Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Elle Grover Fricks to discuss how to navigate the dangers of presentism and primitivism as we start a series on the forgotten women of the Bible.

Presentation for The Forgotten Women — Presentism and Primitivism (PDF)

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

BEMA 240: Sin and the Archaeology of Joshua w/ Elle Grover Fricks

Levant — Wikipedia

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

BEMA 308: The Chosen S2E9 — “The Messengers”

BEMA 310: The Nativity Story

BEMA 297: Kat Armas — Abuelita Faith

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Alonzo Felder, author of Discovering A. S. J. Allen. Over the course of his career as an IT analyst at Duke University, Alonzo became an expert in a number of research methods and has done extensive work on his own family history.

Discovering A. S. J. Allen by Alonzo Felder

“Do You Know” Scale

Review of Discovering A. S. J. Allen — Marty Solomon, Goodreads

Coming soon: Online Course for Family History Research

Coming soon: Documentary Film/Series

My Roots Foundation

Additional audio production by Gus Simpson

Special Guest: Alonzo Felder.

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Erin Geiselman, leader of the launch team for Marty’s book Asking Better Questions of the Bible, to discuss what the experience of writing a book was like for Marty.

Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon

BEMA 207: J. R. Briggs — The Sacred Overlap

The Writing Life Course — Kairos Partnerships

From Novice to Expert by Patricia Benner

BEMA 57: Lamentations — Lament and Hope

Erin Geiselman on Twitter

Additional audio production by Gus Simpson

Special Guest: Erin Geiselman.

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Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about the story of the unforgiving servant and the end of bookkeeping and seeing our enemies as ourselves.

BEMA 121: The Key to Your Own Prison

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship

NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible

Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are back with Reed Dent to discuss the lost son of Luke 15 and what it means to be lost.

The Pharisees by Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine

Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey

Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon

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Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about the story of the rich fool and the dynamics of money and relationships.

Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson

Hope: The Prophet Candle — The BEMA Liturgy

“Tripping Billies” by Dave Matthews Band — YouTube

Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey

The Parable of the Rich Fool — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship

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Brent Billings is joined by Reed Dent and Elle Grover Fricks to talk about the story of the Good Samaritan and what it looks like to love people we’d rather not.

Elle Meets John Piper

“On Priests and Jericho in the Second Temple Period” by Joshua Schwartz — ResearchGate

The Parable of the Good Samaritan — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are bringing in Reed Dent to launch a miniseries on parables, starting with a discussion about what a parable is and why anyone would want to teach in that way.

Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson

The Great Spiritual Migration by Brian McLaren

Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon

“Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins from The Apple That Astonished Paris

Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey

The Orthodox Heretic by Peter Rollins

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Keith Simon, co-author of Truth Over Tribe, who co-planted The Crossing, a politically diverse church where he is the co-lead teaching pastor. He hosts a podcast by the same name, Truth Over Tribe, and teaches on Ten Minute Bible Talks.

Truth Over Tribe by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon

Truth Over Tribe Podcast

Ten Minute Bible Talks

BEMA 309: On Social Media

Additional audio production by Gus Simpson

Special Guest: Keith Simon.

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The Nativity Story (2006 film)

The Nativity Story on JustWatch

BEMA 89: Written in the Stars

When God Was a Boy by C. T. Giles

Festival Edition: The Birth (w/ Katie Del Rocco) [Adaptation from Frederick Buechner] — Marty Solomon, YouTube

Special Guest: Maggi Billings.

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