Episodes
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Casual Conversations About Dating Apps: Swipe right or left? (Part I)
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Online dating can really suck. Ghosting, creepy responses and weird gender dynamics abound. In this two-part series, we reflect on dating apps. What's good? What's bad? How do Christian dating norms influence our perceptions of dating apps? Why do some of us experience shame around the use of dating apps? What are the ethics and wisdom Christians should keep in mind when using dating apps? How do men and women's experience differ here? We also get a bit vulnerable (!) and talk about our own personal (and sometimes embarrassing!) experiences in the world of online dating.
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Voting Ethics and the Evangelical Debate About Trump (Part 2)
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
We're still processing the 2020 presidential election. In this episode, we continue our conversation about the Grudem-Piper debate on Christian voting ethics and Trump. Our hot take: we think both Grudem and Piper missed some important things. Note: we recorded this episode the day before the Capitol riots. If only we had known...
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Voting Ethics and the Evangelical Debate About Trump...Before Jan 6th! (Part 1)
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Wayne Grudem and John Piper are prominent voices within evangelical theology. Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, they had a friendly debate about whether evangelicals should vote for Trump. In this two-part episode, Maggie, Joel and Tyler look back on this debate and evaluate the arguments. Did Trump's character disqualify him from the evangelical vote? What about the importance of policy? Why worry about presidential character anyway? Is Biden any better? Were Grudem and Piper sufficiently sensitive to race issues in their discussion? (and, gosh, if we had only waited one more day to record we could have incorporated the Capitol riots into the discussion! smh).
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
What to Do About the Racial Divide: Reflections on Jemar Tisby's A.R.C.
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Saturday Jan 02, 2021
Jemar Tisby (author of The Color of Compromise) is quickly becoming a leading Christian influencer and advocate for racial justice. We reflect on his recent Veritas Forum talk, "Where is God in Our Racial Divide?" Among other topics, we discuss his advice about disrupting racism, his views on Christian nationalism, and the response of evangelicals to BLM.
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Before We Knew: Thinking Christianly about the political divide
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Friday Nov 13, 2020
Whatever the outcome of the election, some people will be hurting, disappointed, and frustrated. As followers of the way of Jesus, how ought we respond to the results of the election, whether we like those results or not? We reflect on the posture and vocation that Christians ought to have post election. Note: we recorded this episode pre-election. Nothing was tailored to a particular result. We didn't know the result. And that was the point.
Monday Nov 02, 2020
The Politicization of History
Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
1619 or 1776? Maggie (the resident historian for the Methinks Podcast) talks about the politicization of history. From canceling Thomas Jefferson to footnoting Harriet Tubman, from racism to exceptionalism, people try to shape the way history is taught and viewed. As apprentices to Jesus and his kingdom, how should Christians treat American history? What should we look for in historical education?
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Social Justice or the Gospel: must it be one or the other?
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Is preaching the Gospel more vital to the life and health of the church than social justice? John MacArthur and others think so. We explore the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, a collection of theological statements about race, justice, gender, and the church. As it turns out, one's view of the Gospel, eschatology, and the vocation of the church sorta matters here.
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Is Moral Relativism a Problem?
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Is moral relativism a problem for society? A recent study in moral psychology suggests that the answer is "no"..or does it? Maggie and Joel explore this question by thinking about concerns with moral relativism in American history as well as by looking at the empirical research on moral relativism. This much is absolutely true: Paul Ryan overstates the impact of relativism on economic poverty.
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Ever had a dream about divorce? J.M. Humphrey (a black pastor-theologian from the early 20th century) did and it led him to think that re-marriage was against God's will. Maggie pulls this case out of her dissertation in order to explain 20th century debates about divorce and to show where racism showed up. She and Joel talk about the way that white churches fail to normalize black theological authority and, at times, whitewash black thinkers in order to justify learning from them.
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
The Concept of Privilege (a primer)
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Everyone's talking about "privilege" nowadays. In this episode, Joel and Maggie give a primer on the concept of privilege. You'll hear about the influence of 2nd and 3rd wave feminism, the need to have language for something beyond paradigmatic cases of oppression (oppressors + oppressed), and a handful of potential examples of privilege.