Thrive With Asbury Seminary

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Today on the podcast, I talked to Rev. Dr. Iosmar Alvarez. Dr. Alvarez is an Asbury Seminary alum and the Global Executive Director of Disciple 21, a church planting and re-missioning network that the Seminary has partnered with. He is also a pastor, church planter and district superintendent for the United Methodist Church in Lexington.

I could not be more excited to share today’s conversation with you. We talked about Iosmar’s Jesus story, his call to church planting, some ways that we can continue to explore and find our own calling, some discipleship strategies that he practiced on me during the podcast. It’s super easy and was really helpful and something that y’all listening can practice by yourself or with someone else because as we’ll learn in today’s episode, relationships are a key part of our growth as humans.

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Mr. Shane Claiborne, best-selling author, speaker and activist, joined the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast today. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia.  He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living "as if Jesus meant the things he said." Shane is a champion for grace which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty and help stop gun violence.

Shane has written many books, which we’ll link to in the show notes, but his most recent book is Beating Guns. In today’s conversation, we talk about what it means to live as if Jesus meant the things he said. Shane also shares his perspective on politics and gives some ways he believes Christians can engage in the political arena and offers advice for how we can maintain friendships when we encounter people who think differently than we do. We also talk about ways to love our neighbor and his work with The Simple Way.

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Welcome to this episode of the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast! Today on the podcast, we’re continuing the conversation with Dr. Christine Pohl, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics at Asbury Seminary where she taught for 29 years. Today we’re talking about community and her book Living into Community. We learn what a healthy community looks like and how we can really live in a healthy community. We unpack the essential practices that she focused on in her writing of promise keeping, truth telling, gratitude and hospitality, their deformations and how we can start cultivating healthy practices in our own lives so that we can be transformed people that others want in their own communities.

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Welcome to this episode of the Thrive with Asbury Seminary Podcast! Today on the podcast, I got to talk to Dr. Christine Pohl, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics at Asbury Seminary where she taught for 29 years. This is the first of a two-part series on hospitality and community. Today on the podcast we talked about the origins of hospitality, the important difference between hospitality and entertaining, why it’s important to both give and receive hospitality, and how we can continue to do that even during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Today on the podcast, we have a great conversation with Rev. Donna Covington, Vice President of Formation at Asbury Seminary. We talk about racism, justice and reconciliation. She shares her personal story of her son Daniel who was killed in a racially motivated incident on September 16, 2010. As she shares her story, we talk about the hope and healing that she has found and some steps that you and I can take to bring justice and reconciliation to the communities in which we live.

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Today on the podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Dr. Timothy C. Tennent, President of Asbury Theological Seminary. We talked about his new book that releases on November 17 called For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Human Body. We talk about what it means to have a theology of the body, the building blocks that make up our theology of the body, like marriage, family, singleness and things like that, what it means to be made in the image of God, and how we can live lives that represent Christ in the communities in which we live.

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Today on the podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Adam Weber, Asbury Seminary alum, church planter and lead pastor of Embrace Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We talk about a lot of things in today’s conversation—how he experienced his call to ministry and church planting, how Embrace church got started, and the release of his newest book Love Has a Name. We talk about loving people even when it’s difficult, from a heart that embodies the grace and truth of Jesus.

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Hey everyone! Just popping into your feed for a minute to let you know that we are taking a short podcast break. We are planning great content for the fall and will return with a new episode at the end of August. Thank you so much for listening and we look forward to our next season with you!

Next season, we'll talk about hospitality, community, racial reconciliation, theology of the body and much more, so make sure you stay tuned!

As always, you can follow us in all the places on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @asburyseminary.

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Today on the podcast, I had the privilege of talking to Jim Ramsay, Asbury Seminary alum and Vice President of Global Operations at TMS Global. We talk about his call to ministry and missions, the time he and his family spent serving in Kazakhstan, and the ways that we can connect with others to see what God is up to in the world.

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Dr. Matthew Sleeth, co-founder of Blessed Earth, joins the podcast today. Dr. Sleeth is a former ER physician and chief of medical staff. He resigned from that position to teach, preach and write about faith and stewardship issues. Today, we talk to him about his book "24/6" that invites us into a beautiful rhythm of work and rest that is woven into the universe. We talk about what Sabbath is, why it’s important to our faith, lives and health, and practical ways for us to develop a Sabbath practice.

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