Podcast appearances and mentions of christian morals

Show Notes:This episode comes out on Maundy Thursday, the day when Jesus celebrated his last Passover meal with his disciples and washed their feet in an act of humble service. Tomorrow is Good Friday, where Christians around the world relive Jesus' crucifixion and death and wait for the Good News of Easter Sunday--the day of resurrection and the restoration of hope.Why does this matter? Because in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we are not only forgiven, but we are given a new way into offering forgiveness to those who have harmed us. Forgiveness is a complex process, often involving grief and mourning, and should not mean we forget or erase past harms. Today's guest gives us thoughtful insight into how we experience forgiveness--how we offer it to others and ask for it for ourselves. Dr. Matthew Ichihashi Potts is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School as well as the Pusey Minister of Harvard Memorial Church. He earned his BA from the University of Notre Dame, and both his MDiv and PhD degrees from Harvard. He is the author of Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories and Forgiveness: An Alternative Account.Resources:Buy Forgiveness: An Alternative Account 

Today, we're discussing the tragic murder of Austin Metcalf — a case that's not just heartbreaking but deeply revealing of a larger cultural crisis we need to address head-on. I'll be sharing my raw thoughts on what happened, and more importantly, having the uncomfortable (but necessary) conversation surrounding crime statistics in the black community.If we're ever going to see real change — fewer senseless killings, safer neighborhoods, and stronger families — then we have to stop tiptoeing around the truth. It's time to talk about why these patterns keep repeating and what cultural shifts must happen to break the toxic and deadly cycle.This isn't about hate — it's about accountability, truth, and the fight for life, stability, and genuine justice.—https://policecoffee.com/?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAACG7qmLTSF8TidU6uJpGkHMYzxsnd&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqcO_BhDaARIsACz62vPh4GA_6w_PdX8w4PW0sRhPD76KOyhYBmiEOdpiLXHP1G10c9kaPMEaAkK-EALw_wcB

The Christmas season ushers in a sense of wonder and nostalgia for many individuals. When the snow begins to fall and reflect off the Christmas lights, it feels like magic. It's almost as if we've stepped into Narnia. With that feeling in mind, we've decided to take the month of December and share with you some life lessons from C.S. Lewis. Join Brandon as he shares with us how these life lessons from Lewis impact our faith. While you're at it, share your favorite work from C.S. Lewis in the comments below!ResourcesThe complete works of C.S. Lewis | https://bit.ly/3OCCGamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Title: The Kingdom-Minded Life Passage: Acts 24:22-27 - Paul Never Compromised in His Commitment to Gospel Proclamation - Paul Never Compromised in His Commitment to Christian Morals

This is the sixth event is a six-part series. This session was a discussion among presenters reflecting upon the insights shared throughout the series. In addition to identifying themes and throughlines among sessions, they returned to the overarching questions that framed this collaboration: What can an expansive understanding of religion provide in these times of Earth crisis? What is the role of the study of religion in times of catastrophe? Panelists: Mayra Rivera, Dan McKanan, Teren Sevea, Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Terry Tempest Williams Moderator: Diane L. Moore, Diane L. Moore, Associate Dean of Religion and Public Life Mayra Rivera, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion and Latinx Studies Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity Teren Sevea, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Terry Tempest Williams, HDS Writer-in-Residence For more information on the full series, "Religion in Times of Earth Crisis: A Series of Public Online Conversations," visit https://hds.harvard.edu/news/religion-times-earth-crisis This event took place on March 18, 2024. For more information on HDS, visit https://hds.harvard.edu A full transcript is forthcoming. ​​​​​

