Church Coffee: Christianity, Conservatism and Culture: Recent Episodes
Walter & Rob
Where Christianity, conservatism and culture are talked about in a low-key and conversational way like one would when at church sipping coffee while catching up with a friend. (: see Merriam-Webster's definition 2b, while still under the umbrella of Classical Liberalism)
We discuss this hard topic with Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking's Kelly Leary. Learn more about FAAST here: https://faastinternational.org/ | "Ending Human Trafficking": https://www.amazon.com/Ending-Human-Trafficking-Handbook-Strategies/dp/0830841873 . - - - - - Sponsor: Shenandoah Joe: https://shenandoahjoe.com/ - - - - - Interact with us: ChurchCoffeeCCC@gmail.com
We talked to Charlottesville's Vice Mayor Juandiego Wade about the intersection of faith and government service | "Advent in Plain Sight" by Jill J. Duffield - - - - - Sponsor: Shenandoah Joe - https://shenandoahjoe.com/ - - - - - Interact with us: ChurchCoffeeCCC@gmail.com.
Dr. Gordon Nickel is a Christian scholar and writer on Islamic Studies, especially academic study of the Quran. We discuss some basic questions on the Qur'an, as well as in-depth on his "Qur'an with Christian Commentary" | Link to Dr. Nickel's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Gordon-D.-Nickel/author/B001KI9U5C | read his Substack: https://gordonnickel.substack.com/ and Academia.edu: https://saiacs.academia.edu/GordonNickel | follow him on Twitter: @GordonNickel1. | "Qur'anic Arabic" by Dr. van Putten": https://brill.com/display/title/61587?language=en. | Different Qur'an Translations: Oxford's MAS Abdel Haleem - a more liberally academic translation, Mustafa Khattab’s “The Clear Quran” - a more layman's translation that is mean to mirror subsections like most Bible translations have, or Seyyed Nasr’s “The Study Quran” - a conservative/Islamic translation structured like study Bibles - - - - - Sponsor: Shenandoah Joe - https://shenandoahjoe.com/ - - - - - Interact with us: ChurchCoffeeCCC@gmail.com.
Holly Vradenburgh of UVA's Political Science department and Matt Henderson of Union University break down the recent ruling by SCOTUS about Affirmative Action. - - - - - Sponsor: Shenandoah Joe - https://shenandoahjoe.com/ - - - - - Interact with us: ChurchCoffeeCCC@gmail.com
Jessica Wilson is the Program Director of Open Door Ministries in Denver, Co; who's mission is "to show mercy, build community, and make disciples for Christ in urban Denver." We talk about homelessness in Denver most specifically, and what she has learned in her over ten-years of ministry in that space. Learn more about ODM here: https://www.odmdenver.org/ | books recommended: "Theirs is the Kingdom" by Robert Lupton, "The Weight of Mercy" by Deb Richardson-Moore, and "The Power of Proximity" by Michelle Warren. - - - - - Sponsor: Shenadoah Joe - https://shenandoahjoe.com/ - - - - - Interact with us: ChurchCoffeeCCC@gmail.com
Eastern Orthodox monk Fr. Sergius talks to us about the monastic life, Eastern Orthodoxy, and, fittingly, coffee! He is the abbott at the oldest Orthodox monastery in the country, St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (https://sttikhonsmonastery.org/), where they roast coffee - Burning Bush coffee (https://sttikhonsmonastery.org/coffee), watch the Divine Literugy on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@StTikhonsMonastery . Fr. Sergius also has a book, "Acquiring the Mind of Christ: Embracing the Vision of the Orthodox Church" | Recommended Orthodox reading: "The Orthodox Church" by Timothy Ware. - - - - - Sponsor - Shenadoah Joe: https://shenandoahjoe.com/. - - - - - contact us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
Matthew Soerens is the VP of Advocacy & Policy at World Relief, whose mission is to "empower the local church to serve the most vulnerable." He is also the author of several books, the most recent of which is "Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church," which came out last year: https://www.amazon.com/Inalienable-Marginalized-Kingdom-Voices-American-ebook/dp/B09GPDPZ2H?ref_=ast_author_dp , and "Welcoming the Stranger": https://worldrelief.org/welcoming-the-stranger/ | Matthew's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewSoerens | Matthew's writings at The Gospel Coalition: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/profile/matthew-soerens/ - - - - - Sponsor - Shenandoah Joe: https://shenandoahjoe.com/ - - - - - interact with us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
