The Theology Mill

A crossover episode in which Zech swaps seats and appears as a guest on Martin Robb’s care ethics podcast, Careful Thinking . Zech shares about his book, The Unthinkable Sacrifice: An Essay on Fatherhood , and discusses his own experience as a father and the ways French phenomenology has helped him think through his practice of parenthood.  NEWSLETTER: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter and get *...

In this episode, Zech talks with Colby Dickinson about his many pilgrim journeys in the city of Rome. Together they ask: how does religious identity—or lack thereof—shape one’s experience of places with historically thick spiritual meaning? What might it look like to encounter something beyond ourselves when our faith wanes more than it waxes? Finally, can pilgrimage still be meaningful when so of...

Dr. Meek on the mother’s smile as a form of philosophical formation and a form of epistemic access to reality, why it’s important to see oneself being seen (as beloved), and how modernity operates as a barrier to such interpersoned philosophy.   BIO: Esther Lightcap Meek is Professor of Philosophy emerita at Geneva College. Meek’s books include  Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ord...

TOPICS: – Sally Gross – intersex embodiment – religious belonging – Foucault – the “medical gaze” – activism     BIO: M. Wolff is Associate Professor of Religion at Augustana College and author of Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging (2025).   PODCAST LINKS: - Body Problems (book): https://www.dukeupress.edu/body-problems   NEWSLETTER:...

KEYWORDS: – Reformation – confessionalization – law-gospel dialectic – doctrine of justification – sacramental theology – preaching – Reformation myths BIO: Corneliu Simuț is Professor of Theology at Aurel Vlaicu University in Arad, Romania. He is the author of numerous books, including Reading Doctrines as Theological Images in Reformed Protestantism (2016), Richard Hooker and his Early Doctrine...

KEYWORDS: – presence – communion – personhood – cosmos – communitas – politics – eucharist BIO: James Greenaway is the San José-Lonergan Chair in Catholic Philosophy at St. Mary’s University. He is the author of  The Differentiation of Authority: The Medieval Turn Toward Existence (2012) and A Philosophy of Belonging: Persons, Politics, Cosmos (2023). PODCAST LINKS: - A Philosophy of Belonging (bo...

KEYWORDS: - new natural law – moral philosophy – ethics – Aquinas – Aristotle – subsidiarity – political philosophy BIO: Melissa Moschella is a professor of the practice in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life. She is the author of  To Whom Do Children Belong? Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children’s Autonomy  (2017) and  Ethics, Politics, and Natu...

THEMES: - religion and horror movies - the feeling of horror –horror vs. terror – the importance of the body in horror films – sociophobics – Dark Transcendent and Divine Transcendent   BIO: Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is an associate professor of theologyat Marquette University. In addition to many articles and book chapters, he is the author of  Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest...

THEMES: - charges brought against the early Christians – the apologists’ main lines of defense - the apologists and “apologetics” – the historicity and truthfulness of Christian faith – Greek philosophy and Christian faith – the apologists on the Roman Empire BIO: Alvyn Pettersen is Canon Theologian Emeritus of Worcester Cathedral, UK, and an Honorary Chaplain at The University Church of St Mary t...

THEMES: - the blessed & the lost/damned - infernalism, annihilationism, & universalism - heavenly grief - moral sanctification BIO: Eric Reitan is professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of  Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers  (2009),  The Triumph of Love: Same-Sex Marriage and the Christian Love Ethic  (2017), and the novel  So Eden...

Ronald E. Heine is Professor Emeritus of Bible and Theology at Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Oregon. He is the author of several books on early Christian authors and subjects and translator of many of Origen’s exegetical and homiletical works. PODCAST LINKS: - Origen Cascade Companion (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781498288958/origen/ - The Philocalia of Origen (annotated, hardcove...

Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University and the author of The Pentecostal Hypothesis: Christ Talks, They Decide (Cascade, 2020). PODCAST LINKS: - The Pentecostal Hypothesis (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781725254510/the-pentecostal-hypothesis/ NEWSLETTER: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter and get ***40% OFF*** any Wipf and Stock book: http://eep...

