The Chick Report with Dr. Sandra Glahn

The sin of greed has had a formative impact on Western culture. In this episode Dr. Sandra Glahn analyzes with Dr. Malcolm Foely, professor and author of The Anti-Greed Gospel, greed’s impact on culture and how the gospel can undo its influence.

Dr. Foley’s book: https://a.co/d/09IRmotA

Timestamps: 

0:32 – Introduction with Dr. Malcolm Foley

1:54 – Origins of racial capitalism as a concept

4:58 – Race as a "justifying role" for economic exploitation

6:39 – Love as a material commitment to neighbor

8:47 – The church as a redistributive body

31:26 – On repentance: "This life has been given to you for repentance"

In this episode Dr. Sandra Glahn examines with Dr. Marlena Graves, author of The Way Up Is Down: Becoming Yourself By Forgetting Yourself, how culture has an outsized impact on spiritual formation, and how following the way of Jesus is the better way.

Timestamps:

0:36 – Introduction and welcome

2:58 – Marlena's dissertation research on Christians and the “culture wars”

7:31 – "Slaveholder theology" and cultural captivity of the church

16:23 – How money forms Christians

30:13 – "Selective compassion" and structural sin

34:39 – Discussion of “The Way Up Is Down”

In this episode Dr. Sandra Glahn, author Aimee Byrd, and Rev. Dr. Michael Bird, revisit the “Eternal Functional Subordination” controversy among evangelicals in the late 2010s as well as reactions to Byrd’s book Recovering From Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. They discuss women’s use of their gifts in the church, Trinitarian orthodoxy, and how to critique Christianly.

Timestamps:

2:22 – Aimee's journey into the Trinity debate

6:24 – Mike Bird explains eternal subordination of the Son

12:09 – Aimee describes the character assassination she faced for questioning teaching that’s incompatible with Nicaean orthodoxy

22:00 – Summary of orthodox Trinitarian theology

Playing the piano; creating the church bulletin; working in the nursery. Today people often see these as duties fulfilled by the pastor’s wife. In this episode Dr. Sandra Glahn explores with pastor’s wife Dr. Beth Allison Barr, historian and author of Becoming the Pastor’s Wife, how marrying a clergyman replaced ordination as a pathway to women’s vocational ministry.  

Timestamps:

0:31 – Introduction to Beth Allison Barr and Becoming the Pastor's Wife

2:57 – History of the “pastor's wife” role and how marriage to a pastor replaced ordination as a path to ministry

8:33 – The Protestant Reformation and the pastor's wife as a symbol of resistance

19:33 – What it means to serve as a pastor's wife without losing one’s own calling

19:43 – Double monasteries and women's ordination history

33:05 – Willie Dawson (1888–1963): a Baptist pastor's wife who was also an international preacher

What was the involvement of women in the history of the church? In this episode, Dr. Sandra Glahn and Dr. Anneke Stasson, historian and co-author of Women in the Mission of the Church, discuss how women throughout the world have built the church as we know it.

Timestamps: 

0:22 – Introduction: meet Dr. Anneke Stasson

2:14 – How her interest in church history began

5:46 – Lightning round: a historical woman every Christian should know

8:31 – Retiring the myth that women have only one role in the church

13:27 – Describing the global church in one word 

40:56 – The untold story of “Bible women” in India and China

How were women involved in the earliest times of the church? In this episode, Dr. Sandra Glahn talks with Dr. Amy Brown Hughes, author and early church historian, about the role women played in the patristic period and, specifically, the influence of Macrina on the church’s most prominent theologians.

Timestamps:

0:27 – Dr. Amy Brown Hughes on Christian women in the Patristic world

3:17 – Who were the Montanists? Early women prophetesses in the 2nd century

19:31 – Macrina: sister of the Cappadocian Fathers and “ascetic entrepreneur”

29:33 – Theckla and her lasting influence on early church leaders

33:30 – The martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas

What happens when the place meant for healing becomes the place of harm? In this episode of The Chick Report, Dr. Sandra Glahn talks with Dr. Scot McKnight about trauma in the church, why so many women no longer feel safe in the pews, and what it takes for congregations to move from trauma-aware to trauma-safe.

Discover:

• Why trauma isn't an event but a response and how churches keep re-wounding the people they're called to heal

• How everyday church practices (a sermon, a seating arrangement, a casual dismissal) can drop someone straight into the trauma zone

• Why Jesus' ministry in Matthew 8–9 is a masterclass in seeing the overlooked and what that means for pastoral care today

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Buy Dr. McKnight's book: https://a.co/d/0i4UzyqP

Connect with Sandra: https://sandraglahn.com | Instagram: @SandraGlahnAuthor

Disclaimer: The views, information, and/or opinions expressed on this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent those of the host, affiliated organizations, or sponsors.

What does a slave girl in Acts 12 have to do with kingdom theology? In this episode of The Chick Report, Dr. Sandra Glahn talks with Dr. Lindsay Ann Nickens about Rhoda, the running slave trope, and the way Luke flips a first-century joke into a quiet declaration that the overlooked are seen by God.

Discover:

• Why Rhoda's reaction at the gate doesn't match the painting in your head and what Luke is really doing with her

• How the Greek word paidiske reveals she was likely a child slave, and what archaeology tells us about kids like her

• Why Luke names Rhoda when so many others go unnamed and how her story mirrors the resurrection witnesses in Luke 24

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Connect with Sandra: https://sandraglahn.com | Instagram: @SandraGlahnAuthor

Disclaimer: The views, information, and/or opinions expressed on this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent those of the host, affiliated organizations, or sponsors.

00:00 — Rhoda and Luke's Theology of the Overlooked

02:32 — Rhoda at the Gate: What the Text Actually Says

08:39 — Paidiske: A Child Slave in Mary's House

13:41 — The Running Slave Trope Flipped

20:55 — Slavery in the First-Century World

What if a woman named in Romans 16 was an apostle and the church forgot? In this episode of The Chick Report, Dr. Sandra Glahn talks with Dr. Amy Peeler about Junia, the question of whether she might be the same person as Joanna from Luke 8, and what Paul's greeting really tells us about women in the earliest Christian movement.Discover:- Why "Junias" as a male name has zero evidence in the historical record—and when interpreters made the switch- How "esteemed among the apostles" fits Paul's broader definition of apostleship beyond the Twelve- Why Junia's imprisonment with Paul reveals the cost and courage of her gospel witnessSubscribe for more scholarship with a touch of slang.Connect with Sandra: https://sandraglahn.com | Instagram: @SandraGlahnAuthorDisclaimer: The views, information, and/or opinions expressed on this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent those of the host, affiliated organizations, or sponsors.

What if Mary Magdalene wasn't who the church taught us she was? In this episode of The Chick Report, Dr. Sandra Glahn talks with Dr. Jennifer McNutt about Mary Magdalene, the "Apostle to the Apostles," and how centuries of tradition shaped—and sometimes distorted—the woman Jesus sent to proclaim the resurrection.

Discover:

• Why the "prostitute" label has no basis in the biblical text

• How the Eastern and Western traditions diverged—remembering Mary as apostle in the East and as penitent in the West

• What John 20:17 really says about Mary touching the risen Christ, and why it matters for how we read her witness

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Connect with Sandra: https://sandraglahn.com | Instagram: @SandraGlahnAuthor

Disclaimer: The views, information, and/or opinions expressed on this podcast are solely those of our guests and do not necessarily represent those of the host, affiliated organizations, or sponsors.