Nine-time GRAMMY® nominee, and five-time GMA Dove Awards Female Vocalist of the Year, Natalie Grant, an icon in Christian & Gospel music, and her GRAMMY® award-winning composer husband Bernie Herms join Scripture Untangled. In this special episode, Lorna Dueck interviews them together backstage after their performance at the National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa. They discuss their faith, prioritizing God in their careers, emphasizing the significance of having the Word of God as their foundation, and how living out these beliefs inspires others.

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Natalie Grant

As a nine-time GRAMMY® nominee and five-time GMA Dove Awards Female Vocalist of the Year, Natalie Grant has become an icon in Christian & Gospel music. In addition to garnering more than 500 million streams and multiple number #1 albums and singles on the Billboard Charts, she is also a respected author and philanthropist. 

She is the co-founder of Hope for Justice, a non-profit organization in the fight against human trafficking, which has 32 offices across 9 countries and 5 continents and has helped 102,803 children in the last year.

Learn more about Natalie Grant

Website: nataliegrant.com

Instagram: instagram.com/nataliegrant

YouTube: youtube.com/user/nataliegrantvideos

Hope for Justice: hopeforjustice.org

Bernie Herms

Originally from Canada and currently residing in Nashville, Bernie Herms is an award-winning composer, producer, and songwriter who has worked with artists such as Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Selena Gomez, Kelly Clarkson, Natalie Grant, David Foster, Casting Crowns, Hillary Scott (of Lady Antebellum), Barbra Streisand, Danny Gokey, Brad Paisley, Steven Curtis Chapman, Amy Grant, Jeremy Camp, Matt Redman, and many more.

His stratospheric production and songwriting career includes 30 #1s in the U.S. and many multinational #1 hits. He has multiple GRAMMY® nominations and won the 2017 GRAMMY® for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for Hillary Scott’s, “Thy Will.”

Learn more about Bernie Herms

Website: bernieherms.com

Instagram: instagram.com/bernieherms

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Listen to Rev. Dr. Rupen Das, President of the Canadian Bible Society being interviewed by veteran journalist Lorna Dueck. In this episode, Rupen reflects on his incredible history from working in global disaster management to his recent work at CBS. His global perspective has brought a unique view into the need for Scripture in the western world and Canadian culture, and how the importance of Scripture reveals the living God in Jesus Christ. This viewpoint has helped to focus the work of CBS on helping people hear God speak through His Word in Canada and around the world.

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Rev. Dr. Rupen Das is the President of the Canadian Bible Society and has come to CBS with considerable senior management experience both in Canada and internationally. 

Most recently, Rupen was seconded by the Canadian Baptist Ministries to Lebanon and Europe where he was involved in theological education and managing humanitarian responses to refugees. Prior to that Rupen was professor and program coordinator for Humber College’s International Project Management post graduate program. He has held senior management positions with World Vision Canada and World Vision International. His consulting assignments have been with various non-governmental organizations, international agencies, the Canadian Government, and the Canadian military.

Rev. Dr. Rupen Das is a missiologist who has researched and written on various aspect of contemporary Christian missions, especially issues that concern the Global South. He is the author of several books. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, a 21st Century Fellow in the UK, and adjunct faculty at Eastern University in the US. Rupen earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Acadia University in Nova Scotia and is Research Professor at Tyndale University in Toronto. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the United Bible Societies.

Rupen and his wife, Mamta, have two adult children, who are married with families.

Learn more about Rupen Das: dascompassion.wordpress.com/rupen-das

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Back by popular demand. Listen to Dr. Os Guinness, prominent social critic, a senior fellow at the Oxford Center for Christian apologetics, and author and editor of more than 30 books being interviewed by veteran journalist Lorna Dueck. In his second Scripture Untangled interview Os discusses the 20th Anniversary Edition of his book, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life, the fact that God has a specific calling for your individual life, how you can fit His call with your own individuality and allow Him to guide what you do at work, at home and with your community.

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Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, Os Guinness was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. 

Os has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, A Free People’s Suicide, The Global Public Square, Last Call for Liberty, Carpe Diem Redeemed,The Magna Carta of Humanity, and The Great Quest: Invitation to the Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning, which was published in 2022. Since moving to the United States in 1984, Os has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and the EastWest Institute in New York. 

He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter in 1988, a celebration of the bicentennial of the US Constitution, and later of “The Global Charter of Conscience,” which was published at the European Union Parliament in 2012. Os has spoken at many of the world’s major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences across the world. He lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington DC area.

Learn more about Os Guinness: osguinness.com

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Listen to Rev. Dr. Sarah Han, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Tyndale Seminary being interviewed by CBS Ambassador, Rev. Dr. Andrew Stirling. Dr. Han considers herself to be a "third culture" Canadian-Korean-Chinese and her formative theology was shaped on the mission field abroad. This episode dives into her formative years and foundation of faith, and how her experiences have influenced her passion to communicate the goodness and grace of God. She is compelled to reach this generation with the living Word of God, and to preach an authentic faith that is walked out genuinely and personally on a daily basis. 

