Multifaith Matters

Nov 02 2024 100 ep. 48 mins 8
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Multifaith conversations through deep differences, and religion’s role in popular culture. Patronage: https://patron.podbean.com/johnwmorehead

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Alan Streett and his book Exploring the Paranormal: Miracles, Magic and the Mysterious

Nov 02 2024 43 mins  
R. Alan Streett returns as our guest in this episode discussing his book Exploring the Paranormal: Miracles, Magic, and the Mysterious (Eerdmans, 2024). Streett is senior research professor emeritus of biblical theology at Criswell College in Dallas, TX. The book's website description: A personal exploration of questions surrounding psychic healing, séances, astral projection, an

Andrew DeCort on Blessed Are the Others

Sep 15 2024 53 mins  
In this episode Andrew DeCort discusses his new book Blessed Are the Others: Jesus' Way in a Violent World (BitterSweet Collective). Andrew has been called a dissident theologian by his friends. His work is deeply inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, his writing by James Baldwin, his spirituality by Etty Hillesum. He received his PhD in religious and political ethics from the Universit

Reid Locklin and Fred Stella on Hindu Mission, Christian Mission

Aug 24 2024 55 mins  
Reid B. Locklin is Associate Professor of Christianity and the Intellectual Tradition at the University of Toronto, a joint appointment with St Michael’s College and the Department for the Study of Religion. His research focuses on a range of issues in Comparative Theology and Hindu-Christian Studies, particularly the engagement between Christian thought and the Hindu tradition o

Kelly James Clark on the Raging Fire of Love in the Abrahamic Religions

Jul 27 2024 60 mins  
In this podcast Kelly James Clark discusses his book Raging Fire of Love, a book on Muslim, Christian and Jewish love, and shares what he learned about how love of neighbor and even enemy. He discusses compassion in the Abrahamic traditions and what he learned from Christians (his spiritual home), second, Jews, and third, Muslims. Kelly James Clark, Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame

George Chryssides and Fieldwork in New Religious Movements

May 02 2024 36 mins  
Christians tend to develop their understanding of other religions, especially new religious movements or "cults," by way of comparison of sacred texts with concerns for orthodoxy and heresy. But other approaches to study add new facets of understanding such as fieldwork can also be helpful. In this podcast George Chryssides discusses his new book Fieldwork in New Religious Movement

Erin Stiles on Mormon encounters with the spirit world

Apr 11 2024 50 mins  
Erin Stiles is the author of The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah. As the back cover describes: "In the mountains of beautiful, bucolic northern Utah, many Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are visited by spirits. Local folklore is filled with stories of uncanny encounters of all kinds, and Latter-day Saint scripture and prophetic teachings emphasize t

David J. Halperin on UFOs and Myth

Jan 28 2024 48 mins  
Much of the discussion of UFOs is focused around the two poles of extraterrestrial spaceships or skeptical debunking. In this podcast David J. Halperin provides another perspective, that of myth, to help shed light on UFOs as meaning-making things. We do this by unpacking his book Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Stanford University Press, 2020). David Halperin taught J

Rabbi Ariel Mellul of the International Raëlian Movement

Nov 19 2023 51 mins  
Rabbi Leon Ariel Mellul of the International Raëlian Movement is the guest who discusses the group's origins in a meeting with extraterrestrials called the Elohim, their work in the creation of humanity, the place of their founder Raël in a long line of prophets from the world's religions, their millenarian philosophy of the return of the Elohim, and responses to various aspects

Elias D’eis, the Holy Land Trust, and the War in Gaza

Nov 18 2023 30 mins  
Elias D'eis, Executive Director of the Holy Land Trust, shares about his life as a Palestinian Christian in the West Bank, life under the Israeli military occupation, the role of a Christian in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the work of The Holy Land Trust. Elias D'eis was born into a Christian family with a long history of nonviolent resistance in Beit Sahour. His life was

J. Gordon Melton on the Church of Scientology

Oct 04 2023 40 mins  
J. Gordon Melton, the noted scholar of new religions, joins us in this episode to discuss the Church of Scientology. Dr. J. Gordon Melton, became Distinguished Professor of American Religious History of Baylor University’s Institute for Studies in Religion in March of 2011. He also serves as the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Woodway, Texas. Since