Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this fiftieth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once again by the delightful psychologist, Dr Richard Beck.  Richard is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University.  During his teaching career Richard has been honoured as ACU Teacher of the Year, Honours Teacher of the Year, and has won the College of Arts and Sciences Classroom Teaching and Faith Integration awards.  Outside of the classroom, Richard travels the world as a sought after speaker and an award-winning blogger and author.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty ninth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the delightful Dr Michael J. Gorman.  Michael J. Gorman is an American New Testament scholar. He is the Raymond E. Brown Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University. From 1995 to 2012 he was dean of St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute.  Gorman specializes especially in the letters, theology, and spirituality of the apostle Paul. He is associated with the "participationist perspective" on Paul's theology. His additional specialties are the book of Revelation, theological and missional interpretation of Scripture, the gospel of John, and early Christian ethics. Gorman was born and raised in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, graduating from Glen Burnie High School in Glen Burnie, Maryland. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in French from Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. He received the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy cum laude in New Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was also a teaching fellow in New Testament and an instructor in New Testament Greek. He has also been a visiting professor at Duke Divinity School, Regent College, Carey Baptist College (New Zealand), Wesley Theological Seminary, and two theological schools in Africa. Gorman has led several study trips to Greece/Turkey/Rome and to France/Switzerland. A United Methodist, Gorman is an active layperson and a popular teacher at colleges, seminaries, churches, and conferences representing many traditions. In the mid-2010s, despite still being a Methodist, Gorman began teaching in a Roman Catholic context. His older son, Rev. Dr. Mark Gorman, is a pastor and theologian who is also on the faculty of St. Mary's Ecumenical Institute.  Gorman is the author of nearly twenty books and more than sixty articles on Biblical interpretation and on ethics.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty eighth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Paul Vander Klay.  Paul is the pastor of Living Stones Christian Reformed Church in Sacramento, California, USA, and host of a marvellous YouTube Channel which wrestles with being a Christian in a secular age, the struggle for ultimate meaning, identity, and more.  He has worked at length to share and critique insights from Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Pageau, and other figures to a worldwide audience, adding his own unique contributions, and somehow producing videos at a prolific rate without diluting quality

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty seventh episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Dr Wendy M. Wright. Wendy M. Wright holds a PhD. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is currently Professor of Theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, holding the John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the Humanities. She also teaches regularly in several graduate ministerial programs including Creighton's Christian Spirituality Master's program and the Academy for Spiritual Formation.  Her expertise falls in the areas of history of spirituality, family spirituality, spiritual direction, and women and spirituality. Her academic work has focused on the Salesian spiritual tradition founded by Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal. She is a frequent contributor to Weavings and Family Ministry. She and her husband, Roger Bergman, are the parents of three young adults.  Read For:  Inspiring and edifying devotional literature A cogent grasp of Christian spirituality in its past and present forms Ideas on contemplative practices for the home

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty sixth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Robert Alter. Robert Bernard Alter is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He published his monumental translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018.  His book The Art of Biblical Narrative won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award (Los Angeles Times) for lifetime contribution to American letters. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by Yale University in 2010 and is a Doctor Honoris Causa of Hebrew University.

Christ is risen! Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty fifth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by former guests and friends to discuss Jordan Peterson and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty fourth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the excellent Dr James Alison.  Dr James Alison is a Catholic theologian, priest and author. His principal claim to fame is as one of those who has done most to bring the work of the great French thinker René Girard to a wider public.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty third episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the great Fr Gerry McDermott.  Fr Gerald McDermott retired in May 2020 after serving five years as the Anglican Chair of Divinity at Samford’s Beeson Divinity School. This followed 26 years of teaching undergraduates at Roanoke College in Virginia.  McDermott has written seven books and co-authored another since joining the Beeson faculty in 2015. In all, he has served as author, co-author or editor of 23 books. He has taught in the areas of history and doctrine, world religions, Anglican studies and 18th-century theologian Jonathan Edwards at Beeson.  In retirement, McDermott has also contracted to finish “a big book” modelled after Edwards’ work, History of the Work of Redemption. It will be the eighth book in which he has written about or used the famous preacher as subject matter. His book, Theology of Jonathan Edwards, co-authored with Michael McClymond, won Christianity Today’s Top Book in Theology/Ethics award for 2013.

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty second episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the brilliant Nick Basbanes.  Nicholas Andrew Basbanes is an American author who writes and lectures widely about authors, books and book culture. His subjects have included the "eternal passion for books" (A Gentle Madness); the history and future of libraries (Patience & Fortitude) the "willful destruction of books" and the "determined effort to rescue them" (A Splendor of Letters) "the power of the printed word to stir the world" (Every Book Its Reader) the invention of paper and its effect on civilization (On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History) and an exploration of Longfellow's life and art (Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

Welcome to More Christ, where we seek to bring some of the world's most interesting and insightful guests to discuss life's central and abiding questions.  In this forty first episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by the magnificent, Dr Michael Martin.  Michael is a philosopher, theologian, poet, musician, songwriter, editor, and biodynamic farmer. He is the editor of the journal 'Jesus the Imagination' and director of The Center for Sophiological Studies.