Claude is the priest at Church of the Resurrection (ACNA) in Charlottesville, VA. We talk to Claude about his church planting experiences, the draw of Anglicanism, and his book "Reading Black Books." - - - - - Church of Resurrection: https://www.resurrectioncville.com/leaders , book: https://www.claudeatcho.com/book , his Substack: https://claudeatcho.substack.com/ , TGC writings: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/profile/claude-atcho/ , and his Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClaudeAtcho . - - - - - Sponsor - Shenandoah Joe's: https://shenandoahjoe.com/ - - - - - interact with us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
Walter and Rob - joined by Walter's wife Talia, discuss women's ordination with writer Alissa Ruddell, who writes for Christ and Pop Culture: https://christandpopculture.com/author/alisaruddell/ . To think more about the symbolic roles of men and women in the church, Alissa recommends Jonathan Pageau's YouTube channel "The Symbolic World": https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanPageau - - - - - Sponsors: Shenandoah Joe Coffee - https://shenandoahjoe.com/, Cobb Technologies - 434-960-3000 & dwoodside@cobbtechnologies.com - - - - - Interact with us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
A second in a series of three roundtables, with the theme of bringing Pro-Lifers and Pro-Choicers together in order to get the hard work of understanding since the "wall" of Roe/Casey have fallen via Dobbs. This time around we have on the Pro-Life side: Jess Meeth with Democrats for Life (https://www.democratsforlife.org/) & Monica Synder from Secular Prolife (https://secularprolife.org/); and from the Pro-Choice side we had ordained United Methodist Pastor Megan Saucier and VA chapter's National Org for Woman (https://vanow.org/) Kobby Hoffman. - - - - - Sponsors: Shenandoah Joe Coffee (https://shenandoahjoe.com/), Monticello Moving Company (https://www.facebook.com/monticellomovingcompany), and Cobb Technologies (434-960-3000, dwoodside@cobbtechnologies.com). - - - - - Interact with us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com.
Walter and Rob discuss the midterm results so far, especially how their unusual votes were chosen: Walter split his ticket in TX and Rob wrote-in in VA. - - - - - Shenandoah Joe Coffee: https://shenandoahjoe.com/ ; Cobb Technologies: 434-960-3000, dwoodside@cobbtechnologies.com - - - - - Interact with us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
Walter and Rob riff on guns, both about the politics and the theology of owning and using. - - - - - TGC debate on guns: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/video/good-faith-debate-gun-control\ - - - - - Sponsors: Shenandoah Joe Coffee - https://shenandoahjoe.com/, Monticello Moving Company - https://www.facebook.com/monticellomovingcompany, Cobb Technologies - 434-960-3000 & dwoodside@cobbtechnologies.com - - - - - Interact with us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
We discuss the fall of Kabul with Meetra Najrabi, an Afghan-American who immigrated in 1999. We hear her story and she tells us about how people can help. - - - - - IRC: https://www.rescue.org/ , Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/ - - - - - Helpful resources, provided by JMU History professor Dr. Shah Hanifi: * https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035125396/afghanistan-the-center-of-the-world, * https://www.thersa.org/comment/2021/11/what-next-for-afghanistan, * https://saaganthology.com/Environmental-War-Crimes-in-Afghanistan, * https://www.ihrc.org.uk/colonialism-war-and-governance-in-afghanistan/, * https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/imperial-cartography-and-national-mapping-in-afghanistan/051C28304DABDADD350436F505867F39, * https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-321. - - - - - Sponsors: Shenandoah Joe Coffee - https://shenandoahjoe.com/, Monticello Moving Company - https://www.facebook.com/monticellomovingcompany, Cobb Technologies - 434-960-3000 & dwoodside@cobbtechnologies.com - - - - - Interact with us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
Rob and Walter seek an academic "verses" an outsider's perspective on Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory with Matt Henderson as the academic and Neil Shenvi as the outsider. See Neil's website here: https://shenviapologetics.com/critical-theory-all-content/, and follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NeilShenvi; Matt's academic page: https://www.uu.edu/employee/profile.cfm?emp=mhenderson. Books on Christianity and Race: Matt - George Yancy's "Beyond Racial Divide"; Neil - Thaddeus Williams' "Confronting Justice without Compromising Truth", "New Reformation", "Decline of Afro-American Theology", Carl Trueman's "Strange New World"
