Podcast appearances and mentions of Harold W Attridge

Yale professor emeritus Harold W. Attridge discusses a class he, as a Roman Catholic New Testament scholar, taught at Yale about Catholics and the Bible. 

On this week's Aftermath, Rebecca speaks with Professor Emeritus Harold W. Attridge of the Yale Divinity School. A leading scholar of Jewish and Greek Literature related to the New Testament and Early Christianity, Harold lends new insight to the human condition of the time. After, Producer Clayton Early and Fact Checker Chris Smith stop by to discuss whether or not the original verdict holds up!We have merch!Join our Discord!Tell us who you think is to blame at http://thealarmistpodcast.comEmail us at thealarmistpodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram @thealarmistpodcastFollow us on Twitter @alarmistThe Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/alarmist. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

During Stewardship Month, members of St. George's share their stories of Grace & Gratitude. Our final story is from cradle Comox Valley-ite Adele Campbell.1 Corinthians 12:1-13Testimony: Adele CampbellPreacher: Rev. Ryan Slifka Adele TestimonyIt all began at Cumberland Hospital on Tuesday, November 17, 1942 (almost 78 years ago) when Dave and Hazel Campbell gave birth to Hazel Adele Campbell (that's me) with Dr. Hicks presiding who was a vivacious choir member of Cumberland United Church.My folks lived in Union Bay at the time and were very involve with the Union Bay United Church¬¬…and me? Well one of my first outings was going to Church on the Christmas Sunday, Dec. 20/42 (I remember it well! ...NOT.) and then a week later on New Years Day, I was Christened in the Church. Well as for me, what choice did I have? But to be a follower of Jesus Christ and I must admit I was not always good at it. I believe I took the prayers of my parents for granted. Anyways 10 years later we moved to Campbell River, you've got it—I went to the Campbell River United Church. Mom was choir leader and played the organ and dad sang in the Choir and was on the Board of Session and in my early teens I too sang in the choir and taught Sunday School. My first introduction to St. George's, was when our Campbell River Choir and St. George's choir joined at Easter time presenting an Easter Cantata at both churches. In 1960 I got married and 4 years later gave birth to a baby girl, Tracey. It was when I was expecting my second child Paige (a Christmas Eve baby) we moved to Saratoga Beach. A wonderful place to raise children.It was during this time that I experienced a transformation—when, in my bedroom, down on my knees in prayer, with a deep concern, I asked God to answer me by giving me the Holy Spirit and one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I will never forget that moment, it was like I had been soaked in a honey of love and then I broke out in a prayer language that continued all through the night (and is still with me) with my husband Wayne, thinking I was crazy! There were several people involved in my life at that time who helped me get to this point. It was a time when the Holy Spirit was moving up and down the island and alive in all the denominations. It was an exciting time! Also, a time when we took a United Church tour with 90% being ministers to Greece, Egypt and Israel. Among many highlights the one that stood out the most for me was reaffirming my faith by being baptized by full immersion in the Sea of Galilee. Like a computer I was rebooted and refreshed. It was a new beginning with my walk with Christ.A lot happened in the 22 years following my transformation: my husband Wayne felt called to go into the ministry and we eventually moved to Vancouver where he began his studies at Vancouver School of Theology, and I discovered I was pregnant. Through my pregnancy I took courses at Langara College with the view that I too would go into the ministry, but God had a different plan. We became involved in Ryerson United Church and ended up living in one of their houses. My husband and I lead the youth group that met on Sunday evenings in our home. After my son Samuel was born, I took some courses at Vancouver School of Theology and within that year I became ill which lasted for a few years. One never knows what road you are going to be walking on! The church, my parents, family and friends were my anchor. After some time, my husband quit his studies and left me and the three children. I began working in the office for Ryerson United Church and I also led contemporary gospel with 2 other people at the early Sunday service. When the contemporary and traditional services joined to be one service, we still led the more contemporary hymns, with a couple of guitars and then eventually drums. I was also a part of the birthing of the Single Again group which brought people from other churches or some that didn't even go to church. It was a time to learn about oneself and develop confidence of being single and enjoying fellowship with potlucks, playing badminton, etc. This included my present husband Ed, a widower at the time who lived across the street with his five children. I was eventually hired at the BC Conference office and over a course of thirteen years I worked as a support staff with Communications, Global Concerns, Native Ministries, Youth, Children's Ministry and eventually I did all of the desktop publishing. I was also chosen by the Executive Secretary of BC Conference to be the representative on the National Committee for “Confessing Our Faith.” A portion of time was spent planning various events such as the “Festival of Faith” and a Women's Conference at Ryerson. After 22 years in Vancouver, I moved back to the Comox Valley. This included Ed commuting back and forth for a few years, my mother living with me, and maintaining a bigger piece of property, so it took a little while before I got established at St. George's.Over the last 20 years I have been here, I got married to Ed, have