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Dr. Sarah Han is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry and brings practical ministry experience as an ordained minister and theological expertise as an academic. She has provided leadership in the Canadian immigrant church context for over a decade and has diverse experience in the Canadian public and private sectors. Dr. Han's vocational commitment and theological passion are to critically observe and reflect on how ecclesiology shapes and informs missiology and her research focuses on an intercultural, intergenerational, missional ecclesiology for Canada.

Sarah is an ordained pastor, wife and mother-of-three. She is passionate about seeing the Kingdom of God experienced by all those around her and lives in a missional community that intentionally and organically reaches out to its neighbours with the gospel. 

Learn more about Rev. Dr. Sarah Han: tyndale.ca/faculty/sarah-han 

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Listen to international award-winning artist Josh Tiessen being interviewed by seasoned journalist Lorna Dueck. Josh blends hyper-realism with faith in his stunning collection, "Creation Longs." Join Lorna Dueck as she delves into his intricate works, exploring the ecological themes and artistic mastery behind each 1700-hour masterpiece.

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Josh Tiessen was born in Moscow in 1995 to Canadian parents living in Russia. Based in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Tiessen is an international award-winning artist best known for his hyper-surreal shaped oil paintings, reflecting the interaction between the natural world and human-made structures. He draws upon his studies in theology, philosophy and environmentalism, earning a B.R.E. in Arts, Biblical Studies, and Philosophy. He graduated with an M.A. in Art History from the University of Toronto in spring 2024.

As a young artist, Tiessen was recognized as one of the world's top ten prodigy artists by Huffington Post, and the only known male art prodigy in North America by global prodigy expert Dr. J. Ruthsatz. When he was a teenager, he was juried in as the youngest member of International Guild of Realism among foremost realist artists from around the world, Artists for Conservation and Society of Animal Artists, elite groups of the top nature and wildlife artists worldwide. Art Renewal Center designated Tiessen as “Associate Living Master,” and New York based gallery Jonathan LeVine awarded him First Place from 2000 artists in their international competition Search for the Next Great Artist. LeVine presented the emerging artist’s debut international solo exhibition Streams in the Wasteland in May 2019. Tiessen’s solo exhibition Vanitas and Viriditas took place at Rehs Contemporary Gallery in New York City from April to May 2023.

Learn more about Josh Tiessen: joshtiessen.com 

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Listen to Rev. Dr. Paul Scott Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto. He has written many books based around the topic of homiletics and is known for his focus on the poetry of faith and the centrality of the gospel. In this episode, Paul talks with CBS Ambassador, Rev. Dr. Andrew Stirling about how the gospel is “God’s saving action,” and how it can be applied to every part of our daily lives.

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The Rev. Dr. Paul Scott Wilson is Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto, where he taught from 1981 until 2019. He is known for his focus on the poetry of faith and the centrality of the gospel. A son of the manse, he is ordained in the United Church of Canada and has served several churches. 

A past president of the Academy of Homiletics, he has written many books including: The Four Pages of the Sermon  (2018); Preaching as Poetry (2014); Setting Words on Fire: Putting God at the Center of the Sermon (2008); The Practice of Preaching (2007); Broken Words: Reflections on the Craft of Preaching (2004); Preaching and Homiletical Theory (2004); and God Sense: Reading the Bible for Preaching (2001). He has edited fifteen books, won two Book of the Year awards, and has supervised many doctoral students. He received the United Church Davidson Award for Teaching Excellence in 2004 and in 2013 received a major research award from the Louisville Institute. He lectures, teaches, and preaches widely throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada. He is married to Deanna who is also ordained and they have three grown children and two grandchildren.

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The people that you meet, and again, you know, being an Anglican priest's wife for years, you get welcomed into people's lives, and you get to know people, and you see what people have overcome, and you see how people are, you know, trying to live a holy life. And it's inspiring, and it's beautiful, and it's very ordinary, you know. We are bowled over by the stories of, you know, great adventures for God, and we should be that, you know, it's amazing when people climb the mountains and jump out of the airplanes. And...but what impacts me the most, because I live a very ordinary life, and that's where that really is where the, you know, most of us are, and there's so much beautiful, you know, beautiful relationships, and that's where we're growing. And those are the stories I like to hear, and those are the stories I like to tell.
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Listen to Karen Stiller being interviewed by seasoned journalist Lorna Dueck. Karen Stiller is a well-known writer and the senior editor of Faith Today magazine. In this moving episode, Karen discusses her new book Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life and how holiness is not just a condition but also a way of life. She shares about her husband’s recent passing and finding the goodness and holiness of God in the middle of an unexpected and painful season.

