The Forum Podcast
The Forum Podcast
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We stand at the intersection of faith, culture and Scripture.
We serve the church by inviting those who wrestle with the enduring and timeless questions of mercy, justice, faith, and formation to join us.
Calvin Theological Seminary has cultivated resources and instruction that meet the needs of the church. While focusing on the authority of Scripture, the centrality of Christ in the world’s story, and the world’s desperate need for God’s grace, we serve the church by inviting those who wrestle with the enduring and timeless questions of mercy, justice, faith, and formation to join us as they pursue their call.
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Explores themes of faith, justice, mercy, and church leadership, with specific episodes delving into Latino theological education through conversations with prominent theologians like Justo Gonzalez, the historical interactions between Puritans and Native Americans in discussions with Matthew Tuininga, and insights into church leadership and pastoral challenges in episodes with Jul Medenblik and Susan LaClear.
We stand at the intersection of faith, culture and Scripture.
We serve the church by inviting those who wrestle with the enduring and timeless questions of mercy, justice, faith, and formation to join us.
Calvin Theological Seminary has cultivated resources and instruction that meet the needs of the church. While focusing on the authority of Scripture, the centrality of Christ in the world’s story, and the world’s desperate need for God’s grace, we serve the church by inviting those who wrestle with the enduring and timeless questions of mercy, justice, faith, and formation to join us as they pursue their call.
There are losses for which you will never find the words. Cory Willson has come to believe that is not a failure of faith. It is the reason the Spirit groans on our behalf.
In this episode, Phillip Palacios sits down with Willson, Professor of Missiology and Public Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, for a conversation about the Psalms and the kind of hope that can carry weight.
Willson describes learning the Psalms twice: first as a student, conceptually, and then again out of desperation, when he discovered that praying them was not the same as teaching them. He talks about the loneliness of doubt in a church that had no language for it, about leading incarcerated men through writing their own laments, and about a father-wound brought honestly to God that opened into praise rather than closing it off.
The heart of the conversation is a challenge to the way churches often speak about the future. We anchor hope in God’s faithfulness, which Willson affirms without hesitation. But we rarely ask what it costs a person to keep hoping, to write the next application, to imagine a future again after disappointment. His conviction, drawn from Romans 8 and the Psalms of lament, is that no community sustains hope it has refused to grieve its way toward.
He speaks personally, too, about the year of mourning he and his wife observed after the death of their son Julian, and how that grief made room for joy rather than crowding it out.
The Forum Podcast is a production of Calvin Theological Seminary.
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