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Join Virginia Brewer and Maddie Pillow for a Meet the Author conversation with Dr. J. Derrick Lemons and Amos Yong about their book, Trump and the Politics of Prayer: Inside the Spiritual World of His Faith Advisory Team. This interview explores the religious ideas, political influence, and spiritual networks surrounding Donald Trump’s Faith Advisory Team, offering thoughtful insight into the complex relationship between prayer, power, and public life.

Join Dr. J. Derrick Lemons, Professor and Department Head of Religion at the University of Georgia, as he sits down with Pastor Kelvin L. Cobaris for an eye-opening conversation about faith, politics, and influence. In this episode, Pastor Cobaris shares his journey to becoming a faith advisor to President Trump and reveals how theology shapes the National Faith Advisory Board. Whether you’re curious about the intersection of religion and political leadership or the role of faith in national decision-making, this discussion offers unique insights from behind the scenes.

Tune in for a compelling dialogue that challenges perspectives and sparks thought-provoking discussion!

Martyn Percy, Former Dean of Christ Church-Oxford, discusses rapid religious change through the lens of theology.

In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970s, the Urapmin had undergone a charismatic revival, abandoning their traditional religion for a Christianity intensely focused on human sinfulness and driven by a constant sense of millennial expectation. Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally.

Each guests discusses rapid religious change through the lens of their ethnographic research.

Each guests discusses rapid religious change through the lens of their ethnographic research.

Debra Mason, University of Missouri, presiding 

• Maria Len Rios, University of Georgia

• John Blake, journalist at CNN.com and former religion writer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution  

• Audrey Galex, Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasting

Tanya M. Luhrmann, Stanford University, presiding

Time is one of the central problems in both journalism and religion. For the study of religion, categorizing patterns of behavior and trends into neat epochs or eras is complicated the more we learn about a phenomenon and what makes it unique. In journalism, the time we have to capture an audience’s attention and the types of content that appeal to large audiences changes nearly every few months. Why is time a complicating problem for journalists seeking to include diverse scholars in their stories and what do we see on the horizon for both religious and news literacy? How might we be allies together, rather than at cross-purposes, as is so often the case.

A lecture about how voices contribute to rapid religious change.