Ember Podcast

Dr. Greg Carey of Lancaster Theological Seminary offers his reflections on the letter to the Ephesians.

The team continues to struggle with the "Household Codes", and finds encouragement in the idea of the Armor of God.

The team struggles with the "household codes" in Ephesians.

"Speak truth in love"

What does it mean to be part of the body of Christ?

What's unity all about anyway?

An introduction to Ephesians and conversation about it's first chapter.

Dr. Julia O'Brien offers her reflections on Jonah.

Rabbi Jack Paskoff of Shaarai Shomayim shares how Jews experience Jonah. We discuss genuine repentance, atonement, the universality of God, and running from what God wills.

The team continues to explore Jonah's themes of God's justice and mercy and wrestle with the question of whether it is right for Jonah to be angry.

This week we’re talking about Jonah chapter 3. We’ll be talking about repentance a lot; what does that mean in the context of Jonah, what does that mean in the context of our lives? We also talked a lot about repentance. For many of us, this word carries a lot of weight, we often associate it with guilt about what we’ve done. But repentance means “to turn around” in Hebrew. In this light, repentance is more about changing direction and living into a new way. Can we imagine places in our own lives where we might want to change our direction?

The team continues their discussion of vocation and God's mercy.

The team discusses a sense of call, some context, and God's mercy.

At the end is a new beginning, a renewal, and an invitation.

Judgement & invitation, the salvation of the created order, and the hope of a world without suffering or corruption.

God's provision, the death of death, and the witness of the saints are all part of the conversation in this episode.

In this episode, the team discusses what it means that worship happens in the midst of chaos, God's disruptive power, belonging, and allegiance.

This week, the team talks about the Whore of Babylon, the entanglements of economic empire, and potentially spoils Game of Thrones.

The Ember crew explores the depiction of Babylon; What does it mean to be great? What are her followers like?