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Strange New World episodes
- Understanding Jesus - Part Five: The Camel and the Needle
It's one of the most controversial, radioactive, personal, pressing topics around: money and wealth, how much we should have and how much we should give away. Turns out Jesus had a lot to say about it, and in this episode, we take a deep dive. Drop us a line at [email protected].
18 min - Understanding Jesus - Part Four: How Jesus Reads Scripture
In this episode, we tackle the specific question of Jesus' teaching about divorce (it’s not what you think!), and the general question of how Jesus reads Scripture. Drop us a line at [email protected].
18 min - Understanding Jesus - Part Three: Peace is the Way
"Blessed are the peacemakers," Jesus said - and as it turns out, peacemaking is a key to understanding what it means to follow him. Along the way, we explore a famous story about A. J. Muste, the Christian peacemaker sometimes called, "The American Gandhi."
16 min - Understanding Jesus - Part Two: Signature Move
What's the essence of Jesus' mission? What's the "signature move," the choreography at the heart of his work? In this episode, we explore these questions - and along the way, discover his vision for what "true greatness" is all about.
20 min - Understanding Jesus - Part One: Crossroads
It's part one of our six-part series, "Understanding Jesus," a fresh look at the most provocative, influential, and misunderstood figure in human history. In this episode, we introduce the series, and then dive in to his famous, deceptively simple question, "Who do you say that I am?"
23 min - Understanding Easter - Part Six: The Challenge of Palm Sunday
This episode tackles the challenge of Palm Sunday, a story brimming with an ancient idea about how scripture works, and what it’s for.
21 min - Understanding Easter - Part Five: What Resurrection Is For
This episode zeroes in on the meaning — and the purpose — of resurrection, arguably the greatest mystery of them all.
23 min - Understanding Easter - Part Four: The Great Reversal
The Easter story is full of big, bold reversals — but there’s one in particular that’s hidden under the skin of the story, and it just might be the most subversive of them all.
22 min - Understanding Easter - Part Three: Why Was Jesus Killed?
Why was Jesus killed? Why did the Roman empire, arguably the most powerful force in the world, execute an unarmed, peasant rabbi from Nazareth? Turns out this mystery goes all the way back to the story of Cain and Abel...
26 min - Understanding Easter - Part Two: Ten Ways of Looking at the Cross
The mystery of the cross is like a cathedral with many entrances and side chapels, and exploring it can both enrich the season and deepen our understanding.
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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.”