This was the fourth event in the six-part Religion in Times of Earth Crisis Series. Human-caused climate change already contributes to manifold global disasters. As the planet inevitably continues to warm, these disasters will be routine and unrelenting. Addressing the reality of loss must become a basic spiritual task of our climate present and future, along with summoning the resolve to respond to all our losses. In this session, Matthew Ichihashi Potts considered the apocalyptic roots of the Christian tradition in order to diagnose how Christianity has contributed to the present crisis and suggest possibilities for a different way forward. Through particular attention to grief and hope as religious categories and with specific reference to various moments and movements from within the Christian tradition, Potts reflected upon the spiritual crisis at the heart of climate catastrophe and suggests the potential for a religious response. Speaker: Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Moderator: Diane L. Moore, Diane L. Moore, Associate Dean of Religion and Public Life Matthew Ichihashi Potts, MDiv '08, PhD '13, was appointed the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in 2021. Potts has served on the faculty at Harvard Divinity School since 2013 and has focused his teaching on sacramental and moral theology, ministry and pastoral theology, religion and literature, and preaching. He is the author of two books, Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Forgiveness: An Alternative Account (Yale University Press, 2022). He sits on the editorial board of the journal Literature and Theology. He is also co-host of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. Potts served as both an officer in the United States Navy and as a college administrator before being ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. This event took place on February 26, 2024. For more information on this series, visit https://hds.harvard.edu/news/religion-times-earth-crisis For more information on HDS, visit https://hds.harvard.edu/ A transcript is forthcoming

George Buttrick, the late professor of Christian Morals at Harvard, wrote that prayer often seems “like a spasm of words lost in cosmic indifference.” If my prayers go unanswered perhaps I didn't use the correct formula or I wasn't persistent enough or I didn't pray with enough faith without any doubting. Is there a key out there somewhere that will open the lock to God's blessings and all I have to do is find it? Some say the key to answered prayer is found in our text today.

George Buttrick, the late professor of Christian Morals at Harvard, wrote that prayer often seems “like a spasm of words lost in cosmic indifference.” If my prayers go unanswered perhaps I didn't use the correct formula or I wasn't persistent enough or I didn't pray with enough faith without any doubting. Is there a key out there somewhere that will open the lock to God's blessings and all I have to do is find it? Some say the key to answered prayer is found in our text today.

George Buttrick, the late professor of Christian Morals at Harvard, wrote that prayer often seems “like a spasm of words lost in cosmic indifference.” If my prayers go unanswered perhaps I didn't use the correct formula or I wasn't persistent enough or I didn't pray with enough faith without any doubting. Is there a key out there somewhere that will open the lock to God's blessings and all I have to do is find it? Some say the key to answered prayer is found in our text today.

What I learned from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Join the Nat's Notes Newsletter to get my top highlights from the book. Get Two Months Free of Readwise Readwise is my favorite reading tool. I use it to extract my highlights from physical books, and I use their Reader to read and highlight everything I find online. Then they organize all of my notes and send them directly to my note-taking tool, so I can immediately look up anything I loved in past books I read. It's a total game changer for getting the most out of every book you read, and if you love books, you need to be using it. Timestamps (2:30) Readwise (03:40) God is Dead (06:28) What Do You Worship (08:41) Creating Something Beyond Yourself (10:27) No Soul, No Free Will (12:45) Worshipping the State (13:59) The Superman (16:43) Old Virtues Are Cowardice (19:25) The Good and Bad of Christian Morals (21:25) The Myth of Equality (26:16) Marriage and Children (30:41) The Will to Power (Power Motivates Us) (33:19) Good and Evil Don't Exist (36:15) Eternal Recurrence Books Mentioned This is Water: https://geni.us/this-is-water-nat The Fourth Turning: https://geni.us/fourth-turning-nat Straw Dogs: https://geni.us/straw-dogs-nat The Denial of Death: https://geni.us/denial-death-nat Man's Search for Meaning: https://geni.us/mans-search-nat The Comfort Crisis: https://geni.us/comfort-crisis-nat The Lessons of History: https://geni.us/lessons-history-nat Letters from a Stoic: https://geni.us/letters-stoic-nat If you enjoyed this show, please let me know on Twitter (@nateliason) or Instagram (@nat_eliason)

