Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Josh Bossé to begin a series on the tabernacle of Exodus and the parallels it has to the Creation story, turning those spiritual principles into tangible practices. Presentation for Sanctuary — Waking Up in the Mishkan (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 325 Tabernacle — Wikipedia “What’s So Special About the Tabernacle?” — BibleProject Podcast BEMA 286: John — The Test of Bread Support The BEMA Podcast...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Anita Grace Brown. She has been using yoga for 25 years to heal from trauma, fear, and spiritual struggles. She engages nature and uses art to help others find redemption. Discussion Video for BEMA 324 Grooveology Website It’s 5 o’clock Somewhere Podcast Kamikaze Yogi by Anita Grace Brown Christians Practicing Yoga The Yoga Abbey I’m Gonna Stress You Out — Online Course Additional audio production by Gus Simpson Special Guest: Anita Gr...
Mar 30, 2023•44 min
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks finish out the series by turning their attention to two figures in the book of Revelation. Discussion Video for BEMA 323 Cinnabar — Wikipedia Litter (vehicle) [palanquin] — Wikipedia Epiphanius of Salamis — Wikipedia Hippolytus of Rome — Wikipedia Isis — Wikipedia BEMA 300: John — The Migdal Support The BEMA Podcast...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Elle Grover Fricks to survey the forgotten women of the New Testament. Learning Greek with Elle — Servant (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 322 Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon Trireme — Wikipedia Didache — Wikipedia Junia (New Testament person) — Wikipedia BEMA News & Events Support The BEMA Podcast...
Mar 16, 2023•57 min
Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé draw their chairs closer to the fire of the accounts of women who may have been overlooked in the Hebrew Bible. Discussion Video for BEMA 321 Binders Full of Women — Know Your Meme BEMA 209: Midrash — Noah’s Backstory and the Nephilim Support The BEMA Podcast...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks study sages and wise women of the Text. Discussion Video for BEMA 320 Nadītu — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast
Mar 02, 2023•47 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Elle Grover Fricks to discuss how to navigate the dangers of presentism and primitivism as we start a series on the forgotten women of the Bible. Presentation for The Forgotten Women — Presentism and Primitivism (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 319 Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari BEMA 240: Sin and the Archaeology of Joshua w/ Elle Grover Fricks Levant — Wikipedia The Red Tent by Anita Diamant BEMA 308: The Chosen S2E9 — “T...
Feb 23, 2023•47 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Alonzo Felder, author of Discovering A. S. J. Allen . Over the course of his career as an IT analyst at Duke University, Alonzo became an expert in a number of research methods and has done extensive work on his own family history. Discussion Video for BEMA 318 Discovering A. S. J. Allen by Alonzo Felder “Do You Know” Scale Review of Discovering A. S. J. Allen — Marty Solomon, Goodreads Coming soon: Online Course for Family History Res...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Erin Geiselman, leader of the launch team for Marty’s book Asking Better Questions of the Bible , to discuss what the experience of writing a book was like for Marty. Discussion Video for BEMA 317 Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon BEMA 207: J. R. Briggs — The Sacred Overlap The Writing Life Course — Kairos Partnerships From Novice to Expert by Patricia Benner BEMA 57: Lamentations — Lament and Hope Erin Geiselman on...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about the story of the unforgiving servant and the end of bookkeeping and seeing our enemies as ourselves. Discussion Video for BEMA 316 BEMA 121: The Key to Your Own Prison The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf Join the BEMA Slack Support The BEMA Podcast...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are back with Reed Dent to discuss the lost son of Luke 15 and what it means to be lost. Discussion Video for BEMA 315 The Pharisees by Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon Support The BEMA Podcast...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Brent Billings and Reed Dent talk about the story of the rich fool and the dynamics of money and relationships. Discussion Video for BEMA 314 Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson Hope: The Prophet Candle — The BEMA Liturgy “Tripping Billies” by Dave Matthews Band — YouTube Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey The Parable of the Rich Fool — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship Join the BEMA Slack Support The BEMA Podcast...
Jan 19, 2023•49 min
Brent Billings is joined by Reed Dent and Elle Grover Fricks to talk about the story of the Good Samaritan and what it looks like to love people we’d rather not. Discussion Video for BEMA 313 Elle Meets John Piper “On Priests and Jericho in the Second Temple Period” by Joshua Schwartz — ResearchGate The Parable of the Good Samaritan — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship Support The BEMA Podcast...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are bringing in Reed Dent to launch a miniseries on parables, starting with a discussion about what a parable is and why anyone would want to teach in that way. Discussion Video for BEMA 312 Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson The Great Spiritual Migration by Brian McLaren Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins from The Apple That Astonished Paris Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey The ...
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Keith Simon, co-author of Truth Over Tribe , who co-planted The Crossing, a politically diverse church where he is the co-lead teaching pastor. He hosts a podcast by the same name, Truth Over Tribe, and teaches on Ten Minute Bible Talks. Discussion Video for BEMA 311 Truth Over Tribe by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon Truth Over Tribe Podcast Ten Minute Bible Talks BEMA 309: On Social Media Additional audio production by Gus Simpson Spe...
Dec 29, 2022•49 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Maggi Billings to discuss Marty’s favorite Christmas movie. Discussion Video for BEMA 310 The Nativity Story (2006 film) — Amazon The Nativity Story (2006 film) — JustWatch BEMA 89: Written in the Stars When God Was a Boy by C. T. Giles Festival Edition: The Birth (w/ Katie Del Rocco) [Adaptation from Frederick Buechner] — Marty Solomon, YouTube Special Guest: Maggi Billings. Support The BEMA Podcast...
