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  • Ben Harris is a computer scientist researching LLM’s. He also cares about spiritual formation, thoughtful living, and education. Ben and Marlin discuss the formative role of studying in church and school and how to simultaneously protect education from technologies that replace study and teach students to use technologies that support active study.

    Business, Math, and Righteous Living with Dr. Benjamin Harris – Episode 004

    Into the AI Flood by Ben Harris

    This is the 239th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Ruth Anna Kuhns shares from her experience teaching neurodivergent students. How can we better understand and care for those that are different from standard ways of learning? How can parents, teachers, and schools make the educational experience better for all students?

    Episode with Kyle Stoltzfus on higher education

    This is the 238th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • We are all busy and seem to be getting busier all the time. Overload and burnout are natural consequences of our lack of rest; Merle Burkholder explains what we should do when pressure stops increasing performance and starts producing burnout. What are ways we can see the problem coming and avoid it altogether?

    Tyranny of the Urgent by Charles Hummel

    Two-part series with Joel Yoder on burnout:

    Part 1

    Part 2

    This is the 237th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Revelation is often used to explain present day politics. But is this the proper approach? What is God telling us through Revelation about the beast, earthly empires, and the antichrist? And how is this relevant for us today?

    Paul’s former episodes on Revelation:

    How to Read Revelation & Avoid the Mark of the Beast

    The Nation-State of Israel & the Church

    This is the 236th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Ben Harris is a computer scientist and business professor researching LLM’s. Ben and Marlin discuss AI optimism (pessimism) with a focus on the nature of artificial so-called intelligence.

    Statement on AI risk

    CNN report on CEO survery

    Business, Math, and Righteous Living with Dr. Benjamin Harris – Episode 004

    Into the AI Flood by Ben Harris

    This is the 235th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Merle Burkholder has spent over four decades in ministry; he shares some of the stories from his life and ministry, along with the insights and lessons from them.

    This is the 234th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • This is a sample chapter from David Bercot’s book “In God We Don’t Trust.” David examines the history of the American revolution and contrasts it with the behavior that trust in God should produce.

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    Previous episode with David Bercot on this topic

    Sample chapters previously released as audio on our podcast:

    What It Means to Trust

    The Other Triangle of Evil

    The Myth of the Valley Forge Prayer

    This is the 233rd episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Janelle Glick is interested in how churches that are trauma-informed can better extend the grace and light of Jesus for people joining us from any place in their lives, especially those who have experienced difficult circumstances. Janelle casts a vision for churches that are educated in understanding how past trauma can present itself in human interactions in a variety of settings and that find space inside our current structures and our systems of beliefs for more compassion and learning and less self-sufficiency.

    This is the 232nd episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • This is a sample episode from a lecture series we are releasing on its own channel. Click through to subscribe on your favorite platform or find us in podcast apps as “Developing as a Servant.”

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    These lectures were recorded at Sharon Mennonite Bible Institute in 2014 from two of Frank Reed’s classes. Two lectures will be released weekly until the series is complete. This series offers biblical teachings and spiritual principles. The content in these videos does not constitute professional advice or counseling, and is not a substitute for licensed therapy or counseling. The content presented does not officially represent the views of Anabaptist Perspectives or Sharon Mennonite Bible Institute.

    Handouts for this lecture:

    #2: https://anabaptistperspectives.org/wp-content/uploads/2-Basic-Principles-of-Human-Behavior.pdf

    #9 https://anabaptistperspectives.org/wp-content/uploads/9-Developing-the-Servant-Understanding-Human-Behavior.pdf

    Sharon Mennonite Bible Institute

    Frank Reed’s website

    This is the 231st episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Did Paul teach the kingdom of God? Why do some perceive a tension between the teachings of Jesus and Paul on this topic? Marlin Sommers explains his personal journey with coming to an understanding of the kingdom, and how this theme runs through all of Scripture, not just in the Gospels.

    Episodes

    The Importance of the Kingdom of God - Episode with John D. Martin

    Exile and the Storyline of the Bible - Episode with Paul Lamicela 

    Jesus' Genealogy Is NOT Boring - Paul Lamicela

    Episodes with John Coblentz

    Episodes with Dean Taylor

    Books

    Divine Conspiracy - Dallas Willard

    The Kingdom That Turned the World Upside Down - David Bercot 

    Why the Gospel? - Matthew Bates 

    This is the 230th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • What does proper leadership look like? Merle Burkholder outlines principles for how we can lead in a Christlike way, and what serving leadership looks like.