What role does religion play in the movement for climate justice? How can religious communities serve as sites of organizing and activism? Panelists will discuss these questions through the lenses of religious literacy, climate grief, climate ministry, and practices to guide communities through the perils of climate catastrophe. This panel will feature: Terry Tempest Williams, HDS Writer-in-Residence Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, MDiv '08, PhD '13 Rev. Vernon K. Walker, Program Director of Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW) Anna Del Castillo, MDiv '21, Climate Justice Researcher for Religion and Public Life This event took place on April 14, 2023 Learn more: https://hds.harvard.edu/

In June 2015, a white supremacist entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and murdered 9 members of the church during a Bible study. During the first court hearing, a number of family members of victims said that they forgave the murderer, Dylann Roof. This act of forgiveness shocked many people. Some people were shocked by witnessing such an act of Christian charity. Others were shocked because they thought expressing forgiveness for such an act, especially so quickly, was wrong, and was only perpetuating the violence on the community under attack. In his new book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, Harvard minister Matthew Potts draws upon this event and others to explore the deep complexity and transformative power of forgiveness. As he shares in today's conversation with Zach Davis, forgiveness is less about settling debts of harm and more about learning to move forward in new life, even if our wounds never fully heal.Matthew Potts is the lead minister at Harvard University's Memorial Church and the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School. His research and teaching focuses on sacramental and moral theology, religion and literature, and preaching. He is the author of two books, Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament and Forgiveness: An Alternative Account. He is also co-host of the podcast "Harry Potter and the Sacred Text".

What is a Christian understanding of forgiveness? And does it necessarily involve reconciliation or the abatement of anger?  On the final episode of this season, Gloria welcomes Reverend Matthew Ichihashi Potts on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast” to discuss the subject of forgiveness. Reverend Potts is an Episcopalian minister and professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University. He is also the author of the new book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, a probing study that draws upon theology, philosophy, social ethics and even literature to reexamine or rediscover forgiveness. The conversation centers primarily on whether forgiveness is possible especially with grave violations of human dignity, such as slavery, genocide, and mass shootings. Too often, Matthew says, we hurry to dress the wounds of trauma with the bandage of cheap forgiveness. We mistakenly believe that anger must fully subside in order for forgiveness to become possible. But is that what Jesus means when he urges us to forgive seven times seventy times?  Matthew offers an alternative definition of forgiveness, which is simply put, non-retaliation. However, choosing to forgive someone who has caused immense harm does not mean that the victims of violence must sweep feelings of anger under the rug or rush to reconciliation.   “If your question is where does our discomfort around anger come from?” says Matthew, “it comes from things like structural violence, like white supremacy. I think that if you are a person in power, it's really good if your victim is not angry anymore. Because if they're not angry anymore, then there's no wrong to fix. And so I think we should be suspicious of a white, European Christian theological tradition that has come to associate the abatement of anger with forgiveness, because who does that bear out on? It bears out on people who have traditionally been marginalized- women and people of color.” Please consider supporting this podcast by getting a digital subscription to America Media at www.americamagazine.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are finite creatures who struggle to accept our finitude. But if we can learn to embrace our limits, we will find that our relations with one another, the created world, and God allow us to experience a love so exquisite, it need not last forever. Guest:  Matthew Ichihashi Potts is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. He studies the thought and practice of Christian communities through attention to diverse literary and theological texts. Making Meaning is a limited series from Ministry of Ideas that explores how life can be lived more meaningfully. Featuring meditations by some of the world's most sensitive and insightful thinkers, Making Meaning will give you fresh perspective and encouragement to live with greater intention and fullness. Making Meaning is produced by Jack Pombriant and Zachary Davis. Artwork by Dan Pecci. Learn more at ministryofideas.org and find us on Twitter @ministryofideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

We are finite creatures who struggle to accept our finitude. But if we can learn to embrace our limits, we will find that our relations with one another, the created world, and God allow us to experience a love so exquisite, it need not last forever. Guest:  Matthew Ichihashi Potts is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. He studies the thought and practice of Christian communities through attention to diverse literary and theological texts. Making Meaning is a limited series from Ministry of Ideas that explores how life can be lived more meaningfully. Featuring meditations by some of the world's most sensitive and insightful thinkers, Making Meaning will give you fresh perspective and encouragement to live with greater intention and fullness. Making Meaning is produced by Jack Pombriant and Zachary Davis. Artwork by Dan Pecci. Learn more at ministryofideas.org and find us on Twitter @ministryofideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

