No More Silos with Erika Santiago

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 3!Did you live through the 1990s "Left Behind" books and movies? I heard they remade the movie recently. This episode was originally recorded in November 2022 and references an article that was published in September 2022 about "rapture anxiety" -- yes, it's a thing. So join me here on No More Silos as we unravel the cultural Christian history around rapture theology and try to reconstruct our faith based on what the Bible actually does say about Jesus coming back. Additional resources:Bible ProjectNT Wright's "The New Testament in its World"CNN articlehttps://www.danielghummel.com/Support the showNew Patreon site now available!Thank you for your support and prayers over the last few years! I'm excited to offer additional resources for subscribers. Resources include book reviews, bible studies, discussions, and bonus podcast episodes. I am looking forward to interacting with you through this site. Please share, leave a review, and subscribe to this podcast. Follow me on Instagram @culturalchristianityThanks for listening!

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 2!Today on No More Silos, we are talking about some of the resources I used to reconstruct my faith with what is actually in the Bible and not cultural doctrine. Some of the books mentioned:Urban Apologetics by Eric MasonThe Color of Compromise by Jemar TisbyDeeply Formed Life by Rich VillodasThe Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison BarrReading While Black by Esau McCaulleySupport the showNew Patreon site now available!Thank you for your support and prayers over the last few years! I'm excited to offer additional resources for subscribers. Resources include book reviews, bible studies, discussions, and bonus podcast episodes. I am looking forward to interacting with you through this site. Please share, leave a review, and subscribe to this podcast. Follow me on Instagram @culturalchristianityThanks for listening!

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 1!Today's episode picks up on the theme from our first two seasons by asking the question: Where do our ideas come from? The framework for deconstructing our faith must include a path towards reconstructing our faith. Jesus ends his "Sermon on the Mount" by encouraging his followers to build their faith on a solid foundation. Unfortunately, many modern Christians in America have built our faith on a shaky cultural foundation. Join us for a new season of exploring and learning how to rebuild our faith. Support the showNew Patreon site now available!Thank you for your support and prayers over the last few years! I'm excited to offer additional resources for subscribers. Resources include book reviews, bible studies, discussions, and bonus podcast episodes. I am looking forward to interacting with you through this site. Please share, leave a review, and subscribe to this podcast. Follow me on Instagram @culturalchristianityThanks for listening!

Late last year, 2021, I shared a message from Ephesians 6 with our church and talked about my take on non-spooky spiritual warfare. One of the challenges with cultural Christianity in the U.S. is we have made some aspects of our spirituality unnecessarily spooky. This is often a turn off for the "unchurched" and confusing to some of us who grew up in church.  Join me for today's episode of the audio recording of my message on Ephesians chapter 6. I hope it will be a blessing to you. Please share and subscribe to this podcast. Follow me on Instagram @culturalchristianitySupport the show

I was so impacted by John Mark Comer's book, "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry," earlier this year that I shared my thoughts in a sermon at our church on Mother's Day last spring. Today's episode is the audio recording of that message. Hope you enjoy and are blessed by it as I encourage myself and others to intentionally build communities that encourage us to rest.Support the show

This week's episode is about spiritual formation and why investing in spiritual disciplines is important to spiritual growth. Thanks for joining me! Please subscribe, follow and rate this podcast. Thanks!IG/ FB @culturalchristianity Resources:50 Commands of Jesus - Did you know there were so many?Is Jesus really your Lord? What does "Lord" mean? Luke chapter 6:37- 49 NLTGalatians 4:19 “... until Christ be formed in you.”Paul's sermon in Acts 13Support the show

Does cultural Christianity lead to Secular Humanism? This week on "No More Silos" we are asking the question that Jesus asked his crew: Who do you think that I am? Do all Christians agree on who Jesus is? I think it's a question that spans the spectrum of sorta believers to non-believers. Let's talk about it.Follow and engage - Instagram & Facebook @culturalchristianityFollow and subscribe at your favorite podcast platform Support the show