Jacob Marques-Rollison is currently co-president of the International Jacques Ellul Society (IJES).   Among his publications on the life and work of Jacques Ellul are  A New Reading of Jacques Ellul: Presence and Communication in the Postmodern World  (2020) and an English translation of Ellul's two-volume ethical treatise  To Will & To Do . He and his wife are on staff at L’Abri Fellowship in...

Philip John Paul Gonzales is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Baltimore. He is author of Reimagining the Analogia Entis: The Future of Erich Przywara’s Christian Vision and editor of Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O’Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity , and co-editor of  Finitude's Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chrétie...

Paul R. Hinlicky is Tise Professor emeritus at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is author of numerous articles and books, including the Cascade Companion on Lutheran Theology (2020), Luther for Evangelicals (2018), Luther and the Beloved Community (2010), and a systematic theology, Beloved Community (2015). He is Distinguished Professor on the graduate faculty of Christ Seminary, Institute o...

Laurie M. Johnson is professor of political science at Kansas State University and president of The Maurin Academy (https://pmaurin.org). Most of her work has involved developing an understanding and critique of classical liberal theory and includes works on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Her recent book,  Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right (2019), sets the stage for h...

John H. Buchanan received a doctorate in liberal arts from Emory University. He was trained and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner by Stan and Christina Grof. He is a contributing coeditor for  Rethinking Consciousness  (2020) and the author of Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety (Cascade, 2022). PODCAST LINKS: - Processing Reality (book): https:...

Paul Louis Metzger, Ph. D., is Professor of Christian Theology & Theology & Culture, Multnomah Biblical Seminary/Jessup University, Director of The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine, New Wineskins, and author and editor of numerous works, including  Evangelical Zen: A Christian’s Spiritual Travels with a Buddhist Friend (2nd ed., Cascade, 2024), More Than Things: A Personalist Et...

Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen with a dissertation on negative theology and ethics in Clement of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa. He is the author of Negative Theology: A Short Introduction (Cascade, 2022). PODCAST LINKS: - Negative Theology (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666742169/negative-theology/ CONNECT: Website: https://wipfan...

Rev. Dr. Andrew T. Draper is the Executive Director of Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay, OH. He is also teaching pastor at Urban Light Community Church in Muncie, IN. He has authored numerous books and articles on race, disability, and the church. Dr. Draper holds a PhD in theological ethics from the University of Aberdeen and an MDiv from Winebrenner Theological Seminary. PODCAST LINKS...

Jack Haberer was raised Roman Catholic, became a Jesus freak, was formed in faith by Baptists, Pentecostals, Charismatics, Methodists, Non-denominationals, and finally ordained a Presbyterian, earning three academic degrees in the process. He has served influential churches as pastor—in twenty-two of which he preached to rocket scientists. The congregations flourished. He has written three earlier...

Andrew Barron was an adjunct faculty at The Centre for Spirituality, Disability, and Care at Martin Luther University College, federated with Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. He has previously taught disability and theology at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto where he graduated with his doctor of ministry degree in 2016. Barron is the author of Human Difference: Reflecti...

Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen with a dissertation on negative theology and ethics in Clement of Alexandria and Gregory of Nyssa. He is the author of Negative Theology: A Short Introduction (Cascade, 2022). PODCAST LINKS: - Negative Theology (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666742169/negative-theology/ CONNECT: Website: https://wipfan...

Susan Grove Eastman is associate research professor emerita of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. She is the author of  Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul’s Anthropology (2017), Recovering Paul’s Mother Tongue: Language and Theology in Galatians  (2007/2022), Oneself in Another: Participation and Personhood in Pauline Theology  (2024), and Romans: An Interpretation Commentary (forthcoming, 20...

Steven DeLay is an Old Member of Christ Church, University of Oxford. He is the author of philosophical works and works of fiction, including Elijah Newman Died Today (2022) and Faint Not (2022), and the translator of Jean-Louis Chrétien’s Ten Meditations for Catching and Losing One’s Breath (Cascade, 2024). PODCAST LINKS: - Ten Meditations for Catching and Losing One’s Breath (book): https://wipf...