We are finite creatures who struggle to accept our finitude. But if we can learn to embrace our limits, we will find that our relations with one another, the created world, and God allow us to experience a love so exquisite, it need not last forever. Guest:  Matthew Ichihashi Potts is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. He studies the thought and practice of Christian communities through attention to diverse literary and theological texts. Making Meaning is a limited series from Ministry of Ideas that explores how life can be lived more meaningfully. Featuring meditations by some of the world's most sensitive and insightful thinkers, Making Meaning will give you fresh perspective and encouragement to live with greater intention and fullness. Making Meaning is produced by Jack Pombriant and Zachary Davis. Artwork by Dan Pecci. Learn more at ministryofideas.org and find us on Twitter @ministryofideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

We're honored to learn from Dr. Matthew Ichichashi Potts about his book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259858/forgiveness/), which is focused on understanding the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world. In this episode, Dr. Potts shares: • When forgiveness causes emotional distress • Common misunderstandings about forgiveness • When forgiveness causes shame for victims of abuse or trauma • How does forgiveness help us love our enemy • Forgiveness is an alternative to systems of justice that demand retaliation • How can marginalized populations forgive systems of oppression? • Charleston church attack and stories of forgiveness • How to think about forgiveness (when you don't want to forgive) • Anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Matthew Ichihashi Potts, MDiv '08, PhD '13, was appointed the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in 2021. Matt has served on the faculty at Harvard Divinity School since 2013, and has focused his teaching on sacramental and moral theology, ministry and pastoral theology, religion and literature, and preaching. He is the author of two books, Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Forgiveness: An Alternative Account (Yale University Press, 2022). He has also published scholarly essays in several leading journals and invited essay collections, and he sits on the editorial board of the journal Literature and Theology. He is also co-host of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.

In this episode we talk about forgiveness with Rev. Dr. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, who is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School, an ordained episcopal priest serving as the minister at the Memorial Church at Harvard, a co-host of the podcast, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, and the author of the book we discuss on this episode, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account (published by Yale University Press). As Rev. Dr. Potts explains, accounts of forgiveness in broader Christian thinking tend to place the onus of forgiveness on victims, virtually requiring that their feelings of anger or grief change and lead to reconciliation with the one who harmed them. In contrast to this, Rev. Dr. Potts gives an account of forgiveness that is a separate matter from reconciliation, and something that can accommodate an honest recognition of wrongdoing and the feelings of anger and grief that it has caused. Fundamentally, forgiveness for Rev. Dr. Potts is about non-retaliation against one's enemy. As we explore this together, over the course of our conversation, we address how this idea relates to the justice system, social media, literature (including Harry Potter), the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, and the teachings of Jesus. Team members on the episode from The Two Cities include: Dr. Amber Bowen, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Rev. Daniel Parham, and Rev. Dr. Chris Porter.

We are finite creatures who struggle to accept our finitude. But if we can learn to embrace our limits, we will find that our relations with one another, the created world, and God allow us to experience a love so exquisite, it need not last forever.   GUESTMatthew Ichihashi Potts is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. He studies the thought and practice of Christian communities through attention to diverse literary and theological texts. SHOW DESCRIPTIONMaking Meaning is a limited series from Ministry of Ideas that explores how life can be lived more meaningfully. Featuring meditations by some of the world's most sensitive and insightful thinkers, Making Meaning will give you fresh perspective and encouragement to live with greater intention and fullness. Making Meaning is produced by Jack Pombriant and Zachary Davis. Artwork by Dan Pecci. Learn more at ministryofideas.org and find us on Twitter @ministryofideas.

We are finite creatures who struggle to accept our finitude. But if we can learn to embrace our limits, we will find that our relations with one another, the created world, and God allow us to experience a love so exquisite, it need not last forever.   GUEST Matthew Ichihashi Potts is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. He studies the thought and practice of Christian communities through attention to diverse literary and theological texts.

