Kingdom Roots - TopPodcast.com

View Top 200 Chart

Back to Rankings Page

Kingdom Roots — Christianity
Kingdom Roots

The Kingdom Roots Podcast with Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett facilitates conversations about how the Kingdom took root ‘then’ and how it takes root ‘now.’

Scot McKnight (PhD, University of Nottingham) is a world-renowned speaker, writer, professor, and equipper of the Church. He is a recognized authority on the historical Jesus, early Christianity, and the New Testament. His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Portuguese. He is the author of The Jesus Creed, The Blue Parakeet, The King Jesus Gospel, Revelation for the Rest of Us, numerous commentaries, and is now writing a sixteen-volume series of reflections called The Everyday Bible Study.

Cody Matchett is a pastor, professor, and writer from Calgary Alberta Canada. He is a PhD candidate at Ridley College (Australian College of Theology) exploring portrayals of human character in the Graeco-Roman World, the co-author of Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call To Follow Jesus As A Dissident Disciple (Zondervan Reflective), and co-host of Kingdom Roots Podcast with Dr. Scot McKnight. Cody is passionate about bible literacy and engagement, psychology and philosophy, and all things coffee. He lives in Calgary with his wife Brianna, a counselling-therapist (Garden Counselling Services), his daughter Aletheia Theodora and his son Atticus Ignatius.

Copyright: © All rights reserved

Latest Episodes:

A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul With Dr. Isaac Soon Jun 05, 2025

Show notes

In this episode, Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Isaac Soon about his recent monograph, A Disabled Apostle.

Isaac Soon is Assistant Professor of Early Christianity in the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies. He is the author of A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul (Oxford University Press, 2023). A graduate of Alphacrucis University College (B.A. in Biblical Studies), Excelsia College (M.Th), the University of Oxford (M.Phil. in New Testament), and Durham University (Ph.D. in Theology and Religion). He received a Durham Doctoral Studentship for his doctoral work and was a finalist for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford in 2021. From 2021–2023 he was Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (New Testament) at Crandall University, in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism With Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya May 22, 2025

Show notes

In this episode, Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya about her recent monograph, Disgraced.

Suzanna Krivulskaya (pronounced Soo-ZAH-nah Kree-VOOL-ska-ya) is Associate Professor of History at California State University San Marcos. Originally from Minsk, Belarus, she earned her Bachelor’s degree at LCC International University in Lithuania before moving to the United States to first pursue her Master of Arts in Religion at Yale Divinity School and, later, her Ph.D. in History from the University of Notre Dame. Her scholarship considers the relationship between religion and sexuality in modern U.S. history. Her first book, Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, recently published by Oxford University Press, is a sweeping religious and cultural history of religion, scandal, and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through a careful study of some of the most consequential as well as never before written about sex scandals involving American clergy, Suzanna’s book traces how journalists, churches, and the reading public navigated the many publicity crises that followed the revelations of pastoral misdeeds.

Listeners can purchase it at 30% off from Oxford University Press with the discount code AUFLY30. If they read and like the book, I would also appreciate it if they could post a review on Goodreads, Bookstore, or Amazon.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

Proclaiming the Parables: Preaching and Teaching the Kingdom of God with Dr. Thomas G. Long May 16, 2025

Show notes

In this episode, Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Thomas G. Long about his recent book, Proclaiming the Parables.

Thomas G. Long is the Bandy Professor of Preaching Emeritus at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. A Presbyterian minister, Dr. Long has served churches in

Georgia and New Jersey. He has taught preaching for over forty years -- at Erskine Theological Seminary, Columbia Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and, from 2000-2015, at Candler. Dr. Long has served as the president of the Academy of Homiletics and as senior homiletics editor of the New Interpreter’s Bible. He has been editor of Theology Today, is currently an associate editor of Journal for Preachers, and serves as an editor-at-large at The Christian Century. He is the author of textbooks on preaching and worship, collections of sermons, and biblical commentaries on Matthew, Hebrews, and the Pastoral Epistles. In 2011, he was awarded the Emory Williams prize for excellence in teaching by Emory University, and in 2015 he received Emory’s “Scholar/Teacher Award,” the top faculty award for scholarship. He delivered the 2006 Lyman Beecher Lectures in Preaching at Yale Divinity School, and these have been published as Preaching from Memory to Hope. His most recent book is Proclaiming the Parables: Preaching and Teaching the Kingdom of God.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

Jesus For Everyone With Dr. Amy Jill Levine Apr 24, 2025

Show notes

In this episode, Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Amy Jill Levine.

Amy Jill Levine (“AJ”) is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, at Vanderbilt.

Her publications include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi; Jesus for Everyone, Not Just Christians, six children’s books (with Sandy Sasso); The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III, the first biblical commentary by a Jew and an Evangelical); The Jewish Annotated New Testament (co-edited with Marc Brettler), The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (with Marc Brettler), The Pharisees (co-edited with Joseph Sievers), Jesus for Everyone, Not Just Christians, and thirteen edited volumes of the Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Her Beginner’s Guide series includes Sermon on the Mount, Light of the World, Entering the Passion of Jesus, The Difficult Words of Jesus, Witness at the Cross, Signs and Wonders, The Gospel of Mark, and The Gospel of John.

