Context Matters

If Jesus was Jewish, and the disciples were Jewish, how did Christianity and Judaism become two separate religions? I begin a new series this week about the development of the earl...

Philadelphia is hyperlocal. The residents and the small businesses in each of the small neighborhoods in this city have figured out how to be interdependent on one another. Every ...

What happens when you move from one continent to another during your formative growing up years? This week I talk with Dr. Kyuboem Lee. He had a fascinating childhood. He was born...

Do you have a memory of a time when science and religion clashed in your brain? Or when what you thought you knew for a fact ended up not being true at all? These experiences can b...

What does it look like to aspire to holiness? What theological ideas can be found in the rituals? This week, Tamar Kamionkowski describes the priestly view of God as like a chemica...

You may know Leviticus by its stereotype of  a list of rules, or a long list of things that make humans impure and the corresponding sacrifices that have to be sacrificed to re-est...

Can a Rights of Passage experience help students go through this process of shaking off the beliefs of others and taking responsibility over their own faith decisions? Dr. Muhia K...

Muhia Karinjahi grew up in a village just outside of Nairobi. His parents were first generation Christians, he went to a Muslim primary school, and worked in an Indian engineering ...

What is experiential learning? Can we engage the whole mind, body, and emotions in the learning process? Dr. Rob Ribbe talks about the powerful experience of being in a place (say ...

What can we learn from the foundation of an Israelite house? And is the faith system for normal people in normal villages excitedly like what we read in the Bible? Archaeology has ...

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be an archaeologist? Or what actually happens to an artifact from when it is discovered in the dirt to when it ends up in a museum?  Well ...

Lawson talks about his growing up years and how he ended up studying the Bible in college. Lawson also went to Kenya, which became a great context for learning about the cultural c...