As the Christmas holiday approaches, Rev. Dr. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, PhD '13, says that the United States is in the midst of an “apocalyptic moment.” The inequities of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight for racial justice, and the crisis of climate change are revealing the aspects of our society—and ourselves—from which we can no longer turn away. Now Pusey Minister in Harvard's Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Potts preaches a Christian ethics that is at odds with white supremacy and cultural hegemony—and he's got some hard questions: Can we turn away from prejudice and fear and toward inclusion? Can we stand for justice without falling prey to self-righteousness? Can we face up to how hard it is to love and do it anyway?

The Rev. Dr. Jonathan Lee Walton was named Dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Presidential Chair in Religion and Society, and Dean of Wait Chapel in 2019. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, he was the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. Dean Walton is a social ethicist and an outspoken advocate for social justice and civil rights. His work and insights have been featured in several national and international news outlets, including *The New York Times*, CNN, Time Magazine, and the BBC.

Join the co-authors of Faith Seeking Freedom to get a "behind the scenes" look at the the book's creation and the content of Chapter 6: What About Christian Morals and Ethics? Kerry Baldwin joins Doug to discuss why non-libertarians don't have to fear a life in a free society. Audio Production by Podsworth Media.

The guys get together in this episode and discuss the issues of Christian moralism and the current culture. Christian morals and values are no longer considered mainstream and when society discusses big issues, the Christian perspective is often portrayed as self-righteous and judgmental. with that as the backdrop, the guys discuss what their perspectives are on how to address sin , injustice, and evil in a way that doesn’t fall on deaf-ears.

As we walk through Acts 4 think about it, when you look at our world today it seems like “Christian Morals” are losing and the world is “winning.” Hear what God says in Acts 4. You will be so encouraged by the incredible testimony to the power of the Gospel as the only answer the world needs amidst the decline of society.

Morning Prayers service with speaker Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister and in the Memorial Church, on Tuesday, October 28, 2014.

Morning Prayers service with speaker Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, on Monday, January 27, 2014.

Morning Prayers service with speaker Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, on Saturday, September 21, 2013.

Morning Prayers service with speaker Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, on Wednesday, September 4, 2013.

Morning Prayers service with speaker Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, on Wednesday, April 24, 2013.

Today we are going to discuss how Obama and his legions of sycophant followers are systematically attempting to destroy America’s Christian Morals and Values on the altar of Tolerance and Diversity. Our special guest today is Pastor Roger Mattox, President and Co-Founder of Oasis International Ministries a Poteau, Oklahoma based Christian Ministry building churches in Ghana and Liberia, West Africa. … Read more about this episode...

Social ethicist and scholar of American religions Jonathan L. Walton is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University and Pusey Minister in Harvard’s Memorial Church. He is also a professor of religion and society on the faculty of divinity. Professor Walton’s research addresses the intersections of religion, politics and media culture. He has published widely in scholarly journals such as Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation and Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. His book, Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism (2009), disrupts commonly held assumptions that associate evangelical broadcasting with white, conservative evangelical communities, while illumining the ways televangelists’ professed aims are frustrated by their hyper-mediated methods. Walton’s work and insights have been featured in national and international news outlets including the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. He is also the “resident ethicist” on the Tavis Smiley radio show. Currently, Walton is working on a book-length study of famed televangelist Carlton Pearson tentatively titled Pentecostalism Made Pretty. The book explores questions of power, privilege and race in the context of late 20th and early 21st century neo-Pentecostalism. He is also completing a volume on African-American religious history with Eddie S. Glaude (Princeton University) titled American Religion In Black and Blue. Walton earned his doctoral and master of divinity degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary. A native of Atlanta, Walton graduated from Morehouse College with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He was an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Divinity School.

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church at Harvard University delivers the Baccalaureate address at Stanford University's commencement ceremonies. (June 14, 2008)

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church at Harvard University delivers the Baccalaureate address at Stanford University's commencement ceremonies. (June 14, 2008)