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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a groundbreaking account of the origins, development, and enduring significance of Christian doctrine, explaining why it remains essential to the life of Christian communities. Noting important parallels between the development of scientific theories a…
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Sermon Notes Date: 10/27/2024 Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor Series: Romans Key Text: Romans 15:22-33 Description: Avg Guy: I have plans! I have things I want to do — places I want to go… SBC Host: …And let me guess… those “plans” — at least for right now — aren’t God’s plans… are they? Avg Guy: […]由Scandia Bible Church
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Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our biology ties us to particular ethnic identities. This can boost a sense of cultural pride and prosocial behaviors among communities that are perceived to b…
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During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion pic…
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Sermon Notes Date: 04/16/1998 Preacher: James Allen, pastor Series: John Key Text: John 17: 24-26 Description: Join us as we turn the back the clock to 1998 to listen to a Scandia Bible Church “Classic.” In this Classic Sermon, Pastor James Allen continues with our study of the Gospel of John. Listen Now Download Sermon (right click) […]…
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A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing his research on French colonialism and the urbanist project in Hanoi, he came across an intriguing dossier: “Destruction of animals in the city”. The documents he found started him on a research path that led to a section of his dissertation, then an …
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Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal of morality? What does his critique of capital have to do with ethics? Why is the proletariat the revolutionary class? What is the normative importance of that claim? In Marx’s Ethical Vision (Oxford University Press, 2024), Vanessa Wills provides a…
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Sermon Notes Date: 10/20/2024 Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor Series: Colossians Key Text: Colossians 1:1-2 Description: To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. Imagine penning such a greeting from prison. Because that’s what Paul did. What’s more, he didn’t even know them — but h…
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Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens are left unsure whom to trust and which facts are true. The role of honesty in civic life is in jeopardy. When we lose sight of the importance of honesty, it hampers our ability to solve pressing prob…
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Sermon Notes Date: 04/09/1998 Preacher: James Allen, pastor Series: John Key Text: John 17: 17-23 Description: Join us as we turn the back the clock to 1998 to listen to a Scandia Bible Church “Classic.” In this Classic Sermon, Pastor James Allen continues with our study of the Gospel of John. Listen Now Download Sermon (right click) […]…
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What is the connection between where people live and how they vote? In The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales (Oxford UP, 2024), Jamie Furlong a Research Fellow at the University of Westminster and Will Jennings Associate Dean Research & Enterprise and Professor at the University of Southampton, analyse the continuities and changes in hist…
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Sermon Notes Date: 10/13/2024 Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor Series: Romans Key Text: Romans 15:14-21 Description: “They who had no news of Him shall see, And they who have not heard shall understand.” What drives a person to dedicate their life to sharing the gospel in places where Christ has never been named?? Today on Scandia […]…
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Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (Oxford UP, 2024) recounts women authors' struggle to define the female intellectual through their engagement with the classical world in early modern France. Bringing together the fields of classical reception and women writers, Helena Taylor looks at various female novelists, tra…
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Sermon Notes Date: 04/02/1998 Preacher: James Allen, pastor Series: John Key Text: John 17:6-16 Description: Join us as we turn the back the clock to 1998 to listen to a Scandia Bible Church “Classic.” In this Classic Sermon, Pastor James Allen continues with our study of the Gospel of John. Listen Now Download Sermon (right click) theme […]…
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Sermon Notes Date: 10/06/2024 Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor Key Text: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Description: “Life feels overwhelming… and my struggles seem to never end.” When this seems to be our reality, how do we keep going? Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao brings us to 2 Corinthians as our church continues […]…
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How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Torsh speaks with Lynnette Arnold about her new book Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families (Oxford University Press, 2024). Lynnette also shares her tips …
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The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of one of contemporary India’s most contentious disputes: a long-running struggle over women’s access to the Hindu temple at Sabarimala. In 2018, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that the temple, which had traditionally been forbidden to women…
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Sermon Notes Date: 03/26/1998 Preacher: James Allen, pastor Series: John Key Text: John 17:1-5 Description: Join us as we turn the back the clock to 1998 to listen to a Scandia Bible Church “Classic.” In this Classic Sermon, Pastor James Allen continues with our study of the Gospel of John. Listen Now Download Sermon (right click) theme […]…
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We commonly think of democracy as a social order governed by the people’s collective will. Given the size of the modern states, this picture is typically adjusted to say that democracy is a system of representative government, where elected officials are tasked with governing in ways that reflect the collective will of their constituents. Although …
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Sermon Notes Date: 09/29/2024 Preacher: Josh Peglow, pastor Key Text: Lamentations 3:19-24 Description: The suffering, intense. The pain and sorrow, all-consuming. The struggle, real. Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Josh Peglow turns to the book of Lamentations as our congregation continues to struggle in this very real way. In our pa…
