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Storm The GatesEat The Scroll with Dr. Todd Still and Dr. Rusty Freeman Green and gold are flung afar on this episode of STG. The motto of Baylor University is Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana, Pro Mundo (For Church, For Texas, For the World). Dr. Still and Dr. Freeman highlight how Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University is preparing present and future generations for ministry. Dr. Todd Still has been the Dean of Truett Theological Seminary for 10 years now. Dr. Rusty Freeman is the Director of the Wesley House of Studies at Truett in a addition to serving as the Executive Director for Revive (revivetexas.org). Truett is located at the heart of...2025-04-1458 min

Future ChristianDustin Benac on Adaptability, Authority, and Future ChurchHow can churches navigate change and uncertainty with creativity and resilience? In this episode, Dustin Benac shares insights from his research in the Pacific Northwest, where faith communities are experimenting with new organizational models in response to the decline of traditional church structures. Together, they explore themes of collaboration, authority, and innovation, discussing how faith communities can remain rooted in tradition while adapting to a rapidly shifting landscape. Dustin introduces the concept of "hubs"—new forms of church organization that connect congregations, nonprofits, and faith leaders in dynamic networks. He also reflects on how authority is shifting from institutional hiera...2025-02-0450 min

Storm The GatesThey Are Meeting With God Already with Rev. Dr. Rusty Freeman After the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the announcement of President Joe Biden stepping out of the next presidential race, Shea and Jason talk about their roles as pastors and how they navigate around American politics. The Rev. Dr. Rusty Freeman joins them to talk about Revive and the Wesley House of Studies at Baylor University. You don't want to miss Rusty's testimony to God's faithfulness. For more information go to revivetexas.org and baylor.edu/truett/wesleyhouse 2024-08-0557 min

Crazy Pastors38: Women In Ministry with Todd StillToday Ronny and Christopher are talking with Dr. Todd Still. Dr Still is the Dean of Truett Theological Seminary and a Pauline scholar. They discuss the roles of women in ministry and Dr. Still’s background. Have a question or topic that you would like for us to discuss? You can email those to Christopher@CrazyPastors.org.For more information on Dr. Still, you can find it here https://truettseminary.baylor.edu/person/todd-d-still-phd 2024-04-1142 min

The Christian Coach PodcastCindy White - Program Director at Baylor University/Truett Seminary’s Faith and Sports Institute (Replay)Cindy White serves as the Program Director at Baylor University/Truett Seminary’s Faith and Sports Institute and is motivated to help young people aspire to true greatness in their sports and life. She also is an adjunct professor at Truett Seminary and facilitates ministry in Baylor Athletics. In addition, Cindy is co-leading the effort to expand Truett's Sports Ministry Program to online and modular education for practitioners in sports. Cindy grew up in Akron, Ohio, in a family of nine where she played volleyball, basketball, and softball competitively. She went on to earn All-American ho...2024-03-2637 min

You Are More PodcastEpisode 11: FAQs about ministryToday, Laken and Blaine dive into your questions on ministry, including women in the mission field, and women in ministry. We can't wait for you to hear this week's episode. Are women called to missions? Are you single and want to serve overseas on the mission field? What does "mission field" mean? What if you aren't called to children's ministry? What if God calls you to vocational ministry? How can you honor your pastor and their family well? What does that look like practically? Women in Ministry Resource...2023-11-1525 min

The Colonial Dept.S4E12: A Muscular ChristianityCivilize? Christianize? As the Americans move into their new colony, they pack an unlikely weapon in their mission to take over the Philippines: sports! Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdept Email us: thecolonialdept@gmail.com References: Gems, Gerald R. (2016). Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and Bayonets. Lexington Books. Putz, Paul (31 January 2022). “Muscular Christianity and Moral Formation Through Sports.” Faith & Sports. Truett Seminary of Baylor University. https://blogs.baylor.edu/faithsports/2022/01/31/muscular-christianity-and-moral-formation-through-sports/ Report on the YWCA and the YMCA...2023-07-2913 min

In No Hurry with Cole Douglas ClaybournEpisode 98: Paul Putz on Faith, Sports & HistoryPaul Putz serves as the assistant director of the Faith & Sports Institute, part of the Truett Seminary at Baylor University. Though Paul and I connected previously through social media, we met in person at a conference in June in Minneapolis and found out we have quite a bit in common, mainly our passion for Jesus and sports. If you're a Christian who likes sports, you'll especially enjoy this conversation. Earlier in 2023, Paul gave a chapel talk called "Jesus and James Naismith," where he explored the Christian roots of basketball. In our conversation this week, he shares a...2023-07-1754 min

