Why Is Cultivating Community in Church So Hard Right Now?
Why is cultivating community in church so hard right now? In this Season 6 finale, hosts Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm reflect on a full season of conversations with historians, theologians, pas...
11 Juni 44min
Amen Means I Trust You
The guilt most Christians carry about their prayer life, that it isn't deep enough, consistent enough, disciplined enough, may say less about them than about the world they're living in. In this episo...
4 Juni 28min
Half of Christians Say Faith Is Private. Here's What We're Losing
Church community building has never been more urgent or perhaps more difficult. In this episode of Pivot Podcast, Jeff Galley and Phil Smith, co-authors of The Way Back to One Another, join Dwight Zsc...
28 Maj 31min
You Don't Own the Spirit: The Meaning of Pentecost
What is the meaning of Pentecost? In this reflection episode of the Pivot Podcast, Luther Seminary theologian Dr. Lois Malcolm moves past the familiar imagery of wind and fire to ask what the Spirit w...
21 Maj 7min
The False Choice That's Been Costing the Church for a Hundred Years
The debate over whether the church's primary calling is evangelism or justice has been running for over a century, and Dr. Al Tizon believes it has cost us more than we know. In this episode, the lead...
14 Maj 38min
The Early Church Was Figuring It Out Too
What does first century Christianity have to teach the church about belonging today? In this episode of the Pivot Podcast, Dr. Kristofer Phan Coffman, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Luther Se...
7 Maj 23min
God Doesn't Say Follow Your Bliss
What does it mean to find your identity in Christ, and what does the Old Testament have to say about it? In this episode of the Pivot Podcast, Dr. Kathryn Schifferdecker, professor of Old Testament at...
30 Apr 38min
What to Say (and Not to Say) to People Who Are Suffering
Why does God allow suffering? It's one of the oldest and most urgent questions in human experience, and Dr. Rolf Jacobson has lived inside it. Diagnosed with bone cancer at 15 and losing both legs, th...
23 Apr 35min
