Context Matters Dr. Cyndi Parker

This is Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Mark Glanville who joins us today from his piano to talk with me about his newly released book titled Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm and Soul. Dr. Glanville is an associate professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, while still belonging to a jazz trio that has been playing together in Vancouver for seven years.

In part 1 of the conversation with Dr. Glanville, we begin to talk about his new book Improvising Church. Dr. Glanville grew up in Australia, is an accomplished jazz pianist - who then became a pastor, and OT scholar, and now an associate professor of pastoral theology at Regent College, Vancouver, while still belonging to a jazz trio that has been playing together in Vancouver for seven years.

In part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Ericka Dunbar, we talk about the unseen and unnamed characters in the book of Esther.

Dr. Ericka Dunbar joins us to talk about her studies of the book of Esther. She is an Assistant Professor of Christian Scriptures at Baylor University.

This is Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Nadya Williams about her book Cultural Christians in the Early Church. This book argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. While focusing on the Christians in the 1st to 5th centuries, their stories provide a fresh perspective for considering the difficult timeless questions that stubbornly persist in our own world and churches.

This is Part 1 of the conversation with Dr. Nadya Williams about her book Cultural Christians in the Early Church; a book that argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. While focusing on the Christians in the 1st to 5th centuries, their stories provide a fresh perspective for considering the difficult timeless questions that stubbornly persist in our own world and churches.