been involved at St. George's on Council, Worship Team, Session, Drama Group, Congregational Care, Choir, Transition Team, Ministry and Personnel and the Prayer Chain. During this phase of my life I have had cancer three times. It was through my husband Ed, family members and the people of St. George's that supported me with prayer, food, and their concerns that gave me the strength to move forward. As you can see, I have a prayer shawl. This was a very meaningful gift I received by a group of ladies from St. George's who knit Prayer Shawls with prayers for healing, comfort and peace. Quite a Ministry!To have a relationship with the HOLY ONE, I can't stress enough the value of prayer and reading the Bible. It brings you closer to an intimate relationship with God. I wish I had practiced this more in my earlier years, particularly when my children were in their teens. When my mom passed away, she left me this gift, the value of prayer. I still can remember when she was living with me, I would hear her praying at night in her bedroom.I feel blessed with several of our children and grandchildren living close by and others not too far away with a brother and wife living in Parksville.God has been good to me he has been my refuge and my strength. I feel so grateful to the ministers Ryan and Ingrid and members of St. George's. I do value the treasure of community: praying, singing, working, laughing, and caring together for the glorification of God.SermonIn the 1960's, while living in Saratoga beach, alone in her bedroom, Adele told us that, she “prayed for God's Spirit.” And she prayed for God to give her one of the gifts of the Spirit. And in that moment, she was overcome by a sensation of love and began to pray in an unknown language throughout the night. This was a pivotal moment that changed her life. Set it in a whole new direction.Adele's experience shares is at least analogous to what the New Testament calls “glossolalia” or “speaking in tongues.”[i] It's a form of ecstatic speech. Energized and inspired by the Holy Spirit, a person begins to pray in an unknown or angelic language. While someone else in the community may also be inspired by the Spirit to interpret the tongues for the gathered community. Alongside wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, and the discernment of spirits, tongues are listed by the Apostle Paul in today's scripture passage as one among the Spirit's many sacred gifts.Now, no doubt that when many of us hear this kind of thing, we may react like Adele's first husband, Wayne. Thinking this person's gotta be crazy. Speaking in tongues is liable to freak us modern, scientific people out. Especially we United Church people who often pride ourselves on reasonableness. As far as Paul's list goes, we're good with wisdom and knowledge. Faith, even. Maybe we'll add accounting or serving coffee after church to the list. But we tend to go with the flow of culture, and our culture tends to dismiss or look down on out of the ordinary stuff like this. This stuff makes us a little antsy. We tend to have trouble with tongues.Believe or not, though, the early Christians had trouble with tongues, too. But it was a different kind of trouble.In today's reading the Apostle Paul was trying to settle a dispute at First Church Corinth. According to the letter, some in the community had been, like Adele, having ecstatic experiences of prayer in otherworldly languages. The problem, though, wasn't that people were speaking in tongues. After all, elsewhere Paul himself claims to have the gift. The problem is that those who did speak in tongues believed they were closer to God, more enlightened, than other people who didn't. They believed that this gift gave them more authority, more sway over the community.[ii] Like us, the Corinthians had trouble with tongues. Unlike us, though, their trouble wasn't with the gift itself. Speaking in tongues gave them a leg up on everyone else who couldn't. Causing much division.So in order to solve the tongue issue (sounds like some kind of rash or something), what Paul did was bring the community back to basics. Back to foundational stuff as church.And the first foundational thing Paul reminds them of is that all their gifts are equal. “Now there are varieties of gifts,” he says. “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord. A variety of activities, but the same God who activates all of them in everyone.” Everybody's been given a different gift, he says. And no matter the gift—whether tongues, or wisdom. Whether knowledge, accounting or serving coffee. The Spirit is democratic. Everybody's got ‘em. And there's no gift greater than another.And not only has everybody got ‘em, he says. They've got ‘em for the same purpose. “To each is given,” Paul says, “to each person is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.” For the common good. Everybody's given a gift. Every single person. Not as a sign of superiority, or divine preference, but a preparation for divine service.[iii]No gift is superior to another. But each is given to each person for the common purpose of building the community of faith. The common good.Now, I don't know what each of your individual views are on speaking in tongues. Or miraculous healing. Or anything we might call supernatural. I tend to be skeptical by temperament, personally.But what I do know is that through Adele's testimony, her long experience in the United Church and my personal experience with her leadership and ministry in this congregation… through it I've come to understand something of what Paul's talking about.He says that God not only gives every single one of us some kind of spiritual gift, but that these gifts come in an incredible variety—even ones we might not understand or be entirely comfortable with. But when they're understood properly, they build up the whole church. And that's what God has used Adele and her gifts to do.I in coming to know Adele and people like her—people who God has surely used for the common good—it's