The Christian Chronicle Podcast

Episode 155: Christians and online sports gambling (Max Rogers)

Max Rogers (Chatham Church of Christ, Chatham, New Jersey) is an Ivy League-educated economist who never imagined that he would every try online sports gambling, let alone get hooked on it. But one $5 bet soon turned to hundreds of bets and thousands of dollars in losses. In this episode, Rogers talks about how his experience with online sports gambling exposed him to how this is a fast-growing problem for Christians and churches in the United States. Link to Wager for More: A Christian Perspective on Online Sports and Casino Gambling by Max Rogers [https://christianfaithpublishing.com/books/?book=wager-for-more] If you or someone you love has a gambling problem, click here for the National Problem Gambling Helpline [https://www.ncpgambling.org/chat/] Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate [https://christianchronicle.org/donate/] Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org [btirwin@christianchronicle.org] Help your congregation or organization grow in generosity. Study Growing Into Generosity [https://www.collegepress.com/products/growing-into-generosity?_pos=1&_sid=e25172b32&_ss=r] by Clark Dickerson. Let Clark help you. Call (303) 886-4531 or email clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com [clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com].

Episode 154: Why church history is bigger than the New Testament (Dyron Daughrity)

Church of Christ folks sometimes have an uneasy relationship with church history outside of the New Testament. In a tradition that esteems the Bible as the singular authority and pattern for the church, it may feel weird or wrong to explore church history from other sources. Dr. Dyron Daughrity is a Church of Christ kid who not only grew up to be a local Church of Christ minister, he became a historian. And not just a historian; Dr. Daughrity recently became the next president of the American Society of Church History [https://www.churchhistory.org/]. In this episode, Dr. Daughrity argues that the project to restore primitive New Testament Christianity encourages knowing the history of the church in the 2,000 years between Acts of the Apostles and today. He also makes the case for Church of Christ folks exploring their more recent roots in the Stone-Campbell Movement. For fun, he reveals the characters and events in recent Church of Christ history that may not be household names, but are worth knowing and studying. Link to Dr. Dyron Daughrity's faculty biography at Pepperdine University [https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/dyron-daughrity/] Link to The Bible: Our Final Authority, the latest book by Dr. Dyron Daughrity [https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Our-Final-Authority/dp/1959467514/ref=sr_1_1?crid=C76LLDFYJYJN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.H5JYkP0vqa-82u8BpJx4ZxzXb1k9yj6fqOyabk0gRLU.PcC9EVAYnhS_fm94r9k93wEz5-Pn7l8WtEGs8LHsEZ0&dib_tag=se&keywords=dyron+daughrity+bible+final+authority&qid=1777483174&sbo=RZvfv%2F%2FHxDF%2BO5021pAnSA%3D%3D&sprefix=Dyron+Dau%2Caps%2C255&sr=8-1] Link to Dr. Daughrity's author page at amazon.com [https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dyron-B.-Daughrity/author/B001JS3L2G?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=fc6a13c8-b2a7-4c33-8e48-ea518b2f1ee9] Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate [https://christianchronicle.org/donate/] Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org [btirwin@christianchronicle.org] Help your congregation or organization grow in generosity. Study Growing Into Generosity [https://www.collegepress.com/products/growing-into-generosity?_pos=1&_sid=e25172b32&_ss=r] by Clark Dickerson. Let Clark help you. Call (303) 886-4531 or email clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com [clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com].

Episode 153: Faith that is out of this world (Astronaut Victor Glover)

On Wednesday, April 1, four astronauts blasted into space for a historic mission to the far side of the moon. The pilot, Captain Victor Glover, is a Church of Christ member who often speaks of his faith with candor and clarity. As the BBC reported, Captain Glover took his Bible with him more than 250,000 miles from Earth.  This episode is a replay of Captain Glover's May 2023 conversation with The Christian Chronicle Podcast, when NASA first announced that he would be part of the Artemis II mission to the moon. Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate [https://christianchronicle.org/donate/] Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org [btirwin@christianchronicle.org] Help your congregation or organization grow in generosity. Study Growing Into Generosity [https://www.collegepress.com/products/growing-into-generosity?_pos=1&_sid=e25172b32&_ss=r] by Clark Dickerson. Let Clark help you. Call (303) 886-4531 or email clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com [clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com].

