Episodes
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In this episode, Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk about Dietrich Bonhoeffer with Dr. Mark Theissen Nation.
Mark grew up in a non-Christian home, the son of a World War II veteran. At age seventeen he became a Christian in a General Baptist church; within a year he became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Since then, he has had many vocations: as evangelist, a youth minister, a social worker, the founder and director of a Christian peace and justice organization, a pastor, and the director of The London Mennonite Centre, London, England. For sixteen years he was professor of theology at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. He has written or edited eleven books, two about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The first, published by Baker Academic Books in 2013, is Bonhoeffer the Assassin?: Challenging the Myth, Recovering His Call to Peacemaking. In 2022 his book, Discipleship in a World Full of Nazis: Recovering the True Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was published by Cascade Books. His first writing on Christians in Nazi Germany was in 1980. Mark has two adult children and four grandchildren and is married to Mary. He is currently (interim) co-pastor of a Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett reimagine the original Christmas story by talking about the stories of Mary and Joseph.
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Jesse P. Nickel about his recent book, A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God.
Jesse Nickel (PhD, University of St Andrews) is on the faculty of Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, where he teaches in the biblical studies program. He is the author of The Things that Make for Peace: Jesus and Eschatological Violence (de Grutyer, 2021) and co-editor of It’s About Life: The Formative Power of Scripture (Regent College Publishing, 2023). Jesse is passionate about continuing to get to know Jesus more deeply with both his mind and heart, and teaching others about the already/not-yet, shalom-centred kingdom of God.
Forthcoming publications
“Eschatological Violence,” in The Oxford Handbook of Bible and Violence, edited by Paul Middleton and Matthew Collins (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Drew J. Strait about his recent book, Strange Worship: Six Steps for Challenging Christian Nationalism.
Drew J. Strait was baptized Catholic, raised United Methodist, discipled as an Evangelical through Young Life, Reformed through Whitworth College, and became a convinced Anabaptist after a transformative re-reading of the Gospels after the Iraq war. This ecumenical background energizes Strait’s passion to bring together diverse coalitions of Christians to bear witness to God’s mission of reconciliation—to reconcile humans to God and humans to one another. Perpetually overwhelmed by how much he doesn’t know, Strait loves to cultivate engaging spaces to learn alongside his students and listeners.
Forthcoming Publications
Drew J. Strait, “Dominionism in the Trumpocene: Toward a Biblical Hermeneutic of Resistance.” In On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives. Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right. Edited by Joan Braune and David M. Gides. New York: Routledge, projected 2025.Human Animalization and Fascist Politics: Toward a Homiletic of Resistance against the Dehumanization of Immigrants (this is an essay I wrote during my sabbatical on the Canaanite woman in Matt 15, animal metaphors in the Trumpocene, and animal metaphors for dehumanizing people in Greco-Roman antiquity).Next book project will focus on biblical interpretation and human security–reclaiming biblical interpretation as a site for peacebuilding through the church.Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Beverly Roberts Gaventa about her new commentary on Romans (WJK).
Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary. Her publications include
When in Romans: An Invitation to Linger with the Gospel according to Paul (Baker Press, 2016), Our Mother Saint Paul (Westminster John Knox, 2007), The Acts of the Apostles (Abingdon, 2003), I and II Thessalonians (Westminster John Knox, 1998), Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus (University of South Carolina, 1995; Fortress, 1999), and From Darkness to Light: Aspects of Conversion in the New Testament (Fortress, 1986).
Romans: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox, 2024).
In 2020, Gaventa received the Burkitt Medal by the British Society for Arts and Humanities, she was president of the Society of Biblical Literature. She has lectured widely in the U.S. as well as in Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Dr. Gaventa is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and a member of the University Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas.
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Matthew Novenson about his new book, Paul and Judaism at the End of History.
Matthew Novenson is the Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is also an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where previously he held the Chair of Biblical Criticism and Biblical Antiquities. He is the author of Christ among the Messiahs (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Grammar of Messianism (Oxford University Press, 2017), Paul, Then and Now (Eerdmans, 2022), and Paul and Judaism at the End of History (Cambridge University Press, 2024), among other works.
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. James F. McGrath about his recent book Christmaker.
James F. McGrath is Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University.
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. A. Andrew Das about his recent book, Remarriage in Early Christianity.
A. Andrew Das is the Niebuhr Distinguished Chair and professor of religious studies at Elmhurst University. He is the author or editor of over ten books in biblical studies, including Scriptures, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians and Paul and the Stories of Israel: The Grand Thematic Narratives of Galatians.
