Currents in Religion

In this episode, Zen speaks with Jerusha Neal (Duke Divinity School) about her new book Holy Ground: Climate Change, Preaching, and the Apocalypse of Place. How might our discourse, teaching, and preaching about climate change differ if we listened more carefully to the voices of displaced people? Listen to hear what Jerusha Neal thinks.

Holy Ground is available November 2024 from Baylor University Press: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481319072/holy-ground/

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Summary

In this episode, Deirdre Fulton joins us to share about the process of updating the NRSV, and to tell us a little about her role in that process. Deirdre Fulton is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament here at Baylor University.

Themes

Bible translation, text criticism, NRSVue

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Additional Resources

In this episode, Zen speaks with Tyler Mowry about teaching religious studies in online settings, using digital humanities, and assigning AI.

Tyler is a Hebrew Bible PhD student and Learning Management System Content Specialist at Baylor University.

Links to the digital humanities tools Tyler mentions in the interview will be posted in due course.

The essay on assigning AI (written by Ethan and Lilach Mollick) is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4475995

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In this episode, Zen speaks with Leslie Garrote about American Evangelicalism: its history, the challenges of studying a living religious movement, and best practices.

Leslie is currently a PhD student in Baylor's Religion Department. She is a Hispanic Theology Initiative scholar and a recipient of the Louisville Institute's doctoral fellowship.

Leslie's Recommended Readings:

Read Leslie's Anxious Bench essay here: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2024/07/what-black-women-bloggers-can-teach-american-evangelicals/

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In this episode, Zen speaks with E. Trey Clark about his new book, Black Contemplative Preaching: A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness (Baylor University Pres: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481321990/black-contemplative-preaching/).

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The Baylor University Press book plugged in the middle of the episode is By the Word Worked by Fleming Rutledge (https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481321754/by-the-word-worked/).

In this episode, Zen speaks with Dr. Joel Burnett about his cutting edge research on the Amman Theater Statue, a larger-than-life, Iron Age statue discovered in 2010. We discuss the statue's origin, its features, and its religious function. Along the way, Joel helps us understand how this statue relates to and sheds light on other ancient Near Eastern societies, including Israel and Judah only seventy miles to the west.

Here's a link to an article about the Amman Theater Statue, including numerous pictures: https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/12/Amman-Theatre-Statue-and-Ammonite-Royal-Ancestor-Cult

Here's a link to Joel Burnett's new book on the statue: https://www.asor.org/news/2024/05/aasor75-amman-theater-statue

Also in this episode, Cade Jarrell from Baylor Press joins us to discuss a new book by Philip Jenkins, Kingdoms of This World. You can learn more about that book here: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481319935/kingdoms-of-this-world/

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In this episode, Zen speaks with Beverly Gaventa about Paul's letter to the Romans. Her New Testament Library commentary is out now with Westminster John Knox (https://www.wjkbooks.com/Products/0664221009/romans.aspx).

This episode also features special music from Paul Zach (ft. Jon Guerra, Tristen Stuart-Davenport, and IAMSON). Listen to the full track on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube.

Cade Jarrell also joins to talk about Paul and the Wrath by Thomas P. Dixon, out now from Baylor University Press (https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481321358/paul-and-the-wrath/).

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In this episode, Zen speaks with Barry Harvey about the story that led to the Barmen declaration, how Dietrich Bonhoeffer factors into that story, and how Barmen remains relevant today, even after 90 years.

Barry Harvey is professor of theology in the Religion Department as well as in the Great Texts program of the Honors College here at Baylor University. Among other specialties, Barry is a Bonhoeffer scholar, exploring Bonhoeffer’s thought in classes, articles, and a book titled Taking Hold of the Real: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity.

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In this episode, Zen speaks with Micheal O'Siadhail about his new collection of poetry, Desire, which is out now from Baylor University Press.

Micheal O’Siadhail is an award-winning Irish poet. He received the Irish American Cultural Institute prize for poetry in 1982; the Marten Toonder prize for Literature in 1998. And one of his other Baylor University Press books, The Five Quintets, received the Conference on Christianity and Literature’s 2019 book of the year award.

Listen to Micheal discuss Testament, another collection of poems, on a previous episode of Currents in Religion: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/micheal-osiadhail-on-faith-poetry-and-daring-to-love/id1648052085?i=1000590394430

Learn more about the Desire here: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481320061/desire/