the invisible castle podcast: episode six
'...our faith needs to be public even if doing so is tricky...'
This has all ended up being quite timely. Over the past week, with the media spotlight on the death of a public figure known for being a vocally professing Christian, the question has risen to the surface of what it looks like for Christians to be public about their faith in a healthy and attractive way. And especially how we do so in settings where many people may disagree with us or have completely opposing views.
In the latest episode of the invisible castle podcast, we discuss a public faith—why we need to be public, what the pressures are on us and others to keep it private, and what in practice it looks like to do so in our current pluralistic settings.
Dave Benson and Luke Cawley, who feature on this episode, bring a wealth of firsthand experience in this area to the conversation, as well as their own respective academic studies in the area of public theology. It wasn’t recorded in response to the events of last week, but does speak into some of the questions underlying current conversations. Hopefully it’s one you find helpful!
It’s available for free on all the usual platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Castbox, Pocket Casts, and most other places you listen. Just click on the links in the previous sentence to listen.
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We’d love to hear your thoughts and reflections once you’ve had a listen or watch!
And… if you wanted to check out some stories of Christians living out their faith in a range of tricky situations, you might take a look at Luke’s book Campus Lights: Students Living and Speaking for Jesus Around the World. Available directly from the publisher, from Blackwells, Eden Books, Barnes and Noble, your local Amazon site, and most places you buy books. The Spanish version, Luces en el campus: Estudiantes que viven y hablan de Jesús en todo el mundo, is also available via Amazon.
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