it was kinda inconsequential and nobody was paying any attention to it. Oh wait... In today's episode, Dad and I take up the topic of "our democracy" as it has been talked about in the U.S. during this grueling election year, why Christians have an investment in flourishing democratic government (especially considering the alternatives), how the distinctions between church and state, and God's two kingdoms, play out in a democratic nation, and what we can faithfully do in our callings as Christians and citizens. Plus, Sarah reminds...2024-11-191h 09Fresh Text1 Thessalonians 1 with Sarah Hinlicky WilsonTune in to this episode to hear from special guest Sarah Hinlicky Wilson. This week John and Sarah begin to dive into a series through 1 Thessalonians. In this episode they dive deeply into the original greek and then wrap up the episode by giving examples of how this passage of scripture could be preached.
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2024-10-1304 minQueen of the SciencesApologetics, Good and BadIs the apologetic enterprise coercing people outside the Christian faith into a decision on which their eternal fate depends, conceding the terms of the debate to the culture's notion of what's important, or making fruitful contact in ways specific to the person and situation? (I bet you can guess our answer.) In this episode, Dad and I examine some worse ways of making a defense for the faith that is within us en route to some recommendations of a more excellent way. Plus, Sarah complains even more about Tillich.
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1. Related episodes: The Bible in...2024-08-271h 09Queen of the SciencesSecond Peter and the Second ComingWhose all-time favorite NT epistle is Second Peter? Yeah, I thought so, i.e., nobody's. Terse yet wordy, full of highly developed doctrine yet also threats of judgment, and most likely pseudepigraphal, it's a tough nut to crack. In this episode, Dad and I haul out our exegetical nutcrackers and extract the sweetmeat (to push an already overstrained metaphor too far—though you gotta admit, it fits with Second Peter's prose style), which, oddly enough, proves to be the Parousia of Christ and God's astounding patience, desiring that all, yes all, come to repentance. Plus, more on the Transfiguration!...2024-08-131h 13Queen of the Sciences2024 Bonus 9: Crossover with The Living ChurchSarah talks with Amber Noel of The Living Church Podcast about ... the Transfiguration! If you've skipped all the others on the Transfiguration, listen to this one. The sheer force of our exuberance will bring you around.
Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration is now available in all formats (ebook, audiobook, paperback, hardcover) from Thornbush Press, Amazon, and Bookshop.org!
If you'd like to request it from your library, make sure to furnish your librarian with the ISBN! Ebook 979-8-9899141-1-1 ; audiobook 979-8-9899141-2-8 ; paperback 979-8-9899141-3-5 ; hardcover 979-8...2024-08-0652 min
The Living Church PodcastPreaching the Transfiguration with Sarah Hinlicky WilsonEver run out of preaching material for a major feast day? May today's episode inspire you.It's funny how the gospel unveils and then veils itself to us in seasons of our ministry and preaching. There are so many times when there's more than we can capture. And then other times it feels lilke the well runs dry on the same passage we've come to for years. But this "dryness" may just be an invitation to dig in a new direction or to a new depth.Today we've got a fascinating dispatch from the Rev...2024-07-1853 minQueen of the SciencesJohn of DamascusPopularly considered the last of the church fathers, John of Damascus gathered up the fruit of early church reflection on the Trinity and the person of Christ in his learned tome, The Orthodox Faith. But in addition to the usual wrangling with the Greek philosophical heritage and the monotheistic challenge of Judaism, John had a new adversary to consider: the even more radically monotheistic Islam. In this episode, Dad and I sort through John's record of Chalcedonian orthodoxy from the 8th century, his "double-mindedness," and what pressures led to the enormous internal doctrinal tensions that he passed on to...2024-05-071h 16Queen of the SciencesThe Lord's PrayerThe prayer our Lord Jesus taught his disciples, in address to his and their heavenly Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit! And probably the most-prayed prayer of all time. (Well, except maybe "HELP!") In this episode Dad and I pore over each petition, with a great deal of help from Luther's Catechisms, discuss why it is we should pray, and the greater truth that we can and are invited to pray.
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1. Related episodes: All About Prayer, Sermon on the Mount, Revival and Renewal with the Blumhardts
2. Sarah's Sermon on the...2024-03-1259 minQueen of the Sciences2024 Bonus 6: Crossover with Art Life FaithSarah sits down to chat with Roger Lowther of the Art Life Faith podcast!
Also, in the unlikely event you missed it, the Transfiguration book Kickstarter mentioned in this episode has already ended (after exceeding all expectations!). But you can preorder the ebook on Amazon, where it will be published on August 6, 2024.
