Church Coffee: Christianity, Conservatism and Culture – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Rob is joined by Dr. Kathryn Quissell of UVA’s Global Public Heath in the School of Medicine. We use the new book In Covid’s Wake (NYT interview with the authors here) as a jumping off point to discuss both the failures of COVID responses and some helpful critiques of public health in general.

Questions for Dr. Quissell? Feel free to email her here: kq4ue@virginia.edu.

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Joseph Varaksa of Good New Jail and Prison Ministry joins Rob to talk about the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. We discuss day-to-day lives of inmates (food, books, technology) and challenges ministering to them, as well as some success stories and how people can help.

Find out more about Joe here: hopecville.com ; or contact him directly at: Joseph.Varaksa@goodnewsjail.org

We are thankful for today’s sponsors:

* D&T Mobile Detailing: 434-202-4162, mobiledetailingdt@gmail.com.

* Scoopity Poo C’ville.

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Rob is joined by ABD Luis Dizon, who’s at the University of Toronto. They talk a bit about his up bringing in the Philippines, inter-religious work - including bridge-building areas between Christians and Muslims, as well as working some “proofs” of the Qur’an’s divinity from a Muslim perspective, ending with best Qur’ans to read for beginners.

Follow Rob’s posts on Substack at churchcoffeeccc.substack . Currently, he is doing a year pericope study of the Gospel of Mark.

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You can follow Luis on Twitter here: https://x.com/luisdizon.See his academic work here: https://utoronto.academia.edu/LuisDizon.And listen to his more in-depth work on Qur’anic arguments: “Examining Muslim Arguments for the Qur'an (Part 1)” by the The Michael Lofton Show on YouTube.See Gordon Nickel’s interview here: https://churchcoffeeccc.substack.com/p/episode-40-quran-with-christian-commentary-f35

Rob talks with Raymond Klein, the executive director of Charlottesville’s Love In the Name of Christ, about homelessness in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area.

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Dr. Lawrence Mykytiuk is Emeritus Professor at Purdue, specializing in Jewish Studies. He discusses with Rob his work on verifying biblical people from archeological methods.

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See Dr. Mykytiuk’s Biblical Archeological Society’s papers here: https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/50-people-in-the-bible-confirmed-archaeologically/ , https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/did-jesus-exist/

See some of his in-depth research here: https://press.ratiochristi.org/product/ancient-sources/

See more of Dr. Mykytiuk’s work here: https://purdue.academia.edu/LawrenceMykytiuk

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Rob is joined by Dr. Michael Daise, the chair of the religious studies department at The College of William and Mary. Rob and Michael discuss the Historical Jesus, along with the Jewishness of Jesus, the languages He might’ve spoken, Passover in the First Century, Th or Fri Crucifixion, and the books in the TaNaKh (Hebrew Bible) in First and Second Century.

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See more work of Dr. Daise here: https://www.wm.edu/as/religiousstudies/faculty/daise_m.php .

Further reading on the Historical Jesus that Dr. Daise suggests are: The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed by Helen Bond, The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guideby Gerd Theiseen & Annette Merz, and The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus ed. James Crossley & Chris Keith

The tune Dr. Daise is working on learning by Mile Davis is “Portrait of a Cannonball” off of Cannonball Adderley

Rob is joined by Duke’s Dr. Larissa Carneiro to discuss the differences between paganism and neo-paganism.

See Dr. Carneiro’s academia page here: https://duke.academia.edu/LarissaCarneiro ,And her Duke page here: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/larissa.carneiro

Follow Rob’s posts on Substack at churchcoffeeccc.substack . Currently, he is doing a year pericope study of the Gospel of Mark.Interact with Rob on Twitter: https://x.com/Abe_Kuyper.

Dr. Christian Sahner is an associate professor of Islamic History at New College, Oxford. Him and Rob talk about early Christian-Muslim relations, Zoroastrianism, and current uprising in Syria.

See Dr. Sahner’s Oxford page here: https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/christian-c-sahner . Read Dr. Sahner’s work on Academia: https://oxford.academia.edu/ChristianSahner . Follow Dr. Sahner on Twitter here: https://x.com/ccsahner .

Follow Rob’s posts on Substack at churchcoffeeccc.substack . Currently, he is doing a year pericope study of the Gospel of Mark.Interact with Rob on Twitter: https://x.com/Abe_Kuyper.

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Rob talks with Walter Olson of the Cato Institute about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): text, history, resurrection, and perhaps its final legal breath - at least for the next four years.

See more about Mr. Olson here: https://www.cato.org/people/walter-olson.

Follow Rob’s posts on Substack at churchcoffeeccc.substack. Currently, he is doing a year pericope study of the Gospel of Mark.

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Rob talks to Dr. Paul D. Miller about his recent Dispatch Article “Fascist Rhetoric or Fascist Actions?” as well as Dr. Miller’s favorite war movies, and Jan. 6. https://thedispatch.com/article/fascist-rhetoric-or-fascist-actions/

Dr. Miller is a Georgetown political science professor, former National Security Advisor to both Bush II and Obama, as well as a CIA analyst.https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000015aqRIAAY/paul-miller-phd

Follow Dr. Miller on Twitter: https://x.com/PaulDMiller2

Follow Rob’s posts on Substack @ churchcoffeeccc.substack Currently, he is doing a year pericope study of the Gospel of Mark