Context Matters

By Dr. Cyndi Parker

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This podcast is for people who are curious about the ancient context that influenced the final shape of the Bible…AND ALSO…how our modern context influences the way we understand the Bible and God and all things spiritual.

Episode Date
When Genre Influences Interpretation
May 16, 2024
Growing Pains of the Early Church
May 09, 2024
Early Christians did not Wear Halos!
May 02, 2024
Deuteronomy: A Challenge to the Modern Church
Apr 25, 2024
Deuteronomy in Action
Apr 18, 2024
Centering Discipleship with E K Strawser
Apr 11, 2024
Rethinking Church around Discipleship
Apr 04, 2024
Revelation for the Modern Church: Avoiding the Babylon Creep
Mar 28, 2024
Paving the Way to Understand Revelation
Mar 21, 2024
Discipled in Justice Today
Mar 14, 2024
Becoming People Who Do Justice
Mar 07, 2024
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Feb 29, 2024
Is There a Biblical Theology of Violence?
Feb 22, 2024
Story-Shaped Faith
Feb 15, 2024
Story-Shaped People
Feb 08, 2024
Medieval Christianity
Feb 01, 2024
The Challenge and Beauty of Suffering in Isaiah 53
Jan 25, 2024
Isaiah's Servant Songs
Jan 18, 2024
END OF YEAR SPECIAL: Where have we been?
Dec 30, 2023
Being God's Image, Part 2
Sep 21, 2023
Being God's Image
Sep 14, 2023
Studying the Bible with Technology
Sep 07, 2023
The Careful Use of Technology
Aug 31, 2023
Art as Teacher
Aug 24, 2023
Reading the Bible with Artists
Aug 17, 2023
Reading the Bible Mystically
Aug 10, 2023
Reading with Mystics
Aug 03, 2023
Reconstructing Faith
Jul 27, 2023
Reading with the Spiritually Wounded
Jul 20, 2023
A Translation for Turtle Island
Jul 13, 2023
First Nations Translation of the New Testament
Jul 06, 2023
Can Science and Faith Enhance Each Other?
Jun 29, 2023
Reading the Bible with Scientists
Jun 22, 2023
Reading with Disability Theology
Jun 15, 2023
Reading the Bible with a Disabled God
Jun 08, 2023
Is an Illustration THAT Important?
Jun 01, 2023
Reading Children's Bibles
May 25, 2023
Reading the Bible with Questions
May 18, 2023
Reading the Bible with Different Cultural Lenses
May 11, 2023
EASTER SPECIAL! The Geography of Passion Week
Apr 06, 2023
Two Halves Yet One Whole
Mar 09, 2023
The Two Halves of Daniel
Mar 02, 2023
The Circular Beauty in John's Epistles
Feb 23, 2023
John's Epistles in All Their Strangeness
Feb 16, 2023
Lamentations for the Modern Church
Feb 09, 2023
Walking through Grief and Pain
Feb 02, 2023
Community, Christianity, and Slavery
Jan 26, 2023
Philemon: Master, Host, and Christian
Jan 19, 2023
Gems in Genealogy
Jan 12, 2023
Beauty in Chronicles
Jan 05, 2023
The Surprise Twist in Jude
Dec 22, 2022
Why Jude?
Dec 15, 2022
Fiery Content in Peter's Writings and the Modern Church
Dec 08, 2022
Peter's Letters, Part 1
Dec 01, 2022
Prophets and Advent?
Nov 24, 2022
What is the Book of the Twelve?
Nov 17, 2022
Archaeology with Steven Ortiz
Nov 10, 2022
The Clash of Two Noble Struggles
Nov 03, 2022
A Voice to All People
Oct 27, 2022
A Sense of Wholeness
Oct 20, 2022
Accountable to All Generations
Oct 13, 2022
How Does "Christian" Define "Palestinian"?
Oct 06, 2022
Common Existence
Sep 29, 2022
Curiosity in Conversation
Sep 22, 2022
One Body and One Meal
Jun 09, 2022
You Cannot Do It Alone
Jun 02, 2022
Why Go To Church?
May 26, 2022
Voices from the Past
Mar 10, 2022
Voices Long Silenced: But No More!
Mar 03, 2022
Gentile and Jewish Women in the New Testament World
Feb 24, 2022
Reading People in Context
Feb 17, 2022
When God is Absent
Feb 10, 2022
A Tale of Two Queens: Esther and Vashti
Feb 03, 2022
Facing the Challenges in Ruth
Jan 27, 2022
African Jews and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Jan 20, 2022
Jews in Africa
Jan 13, 2022
Luke as Story
Dec 30, 2021
Is there Theology in Story?
Dec 23, 2021
How to Talk about Sexuality
Dec 16, 2021
Sexuality and the Bible: Eunuchs and Intersex Included
