Unlikely Pilgrims

Dan and Mark continue their conversation using history to make sense of the 2024 Presidential Election

In this episode, Mark and Dan use history as a guide for understanding the current Presidential election. They also discuss how Christians can approach this historic election.

Today Dan and Mark process how they have developed their ideas about thinking Christianly. They discuss how their studies, their research, and conversation partners God used to help them form their thought process.

Dan and Mark discuss Critical Theory and how it was developed in the 1920s and 1930s at Goethe University after World War One and how the ideas developed throughout the 20th century. Today, in the west many of the views that were developed by this movement are having significant impact on how people understand society, race, gender and sexuality.

Today Mark and Dan discuss how Lenin and the Russian Revolution served as a model for Frankfurt School and the rise of Critical Theory

Dan and Mark return from a break and spend some time tyring to make sense of the current Middle East crisis.

Dan and Mark discuss how Darwin and Freud are part of the genealogy of Critical theories

Mark and Dan discuss how Nietschze's thought was instrumental into constructing critical theory

Comrade Mark and Comrade Dan discussed the influence of the thoughts of Karl Marx on Critical Theory. Even though USSR collapsed over thirty years ago, Marx's ideas still permeate conversation in the west. Mark and Dan attempt to make sense of this.

Dan and Mark take some time to discuss the first critical philosopher and first liberal/modern theologian, Immanuel Kant, and show how his work has impacted western thought.

Dan and Mark unpack the various ideological perspectives that go into critical theories. We are also using the term theories because today there are many critical theories not merely the Frankfurt School.

Dan and Mark riff on Hegel and his use of alienation and the world he created.

Advent is the Story: Real Joy by Unlikelypilgrims

Advent is the Story: Real Peace by Unlikelypilgrims

Mark and Dan discuss Dan's new book, Advent is the Story: Seeing the Nativity Throughout Scripture, and how many American Christians approach the Advent Season. Link to Dan's Advent Reader https://www.amazon.com/Advent-Story-Nativity-Throughout-Scripture/dp/1941106234/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2HIDGVWKQPGY3&keywords=daniel+spanjer&qid=1670292232&sprefix=daniel+spanjer%2Caps%2C218&sr=8-2

Dan and Mark talk over the issues that are developing in the Russian-Ukrainian War in its 6th week and using history discuss some ways the war could end.

Dan and Mark discuss some of the historical views about Ukraine and Russia and how history has influenced the current war. Research Guide on the War. https://libguides.lbc.edu/hottopics

Dan and Mark create a talk to help their students make sense of the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022. Research Guide on the War. https://libguides.lbc.edu/hottopics

Mark and Dan speak with Dr. Timothy Padgett from the Colson Center about his book Dual Citizens and about the divisions in the church over race and Christian Nationalism.

In this episode, Mark and Dan speak with Rev. Dr. R. Keith Beauchamp about how the black church has handled the pandemic, the election cycle, and race relations in the United States over the last four years. We also talk about Dr. Beauchamp's new book, It's in Your Response. https://www.amazon.com/Its-Your-Response-R-Beauchamp-ebook/dp/B08NFGVC3P/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=its+in+the+response&qid=1615998982&sr=8-1

In this podcast, Mark and Dan speak with Rev. Hank Johnson about the issues of race and the church from an Anabaptist slant and how he is navigating his own church through this current moment in America.

Mark and Dan get the whiteboard out to begin a conversation on Christian Nationalism. This is one of many conversations that we plan to have. To view the video go to unlikelypilgrims.com and go to the vlog page.

In this podcast, Mark and Dan tackle the topic of Critical Race Theory and provide some historical context to help us understand the issues of race and equality in America and the ways they have created divisions in the American Church.

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Mark and Dan interview missionaries Pete and Jen Emory about serving in Ecuador during the pandemic.

In this podcast Dan and Mark will discuss the current political climate in the United States and discuss the idea of Republican government as it was understood by the American founders.

In this podcast Mark and Dan define liberalism and how that term has evolved from the time of the Enlightenment, the founding of the Republic to today.

In this podcast Dan and Mark will discuss the history of conservatism from the ideas of Edmund Burke to the development of modern American conservatism with Willam F. Buckley and the founding of the National Review.

Dr. Joe Kim Seeking God In The Whirlwind And Technology by Unlikelypilgrims

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Jael Chambers Seeking Gond In The Whirlwind In The City by Unlikelypilgrims

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In this episode Dan and Mark interview Social Work Professor Ling Dinse from Lancaster Bible College and Capital Seminary and Graduate School on suffering and seeking God in the Whirlwind

Dan and Mark interview President of Lancaster Bible College and Capital Seminary Graduate School Tommy Kiedis

In this episode Mark and Dan interview Dr. Esther Zimmerman, Professor at Lancaster Bible College and Capital Seminary and Graduate School about how in sights from Christians in the majority world can help those of us the western world navigate the pandemic.

This is an interview with Lancaster Bible College-Capital Seminary and Graduate school Professor Dr. Mark Farnham. Dr. Farnham teachings ethics, apologetics and theology. He is also organ transplant recipient and cancer survivor. In this podcast we will be speaking to him about what his experiences have taught him about suffering and how that can help us during this time of pandemic.

Historians Drs. Dan Spanjer and Mark Draper discuss the ways in which history and specifically church history can help us understand the current pandemic and how to navigate through these troubled times.