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Ministry and the Life of the Mind | Mickey Klink Jul 12, 2022

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What is leisure? What is the proper end of our intellectual pursuits and the life of the mind? What make the life of a scholar unique? How do intellectual pursuits relate to pastoral ministry? All this and more on this episode with CPT fellow Mickey Klink, featuring conversations on books by Zena Hitz and Luke Timothy Johnson.

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Becoming a Pastor Theologian | Daryl Ellis Jul 06, 2022

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Daryl Ellis, executive pastor at Church of the Master and a member of the CPT St. Augustine Fellowship, joins the podcast to share his story about faith, his shift away from an Evangelical Free Church background, education, and how theology informs his administrative-oriented role. Along the way he discusses his adoption of an Augustinian and Thomistic approach to theology from a more Barthian understanding. Listen now for a great conversation that addresses natural theology, the retrieval of a Thomistic theology of the body for evangelicalism, the guiding hand of God, and much more.

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Pastoring in a Post-Roe America Jun 28, 2022

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The Supreme Court of the United States has overturned Roe v. Wade. What’s next for our nation and our churches? How do pastors approach ongoing differences of opinion on the decision itself and the means by which it came about? How can pastors commend holistic visions of justice and exhort their congregations toward Christian unity in an increasingly fractured society?

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What We're Reading | June 2022 (feat. Joey Sherrard) Jun 13, 2022

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Our June episode on books we're reading. We are joined by CPT fellow Paul Morrison. We discuss the following:

Scot McKnight & B.J. Oropeza, eds. – Perspectives on Paul (2020)
St. Augustine – City of God (early 5th century)
Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory (1940)
Francis Fukuyama – Liberalism and Its Discontents (2022)

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Technology and Personhood | Andy Crouch Jun 06, 2022

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How does technology relate to our human desire for connection and relationship? What types of technology extend our human capacities and creativity? What types of technologies limit and compromise our humanity? How does this relate to the new world that God is making in Christ? We are joined on this episode by Andy Crouch to discuss his new book – The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World.

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Institutional Failure (and Signs of Hope) in the SBC | Danny Slavich May 30, 2022

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CPT Fellow and Souther Baptist pastor Danny Slavich joins the podcast to discuss recent events and turmoil in the Southern Baptist Convention. We begin by discussing some of Danny's story of faith, education, and ministry, including his time serving as a pastor at a majority black church and the formative impact this had on him. We then pivot to discuss the recent report on sexual abuse and cover up in the Southern Baptist Convention. Danny helps us understand the mechanics of church polity in the SBC and where the institution has fractured and caused these grievous failures. Danny also offers some reason to hope for the future of the largest Protestant denomination in America.

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House Church Theology | Hannah Nation May 25, 2022

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What can pastors in America and in the West learn from house church pastors in China? What place does the sermon hold in the history of theological reflection? What are the unique challenges and opportunities of ministry in the Chinese setting? Hannah Nation serves as the Managing Director of the Center for House Church Theology, an organization that publishes pastors and leaders in China’s urban house churches for the benefit of the global church. Hannah shares on this episode a bit about her story and how she became passionate about this work.

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On Suffering and the Problem of Evil | Mark Talbot May 16, 2022

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How is God at work in our stories and our suffering? How does human will relate to divine will? Dr. Mark Talbot, Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College, joins the podcast to share his story, including suffering a major, paralyzing accident as a young man and going on to study philosophy as a Christian. Dr. Talbot also discusses his book When the Stars Disappear, the first in a four-book series on suffering and the Christian life.

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Hope and Lament | Steven Sandage May 11, 2022

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On this episode we are joined by Steven Sandage, Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology at the Boston University School of Theology. Dr. Sandage consulted with the CPT for a meeting of one of our ecclesial theologian fellowships on virtue formation and hope. In this conversation we discuss the relationship between hope, lament, and pastoral ministry.

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Neil Martin (Part 2) | Becoming a Pastor Theologian Apr 04, 2022

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We continue our conversation with CPT fellow Neil Martin, picking up with his DPhil research at the University of Oxford. What was the Apostle Paul's attitude towards the Torah, paganism, and the differences and similarities between Jews and Gentiles? Neil's research seeks to reconcile and integrate emphases of traditional Protestant readings and the so-called New Perspective on Paul.

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