How might the categories for race actually contribute to systemic and idealogical racism? Do racial categories accurately classify persons at a biological level?  Does placing individuals in groups or a categories have any Biblical grounding?  We discuss these questions and more with Dr. Elizabeth (Lisa) Sung, who is a Systematic Theologian and a Spiritual Director.  We also discussed Dr. Sung's journey and experience in spiritual direction.  We hope you enjoy the conversation. 

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How is Christian hospitality connected to justice?  What does it look like to emulate Christ's hospitality and justice?  Are followers of Jesus supposed to have a balanced life?  Did Christ have a balanced life?  We had a conversation with Dr. Krish Kandiah around these questions and more.  Krish is the founder and director of Home for Good, an organization that provides homes for children who don't have one.  We hope you enjoy our conversation.  

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Oppression, pain, slavery, and trauma are all a part of Israel’s story.  In the midst of this pain God responds.  We sat down with Dr. Isabelle Hamley and discussed how we can learn from Israel’s story and the Old Testament scriptures in regards to mental health.  She answered questions around what the “good life” is, how the biblical text speaks to pain, and how to cultivate a holistic response to pain and trauma.   We hope you enjoy our conversation. 

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Season three with the Regent College Podcast has come to an end.  Nick Corbin is graduating from Regent and is finishing his time with the Regent College Podcast.  Season three has been one of many laughs, deep insight, and a growth in what it means to follow Christ.  This month we will play some of our favourite episodes of season three and begin season four sometime in June 2023.  We hope you have enjoyed this past season and continue to tune in to more conversations to come.  

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How does reading the gospels as a narrative shift our perspective on them?  What can readers of the gospels do in order to understand the gospels better?  How might delving more into the setting, characterization, and plot of each gospel open up the story?  We discuss these questions and more with Dr. Jeannine Brown.  Dr. Brown has written a book called The Gospels as Stories: A Narrative Approach to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.  We hope you enjoy the conversation.

If this peaked your interested Dr. Brown is teaching a class this summer at Regent on the narrative approach to the Gospels.  Check it out here. 

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Dr. Mark Glanville is no stranger to the Regent College Podcast and we had once again a musically inspiring and insightful conversations.  We discussed how we can worship in polyrhythm and if you don't know what polyrhythm is Mark unpacks this type of rhythm.  We discussed how our worship services can often become mono-rhythm and the gospel calls us into a more in our gatherings.  Multiple rhythms can be incorporated at the same time, through a biblical lens, our contextual voices, the global church, and the historical church.  We hope you enjoy the conversation.

If this peaked your interest Mark is teaching class on Worship in Polyrhythm, check it our here. 

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What are the different approaches when it comes to the violent texts of scripture?  How are we to understand the flood and why God chose to flood the Earth?  Why does God  command, in Deuteronomy, for the Canaanite destruction?  How do the Israelites in the book of Joshua respond to this command?  We had a conversation around these questions and more with Dr. Matthew Lynch.  Dr. Lynch released a book recently called Flood and Fury, Violence in the Old Testament and The Shalom of God and this is what we had a conversation around.  We hope you enjoy the conversation.

Also if this conversation peeked your interest  Dr. Lynch is teaching a summer class on the Old Testament.  Check it out here.  

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How has Christianity in China shifted over the centuries?  What are the different ways Church has engaged and is engaging in public theology and civil discourse?  What is unique to the Chinese Church and what can the global Church learn from it?  We discussed these questions and more with Dr. Alexander Chow.   Dr. Chow is also teaching a summer course on Chinese Christian Thought if this conversation has peaked your interest.  We hope you enjoy the conversation.  

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How are we to understand the purpose of the Book of Exodus?  Why did God harden Pharaoh's heart and what exactly does it mean?  Why did God try and kill Moses, but was stopped by Zipporah? What does it mean to take the Lord's name in vain? We discussed these questions and more with Dr. Carmen Joy Imes who has spent significant time in the Book of Exodus and is currently writing a commentary on it.   If this conversation interests you Dr. Imes is teaching a summer class at Regent College on the book of Exodus, check it out here.   

Also, Dr. Imes puts out a weekly reflection and interaction with a Biblical text called Torah Tuesday.  

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Dr. Curt Thompson is a psychiatrist, author, speaker, and the founder of Being Known. We had a conversation with him today around the anatomy of the soul, what are humans deepest longings, and how can we seek liberation and freedom from sin.  Dr. Thompson unpacks these question through the lens of neuroscience and grounds it in a Biblical anthropology.  We hope you enjoy the conversation.  

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