Shows
TikTok TheologyReading the Signs of the End Times Pt. 2Steven’s article “In the End God Uncreated the World” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/646fb2e88345424bf4ed337b/t/64701b1ba4720b33e4857f81/1685068573539/Quadrum3.pdfNT Wright’s Revelation For EveryoneMichael Gorman’s Reading Revelation ResponsiblyRichard Bauckham’s The Theology of the Book of Revelation2025-05-1332 min
TikTok TheologyReading the Signs of the End Times Pt. 1Steven’s article “In the End God Uncreated the World” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/646fb2e88345424bf4ed337b/t/64701b1ba4720b33e4857f81/1685068573539/Quadrum3.pdfNT Wright’s Revelation For EveryoneMichael Gorman’s Reading Revelation ResponsiblyRichard Bauckham’s The Theology of the Book of Revelation2025-05-0645 min
TikTok TheologyProfiling Jesus (with Christopher Whyte)Scot McKnight’s The King Jesus GospelJames Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree2025-04-2940 min
TikTok TheologyThe Kitschification of TruthTomas Kulka’s Kitsch and ArtThorsten Botz-Bornstein’s The New Aesthetics of DeculturationGreen & Felix-Jager’s The Spirit and the Sketch (forthcoming)Netlix's The Social Dilemma https://www.netflix.com/title/812542242025-04-2238 min
TikTok TheologyThe Border Crisis (with Lloyd Barba)Lloyd Barba’s Sowing the SacredLeo Chavez’ Covering ImmigrationSanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State, podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/4kVxqJZfaOU58QeKCd9ITn?si=019bff0e029a4c7b2025-04-1537 min
TikTok TheologyDo Christians, Jews, and Muslims Worship the Same God?C.S. Lewis, Mere ChristianityThe Catholic Herald, “All Faiths Lead to God” https://catholicherald.co.uk/all-faiths-lead-to-god-pope-fuels-controversy-by-preaching-religious-pluralism-on-final-day-of-tour/NPR, “Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?” https://www.npr.org/2015/12/20/460480698/do-christians-and-muslims-worship-the-same-god2025-04-0834 min
TikTok TheologyThe Refugee Crisis (with Bri Stensrud)Bri Stensrud’s Start With WelcomeWomen of Welcome, www.womenofwelcome.com2025-04-0140 min
TikTok TheologyChristian Stances on WarStassen & Gushee, Kingdom EthicsReinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society2025-03-2549 min
TikTok TheologyAre Gen Z Men More Religious Than Women?Danial Cox & Kelsey Eyre Hammond, "Young Women Are Leaving Church in Unprecedented Numbers," https://www.americansurveycenter.org/newsletter/young-women-are-leaving-church-in-unprecedented-numbers/"The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World," https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2016/03/22/the-gender-gap-in-religion-around-the-world/#:~:text=In%2061%20of%20the%20192,identify%20with%20some%20religious%20group.Claire Cain Miller, "Many Gen Z Men Feel Left Behind. Some See Trump as an Answer," https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/upshot/trump-polls-young-men.htmlRuth Graham, "In a First Among Christians, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women," https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/us/young-men-religion-gen-z.htmlRyan Denison, "In Gen Z, Men Are More Likely than Women to Go to Church,"...2025-03-1842 min
TikTok TheologyGlobal Missions Without Colonization (with Amos Yong)Steven Felix-Jager's The Problem & Promise of Freedom: A Public Theology for the ChurchAmos Yong's Mission After PentecostAmos Yong's Beyond the ImpasseAmos Yong's Discerning the Spirit(s)Amos Yong's The Future of Evangelical TheologyAmos Yong's The Missiological SpiritAmos Yong's Pneumatology and the Christian-Buddhist DialogueChristopher Wright's The Mission of God 2025-03-1138 min
TikTok TheologyThe Global Spirit at WorkChristopher Wright's The Mission of GodAmos Yong’s Beyond the ImpasseMiroslav Volf’s Exclusion & Embrace2025-03-0439 min
TikTok Theology"Mary Did You Know?"...but BiblicalSocial Architects (Steven & Andy's band): https://open.spotify.com/track/4oCkncI25bqBcGKCxi2FcX?si=d5cb4b18fd0c4d77Our favorite version of "Mary Did You Know": https://youtu.be/ifCWN5pJGIE?si=-m5eeJ54pOOgCuqE2024-12-2402 min
TikTok TheologyHow Political Should Pastors Get at the Pulpit?Stassen & Gushee’s Kingdom EthicsSteven Felix-Jager & Yoon Shin’s Renewing Christian Worldview: A Holistic Approach for Spirit-filled ChristiansSteven Felix-Jager’s The Problem and Promise of Freedom: A Public Theology for God’s Covenantal Community (forthcoming 2025)2024-11-0136 min
