Intensity in Tent City

May 3, 2024

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Tim Dalrymple

Guest

Daniel Silliman

Tim Dalrymple and Daniel Silliman discuss escalating student protests on college campuses and the United Methodist Church removing LGBTQ limitations. They explore free speech rights, church unity, and the impact of campus activism on societal systems and spirituality.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Campus Protests at Columbia University

02:28 • 10min

Exploring the Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on Domestic Conversations and Protests

12:32 • 2min

Origins of the Free Speech Movement and Political Ramifications

14:54 • 3min

Navigating the Complexities of Student Protests

17:43 • 19min

Spirituality, Campus Ministries, and the United Methodist Church

36:50 • 2min

Navigating Tensions Within the United Methodist Church

39:14 • 12min

Navigating the Emotional Struggles within a Church Community

51:05 • 2min

College students protest and the United Methodist Church splits

We’re recording live this week from CT’s quarterly staff meeting with special guests CT president and CEO Tim Dalrymple and news editor Daniel Silliman. Host Mike Cosper and producer Clarissa Moll discuss the escalating student protests on U.S. college campuses -- why students are gathering and how free speech rights shape university discourse. Then, the United Methodist Church met this week to remove all LGBTQ limitations from its books. Should conservative churches within the denomination stay, or should they go?

Today’s Guests:

Timothy Dalrymple is a former national champion gymnast who turned to academia following an accident in college where he broke his neck. He studied at Stanford University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he made suffering a key theme of his research and teaching in modern Western religious thought. Dalrymple was a key player in the launch of patheos.com, an online marketing place of religious ideas, and he pioneered many of the techniques that led Patheos to become the world’s largest platform for multi-religious conversations. In 2013, he founded Polymath, a creative agency that services businesses and nonprofits serving the world. Dalrymple currently serves as Christianity Today’s President and CEO, the flagship evangelical media ministry founded in 1956 by Billy Graham.

Daniel Silliman is a journalist and a historian. He is the news editor for Christianity Today, the author of a history of bestselling evangelical fiction, and teaches humanities at Milligan University. Daniel spent several years as a crime reporter outside Atlanta before pursuing higher education in Germany, earning a MA from Tübingen University and a doctoral degree from Heidelberg University. He has reported and edited news coverage for CT since 2019.

“The Bulletin” is a production of Christianity Today

Executive Producer: Erik Petrik

Producer: Clarissa Moll and Matt Stevens

Associate Producer: McKenzie Hill and Raed Gilliam

Editing and Mix: TJ Hester

Music: Dan Phelps

Show Design: Bryan Todd

Graphic Design: Amy Jones

Social Media: Kate Lucky

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