2024-03-0533 minAll About Agatha ChristieThe Island by Agatha Christie Mallowan (with Guest Co-Host Sarah Hinlicky Wilson)Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is back! And with this episode, she’s officially earned her title as All About Agatha’s resident expert on Christian theology. I leaned heavily on her expertise for this episode, which involves a lot of parsing of Biblical and even apocryphal references, as we discussed this curious, fascinatingly revealing short story from the Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories collection. To read Sarah’s newly published article “Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Christian,” click here. To visit Sarah’s website, click here. To visit my website to check out upcoming dates...2024-03-021h 45Queen of the SciencesAtonementWe've discussed the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, Anselm and Aulen, and salvation itself all over the place... but until now, never "the Atonement." Could that be because the word itself tends to dictate the outcome? In this episode we talk about the origins of the English word "atone," exchange some thoughts on the Epistle to the Hebrews, and then dive deep into an essay by theologian Robert Bertram commenting on Luther commenting on Galatians. Joyful exchanges abound!
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1. Bertram, "How Our Sins Were Christ's"
2. Sarah's article "The Law of God," now also published...2024-02-131h 09
Everyday SpiritualityOn the Transfiguration with Sarah Hinlicky WilsonRev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is Associate Pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church and the Founder of Thornbush Press. She has written, edited, and contributed to numerous books of both theology and fiction and has published hundreds of articles. She hosts the podcasts Queen of the Sciences, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories, and The Disentanglement Podcast, and writes the e-newsletter Theology & a Recipe. She is the Founder of Thornbush Press, launched in 2020, and author of a number of books under its imprint: I Am a Brave Bridge, Sermon on the Mount: A Poetic Paraphrase, Small Catechism: Memorizing Edition, Pearly...2024-02-1043 minQueen of the SciencesConfession and AbsolutionIn church, do your sins actually get forgiven, or are you only assured that in general God likes to forgive sins? Do you have to be penitent for the absolution to work? How penitent? Can a mere human absolve on God's behalf? And if so, how do absolvers know whether they ought to loose something or whether they'd better keep it bound up? In this episode, Dad and Sarah discuss Luther's little known 50 Theses on the Remission of Sins, from the year 1518, which has been dubbed by scholar Oswald Bayer as really truly the first Reformation text. From there...2024-01-301h 06Queen of the Sciences2024 Bonus 4: Transfiguration with Freely Given, Part 2 of 2Sarah talks with Katie and Gretchen of Freely Given about her forthcoming book, Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration (Kickstarter's closed, so look for it in July 2024!).
2024-01-2925 minQueen of the Sciences2024 Bonus 3: Transfiguration with Freely Given, 1 of 2Sarah talks with Katie and Gretchen of the Freely Given podcast about her forthcoming book, Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration (Kickstarter's closed, so look for it in July 2024!).
2024-01-2629 minQueen of the Sciences2024 Bonus 2: Transfiguration with Fresh TextJohn Drury of Fresh Text and Sarah discuss all things Transfiguration in light of her forthcoming book, Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration (Kickstarter's closed, so look for it in July 2024!).
And, if you want to hear their next two conversations about the Transfiguration, including the mind-blowing discussion of the Gospel of John, be sure to subscribe to Fresh Text right away!
2024-01-2333 minQueen of the Sciences2024 Bonus 1: Transfiguration with Crackers and Grape JuiceJason Micheli of Crackers and Grape Juice and Sarah discuss all things Transfiguration in light of her forthcoming book, Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration (Kickstarter's closed, so look for it in July 2024!).
2024-01-1951 minQueen of the SciencesThe TransfigurationAll about the Transfiguration of our Lord! And, to be perfectly honest, all about Sarah's new book, Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration (which, as you'll hear, launched as a Kickstarter, and will be available for purchase starting July 2024). Among other topics: Why Elijah and Moses of all possible visitors from Israel's past? Why does Peter offer to build booths, of all weird things (and is he really as much of a dope as every Transfiguration sermon you've ever heard claims)? How does the apostle Paul handle the Transfiguration? And why, for heaven's sake, does Second Peter of...2024-01-161h 07Queen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 19: Crossover with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories #3I have a new podcast! For people who need good fiction and good theology at the same time. Two final episodes here to whet your appetite—so if you enjoy them, please hop on over and subscribe to Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories so you won't miss a single episode!
2024-01-0920 minQueen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 18: Sarah at Australian Lutheran CollegeMy lecture at the Parkville Plus seminar hosted by Australian Lutheran College in Adelaide, South Australia, on "Three Nineteenth-Century German Lutheran Saint Calendar Proposals."
2024-01-0251 minQueen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 17: Crossover with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories #2I have a new podcast! For people who need good fiction and good theology at the same time. Two more episodes here to whet your appetite—so if you enjoy them, please hop on over and subscribe to Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories so you won't miss a single episode!
2023-12-2618 minQueen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 15: Crossover with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories #1I have a new podcast! For people who need good fiction and good theology at the same time. Two episodes here to whet your appetite—so if you enjoy them, please hop on over and subscribe to Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories so you won't miss a single episode!
