Everyday Theology

Today is a special day - it is the launch of Aaron's new book, Faith as Life in the Spirit: A Pneumatology of Belief, Affection, and Works.In this special episode, Aaron and Chris reverse roles. Chris interviews Aaron on his new book, the process behind it, and what makes it unique. This book covers a pneumatological pistology, or rather, asks the question, "what does the Spirit have to do with faith" and "what is faith anyways"? For more info on the book, or if it interests you enough to buy, you can get it from most book vendors or click on one of the links below:Faith as Life in the Spirit on AmazonFaith as Life in the Spirit on Bloomsbury

In their new book, Tommy and Scot McKnight discuss how Jesus is disappearing in the evangelical church, and how this is leading to deconstruction. Aaron and Tommy sit down and talk about what Tommy and Scot found in their new book, Invisible Jesus: A Book about Leaving the Church and Looking for Christ.

In order to understand the state of the church today, we need to look at the church of the past. Dr. Leah Payne joined Aaron on this podcast to discuss what we can learn about church history spanning various topics such as efficiency models, women in ministry, and everything in between.

There are a lot of things to be said about the state of the church in America, but what can be said by those who are both pastors and theologians? In this podcast, Aaron chats with Joseph Lear, a pastor and professor, about the church in America today, and where it is headed.

Return guest, Rev. Dr. Yoon Shin, and I sit down to talk about our academic and church life journeys. We talk about the good, bad, ugly, and holy of the academic and church worlds we have found ourselves in. We even get into whether or not we would start PhD's again, and what that process did within us.

Conversations on race, religion, politics, or anything that promises to be controversial has the ability to cause contentious conversations and cause ruptured relationships. In Ashlee Eiland's new book, "Say Good", she argues that this does not have to be the only outcome of hard conversations. In this podcast, Aaron sits down with Ashlee how to have hard and fruitful conversations while staying in good relationship with other.

A question has plagued Christianity for some time, what do we do with a loving God in the New Testament seen in Christ when we find a God who directs violence in the Old Testament? There are various answers and theories that have been deployed to answer this, and yet, is it even the right question to ask to begin with? In this episode, Aaron sits down with friend of the podcast, Chris Green, to discuss his new book, The Fire and the Cloud: A Biblical Christology, and to dig to the heart of the matter at hand. Perhaps it is not the Christ who needs to be reconciled to the God of the Old Testament, but rather, it is our understanding of what reading the text is meant to do in the lives of Christians, and what God does through that text. Christ is not far from the Hebrew Scriptures when we begin to reframe the way we approach the text and when we ask better questions of it.

Have you ever wondered about the business of the church? Wondered where your donations or tithes have gone? Have you felt that there has been a lack in the accountability of how churches spend money, or where they put there money into? Nate Apffel set out to understand the religion of business in his new series "Religion Business", coming out in the Fall ('24). Listen along as Aaron talks with Nate about the business of religion, the problems, and the potential solution (hint: it is not taxing churches!).

How should Christians vote? How do we engage in politics? What does it mean to be a Christian in a political world? In this podcast, Aaron speaks with the Founder, President, and CEO of the Center for Christianity in Public Life, Michael Wear about the framework needed to answer those questions. If you are looking for a podcast that says a Christian should vote for this candidate or that one, this is not that podcast. Rather, Aaron and Michael explore the framework for how Christians engage in political life. Michael's new book "The Spirit of our Politics" is out now, wherever books are sold.

It is easy, in polarized Christian contexts, let alone a polarized world, to be gracious, generous, and to express gratitude. Yet, according to Dr. Cornelius (Neal) Plantinga, gratitude not only is helpful for humans psychologically and spiritually, it can heal a host of other issues, including the polarized divide we find ourselves in. This episode, Aaron speaks with Neal about his recently released book, Gratitude: Why Giving Thanks Is the Key to Our Well-Being, and how gratitude is an often forgotten yet incredibly important Christian attitude. This episode spans the range of a litany of topics, including ideas of soteriology and universal salvation.