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An Evening At Truth's Table - Part 2 Dec 07, 2017

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Truth's Table is a podcast featuring Michelle Higgins, Christina Edmondson, and Ekemini Uwan. Together they are the midwives of culture for grace and truth. In October we had the privilege of partnering with Lee University to bring the ladies to Chattanooga for a live event. For the sake of the podcast we split the event into two episodes. Part 1 features introductions and the ladies telling the story of how they began the podcast. Part 2 is the Q&A portion of the evening that gets into a lot of cultural and theological topics.

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An Evening At Truth's Table - Part 1 Dec 07, 2017

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"The End of Innovation" Dr. Greg Thompson Oct 26, 2017

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Recorded live at The Camp House in Chattanooga, TN on October 17.

What is the end of innovation? Why do we even innovate to begin with and how will we know if we are successful in such an endeavor? Dr. Greg Thompson seeks to pull our imaginations to the deeper questions of why innovation will matter for our communities in the 21st century.

Greg Thompson is the Director of Research and Strategy at Clayborn Reborn, a historic Civil Rights site in Memphis Tennessee. He is also a Senior Advisor for the Tom Tom Founders Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia. Before joining Clayborn and Tom Tom Greg served as the CEO of the Thriving Cities Group, a Civic Design firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia and as the Executive Director of New City Commons, a consulting team that supports faith-based communities in the work of serving their cities. Greg is also active in national conversations surrounding race and equity in America and holds a PhD from the University of Virginia where he wrote his dissertation on Martin Luther King, Jr.

Clayborn Reborn - https://www.claybornreborn.org
Thriving Cities - http://thrivingcities.com
New City Commons - http://newcitycommons.com

Other talks by Dr. Greg Thompson on Qideas.org - http://qideas.org/contributors/greg-thompson/

"The Doctrine of Trauma, Discovery, & Lament" Mark Charles - Part 2 Oct 25, 2017

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THIS IS PART 2 - Our Q&A session with Mark Charles. Please go back and listen to Part 1 first, which is the lecture, to better understand the context of these questions.

How deep do issues of race and discrimination go in our country and in our Christian faith? Mark Charles digs into this complex history in order to help forge a path of healing and conciliation for both the church and our nation.

Mark Charles is a dynamic and thought-provoking public speaker, writer, and consultant. The son of an American woman (of Dutch heritage) and a Navajo man, he speaks with insight into the complexities of American history regarding race, culture, and faith in order to help forge a path of healing and conciliation for the nation. Mark serves as the Washington DC correspondent and regular columnist for Native News Online and is the author of the popular blog "Reflections from the Hogan." He served on the board of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and is a former Board of Trustee member of the Christian Reformed Church of North America (CRCNA). Mark also consults with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW), has served as the pastor of the Christian Indian Center in Denver CO and is a founding partner of a national conference for Native students called “Would Jesus Eat Frybread?” (CRU, IVCF and CICW).

"The Doctrine of Discovery, Trauma, & Lament" Mark Charles - Part 1 Oct 19, 2017

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PART 1 - LECTURE, PART 2 - Q&A

"Reasons to Believe Beyond Reason: The Faith of Blaise Pascal" Dr. Graham Tomlin Oct 10, 2017

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Recorded live at The Camp House on November 12, 2014.

Preview: T.S. Eliot once wrote, “I can think of no Christian writer… more to be commended than Pascal to those who doubt, but have the mind to conceive, and the sensibility to feel, the disorder, the futility, the meaninglessness, the mystery of life and suffering, and who can only find peace through a satisfaction of the whole being.” At the next ToT, we will be looking at the life and work of the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, a man who peculiarly embodied the anxieties of his age and ours, anticipating the intellectual quandaries of Christian belief posed by the Zeitgeists of the modern and post-moderns worlds.

Dr. Graham is Dean of St. Mellitus College in London, a church training institution which provides theological education for London, Essex, and Liverpool. He is also Principal of St Paul's Theological Centre, which is based at Holy Trinity Brompton. He holds degrees from Oxford University and Exeter University, the latter from which he earned his PhD in theology. He returned to Oxford where for sixteen years he variously served as a chaplain, taught theology, church history, evangelism and held posts at Wycliffe Hall including acting principal. Among his books are Spiritual Fitness: Christian Character in a Consumer Culture (Continuum, 2006); The Power of the Cross: Theology and the Death of Christ in Paul, Luther and Pascal (Paternoster, 1999); The Provocative Church (SPCK, 2002).

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"Chance The Rapper's Theology of Art & Life" Dr. Mary McCampbell Oct 10, 2017

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Recorded live on September 9, 2017 at The Camp House.

"'Like God In My House': Chance The Rapper's Theology of Art & Life"
Dr. Mary McCampbell, Lee Univeristy

Mary McCampbell is Associate Professor of Humanities at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, where she teaches courses on postmodern theory and fiction, film and philosophy, and popular culture. A native Tennessean, she completed a doctorate at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne where her research focused on the relationship between contemporary fiction, late capitalist culture, and the religious impulse. Her publications span the worlds of literature, film, and music, and she is currently working on a book titled Postmodern Prophetic: The Religious Impulse in Contemporary Fiction. She has been one of the organizers of Calvin College's Festival of Faith and Music since 2009, and she frequently speaks and teaches on the theological significance of popular music. McCampbell was the Summer 2014 Writer-in-Residence at L’Abri Fellowship in Greatham, England and has been invited to be a Winter 2018 Scholar-in-Residence at Regent College in Vancouver.

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"The Death & Afterlife of the American Prosperity Gospel" Dr. Kate Bowler Oct 09, 2017

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Recorded live on October 28, 2014 at The Camp House.

"Again and again, observers have predicted the death of the American prosperity gospel. Scandals. Economic depressions. Senate investigations. Failed miracles. The prosperity gospel has been pronounced dead and gone time and again since its inception in the 1950's. How has this message of divine health and wealth been resurrected in American Christianity? Meet the modern preachers of this changing movement and learn about how this theology of blessing has become, once again, one of the most popular religious movements in America."

Kate Bowler (Ph.D., Duke University) is assistant professor of the history of Christianity in the United States at Duke Divinity in Durham, North Carolina. Her first book, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (Oxford, 2013), traces the rise of Christian belief in divine promises of health, wealth, and happiness.

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