2023-12-1224 minQueen of the SciencesThe Image of GodWhat makes human beings to be in the image of God? A rational soul? A capacity for action? An openness to the divine? Is it a given or an achievement? Who or what has it, and who or what doesn't? And does the image of God tell us only about humans, or can it tell us something about God, too—without remaking God in our own image? We wrap up Season 5 of Queen of the Sciences tackling these fraught questions!
And looking toward 2024 and Season 6, here are some fun things you should most definitely check out:
...2023-12-051h 10Sarah Hinlicky Wilson StoriesTelling: Pearly Gates #24Today's story is "Telling" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about Gone with the Wind as a novel of delusion, and what that reveals about the story against its author's intentions.
Sarah Churchwell, The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
The Rest Is History podcast episode on Gone with the Wind
Linda Stephens narration of Gone with the Wind
Get yourself a paper copy of Pearly Gates from Thornbush Press or the complete audiobook without waiting!
And if y...2023-12-0310 minQueen of the SciencesBrain Mind Soul: or, NeurotheologyIs it a brain? Is it a mind? Is it a soul? What hath neuroscience to do with theology? In this episode Dad and I discuss recent work on the function of the brain and especially its hemispheric differences, and what this has to do with rationality, bodiliness, and faith.
Notes:
1. Kandel, There Is Life after the Nobel Prize
2. Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself
3. McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary
4. I discuss "transgenre theology" on episode 19 of my new podcast, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories!
What do...2023-11-211h 17Queen of the SciencesLutheran-Pentecostal DialogueThe brand-newest of any theological writing Dad and I have ever covered on the podcast! We discuss "The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me," the recently released statement of the International Lutheran-Pentecostal Dialogue, following discussions that took place from 2016 to 2022. Full disclosure: Sarah worked as a consultant to the dialogue on behalf of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, an independent house of studies that delegates consultants to all the ecumenical dialogues of the Lutheran World Federation. Besides Sarah's offering of some insider illumination on the text, the two of us discuss what an ecumenical statement is, what it...2023-11-071h 09Queen of the SciencesBad TillichAfter giving Tillich his due in the last episode, in this one Sarah goes off, more or less blaming Tillich and his book The Courage to Be for everything that has gone wrong in American Lutheranism for the past 75 years. Overwrought and unjust? Probably. Dad makes the case for Tillich at least asking the right questions, and not accepting certain false solutions. But we both agree there is a more excellent way. If nothing else, you'll enjoy hearing the generation gap on display as you've never before heard it on this podcast!
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1. Tillich, The...2023-10-241h 18Queen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 12: Crossover with Enter the Bible #4Sarah discusses premillennialism, postmillennialism, amillennialism, and Revelation 20 with Katie Langston and Kathryn Schifferdecker of the Enter the Bible podcast. Check out Katie's memoir of leaving Mormonism and becoming a Christian, Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace, and listen to Dad's and my discussion of it on a bonus episode of Queen of the Sciences!
2023-10-0329 minQueen of the SciencesBonhoeffer’s ChristologyChrist the center, Christ for me, Christ for us, Christ as church, Christ the humiliated and exalted one, Christ the Lord who is nothing like der Führer who reigned over Berlin at the time a young Dietrich Bonhoeffer gave these university lectures. In this episode we sift through Bonhoeffer's appropriation of Luther's christology, lightly inflected by Karl Barth, as well as his own corrections and innovations, in the service of a community centered on Christ... and no one else.
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1. You may know these lectures as Christ the Center but we worked from the n...2023-09-261h 13Queen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 11: Crossover with Enter the Bible #3Sarah discusses why God heals infections and cancers, but doesn't regrow amputated limbs, on this episode of Enter the Bible with Kathryn Schifferdecker and Katie Langston! Check out related episodes Illness and Healing and Miracles (with Some Help from C. S. Lewis).
2023-09-1932 minQueen of the SciencesI PeterElect exiles, spirits in prison, slaves, wives, the devil qua prowling lion, but above all lots and lots of the risen Lord Jesus... the First Epistle of Peter has it all! Dad and I get so carried away with this brief letter than we sort of rush to finish at the end, and even so have an outsized episode. But don't worry, we get into that bit about Christ preaching to the dead. Plus, Dad mispronounces French again, and Sarah goes off on Bible-believin' Christians who deny that baptism saves, when it says so right here.
Notes:2023-09-121h 25Queen of the SciencesMelanchthon’s Loci CommunesOr, the one in which Sarah at long last reads the first work of Protestant dogmatics, and has an existential/vocational crisis as a result. Dad talks her off the ledge.
