The Reverend Hunter is an evangelist but maybe not in the way you think. Dr. Tony Jones does like to talk about Jesus but he is equally effusive about how time in nature, and especially hunting, is good for our spiritual journey. This conversation explores some new topics since I am not an avid hunter or fisherman but there is a lot examine as we consider how hunting and fishing bring us face to face with the death that is both abundant in the natural world and is necessary to bring about life.
You can find more of Tony on his website or on the Reverend Hunter podcast. Links to both are found below.
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The church is waking up to the climate crisis, in part because the youth among us insist that we do. In this episode, I talk with Tori Goebel, national organizer and spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA). They have taken the lead in preparing young people to lead the discussion on climate in the church and community. We discuss how young Christians see the environmental movement, what type of actions they want to take to fight climate change, if they should talk with their parents about these issues, and the inspiring stories of the young leaders coming out of Young Evangelicals for Climate Action.
This links to the article on fathers and daughters and climate discussions.
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Many of the tensions between science and Christianity over the past century can be tied to differing interpretations of Genesis one. While searching for the singular best interpretation, few have considered that Genesis intentionally communicates multiple valid and unique messages simultaneously. In this episode, Dale speaks with Dr. Gregg Davidson, co-author of The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One, to talk about why we should reconsider our approach to the first page of the Biblical narrative.
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Our changing climate, and its devastating impacts on our world, have left many of us with little hope. If you are struggling with anxiety about the climate or just looking for good news about what is being done to dig out of this mess, we recommend you read the latest book from Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, “Saving Us: a climate scientist's case for hope and healing in a divided world”. In this conversation you will hear Dale and Katharine discuss the climate, Christianity, science and how to find hope.
Also, if you want to talk with others about the topic and hear from Dr. Hahyoe and other experts, Arochausa is hosting a virtual book club that starts on September 21st, 2021. You can sign up at https://www.loveyourplace.org/
Link to Dr. Hayhoe’s personal website http://www.katharinehayhoe.com/
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When it comes to Christianity and the Covid 19 vaccine, things are complicated. We all long for the end of the pandemic and the health of our neighbors, but some of us are exposed to confusing and misleading information on the vaccines and the infection itself. How can we have respectful dialogue when we are surrounded by so much vitriol and misinformation? Don't you wish you could talk to someone you trust? In this episode, I talk with Madelyn Schwieters, Christine David, and Kendall Luman about their experience with the Interfaith Youth Corps faith and the vaccine ambassadors program. They talk about their roles in speaking with their community about the vaccine in an effort to encourage more people to get the shot.
Link to the interfaith youth core program https://ifyc.org/interfaith-america/faith-and-vaccine
Is climate change real, is it serious, and is it caused by humans? If you ask someone those questions, a pattern will emerge. The degree to which someone is skeptical or accepting of human-caused climate change is most heavily influenced by race, politics, and religion. Dr. Robin Globus Veldman set out to explain why evangelical Christians are among the most persistent climate skeptics in western cultures in her book The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change. Enjoy this conversation as we discuss her work and her findings.
Amazon link to The Gospel of Climate Skepticism
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Pastor John Kirkwood started the Sparrows Call and a YouTube interview show called Voices in the Wilderness.
He is working to reach those who disassociated with Christianity, the exvangelicals, the nones and the dones, by creating spaces to explore Christianity (and science) outside of the confines of a traditional church.
He is a voice of wisdom for deconstructing and reconstructing Christians who may be critical of religious but compelled by Jesus.
Voices in the Wilderness on YouTube
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Many of us wrestle with two questions that we falsely believe are unrelated. How should I relate to nature and the environment around me and how should I relate to God? Old Testament scholar Dr. Sandra Richter's connects those two topics in her latest book, the delightfully readable and quotable, Stewards of Eden. In this episode we discuss her shared interests in Biblical scholarship and Christian Earth-keeping how the first pages of the Bible, the laws in the Torah and even the New Testament depict our participation in Gods kingdom intertwined with our relationship with the world around us.
