Speakeasy Theology

Jan 31 2025 120 ep. 69 mins 8
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theological and pastoral reflections on biblical texts and current events

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The Need for Rules

Jan 31 2025 93 mins  
David+ and I continue our reading of Bonhoeffer, exploring the grace of ordination, the need for rules and holding all good things in tension, and the dangers of false comfort. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

The Annunciation is the True Beginning of Creation

Jan 20 2025 94 mins  
Jordan and I discuss his forthcoming translation of Maximus’ Christological letters and a chapter he recently finished on trauma and theology. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

God is on the Child's Side

Jan 12 2025 92 mins  
David+ and I discuss Bonhoeffer’s 1940 sermon on the Holy Innocents, weighing what he says about the use/abuse of power and considering how his work, thanks to his careful restraint, helps to free us both from the abstractions and hasty generalizations that distort what we think of God and the sentimentality that warps what we say about evil and suffering and how we say it. This

Being in Communion with Sinners

Jan 06 2025 76 mins  
David+ and I discuss Bonhoeffer’s 1940 Epiphany meditation, considering what he says about the birth and baptism of the Lord and his understanding of Christ’s solidarity with sinners. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

And Say it with a Steady, Even Voice

Dec 17 2024 64 mins  
Kevin Hart (Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor, Duke Divinity School) and I discuss his recently-published memoir, Dark-Land, the theological merits of autobiography, and the graces of contemplative prayer. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Reading Luke-Acts with a Mennocostal

Dec 09 2024 91 mins  
David+ and I talk with Marty about his decades-long love affair with Luke-Acts, the benefits of studying with believers formed in other traditions, and marvel together at Luke’s originality, the intricate complexity of his work, and the sheer expansiveness of his vision. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episo

The Scandal is the Point

Dec 03 2024 84 mins  
David+ and I discuss Bonhoeffer’s 1935 Finkenwalde lecture on “contemporizing” the New Testament, weighing what it has to teach us now about preaching and handling the Scriptures in good faith. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Law is Grace

Nov 18 2024 48 mins  
In this episode, Holly Taylor Coolman, professor of theology at Providence College, talks with me about Aquinas’ view of the Law, New and Old, his reading of Romans 9-11, and her own perspective on what it means to argue with the great teachers of the church. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ce

Grace and Participation

Oct 01 2024 81 mins  
Geordie and I talk about TF Torrance and the work of teaching theology, exploring ways TFT helps us live with and speak of the triune God. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

The Bible is a Book without Heroes

Sep 24 2024 69 mins  
In this episode, Dr Davis and I discuss her career as a theologian and Old Testament scholar, what she has learned in inter-religious dialog about how to receive the wisdom of Israel’s Scriptures, and the need for the practice of slow, humble reading of these texts. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v