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Life Together House
Welcome to Wayfinding: a podcast for those who think history matters. Hosts Joe Thomas and Jonathan King travel into history to listen in on the lives of faithful Christians of the past as they help us navigate our way today as followers of Jesus Christ. Joe Thomas is the founder of Life Together House, whose mission is to revitalize the church in America in order to speak creatively to a world wide awake. Joe is an historian, author, playwright and mentor. He holds an MA from Fuller Seminary and a PhD from Trinity, and he serves as faculty in Christian History at Urbana Theological Seminary and Evangelical Theological Seminary. Jonathan King has served in a variety of ministry environments, including refugee resettlement, home repair, college ministry, and church planting. He currently works as an editor and publisher, and holds an MA in Religion from Urbana Theological Seminary where he wrote a thesis on the reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the South African Church struggle against apartheid. This podcast is produced by Life Together House.
In this unique, historically-inspired, and locally-rooted episode of the Wayfinding podcast, Joe Thomas guides listeners on a walking prayer tour of the historic University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. As a Christian historian at Urbana Theological Seminary, Founder of local ministry Life Together House, and a long-standing member of the Evangelical Christian Union, Joe holds a deep love for this campus and believes in its spiritual significance, from its founding to the present. Join Joe as he navigates campus, pointing out spiritual points of interest and noteworthy language on campus that will direct you in a prayer walk for the university. Along the way, Joe will pause at 10 focal prayer locations, offering things to consider and pray for as you walk. Thanks for joining us on this wayfinding journey.
How then is Bonhoeffer a wayfinder for us today? In this concluding episode of season one, Joe and Jonathan look back over the previous six conversations and discuss several insights for us as we navigate a life of faithfulness to Christ in our own time.
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Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL.
We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
How do we bear witness to Christ in a "world come of age"? Written from prison during his final months on earth, Bonhoeffer exchanged a multitude of letters with close friends and family. He also penned many creative works and musings about the future of the church in the midst of a changing Western landscape. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan explore some of Bonhoeffer’s unfinished thoughts from prison.
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Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL.
We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
What does Berlin have to do with Soweto? What could the German Bonhoeffer have to say, years after his death, to Christians struggling against apartheid? Listen in with Joe and Jonathan as they consider the legacy of Bonhoeffer as a wayfinder for the church in South Africa.
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Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL.
We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
The brutality of Adolf Hitler's Nazi ideology was unrelenting. As pastor, theologian, and vocal Nazi dissenter, Dietrich Bonhoeffer devoted many years to every possible means of peaceful resistance, but upon his return to Germany after a brief second sojourn in America, Bonhoeffer's energy shifted to the insider Conspiracy to remove Hitler. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan look behind the scenes of the conspiracy: what was it, who was involved, why did Bonhoeffer join, what was his role, how did this decision interact with his ethics, and how did things turn out?
Show Notes
Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL.
We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
Have you ever made a decision you agonized over, or perhaps later regretted? In this conversation of Wayfinding, Joe and Jonathan discuss the implications of three words from the apostle Paul for one of Bonhoeffer's most consequential decisions: his early exodus from America and his return to a Germany in the throes of warfare. An original play by the same title, "Come Before Winter", written by Joe and Doug Peterson, debuted in September 2022.
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Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL.
We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
What has been your journey of relating to the Bible? Dietrich Bonhoeffer underwent significant shifts in how he approached, read, and applied Scripture. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan trace that history and consider the implications for us today from Bonhoeffer's own wayfinding with God's Word.
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Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL.
We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.
When you resist evil but your attempts end in failure, what do you do? In this episode, Joe and Jonathan explore Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s search for a faithful Christian response to Nazism, which led him down numerous paths of peaceful resistance. But these paths didn't lead where he had envisioned. Join us as we kick off this first season of our new podcast, Wayfinding, in which we explore the life and witness of one particular wayfinder for Christ followers today: the German pastor-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Show Notes
Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Interested in exploring further resources related to this episode? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com
Special thanks to our producer, Bryce Bennyhoff, and the WBGL studio in Champaign, IL.
We are indebted to our German-American friend and season one voice actor, Emanuel Martin.