KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR / LIFE, LITERATURE, & GOD
Karen Swallow Prior is a Reader, Writer, and Professor. In that order, which was discussed in this conversation along with the power of language, the Word becoming flesh, the connection of imagination with logic and reason, empathy, trauma, the theodicy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and love being the center of our conversations. Karen also shares about getting hit by a literal bus and how she grew in her understanding that her life is in God’s hands.
QUOTES
“We express our sense of ourselves and our experience through language and even before we express it, we understand it that way.”
“Language helps us interpret our experiences…what stories we tell ourselves or what we tell other people about what happened to us. It’s an interpretive frame for the rest of our lives.”
Regarding the Word became flesh: “To think about words as symbols and even that idea is also a metaphor but also literal… I can’t even understand it on a literal level but the possibilities and the implications are endless and it should shape everything that we think and we do.”
“What I’m trying to understand better about God… is how we relate to God through the church and in the church that is so imperfect and fallen…”
For more on Karen Swallow Prior
www.karenswallowprior.com
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Article Karen referenced in the Podcast / Sin Is Like Walking In Front of a Bus
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Hermeneutics, pain and suffering, the sovereignty of God, brain science, Terrence Malick films, and tacos. Chris Green hits all the beats in this deep and thought-provoking podcast.
Prior to joining the SEU faculty, Chris Green taught previously for more than a decade at several other schools, including Pentecostal Theological Seminary (Cleveland, TN), Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, OK), and Southwestern Christian University (Bethany, OK). He is the author of several books, including most recently Surprised by God and The End is Music, both published by Cascade Press. His current research interests are focused on the doctrine of God, Pentecostal spirituality, and issues of racial/ethnic injustice. Chris serves as a Teaching Pastor at Sanctuary Church (Tulsa, OK), and he is also a visual artist. He and his wife, Julie, live in Lakeland with their three children.
You can learn more about Chris Green at www.seu.edu
For more on his most recent book go to Surprised by God & The End is Music
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Mike is a brilliant communicator and pastors Freedom Ministries. In this podcast we talk about prayer and oneness with God and Mike teaches us quantum physics! Mike reveals how scripture and quantum physics are not in conflict with each other. Mike then shares how to pray with confidence, especially in the scary days of the Coronavirus. He teaches us how to freely receive what we already have been given by our Father; “Everything He has is already ours!”
Quotes:
“He is a more than enough God, not just enough. He came to give us life and life more abundantly.”
“The New Covenant is our Union.”
Books Mike mentioned as resources.
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler
The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles and Belief by Gregg Braden
The Power of the Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
Mike mentioned Inspire100.org, a ministry near to his heart.
INSPIRE100: Most people desire to make a difference in other people’s lives, but may not believe they have enough money, time or talent to truly make an impact. But what if 100 people in a city donate $100 per month? Now we have $10,000 per month to give away to people in need in that city. Imagine if 1,000 people give $100 per month. We could donate $10,000 in 10 different cities each month. Learn more!
You can learn more about Mike at Freedom Ministries. www.freedomministries.org
Freedom Ministries Youtube messages can be found HERE
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Brad discusses high Christology. He explains in detail how the greater your focus on Christ (a theology of Christ) the wider you see Abba’s love to be.
Brad gives insight into how our early church fathers thought about God and how they read and interpreted scripture. He also discussed what the wrath of God means in scripture.
QUOTES
As if reading Numbers genealogies or lists of how many people were in the tribes was as important and true as the red letters in the gospels”
“So, to call me a Marcionite, frankly it’s just slander.”
Teaching children under 10 to read scripture – “John 10:10 The thief is the death dealer, God is life-giver. When it (scripture) says God is the death dealer, that’s cause we got to tell the story…” Brad Jersak
“God is love but He’s also righteous, God is love but He’s also holy, God is love but He’s also just. As if those were in competition. As if you could have a holiness, righteousness and justice that isn’t love in the divine nature. Well, here’s some bad news, the holiness, justice and righteous that is not divine love is the Pharisees, that’s what crucified the Son of God” Brad Jersak on the nature and attributes of God.
For more information on Brad Jersak go to www.bradjersak.com
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