Notes:
1. Melanchthon, Loci Communes (1521 edition) and Loci Communes (1559 edition) (there are lots of other editions in-between)
2. Quere, Melanchthon's Christum Cognoscere
3. Sarah's To Baptize or Not to Baptize and Small Catechism: Memorizing Edition
4. Related episodes: Bondage of the Will, Before Auschwitz
What do you think five years of top-quality theology podcasting is worth? Register your vote by...2023-08-291h 10Queen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 8: Crossover with Outside OurselvesSarah talks with Kelsi Klembara of the Outside Ourselves podcast about A-Tumblin' Down, and a few other things besides! Plus, here's the link to my new podcast: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories. Or just search for it in whatever app you're using right now!
2023-07-251h 01Queen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 7: Crossover with All About AgathaNot your usual Queen of the Sciences crossover! Sarah talks with Kemper Donovan of the All About Agatha (Christie) podcast to parse the great detective novelist's short story "Star over Bethlehem," and more generally Agatha's little known but deeply felt Christian faith.
2023-07-111h 29Sarah Hinlicky Wilson StoriesNight Cloak: Pearly Gates #3
Welcome to Season 1 of Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories!
Today's story is "Night Cloak" from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold. Plus, I talk about the real-life pastoral experience that inspired the first of the Pearly Gates stories.
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2023-07-0911 minOutside OurselvesThe Limits and Expanse of Christian Belief with Sarah Hinlicky WilsonSarah 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. Sarah is Associate Pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church and the Founder of Thornbush Press.
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Crackers and Grape JuiceEpisode 409: Sarah Hinlicky WilsonOur guest today is Sarah Hinlicky Wilson. Sarah is the Founder of Thornbush Press, launched in 2020, and author of a number of books under its imprint: I Am a Brave Bridge, Sermon on the Mount: A Poetic Paraphrase, Small Catechism: Memorizing Edition, Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold, To Baptize or Not to Baptize: A Practical Guide for Clergy, and A-Tumblin’ Down.Since August 2018 she has lived in Mitaka, Japan, on the campus of Japan Lutheran College and Theological Seminary, where her husband Andrew L. Wilson is Professor of Church History. She serves as one of the pastors at To...2023-05-1956 minQueen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 5: Crossover with TalkingbirdSarah's talk at the 2023 Mockingbird conference in New York, brought to you via the Talkingbird podcast. Check out the Mockingcast too!
2023-05-1635 minQueen of the SciencesThe 100th Episode!Never pass by a nice round anniversary! On this 100th full and regular episode of the podcast, Dad and I reminisce about the origins of Queen of the Sciences, reveal the secrets of how we prep and record, share statistics and fan reviews, tell which are our favorite episodes (and yours!), and look onward to many more episodes to come.
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1. Ten most downloaded QotS episodes, from #10 down to #1: Bonus episode on Law and Gospel Part 1, Hannah Arendt, Luke Part 1, Critical Social Theory, Bonhoeffer's "Life Together," Learning to Love Leviticus, Holy Communion: Discipline, Powers and...2023-04-251h 09Queen of the Sciences2023 Bonus 3: Crossover Episode with Fresh Text on John 11John Drury of the Fresh Text podcast and I (i.e. Sarah) discuss John 11 at great and enthusiastic length!
If you enjoyed this episode, by all means subscribe to Fresh Text! John discusses a lectionary passage each week with a great array of scholars and preachers. Highly recommended!
2023-03-241h 10Queen of the SciencesMatthew, Part 1Save the best for last? In this episode, Dad and I finally get around to the First Gospel, as it is sometimes called. We talk over our previous prejudices against Matthew and how on this read we came to a new and fresh appreciate of just what this evangelist is up to.
Notes:
1. Related episodes: Mark 1, Mark 2, Luke 1, Luke 2, John 1, John 2, Sermon on the Mount, Sarah's Sermon on the Mount, Sarah's talk on the Sermon on the Mount for CCET
2. Check out my book Sermon on the Mount: A Poetic Paraphrase
3. A...2023-01-311h 04Queen of the Sciences2022 Bonus #4: Luther Discovers His Doctrine of Sanctification in the Saints of GenesisSarah's lecture at Johannelund Theological School in Uppsala, Sweden, at a daylong conference on Sanctification in Lutheran Perspective.
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2022-12-2046 minQueen of the SciencesHeaven, Hell, and the Life to ComeWhat's beyond the land, the earth, and outer space? Heaven and hell. Unless, that is, we don't exit the created cosmos to get to them, but they come to us (preferably the former and not the latter). In this episode, guided by a book from N. T. Wright, Dad and I explore the unexplored and unexplorable territory of the life to come, speculating mildly, not wildly. And that's a wrap for Season 4 of Queen of the Sciences. Thanks for being with us! Bonus episodes coming your way till we resume with Season 5 in January 2023. Meanwhile, brag to your friends...2022-12-061h 12
Expand Your Mind, One Story at a Time - Free Audiobook RevolutionA-Tumblin' Down Audiobook by Sarah Hinlicky WilsonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 644398
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A pastor with familiar doubts. A spouse just starting to feel at home. When heartbreak strikes, will the church heal their wounds, or only salt them?
