The Christian Chronicle Podcast

Oct 30 2024 94 ep. 55 mins 12
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The Christian Chronicle Podcast explores the news and stories shaping Church of Christ congregations and members around the world. 

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Episode 94: How do we talk about politics? (Bobby Ross Jr., Jeremie Beller, Nathan Guy, Patrick Odum)

Oct 30 2024 60 mins  
From the Norton Colloquium at the 101st Harding University Lectureship, The Christian Chronicle's editor-in-chief Bobby Ross Jr. leads a panel of preachers as they discuss how (and whether) to talk about politics in the local church.Dr. Jeremie Beller is The Christian Chronicle's opinions editor. He serves as dean of the College of Bible at Oklahoma Christian University and ministe

Episode 93: Running by faith (2024 Paralympic medalist Liza Corso)

Oct 29 2024 42 mins  
Liza Corso is a two-time Team U.S.A. Paralympic medalist in the women's 1500m (Silver, Tokyo, 2020 and Bronze, Paris, 2024). She is also a senior psychology and nutrition major at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee.In this episode, Liza talks about what it is like run at a world-class level while seeing through her vision impairment. She also talks about how her faith and

Episode 92: Stories of grace and hope from the trenches (Christian Chronicle news team)

Oct 24 2024 59 mins  
From the Norton Colloquium at Harding University's 101st lectureship, members of The Christian Chronicle news team bring stories of what God is doing around, and through, God's people...in some of the hardest and scariest circumstances.Audrey Jackson, Bobby Ross Jr., Sawmi Sektak and Erik Tryggestad give eyewitness reports of what they've seen as they cover the news among Christian

Episode 91: The future of Churches of Christ (Stan Granberg, Carl Royster, Erik Tryggestad)

Oct 24 2024 54 mins  
From the Norton Colloquium at Harding University's 101st Lectureship, Heritage 21 Foundation's Stan Granberg, 21st Century Christian's Carl Royster and The Christian Chronicle's Erik Tryggestad discuss what current trends portend for the future of Churches of Christ. They also reveal plans for the Church Research Council, a new joint venture of The Christian Chronicle, Heritage 21

Episode 90: The (Christian) face of immigration (Eduardo and Odalis Vasquez)

Oct 17 2024 31 mins  
Almost half of the world's migrants claim Christianity according to new research from Pew Research Center. In this episode, we hear from two Christian immigrants, Eduardo and Odalis Vasquez, Church of Christ members who are part of the 7.7 million people who fled Venezuela over the last few years.The Vasquezes talk about why and how they left their home behind and what it is like t

Episode 89: How well do you know your immigrant neighbors? (Pew Research and Berry's Chapel Church of Christ)

Oct 10 2024 53 mins  
According to Pew Research Center, immigration is the second-most important issue to White evangelical Protestants who plan to vote in the November 2024 U.S. presidential election. Note: Pew places White Church of Christ members (7 out of 10 Church of Christ members nationwide) in the "White evangelical Protestant" research cohort. So, then, immigration may be one of the top issues

Episode 88: Christian bioethicists on how to think about abortion, IVF, and...mosquitoes? (Vic McCracken and Cynthia Powell)

Oct 03 2024 46 mins  
The recent emergence of in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a legal and political issue is raising new ethical and moral questions among Christians. If life begins at conception, when is conception? What is a soul and when does a human being have one? Advances in science and technology mean that Christians know more about the human body than ever before, but those same advances sometim

Episode 87 LIVE in Michigan: A church for the sake of the world (Dr. John Nugent)

Oct 02 2024 55 mins  
LIVE from the campus of Great Lakes Christian College in Lansing, Michigan, we bring you Dr. John Nugent, author of Priestly Presence: A Church for the World's Sake (Fortress Press). Nugent draws from the levitical priesthood as a pattern for what God calls the church to be and do in the world, most of all during a time when the struggle for power in the world is growing acute. Lin

Episode 86: The Bible, the church and same-sex relationships (Rubel Shelly)

Sep 25 2024 61 mins  
Almost one year before he recorded this episode, Rubel Shelly appeared on Episode 39 of The Christian Chronicle Podcast to talk about his book, Male and Female God Created Them: A Biblical Review of LGBTQ+ Claims. That remains the most popular episode of this show. Shelly returns to talk about his follow-up work, The Ink is Dry: God's Distinctive Word on Marriage, Family and Sexual

Episode 85: Colt McCoy wants you to remember him for something greater than football

Sep 20 2024 44 mins  
Church of Christ kid and small-town high school athlete Colt McCoy grew up to be one of the greatest college football players of all time before going on to play 13 seasons in the National Football League.Just a few weeks before recording this conversation with The Christian Chronicle, McCoy announced his retirement from playing the sport that made him famous. In this episode, he o