TikTok TheologyCan We Be Healed Through Prayer?The Chosen’s Healing Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZDvcEkjthAA.J. Swoboda’s The Gift of ThornsAmos Yong’s The Bible, Disability, and the Church2024-10-2941 min
TikTok TheologyCanon, Translation & the Books that Didn't Make it Into the Bible (with Rick Wadholm Jr.)Rick’s website: https://www.rick.wadholm.com/Contact Rick: @rickwadholmjrGordon Fee’s How to Choose a Translation For All Its Worth2024-10-2248 min
TikTok TheologyEvangelicals on Abortion“What About Abortion? Should this one issue determine how Christians vote?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvWD7ykNjCc&t=675sGuttmacher article, https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/despite-bans-number-abortions-united-states-increased-20232024-10-1532 min
TikTok TheologyBiblical Manhood & Womanhood (with Leah Payne)Leah Payne's God Gave Rock and Roll to YouLeah Payne's Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism2024-10-0858 min
TikTok TheologyInclusivism & the Extent of SalvationOkholm & Phillips, Eds., Four Views of Salvation in a Pluralistic WorldSanders, Ed., What About Those Who Have Never Heard?Amos Yong, Beyond the Impasse2024-10-0143 min
TikTok TheologyFinding Truth in an Era of Misinformation (with Yoon Shin)Steven Félix-Jäger & Yoon Shin, Renewing Christian WorldviewCailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs SpreadPaul M. Gould, Cultural ApologeticsJames Κ. A. Smith, Thinking in TonguesDru Johnson, Biblical Knowing2024-09-2446 min
TikTok TheologyJudging WorshipSteven Félix-Jäger, Renewal WorshipSteven Félix-Jäger, How to Worship For All Its Worth (forthcoming)2024-09-1742 min
TikTok TheologyRacial Reconciliation & the Church (with Doretha O'Quinn & Jen Thigpenn)National Library of Medicine, Social Media Statistics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728865/Aaron Earls, Lifeway Research, “Pastors More Reluctant to Preach on Race,” https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/january/pastors-reluctant-preach-racial-reconciliation-lifeway-surv.htmlBarna, “Most Christians Assume Diverse Community Will Improve Race Relations,” https://www.barna.com/research/improve-race-relations/Bad Faith on TubiWillie James Jennings, The Christian Imagination2024-09-1050 min
TikTok TheologyChristians Are Mean.Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of CharacterSteven Félix-Jäger & Yoon Shin, Renewing Christian Worldview2024-09-0340 min
TikTok TheologyThe Presidential DebateHere's a Season 2 bonus episode...enjoy!2024-08-2702 min
TikTok TheologyCan Worship Music Manipulate?Chris Green & Steven Felix-Jager’s The Spirit and the Song (forthcoming)Steven Félix-Jäger and Yoon Shin, Renewing Christian WorldviewSteven Brown and Ulrik Volgsten, Eds., Music and ManipulationJeremy Begbie, “Faithful Feelings: Music and Emotion in Worship”Adam Perez, “‘It’s Your Breath in Our Lungs’: Sean Feucht’s Praise and Worship Music Protests and the Theological Problem of Pandemic Response in the U.S.”2024-05-0747 min
TikTok TheologyApostasy. Can You Lose Your Salvation? (with Kutter Callaway)Kutter Callaway’s The Aesthetics of AtheismMartin Scorsese’s SilenceJurgen Moltmann’s The Crucified GodBe Afraid Podcast: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/be-afraid/2024-04-3051 min
TikTok TheologyWhat is Real Biblical Prophecy?Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic ImaginationWalter Brueggemann’s A Gospel of HopeSteven Felix-Jager’s Renewal WorshipLuke Timothy Johnson’s Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church2024-04-2345 min
TikTok TheologyWho Should Christians Vote For?Steven Felix-Jager & Yoon Shin’s Renewing Christian Worldview: A Holistic Approach for Spirit-filled ChristiansSteven Felix-Jager’s The Problem and Promise of Freedom: A Public Theology for God’s Covenantal Community (forthcoming 2025)Preston Sprinkle’s Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of EmpireAugustine’s The City of God2024-04-1646 min
TikTok TheologyRapture Trauma (with Carmen Imes)Carmen Imes' Being God's ImageCarmen Imes' Bearing God's Name2024-04-0947 min
How To ChurchEp 3 - What Are The Rules of Worship?A conversation with Dr. Steven Felix-Jager about the rules of worship music in the Church. This episode is NOT just for worship leaders, and we hope it blesses you.
