Interviews
Interviews on Christians in Culture
Last year three members from the HSF were involved in the publication of Christians in Culture, available at Amazon and Welch College Press. In recent months, Chris Talbot and Matthew Steven Bracey have had several interviews about the book in outlets including Colson Center, Better Together, and Everyday Theology. We commend them to you for your reference.
read moreInterview on Artificial Intelligence with Eddy Wu
Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic. Since the turn of the century and before, people have been enamored with the idea of AI. Movies ranging from I, Robot to Terminator to A.I. demonstrate equal parts fascination and anxiety. Yet individuals are often confused as to what AI is and how we should think about it. For that reason, I am thankful to get to interview a close friend of mine: Eddy Wu. Eddy is currently a PhD student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Apologetics and Culture. Before his time at SEBTS, Eddy earned a...
read moreInterview about F. Leroy Forlines’s “Secularism and the American Republic”
Last week we published a book review of F. Leroy Forlines’s newest publication, Secularism and the American Republic. This week we post an interview between its editor, Matthew Steven Bracey, and Eddie Moody, Executive Secretary of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, who hosts the Better Together Podcast. Moody asks Bracey about what led Forlines to pursue this topic, what Forlines’s hope for the book was, as well as about many of the arguments in the book. We hope you enjoy the interview. See the interview...
read moreMaximizing the Midsize Church: An Interview with David Peter
How big is your church? This question has been asked of all pastors by fellow pastors, neighbors, family members, and often on denominational reporting forms (just to name a few instances). I’ve often thought the question itself is consequential and meaningful but not for the reasons people often think. Church size is not just about a pastor or a congregation’s past or present faithfulness. It is also intimately connected to our ministry strategy, organizational dynamics, and a number of important leadership decisions about how we shepherd...
read moreThe Church’s Response to the Opioid Epidemic: An Interview with Daniel Edwards
From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people died from drug overdoses. In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly manufactured Fentanyl) was six times higher than it was in 1999. On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. To put these numbers in perspective, opioid-related deaths outnumber car crashes and gun-related deaths in the United States. Opioid-related inpatient hospital stays increased 64% nationally from 2005 to 2014.[1]...
read moreCultural Apologetics: An Interview with Paul M. Gould
For the past two millennia, Christians have sought to articulate their faith in thoughtful and compelling ways. Many of these “arguments” have been etched into church history, like Anselm’s ontological argument, Thomas Aquinas’s five ways, or William Paley’s illustration of the watchmaker. More recent times have witnessed a shift toward engaging the surrounding culture with the truth and the practice of Christianity. Men like Francis Schaeffer, C. S. Lewis, and E. J. Carnell have argued for Christianity not solely on one point but rather on...
read moreFaithful and Fractured: An Interview on the Clergy Health Crisis (Part II)
The first part of the interview posted earlier this week. Jackson: Jason, you poignantly note, “We go into ministry because we want to be part of Jesus’s saving lives and of his coming kingdom, which will renew all things. And then we can’t see how our jobs have anything to do with those things. Fill out these forms. Go to these meetings. Get gossiped about. Where’s the drama we sought? The life-changing, earth-restoring avalanche of grace we wanted to be part of?” What do you think are some practical ways pastors’ expectations can be...
read moreFaithful and Fractured: An Interview on the Clergy Health Crisis (Part I)
Book titles often interest me; few arrest me. Such was the case this past fall when Baker Academic’s catalog arrived at my home and I saw this title: Faithful and Fractured: Responding to the Clergy Health Crisis (Baker Academic, 2018). It was co-authored by a medical researcher and a pastor-theologian. I knew it was a book I had to get. Having read it, I now see that it is a book that not just pastors need to read, but it is one that should be read closely by denominational leaders, deacons, church board members, members of pulpit or...
read moreFirst Aid for Emotional Hurts: An Interview with Eddie Moody
“People need the Lord. At the end of broken dreams, He’s the open door,” sings Steve Green. Indeed, people need the Lord because they are broken. They need to be mended and comforted. This is the tone and approach Eddie Moody takes in the opening chapter of First Aid for Emotional Hurts: A Biblical Approach to Helping People through Difficult Times, revised and expanded (Nashville: Randall House, 2018). Believers are tasked with the responsibility of giving this care to others. However, in order to provide care for others, we must first...
read moreEvil, Hope, and the End of the World: An Interview with Michael Zeigler
The Reverend Dr. Michael Zeigler is the pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in St. Louis and is an adjunct instructor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary. Michael has become a good friend over the last few years. He is a great model of how one should wed sincere pastoral concern to significant theological reflection. He sat down with me recently to discuss the published form of his doctoral dissertation, Christian Hope Among Rivals. An incomplete transcript of our interview with time-stamps can be found below, as well as a link to the...
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