made me much more open to experiences that are not my own. Experiences like Adele's have helped me understand that we have a God who draws us together as disciples of Jesus not in our similarities, but in our differences. One Lord, one Spirit, one baptism, one body of Christ. To show the world what kind of community is possible under the leadership of Jesus Christ. One where our differences aren't erased, but put towards the common purpose of making the God of Love known to a world in such need of grace.Which is a good place, I think, to end Stewardship Month. We've heard four very different testimonies from five very different people. People whose church backgrounds, faith experiences and the way they talk about them have been quite distinct.Some critics of religion might consider this an inconsistency. While some fellow Christians might see it as an inching away from clear truth. But I think we'll go with the Apostle Paul. That our diversity—spiritual, political, social, or otherwise, is more likely evidence of the community-creating, life transforming, world-changing work of the Spirit of the Living God. A cause worth committing to with everything we've got.May the Spirit continue to grant us the gifts, and the will to do so.AMEN.[i] “Paul's understanding of glossolalia is that it is Spirit-inspired utterance that is ‘talking with God' (14:2), but that without interpretation (by the glossolalist or another) is not understandable talk and does not edify others.” J. Paul Sampley, “1 Corinthians,” in The New Interpreter's Bible, vol. X, gen. ed. Leander Keck (Nashville: Abingdon, 2002), 944.[ii] “In particular [Paul] is concerned to correct the view that speaking in tongues somehow demonstrates the higher spiritual status of those who were thus graced.” Victor Paul Furnish, “First Corinthians,” in The Harper Collins Study Bible, rev. ed., gen ed. Harold W. Attridge (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2006), 1948.[iii] “Paul joins with the Corinthians in their recognition of differences as they experience their Christian life together, appreciates the difference, accounts for them as part of the divine plan, and attempts to reintegrate differences into what he sees as God's overall purpose.” Ibid., 940.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 15-19. This is session 6 of 8 videos for the Gospel of Luke. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 4. This is session 2 of 8 videos for Romans. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 5. This is session 3 of 8 videos for Romans. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 6. This is session 4 of 8 videos for Romans. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 7-8. This is session 5 of 8 videos for Romans. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 23-24. This is session 8 of 8 videos for the Gospel of Luke. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 19-22. This is session 7 of 8 videos for the Gospel of Luke. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 9-11. This is session 4 of 8 videos for the Gospel of Luke. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 12-14. This is session 5 of 8 videos for the Gospel of Luke. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 6-8. This is session 3 of 8 videos for the Gospel of Luke. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 3-6. This is session 2 of 8 videos for the Gospel of Luke. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 1-2. This is session 1 of 8 videos for the Gospel of Luke. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 9-11. This is session 6 of 8 videos for Romans. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 12-13. This is session 7 of 8 videos for Romans. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 14-16. This is session 8 of 8 videos for Romans. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 1-3. This is session 1 of 8 videos for Romans. The conversation is part of the Yale Bible Study Series presented in cooperation with The Congregational Church of New Canaan in New Canaan, CT. This material is intended for use in small-group Bible study sessions to promote discussion and reflection. The Series aims to engage educated lay audiences by offering the insights of biblical scholarship in a relaxed, informal, yet rigorous manner. More information and supplementary study materials are available online at: http://www.yale.edu/yalebiblestudy/

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 14-16. This is session 8 of 8 for Romans.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 1-2. This is session 1 of 8 for the Gospel of Luke.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 12-13. This is session 7 of 8 for Romans.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 9-11. This is session 6 of 8 for Romans.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 7-8. This is session 5 of 8 for Romans.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 6. This is session 4 of 8 for Romans.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 9-11. This is session 4 of 8 for the Gospel of Luke.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 4. This is session 2 of 8 for Romans.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 1-3. This is session 1 of 8 for Romans.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 23-24. This is session 8 of 8 for the Gospel of Luke

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 15-19. This is session 6 of 8 for the Gospel of Luke.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 12-14. This is session 5 of 8 for the Gospel of Luke.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 6-8. This is session 3 of 8 for the Gospel of Luke.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 3-6. This is session 2 of 8 for the Gospel of Luke.

Yale Divinity School Dean Harold W. Attridge and Professor Emeritus David L. Bartlett discuss The Letter of Paul to the Romans Chapters 5. This is session 3 of 8 for Romans.