Rob "moderates" an abortion conversation between two pro-lifers and two pro-choicers. This episode is trying to show how two opposing sides can have a good-natured conversation about a hard topic. Representing the pro-life side is Ismail Royer - Islam Director at the Religious Freedom Institute, and Jess Meeth - National Communications Director for Democrats for Life. Representing the pro-choice side is Emily Meyers - who has done abortion activism on-and-off since college, and Jessica Otey - a heterodox but traditional liberal. - - - - - DFLA: https://www.democratsforlife.org/index.php/about-us, https://twitter.com/demsforlife, https://www.facebook.com/Dems4Life; RFI Islam: https://religiousfreedominstitute.org/islam-religious-freedom-action-team/, https://mobile.twitter.com/islamrfi, https://www.facebook.com/islamandreligiousfreedom - - - - - Sponsors: Shenandoah Joe Coffee: https://shenandoahjoe.com/; Monticello Moving Company: https://www.facebook.com/monticellomovingcompany; Cobb Technologies: 434-960-3000, dwoodside@cobbtechnologies.com - - - - - Interact with us: churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
Rob and Walter watched the Daily Wire's documentary by Matt Walsh "What Is a Woman?" - - - - - Sponsors: Shenandoah Joe Coffee: https://shenandoahjoe.com/ - Monticello Moving Company: https://www.facebook.com/monticellomovingcompany - - - - - Interact with us https://www.facebook.com/ChurchCoffeeCCC/ and churchcoffeeccc@gmail.com
We talk with the NAE's President Walter Kim about the association itself as well him running it, American life in general, and his life in particular.
Books Walter Kim suggested: NAE's Pamphlet (linked below) "For the Health of the Nation", Robert Putnum's "The Upswing", Jon Haidt's "Righteous Mind", Luke Bretherton's "Christ and the Common Life", and Dan Darling's "Dignity Revolution"
https://www.nae.org/for-the-health-of-the-nation/
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We talk to Holly about the Dobbs leak, and abortion cases of Roe and Casey, and "what ifs" Roe is overturned.
Holly is a prosecutor; and a lecturer in Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, and Theories of constitutional interpretation at the University of Virginia School of Law: https://politics.virginia.edu/people/profile/hrv8jr. You can follow Holly on Twitter: @The_Holly_Rose .
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Rob and Walter talk about "The Batman" - now available to stream on HBO Max!
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Emma Camp is a 4th Year at UVA, who wrote an op-ed in the NYT: "I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead." We talk to her about a variety of issues. You can follow Emma on Twitter here.
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Walter discusses President Biden's SCOTUS nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson, and Rob discusses his thoughts on 2022 mid-terms and 2024 president race.
Dr. Williams is the Principle at Tyndale House in Cambridge, England; a Christian biblical research center. He is a lecturer at Cambridge University, and he was on the translation committee for the ESV. He has debated Bart Ehrman several times, most recently on the Unbelievable? show. And, he is the writer of several books, most recently Can We Trust the Gospels?, available from Crossway.
Please help support Tyndale House: https://friendsoftyndalehouse.com/
Unbelievable appearance: https://youtu.be/ZuZPPGvF_2I
Get His Book: https://www.crossway.org/books/can-we-trust-the-gospels-tpb-2/ , get it from your local Christian bookstore, The Sycamore Tree: http://www.sycamoretreestore.com/
Follow Dr. Williams on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrPJWilliams
Read all of Tyndale House's articles here: https://tyndalebulletin.org/
Dr. Williams' CV: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/dr-peter-j-williams/
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A FoP (Friend of the Pod) joins us! Matt Henderson talks with us about abortion: current and past cases, feelings in the general culture, and Christian/Evangelical attitudes towards it.
https://www.uu.edu/employee/profile.cfm?emp=mhenderson
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We interview Terry J. Stokes about his book Prayers for the People (please buy from The Sycamore Tree!), and his church journey, and his pastoral life during COVID.
