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Christian Spirituality Today, with guest Glen Scorgie, Bethel Seminary

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Christian Spirituality Today, with guest Glen Scorgie, Bethel Seminary
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Glen Scorgie is professor of theology at Bethel Seminary, a licensed minister of the Baptist General Conference, and has served as president of the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association as well as the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. We discuss his recent keynote lecture about ways that spirituality has become a widespread cultural phenomenon …

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The Theology – and Poetry – of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy, with guest Laura Reece Hogan

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
The Theology – and Poetry – of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy, with guest Laura Reece Hogan
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Laura Reece Hogan is an award-winning poet and theologian. Her book I Live, No Longer I: Paul’s Spirituality of Suffering, Transformation, and Joy won four first place Catholic Press Association book awards and her volume of poems, Litany of Flights, won the Paraclete Poetry prize. She is the holder of advanced degrees in theology and law and is …

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A Theology of Life with Depression, with guest Jessica Coblentz, St. Mary’s College

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
A Theology of Life with Depression, with guest Jessica Coblentz, St. Mary's College
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Jessica Coblentz is an assistant professor of religious studies and theology at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. With Daniel Horan, she co-edited the volume The Human in a Dehumanizing World: Re-Examining Theological Anthropology and Its Implications, coming out later this year. She is the author of another book published just this year by Liturgical …

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Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit, with guest Yolanda Pierce, Howard University

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit, with guest Yolanda Pierce, Howard University
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Yolanda Pierce is professor and dean of the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC. In 2016 she served as Founding Director of the Center for African American Religious Life at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She formerly worked at Princeton Theological Seminary. The Rev. Dr. Pierce is the …

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Disability, Grace, and Life Beyond the Meritocracy, with guest Amy Julia Becker

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Disability, Grace, and Life Beyond the Meritocracy, with guest Amy Julia Becker
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Amy Julia Becker is an award-winning writer and speaker on personal, spiritual, and social healing. She is the author of four books, including To Be Made Well: An Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Hope, releasing in March. She also hosts the Love Is Stronger Than Fear podcast. We speak with her about her article “When Merit Drives Out …

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This Sacred Life: Hope in an Era of Climate Crisis, with guest Norman Wirzba, Duke University

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
This Sacred Life: Hope in an Era of Climate Crisis, with guest Norman Wirzba, Duke University
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Norman Wirzba is Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. The author of several books, he’s also the director of a multi-year, Henry Luce Foundation-funded project entitled “Facing the Anthropocene.” We talk with him today about his sobering and powerful new book …

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Highlighted Episode: Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis, with guest Sarah Bachelard, Benedictus Contemplative Church

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Highlighted Episode: Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis, with guest Sarah Bachelard, Benedictus Contemplative Church
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Today we highlight a past episode of our Faith and Imagination podcast. Founding Director of the BYU Humanities Center Matthew Wickman raises questions of faith in times of crises with Reverend Dr. Sarah Bachelard. They discuss together how to experience God in a time of turmoil and uncertainty, and how to experience a disruption of our sense …

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Some Favorite Books We Read in 2021, with guest George Handley, Brigham Young University

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Some Favorite Books We Read in 2021, with guest George Handley, Brigham Young University
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As we come to the end of another year, we all find cause and time to reflect on what we’ve done, who we’ve met, what we’ve learned, and what we’ve read this past year that has changed us, shaped us, or moved us to become someone more generous and thoughtful than who we were at …

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Music for Eternity: Meditations for Advent, with guest Robyn Wrigley-Carr, Alphacrucis College

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Music for Eternity: Meditations for Advent, with guest Robyn Wrigley-Carr, Alphacrucis College
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Robyn Wrigley-Carr is Associate Professor in Theology and Spirituality at Alphacrucis College in Sydney, Australia. She serves on the editorial board and is book review editor for The Journal for the Study of Spirituality. She has written extensively about the twentieth century Anglo-Catholic writer, mystic, and spiritual retreat leader Evelyn Underhill, and is the author …

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Faith Crisis and a Franciscan Response, with guest Daniel P. Horan, St. Mary’s College

Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Faith Crisis and a Franciscan Response, with guest Daniel P. Horan, St. Mary's College
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Daniel P. Horan is Director of the Center for Spirituality and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. He’s the author of several books, most recently A White Catholic’s Guide to Racism and Privilege and The Way of the Franciscans: A Prayer Journey through Lent, both published in 2021. A Franciscan friar, Dan is also …