Upstate New York, 1988. Pastor Donald Abney is plagued by uncertainty. Grandson of a fiery revivalist preacher, the gentle peacemaker wrestles with the contrast between their respective ministries. But when his household is rocked...2022-11-092h 53Queen of the SciencesListener Survey = Free BookClick this link to fill out our listener survey!
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Notes:
1. Related episodes: Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague; The 8th Commandment in Cancel Culture; Two Kingdoms 16th-Century Edition; Two Kingdoms 20th and 21st-Century Edition; Samuel Stefan Osusky (Dad’s Slovakia book); I Am a Brave Bridge (Sarah’s Slovakia book); Athanasius Against the World
2. Check out Dad’s book Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism
3. The Wolfhart Pannenberg quote comes from his Systematic Theology, vol. 2
4. What we’re calling...2022-03-1645 minQueen of the SciencesNenilava, Prophetess of MadagascarAnd you thought the Blumhardts would push the limits of your Lutheranism! Have we ever got a prophetess for you. In this episode, we recount the wondrous life and ministry of Nenilava, a lay evangelist, exorcist, and eventually crowned prophetess of the Malagasy Lutheran Church. Along the way we discuss what it means for Western Christians to encounter, understand, absorb, and critique such models of mission from newer Christian churches, how to think about evil spirits, and what emergent offices of ministry in the mission field might offer to tired-out Christendom.
Notes:
1. In addition to...2022-03-011h 03Queen of the SciencesThe 8th Commandment in Cancel CultureSo apparently we're all still the Puritans that The Scarlet Letter taught us to revile: eager to shun, vilify, condemn, and label. Is this an American thing, a Christian thing, or a human thing? Is social condemnation the best bulwark against political condemnation or the gateway to it? How do we assess the difference between false witness and accurate witness to unhappy truths? Does "putting the best construction on everything" make suckers of us, easily manipulated and gaslit? And if we oppose cancellation, should we then cancel the cancellers?
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1. Luther gives his explanation of...2022-01-181h 10Queen of the Sciences2022 Bonus 1: Sarah’s book ”Protons and Fleurons”In which I tell you a bit about my new short story collection, Protons and Fleurons: Twenty-Two Elements of Fiction, and then read you one of them, "Cobalt: A Mystery," which features among other delights Henry Melchior Muhlenberg as the detective, and me doing a German accent.
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Season 4 of Queen of the Sciences starts next week with an episode on The Eighth Commandment in Cancel Culture!
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Expand Your Mind, One Story at a Time - Free Audiobook RevolutionProtons and Fleurons: Twenty-Two Elements of Fiction Audiobook by Sarah Hinlicky WilsonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 610229
Title: Protons and Fleurons: Twenty-Two Elements of Fiction
Author: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Narrator: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:25:42
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-22
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore
Summary:
Big Rosa rescues unhappy women of the Wild West to work in a helium mine, and Georgie Appleseed rescues his failing diner with the help of neon. A silicon son tries to make his gold dad proud, while a scientist tries to make a new St. Francis from calcium bone fragments. Obadiah Toad...2022-01-016h 25Queen of the Sciences2021 Bonus 7: Dad and Sarah discuss ”Sealed” by Katie LangstonOne last bonus episode for 2021! Katie Langston is a convert from Mormonism to Christianity. She tells her story in Sealed, published this year by Thornbush Press. An amazing story for all fans of amazing grace!
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2021-12-3145 minQueen of the Sciences2021 Bonus 4: Sarah‘s talk on The Sermon on the Mount for CCETSarah's talk for the 2020/2021 conference of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.
Check out Sarah's "poetic paraphrase" of the Sermon on the Mount.
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2021-12-1442 min
Books And TravelLayers Of Invasion And Empire. Slovakia With Sarah Hinlicky WilsonSlovakia only became an independent state in 1993, so it is less than 30 years old. In this interview, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson and I discuss borders and how strange it is that history draws lines on a map that don’t necessarily represent the people who live within them. These layers of invasion and empire can shape lives for generations.
Sarah also recommends places to visit for both culture and nature and shares specialties of the region, as well as some of her favorite travel books.
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is the author of memoir, poetry, an...2021-11-0435 min
Expand Your Mind, One Story at a Time - Free Audiobook RevolutionI Am a Brave Bridge: An American Girl's Hilarious and Heartbreaking Year in the Fledgling Republic of Slovakia Audiobook by Sarah Hinlicky WilsonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 544668
Title: I Am a Brave Bridge: An American Girl's Hilarious and Heartbreaking Year in the Fledgling Republic of Slovakia
Author: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Narrator: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:52:28
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-21
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Travel, Europe, History & Culture
Summary:
Once upon a time an American girl moved to a little town in Slovakia. And she fell in love with the country, and with a boy. And then another boy. And then about a dozen boys fell in love with her...2021-09-0112h 52Queen of the SciencesSarah's book "To Baptize or Not to Baptize"Dad and I talk over my new book, To Baptize or Not to Baptize: A Practical Guide for Clergy.
