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Sarah’s talk is a celebration of the glory in the mundane. That is the theme of the two wondrous Gwen Harwood poems that Sarah takes us through. But this leads naturally onto a view of the incarnation—the ultimate revealing of glory in the mundane. And Gwen Harwood pursued this glory in the mundane as a woman and mother—which leads her (and Sarah) to advocate a distinctly feminine view of incarnation and Christ. A view that Sarah brilliantly touches on in Luke’s gospel where the gentle domestic view of the women—and the mothers—seems a deliberate counterpoint to the chest-beating imperialism of the male disciples. This gorgeous talk is a work of art and will reward repeated listening.This is the first talk in our Great Poets on the Mystery of Faith series.Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r0A46uWMSc Slides:https://www.slideshare.net/gospelconversations/why-poetry-is-a-way-of-knowing-godgwen-harwoods-poetry iTunes, Spotify, and SoundCloud:https://GospelConversations.com/podcast Social Media:https://www.facebook.com/GospelConversationshttps://twitter.com/GospelConvershttps://www.youtube.com/user/GospelConversations Website:https://GospelConversations.com Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

Anyone who is not shocked by Quantum Theory has not understood it.—Niels Bohr, father of Quantum TheoryRon gives us a crash course in Quantum Theory and explains why it has profound implications for our understanding of reality and Creation's everlasting significance.Slides:https://www.slideshare.net/gospelconversations/how-to-design-an-eternal-universequantum-theory-implications Video:https://youtu.be/N1Mg2yzeGQkiTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/gospel-conversations/id878549160Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/2GBc4WgSRu75WDiJLM2NGhWebsite:https://www.gospelconversations.com/topicsFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/GospelConversationsTwitter:https://twitter.com/GospelConvers Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

This is the second talk on the incarnation in which Tony develops the expansive picture of how the incarnation defines and secures the ultimate destiny of humanity. This expansive vision only makes sense in a big picture of the cosmos so that is where Tony begins. He finishes with a summary of probably the most sophisticated framework of the incarnation that the church has developed—Irenaeus' theory of recapitulation. Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

Tony’s latest series of talks will position Ron’s talks on Mind over Matter in a biblical context. Ron’s talks have humanised creation and reintroduced mystery to nature. In this talk, Tony's asks how does this apply to our theology of: Creation?The relationship between man and God?God and the natural world?All of these questions come to a head in our view of the Incarnation—was it a ‘detour’ or was it actually necessary as defining the destiny of all creation? Was Irenaeus right when he said that the Incarnation was necessary even without sin? This debate has been pivotal in the Christian tradition and has vast implications. Tony will overview some of the history of the debate, and then move to its implications for the Incarnation, and for the Incarnation’s implications for our topic of Mind over Matter. Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

In this talk, Ron puts humanity back at the centre of the cosmos. He begins by admitting that the cosmos seems to dwarf us human beings. We are intimidated by the scale of the universe and thus we can feel small. The universe’s immensity is framed by space and time: these are the dimensions that make the cosmos ‘big’ and us humans ‘small’. But then Ron explains how Einstein’s theory of relativity turned that world upside down. It turns out that light is the only constant, and space and time shrink the faster we approach the speed of light. All the time that Ron speaks, we were thinking about Jesus when he said, ‘I am the light of the world’… Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

Ron takes the debate over to mind vs. matter into language—which is where the mystery of mind is best revealed. He gives us a crash course in philosophy in ten minutes—and uses the colour 'red' to reveal the immense complexity in simply naming the world. The highlight though belongs to his one-year-old grandson, Levi—and he uses Levi's early experiments with words to celebrate the wonders of the mind at work through language and how we acquire it. Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

Is the mind a machine, or is it a soul? This is the fast emerging modern debate—which began slowly with the materialist world view but has accelerated in the era of Artificial Intelligence. At the end of this road, lies Jesus - who has set the archetype for what it means to be human—fully human. It is immensely helpful to consider this debate over the course of its history—and in this talk, this history is what Ron lays out. Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

This short talk climaxes our investigation of apokatastasis from a very unusual source—the book of James. James is not noted for his audacity or profundity as. theologian compared to Paul or John, but here we find possibly the most succinct summary of both the doctrine—and its consequences. Tony connects the passage to our psychology—and he does this by telling a story of his visit to the dark historical site of Port Arthur in Tasmania. Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

Our Hope & Hell series has raised a lot of interest; people like the ideas a lot but everyone has questions. We created a panel of three to address eight of these questions that our listeners sent in. In this talk, Ron, Andrew, and Tony give their responses in a free-flowing, exploratory, and honest dialogue. Mark Ridgway facilitates the dialogue. Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe

As we continue to ponder the hope of 'apokatastasis', we confront some of the 'so what's' beginning with evangelism. At face value, it looks like a doctrine of 'universal salvation' makes evangelism unnecessary—why preach if everybody gets saved eventually anyway? Tony addresses this question by first changing the question—and then building a far bigger picture of 'salvation' into which we can place 'evangelism'. Get full access to Gospel Conversations at gospelconversations.substack.com/subscribe