Everyday Theology

Today is a special day - it is the launch of Aaron's new book, Faith as Life in the Spirit: A Pneumatology of Belief, Affection, and Works. In this special episode, Aaron and Chris reverse roles. Chris interviews Aaron on his new book, the process behind it, and what makes it unique. This book covers a pneumatological pistology, or rather, asks the question, "what does the Spirit have to...

In their new book, Tommy and Scot McKnight discuss how Jesus is disappearing in the evangelical church, and how this is leading to deconstruction. Aaron and Tommy sit down and talk about what Tommy and Scot found in their new book, Invisible Jesus: A Book about Leaving the Church and Looking for Christ .

In order to understand the state of the church today, we need to look at the church of the past. Dr. Leah Payne joined Aaron on this podcast to discuss what we can learn about church history spanning various topics such as efficiency models, women in ministry, and everything in between.

There are a lot of things to be said about the state of the church in America, but what can be said by those who are both pastors and theologians? In this podcast, Aaron chats with Joseph Lear, a pastor and professor, about the church in America today, and where it is headed.

Return guest, Rev. Dr. Yoon Shin, and I sit down to talk about our academic and church life journeys. We talk about the good, bad, ugly, and holy of the academic and church worlds we have found ourselves in. We even get into whether or not we would start PhD's again, and what that process did within us.

Conversations on race, religion, politics, or anything that promises to be controversial has the ability to cause contentious conversations and cause ruptured relationships. In Ashlee Eiland's new book, "Say Good", she argues that this does not have to be the only outcome of hard conversations. In this podcast, Aaron sits down with Ashlee how to have hard and fruitful conversations while staying i...

A question has plagued Christianity for some time, what do we do with a loving God in the New Testament seen in Christ when we find a God who directs violence in the Old Testament? There are various answers and theories that have been deployed to answer this, and yet, is it even the right question to ask to begin with? In this episode, Aaron sits down with friend of the podcast, Chris Green, to di...

Have you ever wondered about the business of the church? Wondered where your donations or tithes have gone? Have you felt that there has been a lack in the accountability of how churches spend money, or where they put there money into? Nate Apffel set out to understand the religion of business in his new series "Religion Business", coming out in the Fall ('24). Listen along as Aaron...

How should Christians vote? How do we engage in politics? What does it mean to be a Christian in a political world? In this podcast, Aaron speaks with the Founder, President, and CEO of the Center for Christianity in Public Life, Michael Wear about the framework needed to answer those questions. If you are looking for a podcast that says a Christian should vote for this candidate or that one, this...

It is easy, in polarized Christian contexts, let alone a polarized world, to be gracious, generous, and to express gratitude. Yet, according to Dr. Cornelius (Neal) Plantinga, gratitude not only is helpful for humans psychologically and spiritually, it can heal a host of other issues, including the polarized divide we find ourselves in. This episode, Aaron speaks with Neal about his recently relea...

With some ardent supporters, very vocal detractors, and many left in-between, the ideology of Christian nationalism has become a topic of much debate. Particularly within an election year, asking how Christian should engage within a political life, is the continued work of theological exploration. On today's podcast, Aaron discusses Christian nationalism, what it is, what is is not, and what i...

There have been a lot of book about Jesus and movies, or Jesus and music, but have we ever stopped to ask questions about the engagement between the arts and the Spirit? In this episode, Drs. Chris Green and Robby Waddell join Aaron to discuss reflecting on the Spirit through the arts. We as the church might be surprised to find what we both understand about culture and about the Spirit when we fi...

It may sound odd to hear, but often theology has forgotten the third person of the Trinity. The Spirit, her work, and what it means for us as Christians in participating with the Spirit, has often been an after thoughts in the tomes of systematic theology. In this epidote, Revd Dr Helen Collins joins Aaron to discuss her new book Charismatic Christianity: Introducing Its Theology Through the Gifts...

Modernism gave us scientific certainty, which ultimately pushed back against the faith claims of Christianity (and religion in general). Postmodernism taught us there was nothing to be certain about, nothing real to be claimed. Is there a better way? In this episode, Aaron speaks with his guest Brendan Graham Dempsey about what metamodernism is as a new(ish) paradigm for engaging with the world an...

It is easy to talk about the prophetic theologically and biblically. Many claims can be made, frameworks created, and methods deduced about when the prophetic is helpful and spiritual, and when it is manipulative and done poorly. Everyday Theology has explored the prophetic, good, bad, and ugly in biblical and theological ways. This week, Aaron speaks with Dr. Mark Chironna who holds a PhD from th...

Worldview is a term used often to describe how people think about, see, and engage within the world. Christians have used this term for some time now, but do we really know what the word means or why it is important for Christians to understand what comprises their worldview. Everyone has a worldview, but not everyone knows what makes up their own worldviews. In this podcast, Aaron talked with Ste...

God's Not Dead. . . God's Not Dead 2. . . Son of God. . . I Still Believe. . . on and on and on, there seems to be no slowing down of "Christian" media (especially media that is being created for a profit!). In this episode, Dr. Blaine Charette joins Aaron to talk about the representation of Jesus in pop culture, what we get right, and what we get oh so wrong.

Every few years it seems that another video, blog article, or preacher espouses some idea based on the numbers of the Bible - whether it is fear over "antichrist" and the number 666 or even just saying that the number 7 means completion. What do we do with these numbers and how do we better approach what scripture is doing when it seems to use numbers as symbols? Frequent guest, Dr. Rick...

The Billy Graham rule is an often touted rule for ministry and life. You don't meet with someone of the opposite sex alone. Simply right? Not really. Ryan Beaty joins Aaron to talk about the origins of the Billy Graham rule, what it was actually about when Graham's ministry instituted their rules for ministry, and how the church in the following years got it all wrong - because of poor sen...

You cannot seem to escape it, church scandal after church scandal, with no clear end in sight. It should not surprise us that church attendance in the Unites States is dropping, and quickly. How do we fix it? How do we create a church that is good and one that fulfills its purpose? In 2020 Scot and Laura published their book, "A Church Called Tov" discussing some of these pressing issues...

For many, practical theology just means discussing how people practice their theology, but practical theology is much more than putting to practice theology, it is a method of understanding why people practice the way they do and how theology plays a role. Dr. Mark Cartledge, Principal (President) of London School of Theology joins Aaron to talk about this as well as the role of the Spirit in publ...

Revelation for many seems to continue to be elusive. Is it left behind, is it just one big hallucination, or is it something more? Pentecostal scholar, Dr. John Christopher Thomas, joins Aaron to talk about how to read Revelation as a narrative and what that means for how we read and understand such an enigmatic letter. When we learn to read Revelation as a narrative, most of the preconceptions ab...

Who hasn't seen really hokey Christian art? Why is it that art and the Church seem to clash so often? In this episode, Aaron spends time with Scott Erickson (@scottthepainter) to talk about art, theology, the church, and where they come together, and where they don't. Art can be therapeutic, healing, and push people into better understandings of God, but they can also easily make God seem...

If you paid attention to the Christian Twittersphere in the last few weeks, you would be hard pressed to not have seen the controversy surrounding Josh Butler's article on the Gospel Coalition. More than just a comedy of errors, with endorsers retracting their endorsements, claiming they only read a small part of the book, TGC claiming if everyone just knew what Josh actually wrote, his fetishized...

Reading the Bible is not very easy, it is an ancient text that we have to work to understand. However, we only make it harder on ourselves when we ask questions of the Bible it was never purposed to answer. In this podcast, Aaron speaks with Marty Solomon, creator of the BEMA podcast, about his new book "Asking Better Questions of the Bible" and why this topic is so important.