The BEMA Podcast

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Andrew DeCort, author of Flourishing on the Edge of Faith . He holds a Ph. D. in Religious and Political Ethics and is the founder of the Neighbor-Love Movement and the Institute for Faith and Flourishing. Andrew has taught at a variety of universities around the world, and he and his wife, Lily, live and work between Ethiopia and Chicag...

Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks muse on the mysteries of rest and holiness, and conclude the anthology on the tabernacle. Presentation for Sanctuary — Resting with the Mishkan (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 331 Strong Bad Email #58: Dragon — YouTube The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel “When You Believe” from The Prince of Egypt — YouTube “Doubting Doubts” by Ci...

Brent Billings, Josh Bossé, and Elle Grover Fricks gather once again around the fire and wrestle with the radical implications of putting the Divine Image into practice. Presentation for Sanctuary — Traversing the Mishkan (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 330 “Man as the Image of God in Genesis in the Light of Ancient Near Eastern Parallels” by Edward Mason Curtis — University of Pennsylvania S...

Brent Billings is with Josh Bossé and Reed Dent to see how God’s presence shows up in surprising ways throughout the tabernacle. Presentation for Sanctuary — Moving the Mishkan (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 329 BEMA 294: John — Sacrifice, Suffering, and Joy

Brent Billings is with Josh Bossé and Reed Dent to consider the role of priests in the tabernacle through their clothing. Presentation for Sanctuary — Listening by the Mishkan (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 328 A Commentary on the Book of Exodus by U. Cassuto Diary of a Country Priest (1951 film) — Letterboxd

Brent Billings and Josh Bossé examine the communal life and stability found in the sacrificial altar. Presentation for Sanctuary — Feasting at the Mishkan (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 327 Ship of Theseus — Wikipedia

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are back with Josh Bossé to consider the boundaries established for the tabernacle and the love hidden within them. Presentation for Sanctuary — Entering the Mishkan (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 326 Symbolism of the Biblical World by Othmar Keel Inspiration and Incarnation by Peter Enns Join the BEMA Slack

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Josh Bossé to begin a series on the tabernacle of Exodus and the parallels it has to the Creation story, turning those spiritual principles into tangible practices. Presentation for Sanctuary — Waking Up in the Mishkan (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 325 Tabernacle — Wikipedia “What’s So Special About the Tabernacle?” — BibleProject Pod...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Anita Grace Brown. She has been using yoga for 25 years to heal from trauma, fear, and spiritual struggles. She engages nature and uses art to help others find redemption. Discussion Video for BEMA 324 Grooveology Website It’s 5 o’clock Somewhere Podcast Kamikaze Yogi by Anita Grace Brown Christians Practicing Yoga The Yoga Abbey I’m Gon...

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks finish out the series by turning their attention to two figures in the book of Revelation. Discussion Video for BEMA 323 Cinnabar — Wikipedia Litter (vehicle) [palanquin] — Wikipedia Epiphanius of Salamis — Wikipedia Hippolytus of Rome — Wikipedia Isis — Wikipedia BEMA 300: John — The Migdal

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Elle Grover Fricks to survey the forgotten women of the New Testament. Learning Greek with Elle — Servant (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 322 Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon Trireme — Wikipedia Didache — Wikipedia Junia (New Testament person) — Wikipedia BEMA News & Events

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé draw their chairs closer to the fire of the accounts of women who may have been overlooked in the Hebrew Bible. Discussion Video for BEMA 321 Binders Full of Women — Know Your Meme BEMA 209: Midrash — Noah’s Backstory and the Nephilim

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks study sages and wise women of the Text. Discussion Video for BEMA 320 Nadītu — Wikipedia

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Elle Grover Fricks to discuss how to navigate the dangers of presentism and primitivism as we start a series on the forgotten women of the Bible. Presentation for The Forgotten Women — Presentism and Primitivism (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 319 Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari BEMA 240: Sin and the Archaeology of Jos...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Alonzo Felder, author of Discovering A. S. J. Allen . Over the course of his career as an IT analyst at Duke University, Alonzo became an expert in a number of research methods and has done extensive work on his own family history. Discussion Video for BEMA 318 Discovering A. S. J. Allen by Alonzo Felder “Do You Know” Scale Review of Dis...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Erin Geiselman, leader of the launch team for Marty’s book Asking Better Questions of the Bible , to discuss what the experience of writing a book was like for Marty. Discussion Video for BEMA 317 Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon BEMA 207: J. R. Briggs — The Sacred Overlap The Writing Life Course — Kairos Partne...

Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about the story of the unforgiving servant and the end of bookkeeping and seeing our enemies as ourselves. Discussion Video for BEMA 316 BEMA 121: The Key to Your Own Prison The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf Join the BEMA Slack

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are back with Reed Dent to discuss the lost son of Luke 15 and what it means to be lost. Discussion Video for BEMA 315 The Pharisees by Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon

Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about the story of the rich fool and the dynamics of money and relationships. Discussion Video for BEMA 314 Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson Hope: The Prophet Candle — The BEMA Liturgy “Tripping Billies” by Dave Matthews Band — YouTube Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey The Parable of the Rich Fool — Reed Dent, Campus Christ...

Brent Billings is joined by Reed Dent and Elle Grover Fricks to talk about the story of the Good Samaritan and what it looks like to love people we’d rather not. Discussion Video for BEMA 313 Elle Meets John Piper “On Priests and Jericho in the Second Temple Period” by Joshua Schwartz — ResearchGate The Parable of the Good Samaritan — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are bringing in Reed Dent to launch a miniseries on parables, starting with a discussion about what a parable is and why anyone would want to teach in that way. Discussion Video for BEMA 312 Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson The Great Spiritual Migration by Brian McLaren Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins from T...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Keith Simon, co-author of Truth Over Tribe , who co-planted The Crossing, a politically diverse church where he is the co-lead teaching pastor. He hosts a podcast by the same name, Truth Over Tribe, and teaches on Ten Minute Bible Talks. Discussion Video for BEMA 311 Truth Over Tribe by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon Truth Over Tribe Pod...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Maggi Billings to discuss Marty’s favorite Christmas movie. Discussion Video for BEMA 310 The Nativity Story (2006 film) — Amazon The Nativity Story (2006 film) — JustWatch BEMA 89: Written in the Stars When God Was a Boy by C. T. Giles Festival Edition: The Birth (w/ Katie Del Rocco) [Adaptation from Frederick Buechner] — Mart...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings address the Twitter-sized elephant in the room, talk about how each of them use social media, and consider ways all of us can engage this part of our world in a healthy way. Discussion Video for BEMA 309 BEMA Poll/Survey (valid through 26 April 2023) “Twitter suspends @ElonJet plane-tracking bot after Musk pledged to leave it up” — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica “E...

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Maggi Billings to discuss The Chosen S2E9 (the 2021 Christmas special), “The Messengers.” (No) Discussion Video for BEMA 308 The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb Festival Edition: The Birth (w/ Katie Del Rocco) [Adaptation from Frederick Buechner] — Marty Solomon, YouTube The Nativity...