Episode number 6 in our series on women in ministry. Join Tyler and Darryl as they interview Dr. David Fitch - the B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary. He is also the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community, a missional church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. He is the author of The Church of Us vs Them, Faithful Presence, The Great Giveaway and The End of Evangelicalism? and is the coauthor of Prodigal Christianity. Fitch coaches a network of church plants in the Christian and Missionary Alliance and he writes, speaks, and lectures on issues the local church must face in mission including cultural engagement, leadership, and theology. He has also written numerous articles in periodicals such as Christianity Today, The Other Journal, Missiology, as well as various academic journals. In this episode we talk about the History of the C&MA, it’s place in the holiness movement, how patriarchy, hierarchy, and other power structures work. From A.B. Simpson to outdoor Hockey rinks, we hope you enjoy this conversation with Dr David Fitch.
Episode number 4 in our series on women in ministry. Join Tyler and Darryl as they interview Dr. Lee Beach - Associate Professor Of Christian Ministry, Garbutt F. Smith Chair Of Ministry Formation, Director Of Ministry Formation at MacMaster Divinity College. Lee is the author of The Church in Exile: Living in Hope After Christendom. Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 2015, and co-author of The Whole Gospel for the Whole World: Experiencing the Four-Fold Gospel Today (with Dr. Franklin Pyles), and has served in pastoral ministry with the Christian and Missionary Alliance for well over 20 years, including as the former Lead pastor of Cobourg Alliance Church.
Episode number 4 in our series on women in ministry. Join Tyler and Darryl as they interview Dr. Cynthia Long Westfall - Associate Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College. She has served as the co-chair of the Biblical Greek and Linguistics section of the Society of Biblical Literature, and the co-chair of the Evangelicals and Gender section of the Evangelical Theological Society. She is the author of numerous books, including A Discourse Analysis of the Structure of Hebrews: Relationship between Form and Meaning, and more recently, Paul And Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vision forMen and Women in Christ. Dr Westfall served as a translator and member of the editorial board for the Common English Bible.
Cynthia is founder and chair of the board of Providence Canada, which ministers to the those who are at risk for homelessness in Hamilton, Ontario.
Episode number 3 in our series on women in ministry. Join Tyler and Darryl as they interview Doctor Beth Felker Jones - a theology professor at Northern Seminary, and author of numerous books including Faithful: A Theology of Sex, Practicing Christian Doctrine: An Introduction to Thinking and Living Theologically, God the Spirit: Introducing Pneumatology in Wesleyan and Ecumenical Perspective, and The Marks of His Wounds: Resurrection Doctrine and Gender Politics.
Beth's Website: http://bethfelkerjones.com
Northern Seminary: https://www.seminary.edu
Episode number 2 in our series on women in ministry. Join Tyler and Luana in an engaging conversation with Dr Lynn Cohick on the role of women through the New Testament and the first 400 years of the church. Dr Cohick is the Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs at Northern Seminary, a New Testament Scholar and the Author of Commentaries on Ephesians and Philippians and books such as Women in the World of the Earliest Christians, and Christian Women in the Patristic World. Lynn presently serves as the president of the Board of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR)
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Intro 0:00
Lynn shares her own story of trying to find her place and her calling in a text filled with "masculine" Pronouns 6:35
What do we learn from Jesus approach to women in the gospels 9:30
Jesus and the Samaritan Women 11:30
Jesus and the hemorrhaging woman 23:25
Ephesians What does Ephesians 5 say about the Role of women? - And why we need to start in verse 18 not verse 22 28:40
The 2 Commands in Ephesians 5:18-33 32:38
What does "submission" mean in Ephesians 5? 38:55
What does Paul have to say about Slavery? And what does that have to do with Women? 51:40
1 Timothy 1 Timothy 2 (starting in chapter 1?) 55:50
What's the command in 1 Tim 2. vs 11 Let a woman learn 1:02:05
Saved through childbirth, what's that all about? 1:13:58
Learn before you teach? 1:16:20
Paul commends women teachers and leaders 1:17:00
1 Timothy 3 1:20:30
"the Pronouns used in 1 Tim 3 are not masculine" 1:22:49
"One woman man" or "husband of one wife"? 1:24:38
Romans 1:29:20 Are women restricted to only the top level of leadership? 1:31:58
What is Eldership and Leadership in the New Testament 1:35:29
Christian Women in the Patristic World (2nd - 5th century) 1:38:36
Find Lynn at https://lynncohick.com/index.html
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Join us in the first part of our interview series on women in ministry, where Tyler interviews Elaine Kelly - the author of Forgotten Followers, the first novel in the Broken to Bold series.
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