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Helping believers think Christianly about theological and cultural issues by engaging in curious conversations with a diverse range of thoughtful people.

    A Gospel-Centered Perspective on the War in Israel-Palestine: Dr. Fares Abraham

    A Gospel-Centered Perspective on the War in Israel-Palestine: Dr. Fares Abraham

    Dr. Fares Abraham is a Palestinian-American born in Bethlehem and is the founder and CEO of Levant Ministries. He is passionate about reaching the next generation with the gospel, making disciples, and raising leaders in the Middle East. Fares leads multiple ministries across the region. He also serves as an adjunct faculty and online chair at Liberty University. In this conversation, Fares offers a gospel-centered perspective on the kingdom of God, reaching people for Christ, and how Christians can keep Jesus at the center of their thoughts on Israel-Palestine. Find out more about Fares and his ministry: https://levantministries.org
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    • 1 hr 17 min
    Understanding Deborah (Judges 4): Prophetess, Judge, and Military Leader: Dr. Sandy Richter

    Understanding Deborah (Judges 4): Prophetess, Judge, and Military Leader: Dr. Sandy Richter

    Dr. Sandra Richter (Ph.D. Harvard University) is the Robert H. Gundry Chair of Biblical Studies at Westmont College and has formerly taught at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wesley Biblical Seminary, and Wheaton College. She’s the author of several books including one of my absolute favorite books on the Bible: The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament. Sandy is also coming out with a fascinating study called Deborah: Unlikely Heroes and the Book of Judges, which becomes the basis for our scintillating conversation. Register for the Austin conference on sexualtiy (Sept 17-18) here: https://www.centerforfaith.com/programs/leadership-forums/faith-sexuality-and-gender-conference-live-in-austin-or-stream-online Register for the Exiles 2 day conference in Denver (Oct 4-5) here: https://theologyintheraw.com/exiles-denver/
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    • 1 hr 14 min
    What Do We Actually Know about Transition Regret and Detransitioning? Dr. Paul Eddy

    What Do We Actually Know about Transition Regret and Detransitioning? Dr. Paul Eddy

    Dr. Paul Eddy is professor of biblical and theological studies at Bethel University and is on the pastoral executive team at Woodland Hills Church (Minneapolis). Paul is the author/editor of several books and articles, including Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views. Paul also serverd as a research assistant at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender, where he produced the largest summary of research on transitioning, detransitioning, and transition regret, which is avaialble for free HERE. This paper is the background of our discussion. 
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    • 1 hr 21 min
    Does the Church Have a Crisis of Biblical Illiteracy? Jen Wilkin

    Does the Church Have a Crisis of Biblical Illiteracy? Jen Wilkin

    Jen Wilkin is an author and Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. She has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts. An advocate for Bible literacy, her passion is to see others become articulate and committed followers of Christ, with a clear understanding of why they believe what they believe, grounded in the Word of God. Jen just released a bible study on the book of Revelation tittled: Revelation: Eternal King; Everlasting Kingdom. You can find more of Jen's work at JenWilkin.net. In this episode, I talk to Jen about the crisis of bilbical illiteracy in the church and how to address it. 
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    • 1 hr 13 min
    Why the Canonical Context of the New Testament Matters: Dr. Miguel Echevarria

    Why the Canonical Context of the New Testament Matters: Dr. Miguel Echevarria

    Dr. Miguel G. Echevarría (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Future Inheritance of Land in the Pauline Epistles, 40 Questions about the Apostle Paul, and Engaging the New Testament: A Short Introduction for Students and Ministers. In this conversation, we talk about the importance of the canonical context of the arrangement of the NT books. 
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    • 1 hr 5 min
    Early Christianity in Africa: Dr. Vince Bantu

    Early Christianity in Africa: Dr. Vince Bantu

    Dr. Vince Bantu (B.A. Wheaton, M.Div. Gordon-Conwell, Th.M. Princeton Theological Seminary, M.A. and Ph.D. in Semitic and Egyptian Languages from The Catholic University) is Assistant Professor of Church History and Black Church Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of several books including Multitude of All Peoples: Exploring the Multiethnic Roots of Christianity. Dr. Bantu is an expert in the early growth of Christianity into Africa, which is the topic of our conversation. There are so many vibrant Christian leaders in Africa that the western church has simply denounced or ignored. This was a fascinating conversation! 
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    • 58 min

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apsteph ,

Thank you Dr Yousef Alkhouri

The episode with Dr Yousef Alkhouri brought me to tears. Thank you Preston Sprinkle for giving Palestinian Christians a platform and a voice. Thank you Dr Alkhouri for speaking and being so honest and faithful. This is what every American Christian needs to hear and think about

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RE Christian Anarchy

Your friend is right.
Remember Samuel's Warning Against Kings
…to the people who were asking for a king from him. 11 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men[a] and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

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Thinking Christianity

From issues of gender and sexuality to the Palestinian Israeli issue and beyond, Preston goes beyond the din of American Christianity and gives us a more rooted sense of the Christ like way. I thoroughly appreciate that he holds an orthodox view of the faith that is honest and flexible.

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