Dec 22, 2022•47 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings address the Twitter-sized elephant in the room, talk about how each of them use social media, and consider ways all of us can engage this part of our world in a healthy way. Discussion Video for BEMA 309 BEMA Poll/Survey (valid through 26 April 2023) “Twitter suspends @ElonJet plane-tracking bot after Musk pledged to leave it up” — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica “Elon Musk offloads another $3.6 billion of Tesla stock” — Dave Lee, Financial Times/Ars Technica “One More...
Dec 19, 2022•39 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Maggi Billings to discuss The Chosen S2E9 (the 2021 Christmas special), “The Messengers.” (No) Discussion Video for BEMA 308 The Chosen The Chosen (TV Series) — Wikipedia The Chosen (2017 TV Series) — IMDb Festival Edition: The Birth (w/ Katie Del Rocco) [Adaptation from Frederick Buechner] — Marty Solomon, YouTube The Nativity Story (2006 film) — Amazon The Nativity Story (2006 film) — JustWatch Special Guest: Maggi Billings. Support ...
Dec 15, 2022•50 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Brian Truschinger, Elle Grover Fricks, Reed Dent, and Josh Bossé, all together for the very first time to discuss what is happening with BEMA and what we hope for the future. Discussion Video for BEMA 307 BEMA Poll/Survey (valid through 26 April 2023) The BEMA Liturgy Tell It Slant by Eugene Peterson Elle’s Website for Hebrew Classes The Text In Us Podcast Josh’s Beard Progress (surgery > shaved > 1 month > 3 months) Sermon with Brian’s Toi...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Brian David, who spent 37 years coaching people in software, and 25 years coaching high school sports, but now finds himself “coaching” the Text. Chiasms in John by Brian David (PDF) Discussion Video for BEMA 306 BEMA 28: Images of the Desert — Ar'ar and Tamarisk Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes by Kenneth E. Bailey Star Wars Ring Theory by Mike Klimo Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham Join the BEMA Slack Additio...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Dr. Gary Burge, author of Interpreting the Gospel of John , and one of the foremost authorities on John. He was a professor at Wheaton College for 25 years and now serves as a New Testament scholar at Calvin Theological Seminary. Discussion Video for BEMA 305 Gary M. Burge, Professor of New Testament — Calvin Theological Seminary Interpreting the Gospel of John by Gary M. Burge James Dunn — Wikipedia The Anointed Community by Gary M. B...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings examine the different elements of John’s construction and consider some of the scholarly theories and observations that have been made over the years, seeing what there might be to learn in those possibilities. Discussion Video for BEMA 304 Interpreting the Gospel of John by Gary M. Burge Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon Support The BEMA Podcast...
Nov 10, 2022•46 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings take a tour through the history of textual criticism that surrounds the Gospel of John and we look at the unique styles and attributes of John’s writing. Discussion Video for BEMA 303 Interpreting the Gospel of John by Gary M. Burge Historical Tradition and Sources in John Support The BEMA Podcast...
Nov 03, 2022•47 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings listen in on the restoration of Peter and consider the conclusion John writes for his Gospel account. Discussion Video for BEMA 302 BEMA 131: Betrayal Pre-order: Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon Support The BEMA Podcast...
Oct 27, 2022•42 min
Brent Billings and Reed Dent discuss Thomas—a seemingly strange disciple—and question the nature of doubt and belief. Discussion Video for BEMA 301 “The Seeing Heart” by Frederick Buechner — YouTube “Frederick Buechner, Novelist With a Religious Slant, Dies at 96” by Robert D. McFadden — The New York Times Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner “St. Thomas Didymus” by Denise Levertov The Stream & the Sapphire by Denise Levertov Join the BEMA Slack Support The BEMA Podcast...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks witness the resurrection of Jesus and consider the figure of Miriam the Migdal, more commonly known as Mary Magdalene. Discussion Video for BEMA 300 Isis — Wikipedia Early Christian Women and Pagan Opinion by Margaret Y. MacDonald The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene by Jane Schaberg The Woman Jesus Loved by Antti Marjanen Support The BEMA Podcast...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings pick up after the moment of Jesus’s death on the cross, looking at the preparations for his burial and the work of two unexpected characters who take their own stand in honoring Jesus. Discussion Video for BEMA 299 Arimathea — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast
Oct 06, 2022•30 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings dive into John’s account of Jesus’s crucifixion. Discussion Video for BEMA 298 The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel Shmuel Safrai — Wikipedia Support The BEMA Podcast
Sep 29, 2022•43 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by special guest Kat Armas, author of Abuelita Faith , whose earliest theological formation came from her grandmother and ultimately inspired her to tell the stories of those we find on the margins. She teaches people to reflect on the abuelitas in their lives and shows us how to live out this kind of faith on a daily basis. Discussion Video for BEMA 297 The Protagonistas Abuelita Faith by Kat Armas Abuelita Fe by Kat Armas Sacred Belonging by Kat Arma...
Sep 22, 2022•48 min
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings see Jesus arrested, finding himself questioned, Peter questioned, finding himself lacking in courage, and Pilate drawn into an argument, finding himself cornered. Discussion Video for BEMA 296 Join the BEMA Slack Support The BEMA Podcast
Sep 15, 2022•46 min
