Recorded on November 12, 2023. The third session of Theology Lab's 2023-2024 series, "God & Money." In this discussion, guest speakers Dennis Edwards Jr. and Soong-Chan Rah, along with moderator Scott Rice, discuss what the Bible says about money and its application to the life of faith communities today. Listen in for a stimulating conversation on the following questions (and more): How can the witness of the church in Acts 2 impact our relationship to money and other people today? Have we internalized a transactional relationship with God (i.e., if you X, I'll do Y)? How can a new self-understanding change the way we view giving? How can we incorporate more diverse views and people with different experiences around money into the decision-making processes of the church?

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Recorded on October 15, 2023. David Cloutier, Hauna Ondrey, and moderator Scott Rice discuss the church's relationship to wealth and luxury. How does the church's historical relationship to money, positively and negatively, impact us today? How do we make challenging but important decisions about using our resources well while avoiding the deforming effects of luxury? Part of Theology Lab's "God & Money" series: https://www.highrock.org/classes/theologylab Join us on Zoom for live Theology Lab sessions: https://highrock.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/1291/responses/new David Cloutier's book, "The Vice of Luxury": https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Vice-of-Luxury

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Recorded on September 17, 2023. The first session of Theology Lab's 2023-2024 series, "God & Money." In this discussion, guest speakers Ruth Padilla DeBorst and Al Tizon explore how money connects to faith, common obstacles that prevent us from seriously engaging this topic, field a question on materialism and the need for a nuanced relationship to capitalism, and more.

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After a series of discussions with several high profile figures from both within and outside of evangelicalism, we are led to ask, "So what?" How have these discussions shaped us? What new questions do they raise? And what hope do we have for individuals and faith communities who have been shaped by evangelicalism? In this final segment of the American Evangelicalism Theology Lab, panelists Meghan DeJong (Highrock Church), Kristin Lee (contributing author at outlets like Christianity Today and Sojourners), Walter Kim (National Association of Evangelicals) and John Mury (Highrock Church) take up these questions and more. The discussion not only provides insights into this year's conversations but models the kind of dialogue across differences that we hope might characterize the church (evangelical and otherwise) more and more. (Discussion moderator: Scott Rice)

Recorded May 7, 2023

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In this conversation, author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood, Beth Allison Barr (Baylor University), and Force and Freedom and We Refuse, Kellie Carter-Jackson (Wellesley College) explore contemporary issues of gender and race in the evangelical world. Barr and Jackson share how their faith animates their work as historians of gender and race, respectively. Their discussion sheds light on how race issues and gender inequality manifest themselves in the church in both explicit and subtle ways. This conversation offers perspective for how the study of history not only changes what we know but who we are and who we can become as followers of Christ. (Discussion moderator: Scott Rice)

Recorded April 24, 2023.

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In this discussion, David Brooks (New York Times) and Jim Wallis (Georgetown University) enter into a good-faith conversation on how Christians should engage in politics. They respond to questions like, What role should politics play in our lives? Has politics taken the place of religion in our society? What do compromise and mutual sacrifice look like for Christians engaging the issues that often divide us? (Discussion moderate: Rev. Dr. Walter Kim, National Association of Evangelicals.)

Recorded March 12, 2023.

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Whether or not you call yourself an evangelical today, if evangelicalism has shaped you in the past, what does it look like to reflect on the evangelical tradition in a constructive way? How do we engage with honesty, wisdom, and insight? Kathy Khang author of Raise Your Voice and Loving Disagreement, and Dan Stringer, author of Struggling with Evangelicalism, talk through their own experiences with these questions and what they've learned about discerning some of the most pressing questions in the church today, both as individuals and in community. (Discussion moderator: Scott Rice, Highrock Church.)

Recorded February 19, 2023.

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Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin College) and Walter Kim (National Association of Evangelicals) discuss the rise of a cultural form of masculinity that's taken hold in many evangelical communities and which is the focus of Du Mez's widely acclaimed book, Jesus and John and Wayne. Du Mez and Kim also address how the values of this movement compare to the person of Christ as depicted in the gospels, as well as Christian Nationalism, and how we might consider alternative forms of masculinity in the church today. (Discussion moderator: Meghan DeJong, Highrock Church.)

Recorded January 23, 2023.

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Recording of the American Evangelicalism Theology Lab session from November 11, 2022 with guest, Rev. Dr. Russell Moore (Christianity Today).

In this discussion, moderated by Rev. Dr. Walter Kim (president, National Association of Evangelicals), Russell Moore shares some personal stories about his relation to faith and political engagement. Russell speaks to the looming issue of Christian Nationalism, and what it means for Christians today to maintain both integrity and faithfulness in the public sphere. In the final part of his discussion with Walter Kim, Russell speaks to the crisis that evangelicalism faces today and the possibilities for revitalization and the formation of new coalitions within the evangelical movement.

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Recording of the American Evangelicalism Theology Lab session from October 23, 2022 with guests, Rev. Dominique Gilliard (Evangelical Covenant Church) and Dr. Kurt Peterson (College of Lake County; former History professor at North Park University).

Dominique and Kurt, with Scott Rice (moderator), discuss what unity in the midst of diversity looks like, both within the tradition of the Covenant and in evangelicalism today. Other topics of discussion include individualism and a sense of collective identity, and how the church community is called to the work of racial justice. This conversation will be of interest for anyone who's curious about how the church can maintain a sense of unity (over uniformity), grounded in the person of Christ, while approaching diversity and differences as potential strengths to the church's witness.

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