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2021-08-0320 min
Gospel Beautiful PodcastSarah Hinlicky Wilson: I Am a Brave BridgeThis week we are welcoming return guest, Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, who has recently published a memoir, I Am a Brave Bridge: An American Girl's Hilarious and Heartbreaking Year in the Fledgling Republic of Slovakia. Sarah is a blogger, podcaster, publisher, academic, pastor, among many other things. Her website is: https://www.sarahhinlickywilson.com/aboutSupport the show2021-07-3151 minQueen of the SciencesPragmatism, or, Yet Another Great Thing With a Terrible NameAnd here I was wondering if anything could beat justification for being a great idea hidden behind a lousy word. Well, pragmatism, you win. Dad renders this unpromising term lively and insightful, shows how its approach avoids the extremes of both rationalism and empiricism, and can prove to be a helpful handmaiden to theology (but, of course, not a foundation. Heavens no). Also, how to cope with the hell of the irrevocable.
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Notes:
1. West, Prophecy Deliverance!
2. Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
3. Niebuhr, The...2021-07-271h 03Queen of the Sciences2021 Bonus episode 1: Sarah's book "I Am a Brave Bridge"Five years in the writing, and more than a quarter-century after the fact, I Am a Brave Bridge: An American Girl's Hilarious and Heartbreaking Year in the Fledgling Republic of Slovakia recounts the first year that the Hinlicky family spent as missionaries in Slovakia in 1993 (the year of Slovakia's independence) and 1994. In this bonus episode, Dad and I talk about the theological themes embedded among the hijinks of cross-cultural romance, the difference between omnipotence and totalitarianism, how to talk about sexuality and love from the perspective of faith without being creepy or cheesy, and the experience of relearning the...2021-04-2337 minQueen of the SciencesTaking Another Stab at the LectionaryIn which Sarah unloads a jeremiad on the Revised Common Lectionary and Dad mostly stands at the side of the road and watches. Also, ways to work around lectionary limitations, and whether you should preach "with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other."
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Notes:
1. Revelant previous episodes of ours include What Is (Not) the Job of a Pastor?, Learning to Love Leviticus, The Relationship between the Old and New Testaments, and Is Scripture Holy?
2. This jeremiad pretty much follows the course of...2021-01-2656 min
Expand Your Mind, One Story at a Time - Free Audiobook RevolutionPearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold Audiobook by Sarah Hinlicky WilsonListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 491634
Title: Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold
Author: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Narrator: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 01:56:03
Language: English
Release date: 12-07-20
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction
Summary:
A man arrives at the gates of heaven holding a faith thats not his own; another clutches a suitcase hes unwilling to give up. One woman demands to be sent back, while another asks for a new name. Hands empty or full, hearts joyful or disappointed or appalled, these people and others approach the...2020-12-071h 56Queen of the SciencesAn Unlikely MarriageThe eponymous unlikely marriage is that of marriage—with Christianity. After assembling an impressive number of reasons why we should have expected the Christian faith to want nothing whatsoever to do with exclusive sexual pairing, we then change directions and show why, after all, Christianity opted for marriage, and in so doing once again engaged in a doctrinal revision of inherited notions of God. In light of which, we then engage a contemporary Catholic theologian's take on Christian marriage. Spoiler alert: we don't even go near the usual hot-button topics. If you feel the need for outrage, Twitter is wa...2020-11-171h 09Queen of the SciencesThe Last Third of ActsAfter a lonnnnng delay, we finally finish up the Acts of the Apostles! Check out our previous episode on the First Two-Thirds of Acts, then dive in to this one for the riveting topic of... wait for it... rule of law and due process. No, really, it's good stuff. Plus, why Paul appeals to Caesar but never actually meets him, or, how to avoid soteriological confusion.
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Notes:
1. Ferdinand Christian Baur on Acts
2. This is my favorite map of the missionary journeys of Paul
3. We refer...2020-10-201h 00Queen of the Sciences2020 Bonus Episode 8: Small Catechism Memorizing EditionDad talks to Sarah about the inspiration for and design of her new translation of Luther's Small Catechism, specifically intended for memorization.
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2020-10-1316 minQueen of the SciencesThus Spake Sarahthustra, or, Nietzsche is PeachyFriedrich Nietzsche demolished the traditional foundations of religious belief. Does that make him a foe—or possibly a friend? One way or another, we can't get away from him. In this episode Dad walks us through Nietzsche's tirades against all forms of fake religious assurances and insidious social control to find, surprisingly, compelling reasons to embrace the crucified and risen one.