Karen Stiller is a senior editor of Faith Today magazine, a host of the Faith Today podcast and writes frequently for magazines like Reader's Digest, Ekstasis, In Trust, and other North American publications. Stiller is a three-time recipient of the prestigious A.C. Forrest Memorial Award from the Canadian Church Press for excellence in socially conscious religious journalism. 

She is the author of Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Everyday Events of Ordinary Life, The Minister's Wife; co-author of Craft, Cost & Call, Shifting Stats Shaking the Church, and Going Missional; editor of The Lord's Prayer, and coeditor of Evangelicals Around the World. She lives in Ottawa and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction from University of King's College, Dalhousie.

Learn more about Karen Stiller: karenstiller.com

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Listen to Karen Stiller being interviewed by seasoned journalist Lorna Dueck. Karen Stiller is a well-known writer and the senior editor of Faith Today magazine. In this moving episode, Karen discusses her new book “Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life” and how holiness is not just a condition but also a way of life. She shares about her husband’s recent passing and finding the goodness and holiness of God in the middle of an unexpected and painful season.

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Karen Stiller is a senior editor of Faith Today magazine, a host of the Faith Today podcast and writes frequently for magazines like Reader's Digest, Ekstasis, In Trust, and other North American publications. Stiller is a three-time recipient of the prestigious A.C. Forrest Memorial Award from the Canadian Church Press for excellence in socially conscious religious journalism. 

She is the author of Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Everyday Events of Ordinary Life, The Minister's Wife; co-author of Craft, Cost & Call, Shifting Stats Shaking the Church, and Going Missional; editor of The Lord's Prayer, and coeditor of Evangelicals Around the World. She lives in Ottawa and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction from University of King's College, Dalhousie. 

Learn more about Karen Stiller: karenstiller.com

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I think sometimes the problem is that the Christian church can be answering the questions of 20 years ago, you know, basically responding to the new atheists and asking: Do you have any evidence that God exists? And you go off and have a, you know, an interesting philosophical, scientific debate. But actually, that's not...I think the questions that most people in the secular culture are asking right now about God. They're more asking: How do I make sense of life? How do I...give me a reason for getting out of bed in the morning. Why do I feel so depressed? So I think where we could learn from that, in a sense is that actually we need to be answering the question that people are actually asking. We could take a lesson from sort of looking at what the existential issues are actually.

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Listen to Justin Brierley being interviewed by author and theologian, Andrew Ollerton. Justin is a freelance writer, speaker and broadcaster in the UK, who has become known for creating dialogues between Christians and non-Christians. In this episode, Justin talks about his passion for creating conversations around faith, science, theology and culture, and his creative use of different forms of media to showcase an intellectually compelling case for Christianity.

Justin Brierley has worked in radio, podcast and video for over two decades. Until April 2023 he was Theology & Apologetics Editor for Premier Christian Radio, and hosted the Unbelievable? radio show and podcast as well as the "Ask NT Wright Anything" podcast. Justin was also editor of Premier Christianity Magazine from 2014-2018, for which he continues to contribute articles. Through creative use of podcast, radio, print, video and social media, Justin aims to showcase an intellectually compelling case for Christianity, while taking seriously the questions and objections of skeptics.

Justin's first book 'Unbelievable? Why, after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian' (SPCK) was published in 2017. His new book 'The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God' (Tyndale) was published in Sep 2023. Justin currently co-hosts the Re-Enchanting podcast for Seen & Unseen, and is a guest presenter for the Maybe God podcast. He has also recently launched The Surprising Rebirth Of Belief in God podcast documentary series.

Justin is married to Lucy, a church minister in Surrey, and they have 4 amazing children. 

Learn more about Justin Brierley: justinbrierley.com

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Listen to Justin Brierley being interviewed by author and theologian, Andrew Ollerton. Justin is a freelance writer, speaker and broadcaster in the UK, who has become known for creating dialogues between Christians and non-Christians. In this episode, Justin talks about his passion for creating conversations around faith, science, theology and culture, and his creative use of different forms of media to showcase an intellectually compelling case for Christianity.

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Justin Brierley has worked in radio, podcast and video for over two decades. Until April 2023 he was Theology & Apologetics Editor for Premier Christian Radio, and hosted the Unbelievable? radio show and podcast as well as the "Ask NT Wright Anything" podcast. Justin was also editor of Premier Christianity Magazine from 2014-2018, for which he continues to contribute articles. Through creative use of podcast, radio, print, video and social media, Justin aims to showcase an intellectually compelling case for Christianity, while taking seriously the questions and objections of skeptics.

Justin's first book 'Unbelievable? Why, after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian' (SPCK) was published in 2017. His new book 'The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God' (Tyndale) was published in Sep 2023. Justin currently co-hosts the Re-Enchanting podcast for Seen & Unseen, and is a guest presenter for the Maybe God podcast. He has also recently launched The Surprising Rebirth Of Belief in God podcast documentary series.

Justin is married to Lucy, a church minister in Surrey, and they have 4 amazing children. 

Learn more about Justin Brierley: justinbrierley.com

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