The first Jew to teach New Testament at Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, the first winner of the Seelisberg Prize awarded by the International Council of Christians and Jews, and the 2023 recipient of the H. Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation from Archbishop of Canterbury, AJ describes herself as an unorthodox member of an Orthodox synagogue and a Yankee Jewish feminist who works to counter biblical interpretations that exclude and oppress.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

Revelation: A Love Story With Dr. Rob Dalrymple Apr 10, 2025

Show notes

In this episode, Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Rob Dalrymple about his recent commentary, Revelation: A Love Story.

Rob Dalrymple has been a professor, dean, and lead pastor for over 35 years at the college, seminary, and the local church. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Determinetruth ministries, whose vision is to provide a platform of training for pastors, leaders, and members of local churches by providing sound biblical teaching through various mediums to “challenge the church to be the church.” Rob hosts the determinetruth podcast, writes a weekly blog on Patheos, and has scores of videos on the Determinetruth YouTube page on the kingdom of God and justice. He is a leading voice on Scripture and the Middle East in the evangelical world. His writings include Revelation: a Love Story (A commentary on the book of Revelation); Understanding the New Testament and the End Times; Follow the Lamb: A Guide to Reading, Understanding, and Applying the Book of Revelation; as well as Land of Contention: Biblical Narratives and the Struggle for the Holy Land.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

Beyond The Salvation Wars With Dr. Matthew Bates Mar 27, 2025

Show notes

In this episode, Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Matthew Bates about his recent book, Beyond The Salvation Wars.

Matthew W. Bates (PhD, Notre Dame) is Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary with expertise on the gospel and salvation. His book Why the Gospel? (Eerdmans, 2024) won the Christianity Today award in popular theology and was Outreach magazine’s “Resource of the Year” in theology and Bible. His acclaimed academic titles include Salvation by Allegiance Alone (Baker Academic, 2017) and The Birth of the Trinity (Oxford University Press, 2015). He also co-founded and co-hosts the popular OnScript podcast.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

Bonhoeffer the Assassin? with Dr. Mark Theissen Nation Jan 16, 2025

Show notes

In this episode, Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk about Dietrich Bonhoeffer with Dr. Mark Theissen Nation.

Mark grew up in a non-Christian home, the son of a World War II veteran. At age seventeen he became a Christian in a General Baptist church; within a year he became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Since then, he has had many vocations: as evangelist, a youth minister, a social worker, the founder and director of a Christian peace and justice organization, a pastor, and the director of The London Mennonite Centre, London, England. For sixteen years he was professor of theology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. He has written or edited eleven books, two about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The first, published by Baker Academic Books in 2013, is Bonhoeffer the Assassin?: Challenging the Myth, Recovering His Call to Peacemaking. In 2022 his book, Discipleship in a World Full of Nazis: Recovering the True Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was published by Cascade Books. His first writing on Christians in Nazi Germany was in 1980. Mark has two adult children and four grandchildren and is married to Mary.He is currently (interim) co-pastor of a Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

Reimagining the First Christmas with Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett Dec 25, 2024

Show notes

In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett reimagine the original Christmas story by talking about the stories of Mary and Joseph.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God with Dr. Jesse P. Nickel Nov 22, 2024

Show notes

In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Jesse P. Nickel about his recent book, A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God.

Jesse Nickel (PhD, University of St Andrews) is on the faculty of Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, where he teaches in the biblical studies program. He is the author of The Things that Make for Peace: Jesus and Eschatological Violence (de Grutyer, 2021) and co-editor of It’s About Life: The Formative Power of Scripture (Regent College Publishing, 2023). Jesse is passionate about continuing to get to know Jesus more deeply with both his mind and heart, and teaching others about the already/not-yet, shalom-centred kingdom of God.

Forthcoming publications

“Eschatological Violence,” in The Oxford Handbook of Bible and Violence, edited by Paul Middleton and Matthew Collins (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Strange Worship: Six Steps for Challenging Christian Nationalism With Dr. Drew J. Strait Nov 06, 2024

Show notes

In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Drew J. Strait about his recent book, Strange Worship: Six Steps for Challenging Christian Nationalism.

Drew J. Strait was baptized Catholic, raised United Methodist, discipled as an Evangelical through Young Life, Reformed through Whitworth College, and became a convinced Anabaptist after a transformative re-reading of the Gospels after the Iraq war. This ecumenical background energizes Strait’s passion to bring together diverse coalitions of Christians to bear witness to God’s mission of reconciliation—to reconcile humans to God and humans to one another. Perpetually overwhelmed by how much he doesn’t know, Strait loves to cultivate engaging spaces to learn alongside his students and listeners.

Forthcoming Publications

Drew J. Strait,“Dominionism in the Trumpocene: Toward a Biblical Hermeneutic of Resistance.” In On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives. Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right. Edited by Joan Braune and David M. Gides. New York: Routledge, projected 2025.
Human Animalization and Fascist Politics: Toward a Homiletic of Resistance against the Dehumanization of Immigrants (this is an essay I wrote during my sabbatical on the Canaanite woman in Matt 15, animal metaphors in the Trumpocene, and animal metaphors for dehumanizing people in Greco-Roman antiquity).
Next book project will focus on biblical interpretation and human security–reclaiming biblical interpretation as a site for peacebuilding through the church.

Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi

Related Podcasts