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Notes:
1. You can find translations of everything Nietzsche wrote without any trouble online. In this episode we talked in particular about The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Ev...2020-10-061h 04Queen of the Sciences2020 Bonus 7: Sarah's "Pearly Gates"Dad talks to me about my "weird little stories" in Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold.
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2020-09-2922 minQueen of the SciencesMartin Luther's "The Freedom of a Christian"Possibly the best thing Luther ever wrote (for my money only the Large Catechism offers the best competition for that claim), "The Freedom of a Christian" turns 500 this year and accordingly merits even more attention than usual. In this episode Dad and I explore the two halves of the treatise, one each for "A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none" and "A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all," drawing out the powers of faith and joyful exchanges that illuminate the apparent contradiction—and how to live as both a lo...2020-09-221h 06Queen of the Sciences2020 Bonus Episode 6: Dad's "Luther for Evangelicals"I talk to Dad about his book Luther for Evangelicals: A Reintroduction. (Non-Evangelicals warmly invited to eavesdrop.)
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2020-09-1529 minQueen of the SciencesHow to Be a CongregationLast time we talked about the job of the pastor, so this time we're discussing the job of the congregation, which is a bit like the old Atari video game Pitfall—look out for those alligators, especially if you're one of Jesus' sheep. But most of the time it's just the sheep learning to bear with one another, and bear one another's burdens: a whole zooful of grace, evidently. Also, what to think about the roof, and how to navigate the inevitable requirement these days of being a church shopper.
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...2020-09-081h 06Queen of the Sciences2020 Bonus Episode 5: Sarah's "Sermon on the Mount"Dad talks to me about my "poetic paraphrase" of the Sermon on the Mount.
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2020-09-0123 minQueen of the SciencesWhat Is (Not) the Job of a Pastor?Less obvious than you might think! The pastoral office functions like a magnet, attracting an infinity of valuable tasks without knowing how to shed them when it gets to be too much. In this episode we address the distinction between lay and ordained ministries, attempt to clear away some of the aforementioned well-intentioned clutter, and chart out a triage approach to the pastor's true calling. Hopefully helpful to burned-out and compassion-fatigued pastors, lay folks may also appreciate this reminder of what their pastors are actually for.
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1. Dobbs, “The...2020-08-251h 01Queen of the SciencesIsaiahHow could anyone possibly feel "meh" about Isaiah? Well, that was me, before digging in deep to prepare for this episode. I have since come around (whew) and, if not quite as excited as about Leviticus, I'm still pretty jazzed now about both the prophet Isaiah and the book named for him. In this episode Dad and I discuss both the text in its own time and the text in the hands of Jesus and the apostles, and wrap up with ruminations on how not to exploit Isaiah and other prophets as a soapbox for a preacher's pet concerns.2020-08-111h 09Queen of the Sciences2020 Bonus Episode 4: Dad's "Lutheran Theology: A Critical Introduction"I get Dad to talk about his new book, Lutheran Theology: A Critical Introduction. Fact: Lutheran theology is NOT the same as Luther's theology! Shocker, right?
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2020-08-0431 min
Queen of the SciencesTsehay Tolessa and Gudina Tumsa, the Ethiopian BonhoefferFollowing on our last two episodes exploring the Lutheran doctrine of the "two kingdoms," in this one we dive deeply into the life of two extraordinary Ethiopian Lutherans. Gudina Tumsa was a pastor and the General Secretary of the Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus until his assassination by the communist Derg regime in 1979. His wife Tsehay Tolessa, an active evangelist, was arrested after his death, tortured, and imprisoned without trial or sentence for ten years. Only after the fall of the regime was Gudina's death confirmed and his body identified, exhumed, and given a Christian burial.
In addition...2020-03-241h 00Queen of the SciencesTwo Kingdoms, 16th Century EditionYou think it's obvious to keep religion and government separate—but for nearly all of human history, it's been anything but that! In this episode Dad and I sort through the landscape of 16th century Europe to scout out the source of Luther's distinction between the "two kingdoms": the lefthand kingdom where God rules by law, coercion, and public authority, and the righthand kingdom where God rules by the gospel of Jesus Christ through word and sacrament. There are so many ways to do church-and-state wrong that we barely scratch the surface! So stay tuned for the next episode, wh...2020-02-2555 minQueen of the Sciences2019 Bonus Episode 2: How the Holy Spirit Disappeared in LutheranismPaul R. Hinlicky (aka Dad) presents "How the Holy Spirit Disappeared in Lutheranism" at the Braaten-Benne Lectures in Theology in Indianapolis on August 6, 2019.
