Wayfinding

In this new season of Wayfnding, join historians Joe Thomas and Mark Draper for a journey through "The New Birth: George Whitefield, Benjamin Franklin, and the Great Awakening."   This is episode one, "George Whitefield and the Making of the Great Awakening."

In this season of Wayfnding, join historians Joe Thomas and Mark Draper for a journey through "The New Birth: George Whitefield, Benjamin Franklin, and the Great Awakening."   This is episode two, "Ben Franklin and the Creation of the American Persona."

In this season of Wayfnding, join historians Joe Thomas and Mark Draper for a journey through "The New Birth: George Whitefield, Benjamin Franklin, and the Great Awakening."   This is episode three, "George Whitefield and Ben Franklin: An Improbable Friendship."

In this season of Wayfnding, join historians Joe Thomas and Mark Draper for a journey through "The New Birth: George Whitefield, Benjamin Franklin, and the Great Awakening."   This is episode four, "The Trials and Tribulations of the Great Awakening."

In this season of Wayfnding, join historians Joe Thomas and Mark Draper for a journey through "The New Birth: George Whitefield, Benjamin Franklin, and the Great Awakening."   This is episode five, "Epilogue: Evaluating the Great Awakening."

This season of Wayfinding is hosted by historians Mark Draper and Joe Thomas. Jesus Christ called his first disciples to follow him and leave behind the religiosity of their day. Since then, revival and reform have been a hallmark of Christianity. Every generation of Christians needs their hearts revitalized. Likewise, the church is always in need of reform. In Wayfinding through Revivalism , Mark...

This season of Wayfinding is hosted by historians Mark Draper and Joe Thomas. Jesus Christ called his first disciples to follow him and leave behind the religiosity of their day. Since then, revival and reform have been a hallmark of Christianity. Every generation of Christians needs their hearts revitalized. Likewise, the church is always in need of reform. In Wayfinding through Revivalism , Mark...

This season of Wayfinding is hosted by historians Mark Draper and Joe Thomas. Jesus Christ called his first disciples to follow him and leave behind the religiosity of their day. Since then, revival and reform have been a hallmark of Christianity. Every generation of Christians needs their hearts revitalized. Likewise, the church is always in need of reform. In this first of three episodes of Wayf...

In this unique, historically-inspired, and locally-rooted episode of the Wayfinding podcast, Joe Thomas guides listeners on a walking prayer tour of the historic University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. As a Christian historian at Urbana Theological Seminary, Founder of local ministry Life Together House, and a long-standing member of the Evangelical Christian Union, Joe holds a deep love f...

How then is Bonhoeffer a wayfinder for us today? In this concluding episode of season one, Joe and Jonathan look back over the previous six conversations and discuss several insights for us as we navigate a life of faithfulness to Christ in our own time. Show Notes Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com Interested in exploring further resources related to this...

How do we bear witness to Christ in a "world come of age"? Written from prison during his final months on earth, Bonhoeffer exchanged a multitude of letters with close friends and family. He also penned many creative works and musings about the future of the church in the midst of a changing Western landscape. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan  explore some of Bonhoeffer’s unfinished tho...

What does Berlin have to do with Soweto? What could the German Bonhoeffer have to say, years after his death, to Christians struggling against apartheid? Listen in with Joe and Jonathan as they consider the legacy of Bonhoeffer as a wayfinder for the church in South Africa.  Show Notes Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com Interested in exploring further resou...

The brutality of Adolf Hitler's Nazi ideology was unrelenting. As pastor, theologian, and vocal Nazi dissenter, Dietrich Bonhoeffer devoted many years to every possible means of peaceful resistance, but upon his return to Germany after a brief second sojourn in America, Bonhoeffer's energy shifted to the insider Conspiracy to remove Hitler. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan look behind t...

Have you ever made a decision you agonized over, or perhaps later regretted? In this conversation of Wayfinding, Joe and Jonathan discuss the implications of three words from the apostle Paul for one of Bonhoeffer's most consequential decisions: his early exodus from America and his return to a Germany in the throes of warfare. An original play by the same title, "Come Before Winter&quot...

What has been your journey of relating to the Bible? Dietrich Bonhoeffer underwent significant shifts in how he approached, read, and applied Scripture. In this episode, Joe and Jonathan trace that history and consider the implications for us today from Bonhoeffer's own wayfinding with God's Word.  Show Notes Questions, comments, feedback? Email us at joe.thomas@lifetogetherhouse.com Int...

When you resist evil but your attempts end in failure, what do you do? In this episode, Joe and Jonathan explore Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s search for a faithful Christian response to Nazism, which led him down numerous paths of peaceful resistance. But these paths didn't lead where he had envisioned. Join us as we kick off this first season of our new podcast, Wayfinding, in which we explore the...