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Nov 20, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Kaitlyn Schiess
"There are a lot of big feelings in this room," a friend whispered to me a couple of days after the election as the women of our church gathered for our weekly Bible study. We were there to continue our study of Ecclesiastes, but most of us were less focused on the Bible than we were on the tense mood in the room. At our "purple" church, no single emotional reaction dominated-the women filing into pews that morning were relieved, distressed, comforted, grieved.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Michael Wear |Todd Hunter |Kyle Bennett |Kaitlyn Schiess
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Kaitlyn Schiess |David Adams
KAITLYN SCHIESS, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says that on both sides of the aisle, when it comes to evangelicals, there is a distinct approach to voting that needs re-examination…United StatesRNSI came of political age in 2016. For my cohort of young evangelicals, the 2016 election and its aftermath have dominated our political imaginations, shaping our understanding of the relationship between faith and politics – for good and ill.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Kaitlyn Schiess
(RNS) — I came of political age in 2016. For my cohort of young evangelicals, the 2016 election and its aftermath have dominated our political imaginations, shaping our understanding of the relationship between faith and politics — for good and ill.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Kaitlyn Schiess
Who could possibly answer a fantastic and hilarious question like “Is Jesus big enough for everyone to take a bite of him?” Someone who knows her theology AND her bread, baker and writer Kendall Vanderslice. Kendall and Kaitlyn talk about communion/the Lord’s supper/the Eucharist: what it is, what it means, and why the bread should taste good.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
pastortheologians.com | Kaitlyn Schiess
Kaitlyn Schiess joins the podcast to talk about her recent book The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here (Brazos, 2023). She shares her background of education and how she began interacting with the question of the relationship between church and state, Christians and the politics of the world. What makes America a "Bible haunted nation"? Should Christians think of their nation as a "city on a hill"?
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
denisonforum.org | Jim Denison |Kaitlyn Schiess
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson passes out some of the 72 pens he used to sign the civil rights bill in Washington D.C. on July 2, 1964. On this day in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. The law ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
holypost.com | Kaitlyn Schiess
Theologian Matthew Emerson joins Kaitlyn to answer a surprisingly complicated question: Where did Jesus go when he died on the cross? Dr. Emerson gives us a simple answer that opens up lots of other questions: What is the “Paradise” Jesus talks about on the cross? What did Jesus do while he was there? Plus, Dr. Emerson helps us think about the theology all Christians share vs. the theological questions that can divide us.
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May 28, 2024 | 
holypost.com | Kaitlyn Schiess
Theologian Fred Sanders joins Kaitlyn to answer a very important and very common question for Christians: what is going on with the Trinity? Dr. Sanders explains why the Trinity is so important for understanding the gospel, why analogies for the Trinity aren’t usually helpful, and how God can exist as three persons (and what “persons” means!).
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May 7, 2024 | 
holypost.com | Kaitlyn Schiess
Theologian Brad East joins Kaitlyn to answer a really important question we have probably all asked: how do we know that the Bible is true? Dr. East also answers questions we might not think to ask but that are also really important: What is the Bible? How did we get it? How are we supposed to read it? We learn three analogies for understanding what the Bible is, some guidelines for how to read it well, and some encouragement to stay curious about passages that are confusing or challenging.