Community ChatChatting About Women in Ministry (with Lillian Hinds)Churches, and even some denominations, have split over the issue. One of the largest churches in America (Saddleback Church) was just ousted from the Southern Baptist Convention over it. In 1 Corinthians 14:34, Paul writes, "Women should remain silent in the churches..." Yet, in Galatians 3:28, Paul also writes, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." The topic of women in ministry is one that many churches are wrestling with. Our guest Lillian Hinds, retired Senior Pastor of Meadow Oaks Baptist Church in...2023-03-1052 min

The Christian Coach PodcastCindy White - Program Director at Baylor University/Truett Seminary’s Faith and Sports InstituteCindy White serves as the Program Director at Baylor University/Truett Seminary’s Faith and Sports Institute and is motivated to help young people aspire to true greatness in their sports and life. She also is an adjunct professor at Truett Seminary and facilitates ministry in Baylor Athletics. In addition, Cindy is co-leading the effort to expand Truett's Sports Ministry Program to online and modular education for practitioners in sports. Cindy grew up in Akron, Ohio, in a family of nine where she played volleyball, basketball, and softball competitively. She went on to earn All-American ho...2023-01-2439 min

ing PodcastEpisode 13: "Rejoicing" (with special guest, Rev. Dr. Angela Williams Gorrell)In this week's episode, ~ing host Allison Maus is joined by author, professor, and minister, Rev. Dr. Angela Williams Gorrell, professor at Baylor's George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Today's conversation explores themes from Rev. Dr. Williams Gorrell's recently published book, The Gravity of Joy: A Story of Being Lost and Found. What does joy mean, and how to people of faith find joy amid all the turbulence of our world today? In her book, Rev. Dr. Williams Gorrell admits, "My vocation was supposed to be joy, and I was speaking at funerals.” This episode brings wisdom from her personal li...2022-04-0538 min

History of the Papacy Podcast116p Retrieving the Real North African Church with Dr. David WilhiteEpisode 116p Retrieving the Real North African Church with Dr. David WilhiteDescription: Today is the last episode in our Summer of Scholars series. It lasted a bit more than just the summer, but it also started late in summer! Dr. David Wilhite, Ph.D., of Baylor University Truett Theological Seminary joins us today to talk about the Church of North Africa during antiquity. We have talked a lot about North African Christianity in this series, so I highly suggest you go back and listen to our episodes with Dr. David Eastman for more background and context. In...2022-01-071h 07

The Stone Chapel PodcastTSC_053 Todd Still, George W. Truett Theological SeminaryThe Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Todd Still 2021-05-0423 min

FBC Young AdultsStraight Outta Context - Episode One - IntroThe first episode in a 9-part series on some of the most mis-interpreted verses in the Bible.------------------------Episode Summary/For Further ExplorationPractical Tips for Interpreting the Bible:Interpret the Bible with The BibleRecognize “we’re reading someone else’s mail”Understand the ContextGet a readable translation of the Bible (NIV, NRSV, NAB, CEB, NASB, etc.)Read the text repeatedly, and read it in the context of community (in church, with the writings of scholars, in a class, with a friend)Find Good tools and good friends to read scripture with, even if...2021-04-0642 min

For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureThe Gravity of Joy / Angela GorrellTheologian Angela Gorrell discusses her book The Gravity of Joy, a theological memoir that lays bare the experience of finding the bright sorrow of joy alongside devastating grief, suffering, and pain. The book recounts her experience of joining the Yale Center for Faith & Culture in 2016 as an Associate Research Scholar for our Theology of Joy and the Good Life Project and to teach our Yale undergraduate course, Life Worth Living. That winter, the reality, the extent, and the dangerous potential of joy would become devastatingly clear. The highly abstract question of what it means to live a life worth...2021-03-1334 min

Mission in 5Stories and online ministry with Taylor ShippyTaylor Shippy is pastor of Gibbon Baptist Church in Gibbon, NE. We discuss his theological training, his love of stories, how online church is changing pastoral ministry and his love of people. Links from this episode: http://abcnebraska.com/wp/ ABC Nebraska http://campmerrill.com/ Moses Merrill Camp and Conference Center https://www.gibbonbaptist.org/ Gibbon Baptist Church https://www.baylor.edu/truett/ George W. Truett Baptist Theological Seminary https://table-life.org/ Table Life: An Invitation to Everyday Discipleship 2021-02-0128 min