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!In today's episode, we're talking about Cultural Christianity's most important holiday.... Christmas! Christmas registers higher on the list than Easter in our American cultural context. Even non-Christians celebrate Christmas. So this is our biggest event of the year as followers of Christ to embrace the opportunity to share why we have hope and faith in who "little baby Jesus" grows up to become. Please follow @culturalchristianity on Instagram and Facebook. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss new episodes.And most importantly, THANK YOU for listening to "No More Silos" this year! Your support is appreciated. Links mentioned on the show:Junia Project's 5-part series on the women of adventWere there three kings?The Black MagiChristmas CarolsSupport the show

Have you ever wondered how Aristotle's philosophy can influence your bible study?This week, we are taking a look at how Aristotle can show up and take over your bible study. Even (I'm sure) well-meaning bible teachers can get caught off guard by the long-lasting cultural influence that ancient philosopher, Aristotle, still has on biblical interpretation. Thanks for joining me on this journey! Let's dive in together to see what I mean…and then have some fun exploring ways to avoid it happening in our own studies. Are you ready? Let's go! Thanks for joining me on this journey! Resources mentioned in today's episode:“Aristotle and the Household Codes"  Aristotle's views on women - WikipediaThe Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison BarDeconstructing Your Faith: Western Christianity Vs Biblical Christianity | Dr. Eric Mason | 9/5/21, 2021 “‘Must Manage His Own Household Well' (1 Timothy 3:4-5)”  Irresistible: Reclaiming the New That Jesus Unleashed for the World by Andy Stanley“Women Church Leaders in the New Testament” Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week's episode is all about worship music and cultural Christianity. We explore the first time the word "worship" shows up in the bible, the connection between worship music and culture, and ask how should our theology impact our musical choices.Check out Jazz at Lincoln Center's videos on the history of gospel music:Part OnePart TwoPart ThreeBible passages referenced:Genesis 221 Corinthians 3Follow me on IG and FB @culturalchristianitySupport the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week's episode explores spiritual maturity as it relates to mentoring (discipling) new believers. Follow me on IG or FB @culturalchristianitySupport the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week's episode explores the cultural Christianity topic of "biblical womanhood" and how there seems to be a reformation of theology and new acceptance of history around this concept.  Follow me on IG or FB @culturalchristianityResources mentioned on the podcast:Junia ProjectJesus and John Wayne by Kristen DuMezThe Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison BarrWhite Evangelical Racism by Anthea ButlerRachel Held Evans Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week's episode explores how the Bible was eventually translated to English. Our modern English translations come to us through a history that begins in Latin through Shakespearean prose and poetry and eventually to 21st century American English. It's an interesting story... join me for the journey!Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week on the podcast, we are discussing how we can respond to false teaching by taking a look at 5th century theologian and African Church Father, St. Augustine.  We can learn how to respond to heresy and false teaching in the Western church today from Augustine's method of teaching in community, relationship, love and soundly scriptural practice. Unfortunately, some of the same heresies Augustine fought against have been revisited upon the church today.Recommended Resources:How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity, by Thomas OdenA Multitude of All Peoples: Engaging Ancient Christianity's Global Identity (Missiological Engagements) by Vince Bantu"The whitewashing of Rome" by Jamie Mackay Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week, we are taking a look at the silos of history and cultural Christianity around the 4th of July holiday.  We often take for granted that we are simply celebrating American independence without really considering the layers of historical perspective around it. For example, Frederick Douglass notes this discrepancy famously in his 1852 speech: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."Follow me on IG or FB @culturalchristianityResources:I discuss  Jefferson's Bible in Season 1/ Episode 5Frederick Douglass - What is the 4th of July to the Slave?The Slave Bible - https://www.museumofthebible.org/exhibits/slave-bible Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week, we're talking about how the biblical canon was formed. We will journey through the history through about 400AD. After that the story isn't about how we got our bible but more about how we translated the bible. Historically, the eventual affirmation of the 27 books of the New Testament was by African church fathers and religious councils agreeing that the if the eyewitnesses were okay with these books as scripture, then they were too. "“Part of making sense of the Bible is understanding that it is 66 books writtten over a long period of time with different authors and different issues that we believe ultimately was under superintendence of the Holy Spirit in some form.” Esau McCaulley, author of “Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope” Resources:How We Got Our Bible by Ryan ReevesRyan Reeves' Church History YouTube ChannelLucian of AntiochOrigenFollow me on IG and FB #culturalchristianityEmail: podcast@erikasantiago.comSupport the show

