Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse

The seventh of a series on the Sermon on the Mount. The call to perfection in Matthew 5:48-6:9 and 6:16-18 is often taught as impossible, thus giving licence to Christians to ignore and even despise the Way of Jesus as irrelevant to their gleeful embrace of power, violence and nationalism. We take a closer look...Thanks to Jon and the Dig Deeper team of St Luke's Church for allowing us to release these recordings!Has anything we make been interesting, useful or fruitful for you? You can support us by becoming a Fellow Traveller on our Patreon page HERE.

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Stephanie Drury is the founder of stuffchristianculturelikes, the go-to site for anyone who if they did not laugh would rage. Underneath the wicked humour and sharp insight is the deeper work of binding up the broken hearted and setting the captives free, especially women harmed by evangelical culture. Stephanie joins the Tent to talk about being too vulgar for Christianity Today, fighting with theobros and her role in the "fall" part of the rise and fall of Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill.Follow Stephanie and SCCL on Twitter. Follow Stephanie and SCCL on Instagram.Has anything we make been interesting, useful or fruitful for you? You can support us by becoming a Fellow Traveller on our Patreon page HERE.Remember to check out Gentle Spacemakers, the album soundtrack for the podcast. Patreon supporters can download their copy or you can also listen wherever you stream music or from Chris's music page at chrismarchand.bandcamp.com.

The sixth of a series on the Sermon on the Mount. From Matthew 5:38-48, Stephen discusses how turning the other cheek is not "doing nothing," but is instead a way of resisting violence and giving the violent a new way to see reality. The way of Jesus does not allow us to take a human life to solve a problem, no matter how logical that solution may seem. Thanks to Jon and the Dig Deeper team of St Luke's Church for allowing us to release these recordings!Has anything we make been interesting, useful or fruitful for you? You can support us by becoming a Fellow Traveller on our Patreon page HERE.Remember to check out Gentle Spacemakers, the album soundtrack for the podcast. Patreon supporters can download their copy or you can also listen wherever you stream music or from Chris's music page at chrismarchand.bandcamp.com.

Sara Billups is a breath of fresh air. She is smart, funny and kind, and has lived a varied and interesting life. She is a Seattle-based writer seeking a deeper faith in our complicated world. She's been the only Christian in the room in creative spaces in the city, but of late has also found herself increasingly alienated from culturally dominant American Christianity. Sara has written about these experiences in multiple places, including the New York Times. Her upcoming book is Orphaned Believers.You can find out more about Sara's writing and her own podcast HERE.Has anything we make been interesting, useful or fruitful for you? You can support us by becoming a Fellow Traveller on our Patreon page HERE.

The fifth of a series on the Sermon on the Mount. Should followers of Jesus swear oaths and pledges of allegiance? What if it is to the Queen or to the bishop as an act of obedience? Stephen weighs in on what Jesus has to say on the matter as we focus on Matthew 5:33-37.Thanks to Jon and the Dig Deeper team of St Luke's Church for allowing us to release these recordings!Has anything we make been interesting, useful or fruitful for you? You can support us by becoming a Fellow Traveller on our Patreon page HERE.Remember to check out Gentle Spacemakers, the album soundtrack for the podcast. Patreon supporters can download their copy or you can also listen wherever you stream music or from Chris's music page at chrismarchand.bandcamp.com.

Chris Marchand is an Anglican priest and church music leader from Peoria, Illinois in the USA. He also teaches history and literature classes at Schole Academy, an online Classical Christian school. He has just released Gentle Spacemakers an album of the music he's written for the Tent Talks podcast (which also includes the theme song for The Hyphen, Stephen's other podcast). You can stream or download the album on Bandcamp or wherever you stream music. Chris has two other podcasts, Postconsumer Reports about art and faith, and Between the Songs about the music of Rich Mullins. Finally, if you want to go back to where it all started, here is Chris's original interview with Stephen about his biography of Soren Kierkegaard.Chris has written the book Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas, which you can find here, or wherever you buy books.Has anything we make been interesting, useful or fruitful for you? You can support us by becoming a Fellow Traveller on our Patreon page HERE.

The fourth of a series on the Sermon on the Mount. In this episode we focus on Matthew 5:27-32 and Jesus's teachings on lust and adultery. In this passage we see that the heart of Jesus's message was a concern about broken relationships, that sin is always a communal event, and that seemingly harsh teachings like this one were about protecting our own souls as well as the vulnerable among us.Thanks to Jon and the Dig Deeper team of St Luke's Church for allowing us to release these recordings!Has anything we make been interesting, useful or fruitful for you? You can support us by becoming a Fellow Traveller on our Patreon page HERE.

An extra episode offering some reflections on the war in Ukraine and the Way of Jesus in response to listener questions.Gracie and Bob Ekblad's writing and work can be found HERE.Tearfund is HERE.Red Letter Christians are HERE.Christian Peacemaker Teams are HERE.

Dr Selina Stone is Tutor and Lecturer in Theology at St Mellitus College in London. Her doctorate was on ‘Holy Spirit, Holy Bodies?: Pentecostalism, Pneumatology and the Politics of Embodiment’. Dr Stone’s research and teaching focus on the themes of politics, power and social justice, which she began exploring as a practitioner while working as a community organiser and programme director at the Centre for Theology and Community from 2013-2017. She is a sought-after speaker and consultant, and from 2021-22 is leading a research project on the wellbeing of UK Minority Ethnic clergy in the Church of England, funded by the Clergy Support Trust.More about Selina HERE.Has anything we make been interesting, useful or fruitful for you? You can support us by becoming a Fellow Traveller on our Patreon page HERE.