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Voxology

Mike Erre and Tim Stafford

Voxology (Formerly the Vox Podcast with Mike Erre) is a collection of voices that question and discuss our culture"s most relevant topics in relation to Christ and Christianity. We talk LGBTQ, American and church politics, Christian culture"s catastrophic marginalization of the very people Jesus implores us to love and so much more. If you have serious questions about the church"s representation of Jesus, what he has done and the beauty of his work on earth today, join hosts Mike Erre and Tim

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01:07:20

396 - Tell Her Story - with Dr. Nijay Gupta

Voxology ·

2023/03/27

Tell Her Story. Dr. Nijay Gupta joins Mike and Tim to discuss his new book, "Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church." First, Dr. Gupta talks about his own journey and study. If women can’t be trusted with teaching or leading at church, why should they be trusted teaching other women or children? Did the first century understand terms like patriarchy? How does Paul speak about his ministry associates, Phoebe, Prisca, and Junia? Why Mary as the caretaker of

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00:22:36

The Wanderer - Songs of Resistance: Wandering From...

Voxology ·

2023/03/22

Songs of Resistance: Wandering From the Fold. AKA, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Welcome to another mini series of The Wanderer, this time focused on trying to understand and define worship. Each episode will look at the history of a particular Hymn and its origin story, how it may have roots in Justice and what it may encourage us to participate in today. Further, every episode will end with a recorded version of the song by Tim, to listen to after walking through the song's history. This

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01:03:36

395 - Reorientation to the Center

Voxology ·

2023/03/20

Reorientation to the Center. This episode, Mike and Tim read an email asking about how to approach 'Church discipline.' Mike takes us on a journey through the 'centered' approach and how 'Church discipline' should look more like a reorientation to the center. Tim asks questions about the church model and how it is built to set up Pastors for failure. How can we better change the model? How can the chasm or wall built between the public and private self be dismantled so that

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01:24:33

394 - About That Article... - with Suzie Lind & Katie...

Voxology ·

2023/03/13

About That Article... This week, Mike and Tim invite friends Pastor Suzie Lind and Author Katie Haseltine to share their perspective, wisdom and experience as women in the Church, in light of the article published by the Gospel Coalition. How has a woman's sexuality been framed? How was a woman's relation to a man set up? What trauma does this all bring into a relationship? How does it continue in the marriage? What about for men? How has this imbalanced dichotomy effected men's understanding of

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01:10:53

393 - Revelation - Part Five: Revelation for the Rest...

Voxology ·

2023/03/06

Revelation - Part Five: Revelation for the Rest of Us. This episode, authors Dr. Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett join Mike and Tim to discuss their new book "Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple." Cody and Dr. McKnight walk us through how to approach the book and how it should be read. Should Revelation be read backwards? How was the first century to interpret the booK? How are we now? What role does Babylon play? How are we to relate to Babylon

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00:45:04

392 - Revelation Part Four: Genre

Voxology ·

2023/02/27

Revelation Part Four: Genre. How is genre important? How did first century Christians read this? How did they know to approach it? How do we? What do we do with the information we have??? First, Mike and Tim discuss the SBC disfellowshipping Saddleback Church over having women pastors as well as other male patronizing stories from the Church this week. As always, we encourage and would love discussion as we pursue. Always feel free to email in questions tohello@voxpodcast.com, and to engage the

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01:07:48

391 - Gospel & Gombis: Part Two

Voxology ·

2023/02/20

Gospel & Gombis: Part Two. Okokok. Suffering? The Problem of Evil? Powers and Principalities??? Today, Mike and Tim are joined by the brilliant Dr. Timothy Gombis to discuss evil and how a good God "allows" it. What does scripture say? Is God an absentee landlord? Why do bad things happen to good people? How was this the best model? As always, we encourage and would love discussion as we pursue. Always feel free to email in questions tohello@voxpodcast.com, and to engage the conversation on

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01:19:34

390 - Revelation - Part Three: Apocalypse

Voxology ·

2023/02/13

Revelation - Part Three: Apocalypse. This episode, Mike and Tim begin a conversation on 'genre,' and how the original audience understood and entered into the 'apocalyptic literature' of Revelation. How does the first sentence set up the book? What are we to understand from the time period? How does time itself inform how we approach Revelation? How is the Bible like a Barnes & Noble or any bookstore? How have we done a disservice to the text with a linear approach? First, Mike and Tim discuss

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00:31:32

The Wanderer - Songs of Resistance: Dangers, Toils &...

Voxology ·

2023/02/09

Songs of Resistance: Dangers, Toils & Snares. AKA, Amazing Grace. Welcome to another mini series of The Wanderer, this time focused on trying to understand and define worship. Each episode will look at the history of a particular Hymn and its origin story, how it may have roots in Justice and what it may encourage us to participate in today. Further, every episode will end with a recorded version of the song by Tim, to listen to after walking through the song's history. This week, it is what is

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01:22:23

389 - Tyre Nichols and Police Reform - with Nicholas...

