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Strange New World episodes
- The Poetry of Christmas - Part Three: Heaven and Nature
An exploration of Jesus' puzzling answer to John the Baptizer's question, Mary Oliver's fascinating response to the question, "What is a poem?", and E. E. Cummings' dazzling meditation on the cosmic, intimate, joyful dimensions of Christmas.
20 min - The Poetry of Christmas - Part Two: The Way
A deep dive into baptism, "the wheat and the chaff," whether poetry can be “true,” and how E. E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, and the wonder of creation can help us understand “the Way” at the heart of Advent and Christmas.
20 min - The Poetry of Christmas - Part One: The Dawn Chorus
How the Bible is made of poetry, and how Mary Oliver, E. E. Cummings, and the wonder of creation can help us hear Jesus’ call for this Advent and Christmas season: “Keep awake. Be ready.”
17 min - Understanding Church - Part Five: Humility
An exploration of how, for Jesus, humility is the key to the mission of the church, the essential stance without which mercy, faith, praise, and justice can become distorted and dangerous.
21 min - Understanding Church - Part Four: Justice
In this episode, we take on one of the most controversial and perplexing questions when it comes to “justice”: should the church be mixed up in politics? Jesus’ answer might surprise you.
17 min - Understanding Church - Part Three: Praise
In this episode, we explore how the power of “praise” can both divide and connect, and discover Jesus' vision for how the Christian church should relate to people of other religions (and no religion at all).
17 min - Understanding Church - Part Two: Faith
In this episode, we explore what Jesus really meant by “faith” - and how for him, the church is actually a community of “little faith” (or no faith at all).
16 min - Understanding Church - Part One: Mercy
What is the church? What is it for? In this opening episode of a five-part miniseries, we first clarify what the church is not - and then turn to Jesus' provocative parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
19 min - After Easter: Politics, the Bible, and What Comes Next
Is Easter an end, or a beginning? And what difference can it make to our world today, so torn by conflicts over immigration, justice, and injustice?
27 min - The Gospel According to Vincent - Part Seven: "Wheatfields with Crows"
“Wheatfields with Crows” is Vincent’s last major painting, and as it turns out, it’s a brilliant portrait of the tensions at the heart of Easter morning: sadness and loneliness, restoration and grace. Drop us a line at [email protected].
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About Strange New World
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to “Strange New World,” a show about understanding the Bible, the world’s most influential, misunderstood book - a podcast tailor-made for skeptics, believers, and everybody in between.
Hosted by SALT’s own Matthew Myer Boulton, who’s spent twenty years teaching the Bible and theology to students at Harvard Divinity School and seminaries in New England and the Midwest, “Strange New World” will take a fresh look at the world’s bestselling book of all time, the ancient community library we call “the Bible.”
The show’s title, “Strange New World,” is borrowed from an essay written by a Swiss theologian a hundred years ago, in which he wrote of “the strange new world within the Bible,” a world so ancient, so different, so familiar, so strange that it presses us to think new thoughts from new points of view, “to dare and to reach,” and ultimately “to grow out beyond ourselves.”