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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Finding strength in the forest's network of trees
Trees need each other, their roots intertwined, to thrive. Don’t our communities need the same connections?
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Grace Ji-Sun Kim: Rely on the Holy Spirit in the struggle for justice
With the help of the Holy Spirit, churches can build community, welcome the stranger, love our neighbors, and break down walls of oppression and injustice, writes a theologian and professor.
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Eric D. Barreto: Reading the Bible in public
How do we rightly read the Bible in the midst of the political issues of our time? A New Testament scholar calls for a renewed theological imagination, filled with generosity, hope and grace.
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Keri L. Day: Rethinking what we mean when we speak about Christian theology
In her research into the role that African-American women played in the Azusa Street Revival and the early days of Afro-Pentecostalism, a scholar and theologian hopes to do more than just correct the historical record.
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Stanley Hauerwas: 'The Character of Virtue: Letters to a Godson'
The theologian talks about his new book, a collection of letters about virtues and character that he wrote annually to his godson Laurence Bailey Wells, the son of his friends Samuel and Jo Bailey Wells.
Stanley Hauerwas: 'As you grow, grow confident in the faith'
In a 2002 letter on the occasion of his godson’s baptism, the theologian wishes the boy, not an untroubled life, but a happy life, one in which he grows ever more confident in the faith.
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Kate Bowler: Not all pain has to be explained
A young mother diagnosed with cancer talks about her new book, “Everything Happens for a Reason,” and the connection to her work on the prosperity gospel as a Duke Divinity School professor.
Episode 5: Kate Bowler on the presence of God in the face of death
In this episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Bill Lamar talks with Kate Bowler, Duke Divinity School professor and author of “Everything Happens for a Reason,” about the irony of being a historian of the prosperity gospel diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
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Mel Williams: Moses, Heschel, Jesus and us
Today’s Christians face a troubled world, writes a Baptist pastor and activist. Will they have the spiritual audacity to change it?
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Robert Saler: Why is the 500th anniversary of the Reformation important to study today?
Martin Luther’s legacy can shed light on the nature of freedom -- still contested space in both faith and politics, writes a Lutheran theologian.