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We talk with friend of the podcast Pastor Jeremiah Situka on how Jonah's situation applies to us during COVID.
You can virtually attend Jeremiah's church, Sovereign Wings of Hope, here (for 30 Jan 2022); you can call their Prayer Line at: 351-888-7344, or send them a prayer need here: pinecrestpraise@yahoo.com
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We talk with Father Chris Masla about what it means to be leading a parish as both a Millennial and a Catholic priest.
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We're back with a soft launch of S2! In this episode, Walter and Rob discuss the fourth Matrix film. Each had opposing takes of the film.
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Josh is an Air Force veteran, who worked on the C17, and served in investigations in Afghanistan. He discusses with us the situation in Afghanistan: feelings among veterans, what went wrong, and what Christians can do to help.
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We talk to Dr. Matthew Henderson - a sociologist at Union University (a Baptist college in Jacksonville, TN) about Trump, the state of conservatism and the Republican Party and how those intersect with the Church, and badly predicting the future.
https://www.uu.edu/employee/profile.cfm?emp=mhenderson
Dr. Henderson co-wrote an op-ed for the Dallas News entitled "10 Reasons You Can't Be a Christian and Vote for Donald Trump" back in 2016:
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2016/11/06/10-reasons-you-cant-be-a-christian-and-vote-for-donald-trump/
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We chat about Duke L. Kwon and Gregory Thompson's book "Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair" and other things tangentially related to the topic of reparations.
"Reparations" is available at your locally-owned Christian bookstore, The Sycamore Tree: http://www.sycamoretreestore.com/ and all other major retailers!
See more at: https://www.reparationsproject.com/
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Katelynn's letter to IV:https://weekdaywalk.com/an-open-letter-to-intervarsity/
IV's response:
https://intervarsity.org/sites/default/files/InterVarsity%20Response%20to%20Katelynn%20Richardson%20Open%20Letter%20March%202021.pdf
IV's Statement on black lives matter (movement) vs. Black Lives Matter (organization):
https://intervarsity.org/news/intervarsity-and-blacklivesmatter
Katelynn's Twitter:
@katesrichardson
Katelynn's personal blog:
https://weekdaywalk.com/
https://katelynnrichardson.medium.com/
Katelynn's professional blog:
https://storiesandstarlight.com/
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Ismail's WashPo profile:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/fourteen-years-ago-he-was-convicted-jihadist-now-hes-fighting-radical-islam-steps-from-the-white-house/2017/07/07/019a7b18-47aa-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html
Suggested info about Islam:
Walead Mosaad (YouTube lectures)
"Introduction to Islam" by Tariq Ramadan
Webinar on Islam in France:
https://www.religiousfreedominstitute.org/rfievents/webinar-islam-and-separatism-in-europe-is-france-going-too-far
"Creeping Liberalism in American Islam" by Mustafa Akyol (NYT):
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/opinion/america-islam.html
Suggested Qur'an translations:
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Oxford Uni Press)
Yusuf Ali (uses "KJV" English")
The Clear Qur'an, by Dr. Mustafa Khattab
Ismail's RFI profile:
https://www.religiousfreedominstitute.org/ismail-royer
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We talk with "all-but-dissertated" (ABD) systematic theologian Fellipe do Vale on two of his papers
1) "Cappadocian or Augustinian? Adjudicating Debates on Gender in the Resurrection"
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2) "'Can a Male Savior Save Women?' The Metaphysics of Gender and Christ's Ability to Save"
and on other gender-related topics in the American Church.
Fellipe's
* Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FellipeDoVale1
*Academia Page:
https://smu.academia.edu/FellipedoVale
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Thank you tuning into the premiere episode of "Church Coffee: Christianity, Conservatism and Culture"! We hope you enjoy.
Outline of the episode:
1) Personal interview, just to get to know us!: Start - 34:43
2) "Reading While Black" by Esau McCaulley, review and questions: 34:44 - 1:08:35
3) Larger issues involving race in the American church: 1:08:35 - End