Voxology ·

2023/02/06

Tyre Nichols and Police Reform. Today, Mike and Tim welcome a new friend, retired Chief Nicholas Sensley, who heads up The Institute for American Policing Reform (IAPR). Nick talks to Mike and Time about his upbringing and experiences with police as a young African American boy. Why did he want to become a police officer? How did his time in the military speak into it? Despite the fact that the five officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death, was this a racially motivated crime? How do we begin to

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01:08:55

388 - Revelation - Part Two: Left Behind

Voxology ·

2023/01/30

Revelation Part Two: Left Behind. Today, Mike takes us on a journey through a few hot button, five cent words: Dispensationalism! Tribulation! Rapture! The Millennium! How have we gotten to where we are with the prophetic, futurist view we have of Revelation? What do all these terms mean? How did they become all encompassing with our understanding of the book? How do we detach from all of that to see what is really being said? Mike and Tim spend the first part of the episode discussing a listener

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01:02:35

387 - Revelation - Part One: An Introduction

Voxology ·

2023/01/23

Revelation - Part One: An Introduction. Welcome to the first podcast video episode. Today, we're starting a new series digging into one of the most misunderstood and weaponized books of the Bible. To start, we're looking at the different ways throughout history that Revelation has been approached and therefore applied. Mike offers a library of texts that he's used to study. How does the book of Revelation tie into Christian Nationalism? How do we frame it? We're beginning a journey into dragons and

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01:01:46

386 - Gospel and Gombis: Part One

Voxology ·

2023/01/16

Gospel and Gombis. Starting a new series of conversations with Dr. Timothy Freakin Gombis that will feature once a month or so. This is the “Gospel” we received growing up: I am a sinner. God’d wrath is upon me and that wrath is a judgment that occurs after I die. If I have not accepted Christ then I am damned to Hell where I am tortured for an eternity. However, if that process is interrupted and someone shares the Gospel with me and I pray a prayer that invites Jesus into my heart, then won that

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00:57:32

385 - Celebrities For Jesus - with Katelyn Beaty

Voxology ·

2023/01/09

Celebrities For Jesus. Today, Mike and Tim welcome new friend, Katelyn Beaty, to discuss her book, "Celebrities For Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church." Katelyn offers insight from her time at Christianity Today as to the dangers, causes and damage 'celebrity' had brought to the Church. What role do we all play? Is the damage reversible and if so, how? How did this happen? What is the difference between celebrity and fame? Katelyn can be found HERE As always, we

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01:12:17

384 - Hope & Despair in the New Year - with Pastor...

Voxology ·

2023/01/02

Hope & Despair in the New Year. Pastor and friend Suzie Lind joins Mike and Tim to discuss Christianity Today's top 20 stories of 2022. What do these stories say about the Church? What do they say about us? What do they say to the world? What better questions could we ask? What better ways could we respond to controversy and abuse? First, everyone sits down with two listener questions about how to leave a Church well, in a New Creation way and how does one, as a Youth Pastor, change the event

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00:52:58

383 - Taking Christ out of Christmas - with Pastor...

Voxology ·

2022/12/26

Taking Christ out of Christmas. It's Christmas time here at Voxology. Today, we're joined by our good friend and Pastor, Bethany Nass Cseh, to talk about the day we set aside to celebrate the birth of Jesus. How did Christmas become the celebration it is today? What were the circumstances around the Christ's actual birth? What beef do we all have with Christmas traditions? What would Jesus want from a celebration of His birth? We spend a lot of time talking about Mary. The scandal of her pregnancy

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00:55:18

382 - Women as Elders

Voxology ·

2022/12/19

Women as Elders. After establishing women in teaching and leading roles, Mike and Tim turn to a few listener questions that deal with whether or not women can serve as Elders. Is the term Elder used in the Bible? If so, how? What are the qualifications expressed? Are they gendered? What examples do we have of women leading and what do we know of their roles? We do we do so many mental gymnastics to keep men in charge? First, the Erre boys discuss the year in review and then Tim brings in a few

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00:26:12

The Wanderer - Songs of Resistance: Minuit Chrétien

Voxology ·

2022/12/14

Songs of Resistance: Minuit Chrétien. Welcome to another mini series of The Wanderer, this time focused on trying to understand and define worship. Each episode will look at the history of a particular Hymn and its origin story, how it may have roots in Justice and what it may encourage us to participate in today. Further, every episode will end with a recorded version of the song by Tim, to listen to after walking through the song's history. This first episode looks at the Christmas time hymn, "O

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01:10:03

381 - Women, Theology & Leadership

Voxology ·

2022/12/12

Women, Theology & Leadership. Meet one of our new favorite guests, Dr. Lynn Cohick. Dr. Cohick joins us to dive deeper into the scripture commonly used to advocate for women's non leadership roles in the Church. Dr. Cohick walks us through the broader context around Paul's letters and Genesis, specific women and the roles they played in early Church history and how Paul broke social constructs to advocate for Kingdom Dynamics. It's a really wonderful conversation! Dr. Cohick serves as Provost

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01:05:23

380 - How White Evangelicals Think - with Dr. Dave...

Voxology ·

2022/12/05

How White Evangelicals Think: The Psychology of Conservative White Christians. This episode, Mike and Tim sit down with Dr. Dave Verhaagen to discuss his new book about how white Evangelicals think. We hear how folks in this country (and probably without as well) look at how many white Christians, particularly evangelicals, continually espouse beliefs and opinions that are seemingly antithetical to the Christian faith (holding racist attitudes / supporting conspiracy theories / aligning with

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