Bad Soccer DadThe Integrated Athlete with Elizabeth PerkinsThis week I had a conversation with Elizabeth Perkins. Elizabeth talks about the importance of growing a total person: As an athlete A woman of character A person of faith A leader of leaders. Reflection: Don’t forget the goal of education and development is total person growth, a whole and integrated young person, not just a star athlete. Elizabeth’s story reminds us that if college sports are on the horizon for your son or daughter, it’s never...2020-01-2136 min

Quick to ListenJohn MacArthur Is No Stranger to ControversyTranscribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.Last week, John MacArthur celebrated 50 years in the pastorate at a conference at his congregation Grace Community Church. During the event, MacArthur accused the Southern Baptist Convention of taking a “headlong plunge” toward allowing women preachers after women spoke at the SBC’s 2019 annual meeting.That, he said, was a sign the denomination no longer believed in biblical authority.“When you literally overturn the teaching of Scripture to empower people who want power, you have given up biblical authority,” said MacArthur, as a Religious...2019-10-2353 min

Quick to ListenCatholic Leaders Are Discussing Married Priests, Female Church Leadership, and Climate ChangeTranscribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.Right now, the Roman Catholic Church leaders are in the midst of a three-week-long meeting discussing the future of their ministry in the Amazon. Among the issues the synod is investigating: how church leaders should respond to chronic priest shortages, the role of women in official church leadership, and environmental degradation.Under the previous popes, John Paul II and Benedict the XVI, synods—or meetings convening all of the top brass of the Catholic church—were largely symbolic, says Christopher White, the national corr...2019-10-0947 min

Quick to ListenSo, What's an Evangelical?Though one can argue that evangelical religion has been in crisis from the beginning, starting in November 2016 and the election of Donald Trump, it exploded afresh. Not only did the nation wake up to discover a chasm dividing in the country, so did evangelicals--especially when it became clear that white evangelicals voted for and then supported the new president, depending on the poll, in the range of 75 to 81 percent. The evangelical left was shocked and horrified by this, and the evangelical right was mystified by their outrage. Many Black, Asian, and Hispanic evangelicals—if they still identified with the ter...2019-09-1852 min

Quick to ListenWhat 1619 Means for Christian HistoryLast month, the New York Times Magazine devoted an entire publication to remembering the 400th anniversary of American slavery. In the introduction to the project, it wrote,The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.But the transatlantic slave trade goes back to the 15th century, when Po...2019-09-0552 min

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers"Against Calvinism"Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, interview Dr. Roger Olson, Professor of Theology; Holder of the Foy Valentine Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Truett Seminary, about his book "Against Calvinism." They also discuss a few of their nuanced differences regarding the doctrine of Prevenient Grace within Arminianism and Traditional Southern Baptists (Provisionists). To learn more about Dr. Olson: https://www.baylor.edu/truett/index.php?id=927923 To read Dr. David Allen's article referenced in this program: https://soteriology101.com/2018/10/08/dr-david-l-allen-what-semipelagianism-really-is/ To read Dr. Flowers article critiquing...2019-04-291h 12

The Truett Seminary PodcastDr. A.B. Sutton - Session 2 of the E.K. Bailey Preaching ConferenceIn the second session of the 2013 E.K. Bailey Preaching Conference, we welcomed Dr. A.B. Sutton back to the pulpit. For the rest of the 2013 E.K. Bailey Preaching Conference, as well as other conferences and lectures happening at Truett, please visit our website at: https://www.baylor.edu/truett/media, and look under "Other Recordings."<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTruettSeminaryPodcast/~4/LdXg4riI2nM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>2013-10-2200 min

The Truett Seminary PodcastDr. Richard J. Mouw - "Why God Likes Ancient Chinese Vases"For the 2013 Parchman Lecture Series, we welcomed Dr. Richard J. Mouw to the pulpit. Dr. Mouw recently retired after having served as the president of Fuller Theological Seminary for 20 years. Dr. Mouw currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Faith and Public Life at Fuller. Dr. Mouw's second lecture is titled: "Why God Likes Ancient Chinese Vases". For the rest of the 2013 Parchman Lecture Series, please see our website at:https://www.baylor.edu/truett/media<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheTruettSeminaryPodcast/~4/LdXg4...2013-10-2200 min