Feel - Dr. Matthew Elliott on SBE

Erik Guzman August 15th, 2008

If you've ever felt like your emotions have been trivialized by religious folks in the name of focusing on the facts of the faith, this edition of Steve Brown Etc. is for you. Use one of the options below to listen.

From the time he was a teenager, Dr. Matthew Elliott has been on a lifelong quest to find the true role of feelings in one's spiritual life, and this week he made a pit-stop on that journey at SBE.

Dr. Elliott has a Ph.D. in New Testament studies from the University of Abe … (Read More)

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Truth…once you see it, you're stuck!

Steve Brown August 12th, 2008

For recent interviews, I'm reading a book by my friend, Tim Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, and another book by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck, Why We're not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be).

(You can hear the interviews here and here.)

Keller writes: "Whether you consider yourself a believer or a skeptic, I invite you to seek the same kind of honesty and to grow in an understanding of the nature of your own doubts. The result will exceed anything you … (Read More)

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Why They're Not Emergent - Kevin and Ted on SBE

Erik Guzman June 27th, 2008

Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck are young, passionate, surrounded by diversity and engaged in passionate dialog with a postmodern world. So why aren't they emerging or Emergent or…whatever?

Kevin and Ted join us on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. to give us the answer. Use one of the options below to listen.

Kevin DeYoung is the senior pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan. Ted Kluck is a journalist and author. They joined forces to write, Why We're No … (Read More)

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The Emergent Church - Tony Jones on SBE

Erik Guzman April 25th, 2008

Want to raise your fundamentalist pastor's blood pressure? Tell him you're emergent. But be prepared to be accused of compromising truth, going liberal or even rubbing idols. There's a lot of confusion and emotion surrounding the emergent church movement, but Steve Brown Etc. is here to help.

The national coordinator of Emergent Village, Tony Jones joins us on this edition of SBE to discuss the emergent phenomenon in the context of his new book, The New Christians: Dispatches f … (Read More)

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Truth & Consequences

Erik Guzman November 28th, 2007

Check out this edition of [ping] and witness the birth of a new character in the pantheon of podcasting, Erik Solo.

I've never piloted this thing without somebody riding shotgun, so Mark and Jordo called in to keep me company. To stick with the Star Wars imagery, Mark plays the role of Chewbacca and Jordo makes a great C-3PO (fluent in over 6 million forms of communication).

Anyway, it was a good show. We talked about God's non-existence, keeping an open mind, truth, Rob Bell (th … (Read More)

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