A podcast about the riddle-like nature of the Christian life for people who like parables, proverbs, stories and songs. | Host: Ross Byrd | Regular guests: C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, George MacDonald and Jesus | Substack: PatientKingdom.com
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This is the second in a two-part series dealing with the hiddenness of God. In the first talk, "Why God Hides," Ross discussed the interplay between “atonement” (covering) and “apocalypse” (uncovering) as a framework for understanding how God reveals himself…and why he hides. In this, the second installment, Ross argues that Jesus, too, hides in order to be seen. Through the Parable of the Sower,…
This is the first in a two-part series dealing with the hiddenness of God. In the first talk, "Why God Hides," Ross discusses the interplay between “atonement” (covering) and “apocalypse” (uncovering) as a framework for understanding how God reveals himself…and why he hides. An article of the same title was recently published in Mere Orthodoxy. You can find more articles like this at Ross's…
Ross hosts tech-entrepreneur-turned-polymath (and recent Christian convert) Jordan Hall for a conversation about the church, the commons, vocation, education, currency, community, & the future of civilization. To watch the video, or to find more content like this, visit PatientKingdom.com . Jordan Hall has a mind like few others. After a successful career as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur (retiring…
New Testament scholar Thomas Dixon joins us to talk about the surprising nature of divine wrath and election in Scripture, especially regarding the oft-misunderstood passage from St. Paul, Romans 9-11. Thomas and I begin the conversation by exploring the thesis of his new book, Paul and the Wrath: Divine Judgment and Mercy for Israel in Romans 9-11 , that, in Paul’s thinking, as elsewhere in the…
A short story wrestling with the problem of "divine violence" in the Bible, specifically the stoning of the Sabbath-breaker in Numbers 15. A man is caught picking up sticks on the Sabbath, and the Lord tells Moses to have the people stone him to death. How could such a thing possibly be ordained by God? How should Christians think about such passages? Yuval Noah Harari's TED Talk clip that I…
This episode is a wild ride. What began as a straightforward movie review of a Disney animated film turned into an in-depth theological/philosophical/mythical journey from Prometheus to Aladdin to Rumpelstiltskin to Midas to Faust to Frankenstein to Adam to Cain to Gilgamesh to Satan to Jesus to Garth Brooks. There's a lot going on here. But I promise it's worth it, it fits together. Give it a…
A Parish Manifesto is a vision for the future of our evangelical churches in America. Two central streams run throughout Scripture in seemingly opposite directions: holiness ("being set apart") and inclusion ("bringing together"). Ultimately, these two streams flow together in Christ and in his church. Yet, in practice, sometimes one stream takes center stage. Joseph's blessed relationship with…
Over the past few years, in our Virginia Beach community, I’ve been exploring the question, “What does faithful participation in the body of Christ look like? Where do we begin?” In response, we’ve formed some very simple collective practices: Scripture, Prayer, Fasting, Church, & Authority. We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel here. Quite the opposite. We’re trying to rediscover the wheel, as…
“Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” — Mark 11:24 Prayer means asking. But asking is a more foreign concept to us than it might seem. Adults in the modern world don’t actually do a lot of asking. We press buttons and things appear. We take pills and things disappear. We wish for things. We work for things. But we don’t…
Nobody wants to be religious anymore. Secular people often say they are “spiritual not religious.” Evangelicals often say, “Christianity is not a religion; it’s a relationship.” Sure, Christianity is about a relationship with God. But there's a reason the Bible is full of priests and temples, ceremonies and sacrifices, prayers and prophecies, covenants and commandments. Our relationship with God…