Doing Theology. Thinking Mission.
So many significant issues are found at the intersection of theology and missions, yet people often speak about one to the neglect of the other. We ask questions about contextualization, honor and shame, biblical interpretation, and the church's mission in the world. Hosted by Jackson Wu, Werner Mischke, and Carrie Vaughn, discussions and interviews seek answers that are biblically faithful and culturally meaningful.
Episodes
In This Episode, We Talk About:
- Defining and applying missional hermeneutics to Biblical text.
- Four approaches to read and interpret the scripture missionally, including their advantages and limitations.
- How to live faithfully to God and get closer to the universal aspects of scripture.
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In This Episode, We Talk About:
- The difference between systematic theology and Biblical theology, and its impact within the church of India.
- Biblical theology in missions of the church in India.
- Contrasting and intersecting linear thinking versus cyclical thinking.
- Effective gospel contextualization in the context...
In This Episode, We Talk About:
- Contextualization of Paul’s letter to Romans.
- Collective identities, status, and individualism in Biblical context and within our modern day world.
- Honor-shame dynamics of collective identity.
Resources & Links:
Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes by Jackson Wu
Defending Shame by Te-Li Lau
In This Episode, We Talk About:
- Honor-shame values during the time of Christ.
- The meaning of relativization, and the positive impact of Jesus relativizing the family.
- The significance behind transforming our values.
- How Mark reverses honor and shame during the climax of Jesus’s death.
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In This Episode, We Talk About:
- Honor-shame culture in the Muslim world and how Jesus speaks to it.
- What the roles of men and women within the honor-shame paradigm are.
- The culture of “fixing” identity, such as covering, denial, and purging.
- Identifying different types of honor, including counterfeit honor, ascrib...
In this episode, we talk about:
- Mina’s refugee journey from Afghanistan to America.
- What she sees as a future for her people.
- A clearer picture on Afghanistan history.
Resources & Links:
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to her Son by Homeira Qaderi
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In This Episode, We Talk About:
- Defining and exploring the deep complexity of individual, cosmic, and collective sins.
- What causes people to engage in or become complicit in sin from a physiological, cultural, and environmental perspective.
- The theological implications of cosmic and collective sin, such as individual reflection and rethinking...
In This Episode, We Talk About:
- Travel in the ancient world; what it looked like, the perils and dangers early Christian faced, and its ties to the spread of Christianity.
- Honor-shame dynamics in relation to travel.
- The impact of travel to Paul, Philemon, and Onesimus.
- How travel & hospitality shaped Early Christi...
In This Episode, We Talk About:
- The doctrine of horizontal atonement, reconciliation, and salvation.
- Beliefs and traditions of the early church and early church fathers.
- The Biblical basis behind cosmic powers and demonic forces.
- Cross-cultural and multi-ethnic unity in the church and how it honors and glorifies...
In this episode, we talk about:
What whiteness is and how it impacts us all.
Questions to bring awareness to how you see white theology.
Action steps we can take to break out of white theology thinking.
Books that have impacted our thinking and awareness.
About Tim Gombis:
Tim Gombis (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, Scotland) is a former professor of New Testament at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, in Grand Rapids, MI. His p...
In this episode, we talk about:
- The House Church of Theology’s upcoming book, Faith in the Wilderness: Words of Exhortation from the Chinese Church.
- The common beliefs and differing perspectives between Chinese sermons and American sermons.
- How we approach the theology of suffering as Americans versus the Chinese perspective.
About Hann...
In this episode, we talk about:
- Understanding the motives and ambitions of Paul’s missions.
- The practical implications of missionary motivations.
- Self-supporting, self-sustaining churches versus interdependent churches.
- The minimization of missionaries in a post-colonial world and the inevitability of Western infl...
In This Episode, We Talk About:
- Interpreting and analyzing the role of women in the Bible, from a modern lens and an ancient one.
- Honor-shame standards of today versus the honor-shame standards of antiquity.
- The honor behind women’s hair, and reinterpreting Paul’s speech about the veil.
- How to better understand th...
In this season finale, we distinguish shame from guilt. The two concepts are often misunderstood. People in the church tend to assume that the Bible emphasizes guilt over shame. Along the way, we miss their significance in Scripture and the ways they impact our lives.
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In Part 2 of our conversation with Jonathan Worthington, we continue talking about theological education.
Adult learning brings experience into the classroom, but it can also mean there’s some unlearning that needs to happen as well. Teachers need to be aware of these dynamics when thinking through pedagogy.
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This is part 1 of our discussion about theological education with Jonathan Worthington, author of Creation in Paul and Philo and Vice President of Theological Education with Training Leaders International
Jonathan wrote a critical, yet gracious, review of Jackson’s book (Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes) and they’ve been friends ever since.
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There’s so much misunderstanding about honor and shame. It seems that people routinely talk past one another when speaking about these ideas. So, in this episode, we define our terms.
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This week, we change things up and get a bit more personal, where we introduce ourselves and talk about how we first learned about the significance of honor and shame.
Dr. Jamie Sanchez studied how various cultural markers are both shunned and engaged by the church. Is this an American or a Christian identity marker? This question should be central to us before we come up with any intercultural strategy.
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Dr. Callaham explains how we set up a “priesthood of languages” when doing cross-cultural work. A “priesthood of missionaries” refers to when missionaries depend only on their intuition in interpreting Scripture. We need to be aware of how we set ourselves up as unlikely priests in our host culture as missionaries.
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