Episode 152: Who belongs in a national Church of Christ directory? (Dr. Suzie Macaluso)

Church of Christ lifers may remember Churches of Christ in the United States [https://www.21stcc.com/ccusa/?srsltid=AfmBOop4YCLjgKofSowPoAIcttSmQsOeD3FECSHFXtbQjZTWqAYTHfKh], an annual directory of, you guessed it, all Church of Christ congregations in the United States. The last edition came out in 2018. In 2024, The Christian Chronicle [https://christianchronicle.org/], Heritage 21 Foundation [https://heritage21.org/], Siburt Institute [https://www.siburtinstitute.org/] and 21st Century Christian [https://www.21stcc.com/] formed a partnership, the Church Research Council [https://crc-coc.org/], to resume publication of Churches of Christ in the United States.  But making a directory of Church of Christ congregations is not as easy as it may seem. First, there is the challenge of tracking down 10,000 to 12,000 independent congregations across 50 states and territories. Then there's the fact that some congregations will resist participating for a variety of reasons, including how creating a directory feels "denominational" to congregations that avoid anything that resembles that label.  And then there's the harder question of all: What is a "Church of Christ" and who gets to decide? In this episode, Dr. Suzie Macaluso [https://www.siburtinstitute.org/macaluso], the lead researcher on the Churches of Christ in the United States project, talks about the challenges and implications of the directory on how Church of Christ folks imagine themselves and how they relate to one another. Link to Cheryl Mann Bacon's Christian Chronicle story on the challenges of compiling a new Churches of Christ in the United States [https://christianchronicle.org/why-counting-the-sheep-is-so-difficult/] Help your congregation or organization grow in generosity. Study Growing Into Generosity [https://www.collegepress.com/products/growing-into-generosity?_pos=1&_sid=e25172b32&_ss=r] by Clark Dickerson. Let Clark help you. Call (303) 886-4531 or email clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com [clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com].

Episode 151: Why heaven and hell may not be what you think (Rubel Shelly)

Bible scholar and prolific book-writer Rubel Shelly returns to talk about his two new books on heaven and hell. In this episode, he explains why heaven and hell may not be what most Christians always imagined them to be. Link to Heaven: Why It May Not Be What You Have Always Heart, by Rubel Shelly [https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-what-have-always-heard/dp/B0FRZJTQF8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3105T3M4SCO0B&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bnWM_zRJziAXa-dmDp6QQUbOovPCwBCX05n_gi-BcdlHZDZ8lJLyaq0T3Wx6Uk1ILpiZmwnPSFC9-_JaQLjxgbjRqyulNFn58jgqLg42B6rSMB8dpOArl7TSP2GYgJbC80WaHL2qH9TBUuaKxvxW-Hjh9rYI8gTV2J_beReQwguL15gu_35MQ0Q0mMT7GpbapQT4Wd7ubfmwhU2FdKJLnriNHHtMEiSic70QUneSZEY.OKKkxOF93iDjEiKCXU_D6Njk42lQVxgQHiJwLk8JcAM&dib_tag=se&keywords=rubel+shelly&qid=1772472402&sprefix=rubel+shelly%2Caps%2C465&sr=8-1] Link to Hell: Why It May Not Be What You Have Always Heard, by Rubel Shelly [https://www.amazon.com/Hell-what-have-always-heard/dp/B0FRZFFQZS/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3105T3M4SCO0B&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bnWM_zRJziAXa-dmDp6QQUbOovPCwBCX05n_gi-BcdlHZDZ8lJLyaq0T3Wx6Uk1ILpiZmwnPSFC9-_JaQLjxgbjRqyulNFn58jgqLg42B6rSMB8dpOArl7TSP2GYgJbC80WaHL2qH9TBUuaKxvxW-Hjh9rYI8gTV2J_beReQwguL15gu_35MQ0Q0mMT7GpbapQT4Wd7ubfmwhU2FdKJLnriNHHtMEiSic70QUneSZEY.OKKkxOF93iDjEiKCXU_D6Njk42lQVxgQHiJwLk8JcAM&dib_tag=se&keywords=rubel+shelly&qid=1772472402&sprefix=rubel+shelly%2Caps%2C465&sr=8-2] Donate to support this ministry of "information and inspiration" at christianchronicle.org/donate [https://christianchronicle.org/donate/] Send your comments, ideas, and suggestions to podcast@christianchronicle.org [btirwin@christianchronicle.org] Help your congregation or organization grow in generosity. Study Growing Into Generosity [https://www.collegepress.com/products/growing-into-generosity?_pos=1&_sid=e25172b32&_ss=r] by Clark Dickerson. Let Clark help you. Call (303) 886-4531 or email clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com [clarkl.dickerson@yahoo.com].