Steven is associate professor and chair of the Worship Arts and Media program at Life Pacific University in San Dimas, California. He is the author of Renewal Worship and the co-host of the TikTok Theology podcast with Meagan Lord.2024-04-0445 min
TikTok TheologyIs Transgenderism Gnostic?Preston Sprinkle's EmbodiedElizabeth Moltmann-Wendel's I Am My BodyBeilby and Eddy's Understanding Transgender Identities2024-04-0234 min
TikTok TheologyExploring Hypocrisy in the Bible (with Nijay Gupta)Nijay Gupta's Strange ReligionRichard Middleton's Abraham's SilenceThe Bible Project: https://bibleproject.com/2024-03-2645 min
TikTok TheologyIs the Trinity Biblical?Millard Erickson's Making Sense of the TrinityAugustine's On the TrinityGregory of Nyssa's On the TrinityRichard Rohr's Divine Dance2024-03-1937 min
TikTok TheologyReconciling the Violence of God (with Jim W. Adams)This episode features special guest Dr. Jim W. Adams."Weep No More" Music Video: https://youtu.be/Q6wxk3ewoBA?si=ytpP7epA5RkWrKfuL. Daniel Hawk's The Violence of the Biblical GodMatthew Lynch's Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of GodClaude Mariottini's Divine Violence and the Character of GodGreg Boyd's The Crucifixion of the Warrior GodGreg Boyd's Cross VisionJurgen Moltmann's The Crucified God2024-03-1249 min
TikTok TheologyAfter Purity CultureMeagan's Master's Dissertation: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/edrj5x1p1g9jeq2atrv90/lord-dissertation..pdf?rlkey=zlz05479mxv5omxg1v3e0p7ug&dl=0Rachel Joy Welcher's Taking Back to Purity Culture Judith & Jack Balswick's Authentic Human Sexuality Stanley Grenz' Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical PerspectiveDennis Hollinger's The Meaning of Sex: Christian Ethics and the Moral LifeMark Regnerus' Forbidden FruitLewis Smedes' Sex for Christians 2024-03-0542 min
TikTok TheologyThe Flüffernusse DebateThis is a bonus Christmas episode.2023-12-2405 min
TikTok TheologyConsumed by Consumerism (with A.J. Swoboda)This episode features special guest Dr. A.J. Swoboda.A.J. Swoboda’s Subversive Sabbath http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/subversive-sabbath/385241Norman Wirzba’s Living the Sabbath http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/living-the-sabbath/268530Adam Gustine and José Humphreys III’s Ecosystems of Jubilee https://zondervanacademic.com/products/ecosystems-of-jubileeWalter Brueggemann’s Money and Possessions https://www.wjkbooks.com/Content/Site117/FilesSamples/294459MoneyandP_00000024611.pdfMichael Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy https://academic.macmillan.com/academictrade/9780374533656/whatmoneycantbuyMiroslav Volf’s Free of Charge https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/publications/free-charge-giving-and-forgiving-culture-stripped-grace2023-12-1940 min
TikTok TheologySelf-centered Worship SongsSteven Félix-Jäger’s Renewal Worship, https://www.ivpress.com/renewal-worshipSteven’s Other Writing, https://www.stevenfelixjager.com/writingGreg Scheer’s Essential Worship, http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/essential-worship/377090Steffany Gretzinger’s Podcast Appearances, https://www.owltail.com/people/TITj8-steffany-gretzinger/appearances2023-12-1233 min
TikTok TheologyFreewill & PredestinationWilliam Lane Craig’s The Only Wise God https://wipfandstock.com/9781579103163/the-only-wise-god/N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9780800626839/Paul-and-the-Faithfulness-of-GodC.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mere-christianity-c-s-lewis/1100549216Clark Pinnock et al’s The Openness of God https://www.ivpress.com/the-openness-of-god2023-12-0537 min
TikTok TheologyThe Church & LGBTQ+ (with Tim Lee & Jennifer Thigpenn)This episode features special guests Dr. Tim Lee and Jennifer Thigpenn.Preston Sprinkle’s Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? https://shop.davidccook.org/products/does-the-bible-support-same-sex-marriagePreston Sprinkle’s People to Be Loved https://zondervanacademic.com/products/people-to-be-lovedPew Research Center “Religious Groups’ Official Positions on Same-Sex Marriage” https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2012/12/07/religious-groups-official-positions-on-same-sex-marriage/“NT Wright on Same-Sex Marriage,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKxvOMOmHeI&t=21sTheology in the Raw, https://theologyintheraw.com/2023-11-2852 min
