Christian Grads Fellowship Podcast

CGF is growing and adding new staff!  This week Andy sits down with the new Director of Campus Coaching Funmi Ebiwonjumi!  Join us as we discuss future plans for the CGF Campus ministry. 

Ryan Brown, Ph.D, is the managing director for measurement at the Doerr Institute for New Leaders, where he oversees all research and assessment initiatives to help the Institute determine what works and what doesn’t across its programs. Prior to working at the Doerr Institute, he was the L. J. Semrod Presidential Professor of Psychology at The University of Oklahoma, where he was a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing. In addition to publishing numerous scientific articles and book chapters, he is also the author of Honor Bound: How a Cultural Ideal Has Shaped the American Psyche (Oxford, 2016).

We are joined by Oxford University Scholar Max Baker-Hytch as he discusses ho to integrate your faith and your academic study. Max joined Wycliffe Hall in 2016 having completed a D.Phil. in Philosophy at Oxford University in 2014 with a dissertation which examined the philosophical implications of recent accounts of the causal origins of religious belief. He subsequently went on to hold a postdoctoral research fellowship at Oxford as part of the Templeton-funded 'New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology' project. He then held a research fellowship at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Philosophy of Religion, before returning to Oxford. Max's research interests lie at the intersection of analytic philosophy of religion and epistemology, and he has published on such topics as divine hiddenness, religious diversity, etiological challenges to moral and religious beliefs, the nature of rationality and knowledge, and methodological issues concerning the emerging field of analytic theology.

According to a study conducted by Arizona Christian University- 48% of US adults believe they can get into Heaven by being a good person or doing enough good deeds.  Today we talk about why that is just bad theology and how we should respond.

Dr Green fro Texas A&M joins us for a discussion of the mind!  

Some of us have a tough relationship with our fathers.  This week Andy Albertini gives us some insights on how to redeem that view of God as a loving father for those who may not see Him that way.  

Evolutionary science teaches that humans arose as a population, sharing common ancestors with other animals. Most readers of the book of Genesis in the past understood all humans descended from Adam and Eve, a couple specially created by God. These two teachings seem contradictory, but is that necessarily so? In the fractured conversation of human origins, can new insight guide us to solid ground in both science and theology? In The Genealogical Adam and Eve, S. Joshua Swamidass tests a scientific hypothesis: What if the traditional account is somehow true, with the origins of Adam and Eve taking place alongside evolution?

Join us as we discuss the virtue of chastity.

Alexander Fink, Director of the Institute for Faith and Science in Marburg, Germany joins us for a discussion on apologetics.. He studied physics at the universities of Bayreuth and St. Andrews (UK) and received his PhD at the Institute for Biophysics at the University of Regensburg.

Theoretical Physicist Dr Erica Carlson explains why we are more than the some of our atomic parts.