In this special bonus episode, Erika discusses two key elements to bible study: interpretation and covenants. Our understanding of what God's word says to us is usually based on our ability to interpret what's going on in the text. "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Tim. 3:16–17)Eisegesis vs. Exegesis reading into the text using your worldview and cultural filter vs. starting with the author's intent and asking the following questions:https://www.theopedia.com/exegesisCultural Christianity is full of "Christian Sayings" but a lot of those saying are not actually in the bible. Some may be paraphrases or interpretations of what people have thought it was saying and other times, these sayings or colloquialisms are just something somebody made up. The bible is made up of two main covenants or agreements that God makes with people. As Christians, we are in agreement with God under the "New Covenant" or "New Testament" so that is what applies to us as believers in the resurrection of Jesus. See Ephesians 4 or Matthew 5 - 7. It's a shorter episode so we're releasing it mid-week as a bonus... Enjoy!Follow me @culturalchristianity on Facebook and InstagramPlease subscribe or follow where ever you're listening to this podcast.Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week, we're talking about navigating relationship silos to get better at making disciples. Healthy relationships and spiritual maturity help us to navigate the challenges we face when discipling others or being discipled. Follow me @culturalchristianity (IG / FB)Email topic suggestions, questions or comments to podcast@erikasantiago.comResources:1 Corinthians 13John 15"Relational Intelligence" by Dr. Dharius DanielsParables of Jesus (Bible Project)Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

Thank you for joining me again this week for episode #2.4!This week, I'm continuing the topic on history that we started last week and discussing "Urban Apologetics" by Eric Mason and "The Making of Biblical Womanhood" by Beth Allison Barr. In our modern American context, we allow silos of historical information to persist in the Church that confuses and hides the truth. As Jesus said... "The truth will set you free." Follow me on IG or FB @culturalchristianitySupport the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

In this week's episode, we are talking about the importance of history to our ongoing conversation on cultural Christianity. Specifically, how historical facts that would have preserved or reinforced our inherent dignity as humans made in the image of God have been hidden from us. How does that affect our witness as Christians? How does it impact our effectiveness in making disciples?Follow on IG/FB @culturalchristianity Books referenced this week include: "Urban Apologetics" by Eric Mason"Emotionally Healthy Discipleship" by Peter ScazzeroRecommended documentary: "Amend" on NetflixOther Resources Mentioned:MLK NBC News videoWho was Pelagious?   Christianity Today "Opinion" ArticleSupport the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

This week, we are talking about discipleship and the barriers that exist in cultural Christianity to effectively equipping people to follow Jesus and thrive. Discipleship or equipping followers of Jesus to make new followers of Jesus or simply to grow as a follower of Jesus with a goal of becoming more like him is not a "one and done" endeavor.  How do we transcend the silos of information or compartmentalization of our lives to become and/or make disciples of Jesus?"One of the quickest ways to get frustrated as a Christian is to try to live holy on our own. We are meant to do this together with other believers. We have to build each other up and hold each other accountable in love."This week's recommended resource is Peter Scazzero's new book: "Emotionally Healthy Discipleship." Follow on IG/FB @culturalchristianitySupport the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