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Gospel Beautiful PodcastRev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Reflects on Luther's Theology, talking to Pentecostals, and the challenges of minister in the 21st century.In this episode, I talk with Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson about a wide range of topics, including Luther's theology, her work with the Lutheran-Pentecostal dialogue, and the challenges of modern ministry. Sarah's own podcast and newsletter can be further explored at her website, https://www.sarahhinlickywilson.com/. She has published three books: Woman, Women, and the Priesthood in the Trinitarian Theology of Elisabeth Behr-SigelA Guide to Pentecostal Movements for LutheransHere I Walk: A Thousand Miles on Foot to Rome with Martin LutherTo suggest interviewees or...2019-11-1555 minGospel Beautiful PodcastPreview: Sarah Hinlicky Wilson on Pentecostals and Lutherans in DialogueIn this preview clip, Rev. Dr. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson reflects on the ongoing impact of the Azusa Street Revival and offers some thoughts on how Lutherans and Pentecostals can benefit from theological dialogue. Check out Sarah's book, A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans. To suggest interviewees or to comment on the show, email me at chanspam82@gmail.comSupport us through Patreon! Support the show2019-11-1402 minQueen of the SciencesFaith to the Aid of ReasonIn this episode I give voice to my cri de coeur that argumentation, debate, and even discussion have been ruled out of court by the present cultural currents, which reduce us to disputing sources instead of drawing out implications of facts, and in which every witness reads as either will-to-power or advertising. Who shall rescue us from this mind of death and how? Does reason need faith's help nowadays? If so, how can we bring it to bear in civil contexts where we cannot presume, much less impose, convictions of faith? Dad advises epistemological humility and interpersonal charity—easier sa...2019-08-271h 01Queen of the SciencesThe First Two-Thirds of ActsWhy only two-thirds? In this episode we look at a specific aspect of the immensely complex literary work known as the Acts of the Apostles: namely, the Holy Spirit’s gathering in of all human communities that have been estranged from God. The story begins with the Spirit’s gathering of the Jews, moves on to Samaritans and proselytes, then Gentiles in the form of Cornelius the centurion… at which point you might think all the possibilities have been covered. But wait! There’s one more group. Any guesses? You’d have to read Luke-Acts pretty closely to figure it out. Or...2019-07-021h 13Queen of the SciencesAll About PrayerIn which Dad and I confess our very different kinds of struggles with prayer, explore how Jesus' prayer can become our prayer, and then tackle a bunch of questions that arise: Does prayer change God or change us? Or both or neither? Can our prayers be pure? What does God do with our mixed motives in prayer? Why does God sometimes answer no even when we ask for the sort of things He Himself seems to favor? And who are we to be advising God on how to run the universe?
Notes:
1. Paul R. Hinlicky...2019-06-0457 minQueen of the SciencesJustification by Faith: The Best Thing in the Worst WordsWhy is such a great thing trapped in such awful words? We discuss some of the problems with both “justification” and “faith” in contemporary English, then dig into the details of what this perplexing terminology actually refers to, and why Lutherans consider it “the article on which the church stands or falls.”
Notes:
1. Scripture verses we discuss include Romans 3 and 4, II Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 2:20, 3:13, and 5:13.
2. J. Louis Martyn, Galatians (Anchor Bible Commentary)
3. Robert P. Eriksen, Theologians Under Hitler
4. Doris L. Bergen, Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich
2019-04-231h 07Queen of the SciencesAthanasius Against the WorldIn this episode we talk about Athanasius, the great church father (c. 298–373), nicknamed Athanasius Contra Mundum, Athanasius Against the World, among other things for going into exile five times during his bishopric.
Why does it matter to say, as Athanasius did, that Jesus is truly divine as well as truly human? What does it mean to say Jesus is truly divine as well as truly human? What’s at stake in other christologies (i.e., other ways of describing Jesus’ “being”)? And how does Athanasius’s christology alter our very perception of reality?
Notes:
1. Athanas...2019-04-091h 03Queen of the SciencesTriple PredestinationNot single, not double, but triple predestination! Listen to this episode to uncover the meaning of this mysterious formulation. Also, why predestination does not necessarily have to be the worst possible doctrine, contrary to popular belief.
Notes:
1. Martin Luther, "The Bondage of the Will," which you can easily find free as well as in published books.
2. Paul R. Hinlicky, Paths Not Taken: Fates of Theology from Luther through Leibniz
3. Chief biblical texts mentioned are Romans 7, 9–11, Isaiah 53, and John 3:16.
4. Robert Kolb, Bound Choice, Election, and Wittenberg Theological Method
5. Th...2019-03-2659 minQueen of the SciencesIs Scripture Holy?In today's show we set aside the question of whether we can say the Scriptures are true, reliable, accurate, historically verifiable, false, fake, or toxic, to ask whether they are holy--whether they are in themselves, and whether (and how) they make us holy. Reframing the question this way avoids many of the pitfalls of the past centuries and opens up new possibilities for theological reasoning.
Show Notes:
1. The texts we discuss vis-à-vis their being-holy and making-holy qualities are Joshua 8:1–29, Nehemiah 7:7bff, and Mark 9:1. We also refer to Romans 1 and I Timothy 3:16.
2. Yes! Paul...2019-02-121h 03