Today’s post is an interview with Anthony Le Donne on his new book, Gods of Thrones: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Religions of Ice and Fire. Le Donne (PhD, Durham) is Associate Professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary. He is also the author/editor of seven books including Historical Jesus: What Can We Know and How Can We […]
Interviews
How Jesus Saved the World From Us: Interview with Morgan Guyton
In 2013, Morgan Guyton & I (Jared) had the chance to connect at Wild Goose Fest, where we were both presenting. He was hosting a dance party and I was speaking on creativity & faith. This past month Morgan published How Jesus Saves the World from Us: 12 Antidotes to Toxic Christianity so we sat […]
Wolves, Gates, & Radical Faith
The first time Mark Van Steenwyk and I (Jared) met, I was picking him and a group of mutual friends up from a Conference in Phoenix, where I was living and teaching at the time. Our destination: the closest karaoke bar we could find. Our mission: sing our hearts out to the 7 locals that […]
Wholeheartedness with Chuck DeGroat
Just this month Chuck DeGroat, Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling & Senior Fellow of the Newbigin House of Studies at Western Theological Seminary, came out with his book Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self. So, we metaphorically sat with him and ask him a few questions about it: 1. What […]
Christianity & the Grotesque
by Jared Byas Meet Nancy Hightower. I met Nancy, a writer with a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver, several years ago now. She was leaving her position at a college in Colorado to write and teach in NYC. I was very interested in her take on creativity, Christianity, and her interest in […]
What if Eve Said No? An Interview with Anna Lindsay
While we don’t post much about works of fiction, we make exceptions when . . . well, whenever we feel like it. So this is an interview with Anna Lindsay, whose work, Eden Undone, was released back in January and is an interesting take on Genesis based on the simple question: “What if Eve had […]
Changing Faith: An Interview with Michael Hidalgo
Today’s post is an interview with Michael Hidalgo, whose Changing Faith: Questions, Doubts and Choices About the Unchanging God comes out this month! Michael and his wife have lived in downtown Denver the past 8 years and have three magnificent, imaginative, hilarious, wonderful children. He currently serves as the lead pastor of Denver Community Church. […]
The Need for a More Christlike God: An Interview with Brad Jersak
Today’s post is an interview with Brad Jersak, author of A More Christlike God, which came out last week. The book, with a foreword by Brian Zahnd, is about how replacing whatever image of God we have with a more Christlike image of God is central to the Gospel being truly good news. Brad Jersak […]
the gospel, the blues, and a world gone wrong
Today’s post is an interview with Gary Burnett (PhD), author of The Gospel According to the Blues. Burnett is a man of diverse talents. He is an honorary lecturer in New Testament in the Institute of Theology at Queens University Belfast (where he teaches New Testament and New Testament Greek), a Fellow of the British Computer Society, […]
biblical violence and reading the Bible like Jesus did
Today’s post is an interview with Derek Flood, author of Disarming Scripture: Cherry-Picking Liberals, Violence-Loving Conservatives, and Why We All Need to Learn to Read the Bible Like Jesus Did, which has just been released this week. The book deals with the problem of violence in Scripture, tackling a wide range of troubling passages—from commands […]
