Archive for August, 2007

1st Chapters Podcast | Ep. 67 “The Book of the Dun Cow” (Walter Wangerin Jr)

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Walter Wangerin’s profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the animals could speak, when Chauntecleer the Rooster ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom. What the animals did not know was that they were the Keepers of Wyrm, monster of evil long imprisoned beneath the earth … and Wyrm, sub terra, was breaking free.

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1st Chapters Podcast | Ep. 66 “Seeing God” (Gerald R. McDermott)

Monday, August 20th, 2007

TV evangelist scandals. More varieties of Christianity that Baskin-Robbins has flavors. These are times of pluralism and disenchantment with organized religion. How do Christians today know which leaders and companions in faith to trust? For help, Gerald McDermott returns to the work of Jonathon Edwards, the eighteenth century preacher and college president widely regarded as the greatest American theologian ever. Edwards wrestled expertly with similar questions arising from frontier revivalism. Now McDermott, not only a leading Edwards scholar but also a master teacher, makes Edward’s insights accessible and practical for today’s Christians. Seeing God offers a clarifying glimpse at the signs of genuine Christianity- yesterday, today and for the ages.

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1st Chapters Podcast | Ep. 65 “A Clearing in the Wild” (Jane Kirkpatrick)

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on
women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission. In a community where dissent of any form is discouraged, Emma finds it difficult to rein in her tongue–and often doesn’t even try to do so, fueling the animosity between her and the colony’s charismatic
and increasingly autocratic leader, Wilhelm Keil. Eventually Emma and her husband, Christian, are sent along with eight other men to scout out a new location in the northwest here the Bethelites can prepare to await “the last days.” Christian believes they’ve found the ideal situation in Washington territory, but when Keil arrives with the rest of the community, he rejects Christian’s choice in favor of moving to Oregon. Emma pushes her husband to take this opportunity to break away from the group, but her longed-for influence brings unexpected consequences. As she seeks refuge for her wounded faith, she learns that her passionate nature can be her greatest strength–if he can harness it effectively.

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1st Chapters Podcast | Ep. 64 “The Attributes of God v2” (A. W. Tozer)

Monday, August 6th, 2007

This second volume of God’s attributes is written for all walks of Christian faith. Tozer discusses and illuminates God’s character, self-existence, transcendence, eternalness, omnipotence, immutability, omniscience, wisdom, sovereignty, faithfulness, and love.

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