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Paul T. Sloan
Paul Sloan earned his PhD in New Testament under Drs. Grant Macaskill and David Moffitt from the University of St Andrews in 2016. He currently serves as the Chair of Theology and is Associate Professor of Early Christianity at Houston Christian University. He lives in Houston, TX with his wife, Meg, and three kids.
Twitter/X @paulthomasloan
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Elesha J. Coffman about her recent book, Turning Points in American Church History.
Dr. Elesha J. Coffman is professor of history at Baylor University. She is author of three books, most recently Turning Points in American Church History. She is also editor of Fides et Historia, the journal of the Conference on Faith and History. Her next research project is a history of Religion News Service.
https://bakeracademic.com/p/turning-points-in-american-church-history-elesha-j-coffman/542787
https://scotmcknight.substack.com/
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Beth Allison Barr.
Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University. She earned her PhD in Medieval History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. She is also a pastor’s wife and mom of two great kids.
https://bethallisonbarr.substack.com/
https://bethallisonbarr.com/
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett Talk with Dr. Jason A. Staples about his recent Oxford University Press monograph, Paul and the Resurrection of Israel.
Jason A. Staples (Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill) is an author, historian, speaker, journalist, voice actor, and former American football coach. He is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NC State University.
https://www.jasonstaples.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Resurrection-Israel-Gentiles-Israelites/dp/1009376764
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Lynn H. Cohick
Dr. Cohick has published commentaries on Ephesians and Philippians, and books and articles on women in the New Testament, Jews and Christians in the ancient world, and early Christian martyrs. She is President of the Institute for Biblical Research, and is a member of the prestigious Society of New Testament Studies. She serves on several editorial boards of journals and monograph series.
https://www.visualmuseum.gallery/
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Lynn+Cohick&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&crid=Y7P6ZPF4KMXJ&sprefix=lynn+cohick%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C186&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett talk with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt.
Dr. Lucy Peppiatt has been Principal at WTC since 2013. She teaches courses in Christian doctrine and in spiritual formation. She holds bachelor’s degrees in both English and Theology. She completed her MA in Systematic Theology at King’s College, London, and her PhD through the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Lucy’s research interests are Christ and the Spirit, Charismatic theology, theological anthropology, discipleship, 1 Corinthians, and women in the Bible. Lucy is part of Crossnet Church in Bristol. She is married to Nick Crawley and they have four sons and four daughters-in-law.
Women and Worship at CorinthUnveiling Paul's WomenRediscovering Scripture's Vision for WomenThe Imago Dei: Humanity Made in the Image of GodEthereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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New Testament scholars have often relied on outdated assumptions for understanding the composition and circulation of the gospels. This scholarship has spread myths or misconceptions about how the ancients read, wrote, and published texts.
Nicholas Elder updates our knowledge of the gospels’ media contexts in this myth-busting academic study. Carefully combing through Greco-Roman primary sources, he exposes what we take for granted about ancient reading cultures and offers new and better ways to understand the gospels. These myths include claims that ancients never read silently and that the canonical gospels were all the same type of text. Elder then sheds light on how early Christian communities used the gospels in diverse ways. Scholars of the gospels and classics alike will find Gospel Media an essential companion in understanding ancient media cultures.
Dr. Nick Elder (PhD, Marquette University) is Associate Professor of New Testament at the University of Dubuque, where he teaches undergraduate Bible and Theology courses and New Testament, exegesis, and Greek courses in the theological seminary. He is the author of Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating Jesus Traditions (Eerdmans, 2024) and The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is a father of four, a spouse of one, a home renovator, and a distance runner.
https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Media-Reading-Circulating-Traditions/dp/0802879217
https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Narrative-Library-Testament-Studies/dp/0567688100
Music: Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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Redivivus
Music by Ethereal Vistas by Denis Brodovskyi
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett continue their series on the politics of the New Testament (A Time To…Politick!) within which they will examine political themes, texts, and theories from Jesus of Nazareth to John of Patmos.
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett continue their series on the politics of the New Testament (A Time To…Politick!) within which they will examine political themes, texts, and theories from Jesus of Nazareth to John of Patmos.
1 Peter 2.10-3.7
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In this episode Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett continue their series on the politics of the New Testament (A Time To…Politick!) within which they will examine political themes, texts, and theories from Jesus of Nazareth to John of Patmos.
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
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