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In the Margin Created by co-hosts Robert Brown and Ian Heisler, In the Margin is a podcast about Christian civic

28/10/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Robert and Ian are joined by one of their undergrad professors to discuss James K. A. Smith's book How (Not) to be Secular, a popular-level reflection on the writings of philosopher Charles Taylor.

14/10/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Revisit two Q&A episodes of the podcast published two years ago. Below is a list of the listener-provided questions discussed. Interested in a particular question? Use the link and timestamp to jump right to it!

From Episode 22 - Q&A Vol. 2 (aired Aug. 18, 2018):

2:43 — “How can pastors and others encourage churches to look beyond the rhetoric of the anti-immigration voices to see that Christ has called us to serve refugees and asylum seekers for His name’s sake and to make disciples?” /// "Why is our advocacy for laws that preserve life (eg abortion) not as strong as our advocacy for immigration policies that keep families together and respect due process?”

13:47 — “Wondering if the non-traditional structure of [the Los Angeles] area . . . means that civic engagement/responsibilities have to look different?”

22:23 — “How motivated should Christians be to become political leaders?” /// "How should you evaluate performance as a Christian in politics? The number of righteous laws passed? Or faithfulness to the work?” /// "I once had someone tell me that God wants [Christians] to take on leadership in politics. How true is that statement according to the Bible?”

Listen to Episode 22 here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PWsD7lO5u8Hjj-SKiu8VcT85QrVrmv3v/view

From Episode 24 - Q&A Vol. 3 (Aired Sept. 1, 2018):

2:00 — “Should Christians get behind legislation that helps the poor . . . or is legislation not an appropriate medium for helping the poor?”

17:30 — “What does it look like for Christians in the US to be civically engaged when there are such strong divides?” /// "How do you foster collaboration across party lines?”

32:13 — “How important is it for Christians to vote? Is God more pleased with those Christians who do?” /// “If you could recommend one book for Christians to read in light of current events and the upcoming mid-term elections . . . what would it be?”

Listen to Episode 24 here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Er9RJLnKaXNhZpS82e6QiWXHSXJdswzR/view

Enjoy!

30/09/2020

From the In the Margin archives: With the 2020 elections only weeks away, here's a throwback to when Ian and Robert hosted a "midterm voting party" in 2018 and then made an episode reflecting on the lessons learned from that event.

16/09/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Ian and Robert discuss a Mere Orthodoxy article written by Jake Meador. Here is an excerpt from the article:

"We need a comprehensively Christian vocabulary of moral denunciation that both reckons with real forms of evil and does not lazily adopt the moral intuitions taught to us over three decades of culture war. This brings me to the title of this post: 'The Lord’s Work in the Lord’s Way.' The phrase is taken from Francis Schaeffer . . . . It is not enough, Schaeffer said, for us to accomplish the things that Scripture calls us to accomplish. We must accomplish them using methods that also agree with the teachings of Scripture.

". . . Schaeffer wrote that, 'My observation of many young pastors and others is this: suddenly they are confronted by some two camps and they are told, 'Choose, choose, choose.' By God’s grace they must say, 'I will not choose between these two. I stand alone with God, the God has spoken in the Scripture, the God who is the infinite-personal God, and neither of your two sides is standing there. So if I seem to be saying the same thing at some one point, understand that I am a cobelligerent at this particular place, but I am not an ally.''"

Read Meador's article here: https://mereorthodoxy.com/against-culture-war/

Listen to our conversation on the article here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dclm-BOCz1nyRQl5eE8FcLwjVGMikguC/view

09/09/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Ian and Robert unearth a 2008 statement on evangelicalism in the public sphere and consider its merits and limitations.

02/09/2020

From the In the Margin archives: With schools back in (virtual or socially distanced) session, it seems appropriate to share this April 2018 episode in which Ian and Robert and a guest discuss some Comment Magazine articles on the higher education. Enjoy!

12/08/2020

From the In the Margin archives: In what might be one of the best episodes of the podcast, Ian and Robert and a guest discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's monumental tome, After Virtue.

05/08/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Robert and Ian discuss Andy Crouch's Culture Making, perhaps the most influential and accessible Christian treatment on culture in the past decade.

29/07/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Ian and Robert conduct an introductory exploration into the work of missiologist and public theologian Lesslie Newbigin.

22/07/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Ian and Robert discuss a book by one of their favorite authors: How to Think by Alan Jacobs.

15/07/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Somehow Ian and Robert managed to put off doing a C. S. Lewis episode until Episode 15. The first of three, this Lewis episode is on the Abolition of Man.

