Queen of the Sciences

I have a new podcast! For people who need good fiction and good theology at the same time. Two more episodes here to whet your appetite—so if you enjoy them, please hop on over and subscribe to Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories so you won't miss a single episode!

Dad speaks about preaching to political and cultural issues as an exercise of both Christian discipleship and lefthand-kingdom stewardship at the Love Teach Heal Academy for lay preachers and teachers.

I have a new podcast! For people who need good fiction and good theology at the same time. Two episodes here to whet your appetite—so if you enjoy them, please hop on over and subscribe to Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories so you won't miss a single episode!

What makes human beings to be in the image of God? A rational soul? A capacity for action? An openness to the divine? Is it a given or an achievement? Who or what has it, and who or what doesn't? And does the image of God tell us only about humans, or can it tell us something about God, too—without remaking God in our own image? We wrap up Season 5 of Queen of the Sciences tackling these fraught questions!

And looking toward 2024 and Season 6, here are some fun things you should most definitely check out:

—Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration, my first-ever Kickstarter, launching in mid-January!

—Dad's new weekly sermon!

—My new fiction podcast, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories!

—And a ton of newly available articles from Dad for your edification!

Notes:

1. Dalferth, Creatures of Possibility

2. Strawn, The Old Testament Is Dying and "From Imago to Imagines" in The Incomparable God

3. van Huyssteen, Alone in the World?

4. McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary

5. Cary, The Nicene Creed

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Is it a brain? Is it a mind? Is it a soul? What hath neuroscience to do with theology? In this episode Dad and I discuss recent work on the function of the brain and especially its hemispheric differences, and what this has to do with rationality, bodiliness, and faith.

Notes:

1. Kandel, There Is Life after the Nobel Prize

2. Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

3. McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary

4. I discuss "transgenre theology" on episode 19 of my new podcast, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories!

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The brand-newest of any theological writing Dad and I have ever covered on the podcast! We discuss "The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me," the recently released statement of the International Lutheran-Pentecostal Dialogue, following discussions that took place from 2016 to 2022. Full disclosure: Sarah worked as a consultant to the dialogue on behalf of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, an independent house of studies that delegates consultants to all the ecumenical dialogues of the Lutheran World Federation. Besides Sarah's offering of some insider illumination on the text, the two of us discuss what an ecumenical statement is, what it isn't, and how it can become fruitful across the church.

Notes:

1. "The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me"

2. The Institute for Ecumenical Research

3. The Lutheran World Federation and Pentecostal World Fellowship

4. Related episodes: Making Ecumenism Sexy Again, Nenilava, Theology and Experience 1, Theology and Experience 2

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Dad discusses the upcoming lectionary reading from Joshua 24 with Rachel Wrenn and Tim McNinch of the First Reading podcast!

After giving Tillich his due in the last episode, in this one Sarah goes off, more or less blaming Tillich and his book The Courage to Be for everything that has gone wrong in American Lutheranism for the past 75 years. Overwrought and unjust? Probably. Dad makes the case for Tillich at least asking the right questions, and not accepting certain false solutions. But we both agree there is a more excellent way. If nothing else, you'll enjoy hearing the generation gap on display as you've never before heard it on this podcast!

Notes:

1. Tillich, The Courage to Be

2. Related episodes: Oh, Anselm!!!, Reinhold Niebuhr, Barth Ain't So Bad, Bonhoeffer's Christology

3. For universality from specificity rather than the other way around, consider my novel A-Tumblin' Down

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Dad and I respond to the Hamas terror attack on Israel.

Notes:

1. Related episodes: Good Tillich, Before Auschwitz, Luther and the Jews

2. Please read Dad's Before Auschwitz; I also commend Dara Horn's People Love Dead Jews

3. Statement from Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton of the ELCA

The little-known story of expatriate German theologian Paul Tillich's radio addresses from America to the German people in the depths of World War II, exhorting them to name and reject the false idol that was holding them hostage and driving millions of people to death. In this episode Dad and I explore how Tillich drew on the depths of the Bible's prophetic speech to analyze the Third Reich and the Germans' own complicity with it, the uniqueness of that situation, and what we might be able to learn from it.

Notes:

1. Tillich, Against the Third Reich

2. If you read no other book by Dad, be sure to read this one: Before Auschwitz

3. Related episode: Before Auschwitz, Hannah Arendt, Reinhold Niebuhr

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