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Multnomah University & Seminary where Dr. Karl Kutz and I teach emphasizes that our students “are made for more.” Indeed, all people are made for more. More than what? I think it includes things like “made for more” than base consumerism… The Scriptures emphasize that we are made for more. My colleague and I are going to discuss this theme today by taking a look at Psalm 8.

The Christian still encounters the darkness of today—so what then is the follower of Christ to do? As Micah reminds, followers of Christ are called to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly. In reverse the three requirements are a humble fellowship with God, that is, childlike dependence on Him; then a love for kindness, that is, a heart that loves to show mercy; and then deeds of justice, that is, a life of faith-filled actions, especially on behalf of those who are mistreated.  

In this episode of New Wine UnCorked, the mistreatment of the other is the topic of our dialogue as Paul Coughlin joins Dr. Matthew Farlow. Paul is the founder and president of The Protectors. The Protectors Is the only faith-centered organization helping Christian schools across the world for more than a decade to reduce bullying through its effective and evidence-based program. 

#bully #dontbullyme #bullying #maga #good #beautiful #true 

http://www.theprotectors.org/

Our society has paid a lot of attention to race in recent months in view of George Floyd’s murder, and also the tragic deaths of many African Americans at the hands of police. Not only has the society at large been forced to deal with the problem of whiteness, but also the church has had to wrestle with it. In this light, I am struck by the fact that you dedicate this book to a late friend, Stacy Jo Dunn, who had been a leader at the same church, who was a police officer in Portland, and who was African American. This dedication is so poignant and appropriate. In my estimation, it is also appropriate that you bring Bonhoeffer and his theology to bear on this subject. How does Bonhoeffer and his theology bear import for a discussion of race in the United States today, including gentrified and racialized Portland?

Joseph O. Baker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State Unviersity and co-author of several books, including one that is the focus of our discussion today. With Christopher D. Bader, L. Edward Day and Ann Gordon, he is the author of Fear Itself: The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America (New York University Press, 2020).

John W. Morehead is the Director of Multifaith Matters and the Evangelical Chapter of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy, and an adjunct professor at Multnomah University.

#fear #xenophobia #Islamophobia #conspiracy #evangelicals #fearsurvey #apocalyptic #endtimes #eschatology

The economics of life call for a risk/reward mentality so often. Question is, what is the “will to life” being lived out? Are the economics at play in our lives the economics of the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Me?  In this episode of New Wine UnCorked Tony, Matt, and Phil step into the “kingdom” dialogue so to illumine the truth of Kingdom economics.  

Video mentioned by Pastor Tony:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVH6Z...   

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In this New Wine Tastings interview, Paul Louis Metzger and John W. Morehead interview sociologist of religion Joseph O. Baker on the subject matter of past and present connections involving Christian Nationalism & Evangelicalism and what the future holds for Evangelicalism in view of such connections.

Joseph O. Baker is a sociologist of religion and deviance who teaches at East Tennessee State University. He is a senior research associate for the Association of Religion Data Archives and editor of the journalSociology of Religion. On the subject of Christian nationalism, Baker is co-author with Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry of "Make America Christian Again: Christian Nationalism and Voting for Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election,"

and "Keep America Christian (and White): Christian Nationalism, Fear of Ethnoracial Outsiders, and Intention to Vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election," both from the journal Sociology of Religion.

#nationalist #nationalism #Christiannationalism #trump #politics #rightwing #evangelical #conservative #maga #republican #americafirst #makeamericagreatagain

Article titled “Mischief making in Palestine: American Protestant Christian attitudes toward the Holy Land, 1917-1949,” Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture, vol. 7/1 (2011): 49-66  

Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon is the executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Cannon formerly served as the senior director of Advocacy and Outreach for World Vision U.S. on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC; as consultant to the Middle East for child advocacy issues for Compassion International in Jerusalem; as the executive pastor of Hillside Covenant Church located in Walnut Creek, California; and as director of development and transformation for extension ministries at Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, Illinois. Her many books include:

 https://www.maecannon.com/ 

https://twitter.com/MaeEliseCannon

Dr. Erin Smith, PhD, who is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Research for the Center for the Study of Human Behavior, California Baptist University. Dr. Smith’s research includes an emphasis in science and religion, including the following:

• Cultural and cognitive explanations for the development and differentiation of fantastical, scientific, and religious concepts;

Her scholarship involves such domains as fostering productive science-religion dialogues. We first met through our work with the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science for Seminary Program through DoSER. Dr. Smith, thank you for joining me for this New Wine Tastings interview on psychological factors that contribute to people’s views on faith and science.

This episode on conspiracy theories helps us pursue grace and truth together in conversations with people on this subject. We need to guard against incivility on the one hand and insanity on the other hand. This is not an easy task for any of us, but it is critically important if we are to build our society rather than tear it and one another apart.

https://youtu.be/d-Bs4yITwEc

What does it mean to say that the church is a Trinitarian community? What is the import of this perspective, including how it might bear on such phrases like “The Purpose Driven Church”?  

Continuing the journey through Drs. Harper and Metzger’s book “Exploring Ecclesiology,” this week Drs. Farlow and Metzger are joined by New Wine, New Wineskin leaders Trudi Sang, Kayla Farlow, and Richard Fox. The topic of discussion on the table this week: The Church as a Trinitarian Community is a Culture of Individualism.