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What if our theology could get up from our armchairs and move into our world? That would be something worth paying attention to.The Armchair Anabaptist is a podcast of the EMC, that's the Evangelical... more
FAQs about The Armchair Anabaptist:How many episodes does The Armchair Anabaptist have?The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.
October 29, 2024The Ban - Community E11The ban is that thing in the Anabaptist closet. Stories abound of this severe and condemnatory method of church discipline—its use and mostly its misuse. But what was it that Anabaptists intended and is there a redemptive way to employ the ban? Find the transcript, study questions, show notes and more at www.TheArmchairAnabaptist.ca....more51minPlay
August 27, 2024Kleine Gemeinde - Community E10The Anabaptist suspicion of top-down leadership remainsalive and well in EMC churches, but does congregational governance actually work, and if not, why not and what are the alternatives? If leaders shouldn’t have or don’t accept power, where does the power go?Find the transcript, study questions and more at www.TheArmchairAnabaptist.ca....more50minPlay
June 11, 2024Church V State - Community E9Mennonites have had an ambivalent relationship with politics from their earliest days, and despite our move into evangelicalism this flavour remains. In today’s episode we ask what the church’s obligation is to the state? What is the state’s obligation to the church and how should Christians interact with politics?Find show notes, transcript, study questions and more at www.thearmchairanabaptist.ca....more55minPlay
May 28, 2024In But Not Of - Community E8In the world, but not of it, has been a particular challengefor Anabaptists who isolated themselves early in their history and still carry some of that culture. Guests today acknowledge the strengths but also challenge some of the assumptions we may make about things like holiness, our culture and our role in the world. Find the transcript, study guide and more on our website at www.thearmchairanabaptist.ca....more56minPlay
May 14, 2024The Body - Community E7Is the body just a helpful analogy of how the church functions together or is it more than that? Is it expressing something more real? And if that is true, is the connectionbetween baptism and membership more important than we may think? Find out what guests Dave Reimer, Betty Pries, Layton Friesen and Patrick Franklin say to those questions....more51minPlay
April 02, 2024Everything in Common - Community E6The episode dives into the iconic and very challengingpicture of community life portrayed in Acts 2. Whether that makes you nervous about what’s coming or eager, you’ll find a range of potential applications of the early church model and plenty of things to think about. As you might expect, some are quite radical but some may surprise you too.This episode’s guests are Dr. Kara Mandryk, Travis and Rosey Zacharias, Steve Bell and Shane Claiborne....more1h 1minPlay
March 19, 2024God With Us - Community E5After looking at the beginning and at the end, we’re back to the centre of the gospel story—Jesus—born and raised with a human body like everyone else on earth. What does that fact—something that’s so basic it’s easy to overlook it completely—mean for how we live as Jesus' followers? What does it mean for a believing community?This episode’s guests, Dr. Stuart Murray, Dr. Betty Pries,Dr. Beth Stovell and Dr. Patrick Franklin consider what happens when we don’t understand that or get it wrong and what the impact on the community is when we comprehend the significance of Jesus having a body....more45minPlay
March 05, 2024At the End - Community E4Having looked at the beginning, Jesse and Andrew now ask if you can find guidelines for community in Revelation. Does the plan, or design God has for things will end, provide insight about what our communities should look like? Guests Dave Reimer, Dr. Kara Mandryk, Dr. Beth Stovell and Shane Claiborne approach the question from a range of viewpoints about what Revelation means for us now or even if it speaks to the question of community at all. ...more52minPlay
February 20, 2024In The Beginning - Community E3The term “community” is never used in Genesis 1-3. In fact the passage is focused on God, a single couple and the world around them. How do we find the basis of community in that story and why is it so important to our understanding of ourselves in community?Going “back” even further, what does the nature of the Trinity tell us about human community? And how exactly does the Trinity exist and function as three-in-one?This episode tackles some tough and foundational conceptsbut guests Dr. Meghan Larissa Good, Dr. Patrick Franklin, Dr. Betty Pries and Dr. Beth Stovell make a convincing case for the importance of both concepts and how they apply to community....more57minPlay
February 06, 2024Better Together, Part 2 - Community E2In the second part of the question of why it is important totalk about community, hosts Jesse Penner and Andrew Dyck focus more tightly on anabaptist communities specifically. Community is universal to the church—things that the church the world over is grappling with. However, it has been particularly important to anabaptists historically. How did Anabaptist define and practice community? How doesliving out what we believe, benefit our wider community? What are the pitfalls of the anabaptist way of doing community? In what way does a healthy expression of an anabaptist community bring people to Jesus in our current culture?Those are some of the questions our guests Layton Friesen,Steve Bell, Meghan Larissa Good and Stuart Murray address and Andrew and Jesse follow by asking just how we do get out of our armchairs and live out what we’ve learned....more37minPlay
FAQs about The Armchair Anabaptist:How many episodes does The Armchair Anabaptist have?The podcast currently has 30 episodes available.