TikTok TheologyIs the Bible Anti-Women?Nijay Gupta’s Tell Her Story https://www.ivpress.com/tell-her-storyDavid and Diana Garland’s Flawed Families of the Bible http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/flawed-families-of-the-bible/281212Stanley Grenz’ Sexual Ethics https://www.thethoughtfulchristian.com/Products/066425750X/sexual-ethics.aspxAthena Doctrine Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/YxgTsyL4y0E?feature=sharedForbes Article on Women in Leadership: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2023/03/31/new-research-women-more-effective-than-men-in-all-leadership-measures/?sh=51cd68a577aaHarvard Business Article on Women in Leadership: https://hbr.org/2019/06/research-women-score-higher-than-men-in-most-leadership-skillsMeagan’s 1 Tim. 2 Project: https://publuu.com/flip-book/265673/624293/page/42023-11-2142 min
TikTok TheologyThe Threat of Christian Nationalism“NAE Denounces Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,” Jan. 7, 2021, https://www.nae.org/nae-denounces-insurrection-capitol/Gregory Boyd’s The Myth of a Christian Nation https://www.audible.com/pd/Myth-of-a-Christian-Nation-Audiobook/B002V1NXY6 Paul Miller’s The Religion of American Greatness https://www.ivpress.com/the-religion-of-american-greatness Richard Hughes’ Christian America and the Kingdom of God https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p078897 Steven Studebaker’s A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-48016-3Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631499050 2023-11-1432 min
TikTok TheologyAre Spiritual Gifts For Today? (with Aimee Selby)This episode features special guest Aimee Selby, Asst. Prof. of Ministry at Life Pacific University.Charles Kraft's Two Hours to Freedom http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/two-hours-to-freedom/325140David Lim's Spiritual Gifts: A Fresh Look https://myhealthychurch.com/store/startitem.cfm?item=020636Jerry Stott's Positioned for the Gifts https://foursquaremissionspress.org/product/positioned-for-the-gifts/2023-11-0747 min
TikTok TheologyChurch Hurt“Church Hurt” by Theos Team, https://www.theosu.ca/theos-resource/church-hurtHenri Nouwen's The Wounded Healer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/122882/the-wounded-healer-by-henri-j-m-nouwen/Natalie Runion's Raised to Stay https://davidccook.org/books/raised-to-stay/2023-10-3144 min
TikTok TheologyGod & the Problem of Evil“Suffering and Evil: The logical Problem,” videos by William Lane Craig, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64YJYBUFLM&list=PL3gdeV4Rk9EcdXA1dVgb7-C0lXtp6LFp4Jurgen Moltmann’s Jesus Christ For Today’s World, http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/after-doubt/401960N.T. Wright’s Evil and the Justice of God, https://www.ivpress.com/evil-and-the-justice-of-godJeremy Evans, The Problem of Evil: The Challenge to Essential Christian Beliefs, https://www.logos.com/product/198411/the-problem-of-evil-the-challenge-to-essential-christian-beliefsMesiter and Dew’s God and the Problem of Evil: Five Views, https://www.ivpress.com/god-and-the-problem-of-evilJames Crenshaw’s Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil, https...2023-10-2440 min
TikTok TheologyDeconstructing on TikTok“Doubt and Deconstruction: The Way of Thomas Pt. 1,” sermon by A.J. Swoboda, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9HpusMwDM“Doubt and Deconstruction: The Way of Thomas Pt. 2,” sermon by A.J. Swoboda, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfV-yGO4ZAA.J. Swoboda’s After Doubt, http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/after-doubt/401960- Andrew Ray Williams’ Deconstructing Prayer, https://wipfandstock.com/9781666738247/reconstructing-prayer/Roger E. Olson, The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction, https://www.ivpress.com/the-journey-of-modern-theologyOrganization: The Salvation Army, https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/Organization: Dream Center (Los Angeles), https://www.dreamcenter.org/giving-opportunities/Organization: Compassion International, https://www...2023-10-0737 min