08/07/2020

From the In the Margin archives: In this episode from two summers ago, Ian and Robert discuss articles by Russell Moore, Joe Carter, and Erwin Lutzer, each focusing on different facets of social media outrage. With the help of these articles, let's consider a more excellent way to respond to our digital neighbors.

01/07/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Ian and Robert look to articles from Matthew D. Wright and Gracy Olmstead to seek answers to the question, where and how can we find common ground?

24/06/2020

From the In the Margin archives: One of our favorite things to do with the podcast was to answer listener questions about Christian theology and practice in the public spheres. Today, we're reposting the first of our five Q&A episodes. Enjoy!

17/06/2020

From the In the Margin archives: A discussion of Dr. King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

10/06/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Two years ago, Ian and Robert discussed Carl F. H. Henry's landmark book, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. The book seems all the more urgent and necessary today, and this episode could serve as a helpful introduction and summary for those who, like us and like Henry, want to know how to respond Christianly to social evils.

Here's an explanation of the book's title and purpose, in Henry's own words: "The 'uneasy conscience' of which I write is not one troubled about the great Biblical verities, which I consider the only outlook capable of resolving our problems, but rather one distressed by the frequent failure to apply them effectively to crucial problems confronting the modern mind. It is an application of, not a revolt against, fundamentals of the faith, for which I plead."

06/05/2020

From the In the Margin archives: The first time that Ian and Robert had a guest on the podcast.

15/04/2020

From the In the Margin Archives: Ian and Robert discuss two related articles, one on "Calvin's Theology of Social Justice," and the other addressing the question, "Should Pastors Address Current Events in Their Sermons?”

08/04/2020

From the In the Margin archives: Ian and Robert explore the "life-system" of Dutch theologian and politician Abraham Kuyper in this sixth episode of In the Margin.

05/02/2020

Two years ago this week, Robert and Ian launched the podcast with an episode on one of their favorite books, A Theology of Reading by Alan Jacobs. The book casts a vision for charitable hermeneutics, and this vision informed our approach to every text we read and discussed. To celebrate the second anniversary of the podcast, check out where it all began:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w2KyvsPumkRvTp9NldhUEnXuxxbt7jI6/view

04/01/2020
All the In the Margin episodes have been moved to a new home!https://www.robertbrownpresents.com/inthemargin
01/01/2020

All the In the Margin episodes have been moved to a new home!

https://www.robertbrownpresents.com/inthemargin

Running from January 2018 to December 2019, In the Margin was a reading-based podcast about Christian civic engagement and public witness. In each episode, co-hosts Ian Heisler and Robert Brown (and the occasional guest) consider the contributions of various authors to an ongoing conversation about....

Hello All! We wanted to break the long silence to let you all know we're retiring and archiving the podcast. But before ...
21/12/2019

Hello All! We wanted to break the long silence to let you all know we're retiring and archiving the podcast. But before we go, we've recorded a short final episode in which we reflect on what In the Margin has meant for us. We hope you'll give it a listen. Thank you all for listening to our episodes, for encouraging us, and for thinking alongside us about what it means to be in this world in an otherworldly way. Blessings, Robert and Ian

We're retiring and archiving the podcast! Starting January 1, 2020, In the Margin episodes will only be available at Robert's website, robertbrownpresents.com. Our page, https://www.facebook.com/sandalswithwings, will remain active.

"Even if one’s goal is the best life for the individual, the search for happiness may be a false path. In Tolstoy’s The ...
19/06/2019

"Even if one’s goal is the best life for the individual, the search for happiness may be a false path. In Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych, the hero has lived his life entirely for his own satisfaction. Like everyone around him, he can imagine no other way to live. Then he falls ill, begins to waste away, and discovers that everything that gave him pleasure and contentment has become distasteful. Delicious food leaves, literally as well as figuratively, a bad taste in his mouth. The closer death comes, the more he begins to grasp that in living for contentment rather than meaningfulness, he has wasted the only life he has."

Is the pursuit of individual happiness corrosive to communal flourishing? On this week's episode, Ian and Robert explore that question by discussing a recent article on Russian literature by Gary Saul Morson, and one of the classic stories cited by Morson: Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych."

On this episode: Morson, Gary Saul. “The Problem with Happiness” Athenaeum Review, no. 2, 2019, pp. 102–108. https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/the-problem-with-happiness/ Tolstoy, Leo. “The Death of Ivan Ilych.” Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. http://www.lonestar.edu/departments/eng...

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