Dec 09, 2021
Sexuality and the Bible
Dec 02, 2021
Is God Vulnerable and Regretful?
Nov 25, 2021
Complex Emotions
Nov 18, 2021
The Beauty of Hebraic Philosophy
Nov 11, 2021
Is Philosophy Compatible with the Bible?
Nov 04, 2021
Does Community Form in Virtual Worlds?
Oct 28, 2021
A Place of Design
Oct 21, 2021
Riddles, Word Puzzles, and Parables
Oct 14, 2021
From Rabbinic Text to the Parables of Jesus
Oct 07, 2021
Why the Conquest isn't a Conquest
Sep 30, 2021
What Violence in the Old Testament?
Sep 23, 2021
Agriculture, Slaves, and the Church's Identity
Sep 16, 2021
Do Not Bear God's Name in Vain
Sep 09, 2021
Is the Exodus Event Historical?
Sep 02, 2021
Old Testament Controversies
Aug 26, 2021
Jesus in His Real World
Jun 24, 2021
Encountering Jesus in Place
Jun 17, 2021
Womanist Midrash is What Again?
Jun 10, 2021
Questions That Come from Grief
Jun 03, 2021
Silence and Imagination
May 27, 2021
Cute Monsters and the Problem of Evil
May 20, 2021
Epic Fantasy Stories and Theology?
May 13, 2021
The Journey toward Shalom
May 06, 2021
Restoring Broken Walls
Apr 29, 2021
Lament and Resilience in Jeremiah
Apr 22, 2021
The Weeping Prophet
Apr 15, 2021
The Voice of a Prophet
Apr 08, 2021
Freedom and Protest in Jazz
Apr 01, 2021
Blues Moan and Gospel Shout
Mar 25, 2021
Slavery, the Blues, and Biblical Law
Mar 18, 2021
The Networks of Sailors
Mar 11, 2021
Sailing Acts
Mar 04, 2021
What the Bible Says about Environmental Terrorism
Feb 25, 2021
Is Environmentalism Christian?
Feb 18, 2021
Angst, Devotion, and Love
Feb 11, 2021
The Embodiment of Wisdom
Feb 04, 2021
Advent Part 3: Women in Luke
Dec 24, 2020
Advent Part 2: caves and Magi
Dec 17, 2020
Advent Part 1
Dec 10, 2020
Feast or Fast?
Dec 03, 2020
Food as Gift or Commodity?
Nov 26, 2020
Redemption and Celebration
Nov 19, 2020
Wine That Makes Glad the Heart
Nov 12, 2020
Imagination and Diversity in Place
Nov 05, 2020
Race and Place
Oct 29, 2020
A Multitude of Voices!
Oct 22, 2020
Is Christianity a White Religion?
Oct 15, 2020
Patristics and the Stories we DON'T Tell
Oct 08, 2020
Patristics and the Stories We Tell
Oct 01, 2020
Pilgrimage to Sacred Places
Sep 24, 2020
Invoking the Sacred in Place
Sep 17, 2020
How to Create an Icon
Sep 10, 2020
Icon or Idol
Sep 03, 2020
Encountering Mary, Part 2
Aug 27, 2020
Encountering Mary, Part 1
Aug 20, 2020
Season 1 Finale
Jul 09, 2020
The Divide between East and West: Part 2 with Meredith Riedel
Jul 02, 2020
Forming Christian Beliefs: Part 1 with Meredith Riedel
Jun 25, 2020
Creating the Bible
Jun 18, 2020
An Introduction to the Apostle Paul: Part 2 with Dr. Nijay Gupta
Jun 11, 2020
An Introduction to the Apostle Paul: Part 1 with Dr. Nijay Gupta
Jun 04, 2020
Steven Notley: Parting of the Ways
May 28, 2020
Kyuboem Lee: Does Place Influence Your Theology?
May 21, 2020
Kyuboem Lee: A Search for "Home"
May 14, 2020
Ken Kihlstrom: A Partnership Between Faith and Science
May 07, 2020
Tamar Kamionkowski: Aspiring towards Holiness
Apr 30, 2020
Tamar Kamionkowski: Why Does Leviticus Matter Now?
Apr 23, 2020
Muhia Karinjahi: The Power of Rights of Passage
Apr 16, 2020
Muhia Karinjahi: When Context Changes Beliefs
Apr 09, 2020
Rob Ribbe: Experiential Learning
Apr 02, 2020
Cynthia Shafer Elliott (Part 2): Archaeology and Religion
Mar 26, 2020
Cynthia Shafer Elliott (Part 1): Why Does Archaeology Matter/
Mar 19, 2020
Lawson Stone: How Context Influences a Career
Mar 12, 2020
Craig Mayes (Part 2): Embodied Theology
Mar 05, 2020
Craig Mayes (Part 1): When Ideas of Lived Theology Change
Feb 27, 2020
Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer: Speaking Across Differences (Part 2)
Feb 20, 2020
Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer: Speaking Across Differences (Part 1)
Feb 13, 2020
Lisa Abaya (Part 1): Geography and Art
Feb 06, 2020
Lisa Abaya (Part 2): Art, Culture, and Religion
Feb 06, 2020
Introduction: Part 2
Jan 30, 2020
Introduction: Part 1
Jan 30, 2020