Amazon link to Dr. Richter's book Stewards of Eden
Dr. Richter's author page on Seedbed
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Rev. Kyle Meyaard-Schaap is emerging as a voice of reason, wisdom and grace as Christians explore our relationship with the created world In this episode of the Disciple Science podcast hear Kyle and Dale talk about how he came to see care of creation as a central part of Christian discipleship (hint, it had something to do with his brothers dietary choices) and how we should view our relationship with the created order.
This episode can also be viewed on YouTube here.
You can find Kyle at the Evangelical Environmental Network at https://creationcare.org/
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The Galileo affair is often portrayed as a science vs. faith scenario where a narrow minded Catholic church punished an innovative scientist for trusting his data. However, the true story is much more complex and reveals lessons on wisdom that apply to every opportunity to defend your beliefs.
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Why are so many Evangelicals walking away from the Christian Faith? Is Modern Science compatible with Christianity? Is a secular education or a fundamentalist upbringing the "slippery slope" that leads to deconstruction? This week's episode features an interview of Dr. Dale Gentry by John James Kirkwood and Kristine Johnson at the The Sparrow's Call, a ministry that seeks to reach those that have walked away from their faith.
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Science is always changing but the Biblical canon is fixed. While that is technically true, it doesn't account for the subtle ways Biblical interpretation mimics scientific analysis. This video discusses how the transition from geocentrism to heliocentrism influenced our understanding of the Bible and Dr. Gentry presents his belief that Biblical interpretation functions like Thomas Kuhn's models of science.
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In the first two weeks of this series, Dale explores the history behind the tension between science and Christianity. In this third week, Dale presents a pathway out of the tension paradigm into a more compatible future.
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The history of the relationship between science and Christianity can show us the source of the tension and produce insights on how to get out of the conflict paradigm. This is the second of a three part speaking engagement at Salem Covenant Church in New Brighton, MN on the history of the Christian church and scientific thought. My goal was to show that the source of the conflict is not between science and religion but in they ways we used science and understood scripture, two areas that can both be revised.
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This is the first of a three part speaking engagement at Salem Covenant Church in New Brighton, MN on the history of the Christian church and scientific thought. My goal was to show how the current model of conflict between science and Christianity has not always been, and does not necessarily need to persist.
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The Bible is a book of science, but it is a book of ancient science, and that is just the way God wanted it to be. In his latest book, The Bible & Ancient Science: Principles of Interpretation, Dr. Denis Lamoureux helps readers understand why scripture often doesn't align with modern science and why that isn't a problem. This conversation give further depth to our discussion of the influence of Copernicus and Galileo and the transition to heliocentrism and how to read the Bible in light of modern science.
Dr. Lamoureux's Coursera class - Science and Religion 101
The Bible and Ancient Science - Amazon
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500 years ago almost everyone was certain that the earth was at the center of our solar system (geocentrism) but now we are certain that it is not (heliocentrism). This podcast/vlog discusses that transition to provide context to the bigger debate about how to read the Bible. In a later episode we will cover how these scientific findings were received by readers of the Bible and why they are so frequently mentioned when we discuss Biblical interpretation.
You can watch this episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/wSUt1gY0mzY
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Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund is a Professor of Sociology and director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University. Her recent book, "Why Science and Faith Need Each Other: 8 Shared Values that Move us Beyond Fear" takes a novel approach emphasizing similarities rather than differences between science and faith. We discuss her book and her years of experience studying the people groups involved in the intersection of science and Christian faith.
Why Science and Faith Need Each Other - https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B0821NVBVM&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_sXXfFbGEC0FZ3
Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University - https://rplp.rice.edu/
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The North American meteorological summer is nearly halfway complete! In this short episode, Dale will give you a sneak peak at what you can expect from Disciple Science for the remainder of July and August.
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Christian theology contains a few remarkable paradoxes. That Jesus was fully God and fully Human, the trinitarian nature of God, the now and not yet of the Kingdom of God. These oddities of Christian doctrine do not make simple rational sense and yet we are invited to seek God through these foundational paradoxes. They should prepare us to recognize when we are offered dualistic false dichotomies to societies problems. Yet false dichotomies are what lie at the center of our current tension around race relations, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the best way to tend and watch over God's good creation. Today on the disciple science podcast, do we have to choose.
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