Revelation 7:9 Conversations

What are we missing when we fail to (or are afraid to?) bring our full ethnic, cultural selves in reading the Bible? A lot, actually, because God meets us in the concreteness of a person whose meaning is fully formed in a particular time and culture.  Dr. Janette Ok is a professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary, a preacher, and the co-author of New Testament in Color (IVP). Vania Gomez and Ji...

Just in time for award season, Jin, Amanda and Jacilyn do movie-talk about Ryan Coogler's Sinners with historian Jemar Tisby! Jemar is the NYT-bestselling author of The Color of Compromise, How to Fight Racism, and The Spirit of Justice, but also a film buff who helps us to remember how movies can help stoke our prophetic imagination. Join us in this fun conversation, as Dr. Tisby pulls apart...

Dorena Williamson is the bestselling author of 9 children's books with a passion "for all children to hear the message of God's diverse kingdom." In this conversation with Jacilyn Goodwin and Vania Gomez, she shares her story of navigating the publishing world to find God's adventure in storytelling for children.  Telling these stories are an act of creating Godly imaginat...

Our inaugural episode! Jin & Amanda talk to Terry Wildman, lead translator of the First Nations Version of the New Testament, and hopefully soon the whole Bible. Terry shares his journey from a musician and a worship leader to becoming a translator! Translation, according the Terry, is not so much an academic act in the isolation of an ivory tower, but a communal "dance" in the conte...