In our Season 2 opening episode, Erika discusses CRT (Critical Race Theory), Cultural Christianity and suggest books for your summer reading. Thank you for joining us for Season 2!Books mentioned in this episode:Urban Apologetics by Dr. Eric MasonThe Making of Biblical Womanhood by Dr. Beth Allison BarrEmotionally Healthy Discipleship by Peter ScazzeroIrresistible by Andy StanleyReading While Black by Esau McCaulleyCaste by Isabel WilkersonFollow on IG/FB @culturalchristianitySupport the show

American Civil Religion is something that we engage in culturally that sounds a lot like Christianity but isn't. Learn what civil religion is and how it is used in our political discourse to confuse both believers and non-believers in Christ. Remain hopeful that with knowledge and truth, we will be able to overcome counterfeit gospels and find balance in being patriotic at the same time.Books:Color of Compromise #adGood or God #adDocumentaries:The Story of EuropeThe American GospelArticles & Other Resources Jesus or the Flag? Letter from the Birmingham JailPaul's letter to the American ChristiansAge of ReasonJefferson's BibleFollow on IG/FB @culturalchristianityAs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

Have you heard people refer to a desire to return to "Historical Christianity?" "Historical Christianity" is not what it seems but actually a "dog whistle" for something else.  Learn how to respectfully respond with the gospel and historical facts.Books: “Stamped from the Beginning” by Ibram X. Kendi  #ad“The Color of Compromise” by Jemar Tisby #ad“Irresistible” by Andy Stanley #adArticles:Barna Survey White American Christianity is Rooted in Colonial Empire-BuildingChurch History Matters - EH BlogDocumentaries:God in America American Gospel When the Moors Ruled EuropeFollow on IG/FB @culturalchristianity As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

Show Notes:In this episode, we discuss Acts 17 and Paul's adventures in sharing the gospel. Because it reads like an adventure movie, we consider the ways we can connect with non-believers using popular movies. Gospel: Ephesians 2:1-10Cultural Apologetics: "In addition, a cultural apologist operates at two levels. First, she operates globally by paying attention to how those within a culture perceive, think, and live, and then she works to create a world that is more welcoming and thrilling and beautiful and enchanted. Secondly, she operates locally, removing obstacles to, and providing positive reasons for, faith so individuals or groups will see Christianity as true and satisfying, plausible and desirable." Bible Study BasicsSyncretismBlue Letter BibleFollow on IG/FB @culturalchristianity Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

Show Notes:Sharing the Gospel with the proverbial choir… Acts 2: Who's listening to Peter? Why are they there and why talk about it on a podcast about cultural christianity?God-Fearing Jews - from every nation under heaven: Parthians, Medes, Elamites, Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Libya, Rome (including Jews and converts to Judaism), Cretans, and ArabsFellow Jews and all who live in Jerusalem - cultural, ethnic and localsFellow Israelites - nationalism w/n the context of the Roman EmpireBible Study BasicsSOAP: Scripture Observation Application PrayerExegesis: https://www.theopedia.com/exegesisEisegesis: https://www.theopedia.com/eisegesis Mobile apps to help you share the gospel:The Story3 CirclesWho were the Parthians? https://www.ancient.eu/Parthia_(Empire)/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_Empirehttps://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/september/iran-christian-conversions-gamaan-religion-survey.htmlFollow on IG/FB @culturalchristianity Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)

Welcome to the very first episode of the "No More Silos" podcast with Erika Santiago! This is a podcast about cultural Christianity. It's part history lesson, bible study and me just gathering my thoughts around how our culture interacts with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Inspired by Ephesians Chapter 4, this episode includes why I started this podcast, why it's called "No More Silos" and invites listeners to join me on this journey of exploration and lifelong learning. Follow me on Instagram @culturalchristianityAlso mentioned on this episode is "Woke Church" by Dr. Eric Mason. #adFollow on IG/FB @culturalchristianityAs an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Support the show (https://cash.app/$erikasahm)