    Essays for King Jesus

    This is the 229th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Over the last year, a number of changes have happened within Anabaptist Perspectives. Marlin and Reagan talk through the mission and vision for this podcast, and where we are going in the future. Why have we chosen to use digital media?

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    Jaran and Reagan describing Anabaptist Perspective's beginnings

    Two episodes with Lucas Hilty:

    What Happened to the Church in the Middle East?

    The Forgotten Eastward Spread of the Gospel

    This is the 228th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Initially, the early Christians refused to fight. Over time, they adopted a Just War stance, and in time used this to justify the forcible conversion of conquered peoples. With the Crusades, Just War was expanded to include what was called “Holy War,” and Christendom went to war in the Middle East with the Islamic empires. Stephen Russell outlines these critical pieces of the church’s history and explains how the church modified the Islamic concept of jihad to justify attacking their enemies. Russell shows how this was a seismic shift away from the teachings of the New Testament and what the early church had practiced.

    Stephen Russell’s book

    Other episodes with Stephen Russell

    This is the 227th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • Janelle Glick suggests that, as we come to peace with our own lives and the God who is working in us, we are more at peace with others and God who is working in them, which makes unconditional love and peace in community possible.

    Janelle also offers that reading through the New Testament and watching closely for the presence of women brings pleasant messages of hope for women. As male and female, we are called by Jesus to serve together in our communities. This involves hearing from each other and having challenging but peaceful conversations together.

    Virginia Satir

    Jean McLendon

    Seven Desires by Mark and Debry Laaser

    This is the 226th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • For hundreds of years, there was a vibrant, growing church across the Middle East, spreading across places like Iraq and Syria, expanding as far as China, India, and beyond. These Christians have largely been lost to history; what happened to them? What events led to their disappearance, and what does that mean for us today? Lucas Hilty explains this largely forgotten disappearance of a once well-established church network. The tragedy of a region losing Christianity is a sober thing, and there is much for us to consider from this story.

    Previous interview with Lucas on the early church in the East

    The Patient Ferment of the Early Church

    The Lost History of Christianity

    This is the 225th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • High profile cases of those who have failed morally and ethically disappoint many of us. Merle Burkholder describes how he personally has experienced this disappointment. This episode explores what we should do with this disappointment, and how we can address the avalanche of moral failure as a church and as individuals.

    This is the 224th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • How can we learn to read the Bible as a whole story, instead of as disjointed fragments? In this episode Paul Lamicela explains biblical theology, using the storyline of Scripture for better understanding the Bible, and what we can learn from the theme of exile in the Bible.

    Paul's episode on Galatians

    Paul’s website

    This is the 223rd episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • We are once again in a presidential election year in America. This is bringing up all the many conversations the church has been having for hundreds of years around issues like political involvement, voting, and separation from the world. What are ways that we can positively contribute to society and properly influence culture? Merle Burkholder shares practical ways the church can contribute to society much more effectively than through political involvement.

    ViewPoint article referenced in this episode

    This is the 222nd episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • How are we to read the Old Testament when it describes things that are so evil compared to how we are called to live today? Stephen Russell outlines the concept of “uplift through covenant”, and explains how through the story of Scripture God is bringing his people forward to the coming of the Messiah and the practice of radical enemy love.

    Stephen Russell’s book Overcoming Evil God's Way

    Stephen’s other episodes with AP

    This is the 221st episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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  • We should not see salvation as a single event, John Coblentz says, but as God’s ongoing work. Focusing on a time when we “made a decision” or “went forward” in response to an invitation or “prayed the sinners prayer” can trouble believers who should have assurance and confidence while giving false assurance to those not walking with Jesus.

    John discusses union with Christ and the Spirit as a stamp and a guarantee of our inheritance.

    Am I a Believer (Doubt Is not Sin. It is Temptation.) - Daniel Yoder

    John Coblentz’s devotional commentary on Ephesians

    This is the 220th episode of Anabaptist Perspectives, a podcast, blog, and YouTube channel that examines various aspects of conservative Anabaptist life and thought. 

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