Podcast Overview

Author

Episode 245: The Church

08/21/23

10 mins

By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston

In episode TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE, Mike, Wade, and Jason discuss the communion of saints and the one holy Christian/catholic and apostolic Church.
- Communion of Saints
- Ministry of the Church
318: Nestigen - Luther on Marriage, Vocation, and the Cross

08/17/23

11 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

All In The Family. In this episode, we discuss marriage, vocation, and cute theology of the cross. How can Luther’s teaching and preaching on marriage and vocation help Christians at present waist the temptations of the world and Satan, which pervert and disrupt God’s will for marriage? What does baptism have to do with marriage? How does Luther’s formulation of marriage and family help Christians comprehend their relation to society and the state?
New Testament Church: Prescriptive or Descriptive?

08/11/23

4 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

This episode Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin discuss Acts 2, where we read about the early church, and how it grew.
317: Löhe - Pastoral Care of the Sick

08/08/23

10 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Spiritual War, What Is It Good For? In this episode, we discuss pastoral care to the healthy and sick and spiritual warfare while reading Wilhelm Loehe’s book, The Pastor.
A Good Man is Hard to Find BONUS episode

07/31/23

7 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

This month's Book Club, we are doing a short story by Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
The Relationship Between Faith and Reason with David Andersen

07/18/23

5 mins

By Kelsi Klembara

Author David Andersen joins Kelsi to discuss his book, "What Can We Really Know? The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding" and how the study of knowledge leads us to some inevitable truths about ourselves and the limits of knowledge, in general.
- Faith
- Reason
- Book Review
Talking to Kids about Purity and Modesty

07/13/23

5 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

In this last episode with guest Rachel Joy Welcher, we discuss the concept of modesty, and how we talk to our children about their sexuality and their bodies if not through "purity culture" or the secular culture.
- Family
- Book Review
Talking Back to Purity Culture

07/06/23

5 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

To continue our conversation of legalism that becomes cultish, we brought on Rachel Joy Welcher who wrote a book on the purity culture movement.
The Limits and Expanse of Christian Belief with Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

07/04/23

6 mins

By Kelsi Klembara

Sarah 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.
- Book Review
- Ministry of the Church
Supper of the Lamb BONUS episode

06/30/23

4 mins

By Gretchen Ronnevik

For our June book club bonus episode, we are discussing Robert Farrar Capon's "Supper of the Lamb."
- Book Review
Is Christianity a Religion of Doctrines?

06/20/23

4 mins

By Adam Francisco | Scott Keith | Caleb Keith | Bruce Hillman

In this episode, the Thinking Fellows discuss the centrality and importance of Christians' doctrinal content and confessions.
- Ministry of the Church
- Reformation Doctrine
Sacred Spaces

06/08/23

2 mins

By Adam Francisco | Scott Keith | Caleb Keith | Bruce Hillman

In this episode, the Thinking Fellows ask, what are sacred spaces, and do we need them?