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Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents of the 'movement'. This book cuts the Gordian knot. There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but most assume that it was a thing. J. C. D. Clark shows what it actually was, namely …
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In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international norms according to their liberal vision. They introduced Western-led multilateral organizations to regulate cross-border flows which became pivotal in the making of an interconnected global order. In contrast to this well-studied transformation, in Aga…
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In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other times suffered devastating defeat. Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) ill…
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Charmian Mansell joins Jana Byars to talk about Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2024). What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence recorded in church court testimony, Mansell excavates experiences of over a thousand female servants between 1532 and 1649. Intervening in his…
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Sermon Notes Date: 03/19/1998 Preacher: James Allen, pastor Series: John Key Text: John 16:29-33 Description: Join us as we turn the back the clock to 1998 to listen to a Scandia Bible Church “Classic.” In this Classic Sermon, Pastor James Allen continues with our study of the Gospel of John. Listen Now Download Sermon (right click) theme […]…
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Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy and the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers aside from the Buddha himself, concludes his masterpiece, Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, with these baffling verses: For the abandonment of all views He taught the true teaching By means of compassio…
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From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the seventeenth century. From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the…
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Sermon Notes Date: 09/22/2024 Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor Key Text: Job 18-19 Description: What do you do when everything falls apart and it feels like even God has turned away? Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao presses pause on our Romans study and turns to Job, as our church mourns the […]…
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After close to three decades of the hegemony of free market ideas, the state has made a big comeback as an economic actor since the 2008 financial crisis. China’s state-owned companies and international financial institutions have made headlines for their growing influence in the world economy. State-backed investment vehicles based in the Gulf sta…
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Sermon Notes Date: 03/12/1998 Preacher: James Allen, pastor Series: John Key Text: John 16:16-28 Description: Join us as we turn the back the clock to 1998 to listen to a Scandia Bible Church “Classic.” In this Classic Sermon, Pastor James Allen continues with our study of the Gospel of John. Listen Now Download Sermon (right click) theme […]…
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wendy Ugolini is the first cultural history of this English Welsh duality - an identi…
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Sermon Notes Date: 09/15/2024 Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor Series: Romans Key Text: Romans 15:1-13 Description: Christian unity. How do we build a church community that truly reflects the love and unity of Christ? Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Romans in which we’re […]…
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'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for which bold, creative, and messy solutions are typically required. The adjective 'wicked' describes the mischievous and even evil quality of these problems, where proposed solutions often turn out to b…
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Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out at a year, some spend years awaiting trial in jail-especially in counties where courts are jammed with cases. City and county jails, detention centers,…
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Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships between the state and business. But these relationships have not always been smooth, as…
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Paul Robeson's Voices (Oxford UP, 2023) is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned in the contexts of singing practices, in recital, concer…
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Sermon Notes Date: 03/05/1998 Preacher: James Allen, pastor Series: John Key Text: John 16:7-15 Description: Join us as we turn the back the clock to 1998 to listen to a Scandia Bible Church “Classic.” In this Classic Sermon, Pastor James Allen continues with our study of the Gospel of John. Listen Now Download Sermon (right click) theme […]…
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Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977. Copley Woods, 1983. Explore how sightings of UFOs and aliens seized the world's attention and discover what the fascination with flying saucers and extraterrestrial visitors says about our changing views on science, technology, and the p…
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In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey spoke with Olivier Roy, professor of social and political sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and author of The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms (Oxford University Press, 2024). Roy argues that neoliberal globalization is di…
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Sermon Notes Date: 09/08/2024 Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor Series: Romans Key Text: Romans 14:13-23 Description: Avg Guy: My Life. My Freedom! SBC Host: Hold up a minute. True Christian freedom is not just about exercising your right… It’s also about doing what’s right. For an action that frees you… may enslave another. Avg Guy: […]…
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Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical theatre fandom - and even the concept of the musical itself? TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age (Oxford UP, 2024) takes readers inside the world of TikTok Broadway, where fans create, expand, and canonize mu…
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In Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service. Set up by the Allies at the end of World War II, the ITS has worked until today to find missing persons and to aid survivors with restitu…
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