Bill Shiell, president of Northern Seminary in Lisle, IL, rehearses with David Capes his path to become president of Northern Seminary. He talks about the unique niche that Northern Seminary occupies in the world of theological education. The post TSC_070 Bill Shiell, Seminary Now first appeared on Lanier Theological Library .
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Phil Keaggy <- Back to Episodes Phil Keaggy, Keaggy's Garage Legendary guitarist, Phil Keaggy, joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to share a bit of his life’s story and to sing Happy Birthday to Mark Lanier. Mark and Becky have been friends with Phil and his sweet wife, Bernadette, for many years. As anyone who has followed “Biblical Literacy” knows, Mark frequently writes fun parodies of famous songs and he turns to Phil to record them. Fo...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Dr. Daniel Master <- Back to Episodes Daniel Master, Tel Shimron Daniel Master (PhD, Harvard University), Professor of Archaeology at Wheaton College, talks with David Capes about how he became an archaeologist. He has spent much of his career digging up, processing, and writing archaeological reports on Ashkelon. In recent days he and his dig partners from various institutions have turned their trowels to Tel Shimron, a large archaeological sit...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Dr. Scott Callaham <- Back to Episodes Scott Callaham, Learning Aramaic Scott Callaham, Lecturer in Old Testament at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Singapore, is a friend of the Lanier Theological Library. He has spent a good bit of time in the library and with our staff as he has been working on his primer for biblical Aramaic entitled Biblical Aramaic for Biblical Interpreters (Glossahouse, 2021). While the Old Testament is mostly in Hebr...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Dr. Roche Coleman <- Back to Episodes Roche Coleman, Shame and Guilt in Psalm 32 Roche Coleman is Senior Pastor of the Impact Church in the Woodlands. He is a frequent patron at the library; in fact, he just finished his PhD at the University of Pretoria spending a good bit of time studying and writing at the Lanier Theological Library. He joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about his ministry and to talk about his dissertation which...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Pam Vandewalker <- Back to Episodes Pam Vandewalker, Teeny Tykes and Tunes Pamela Vandewalker has an interesting job. She directs worship programming at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, GA, a worshipping community of roughly 7000 people. She is the author of many books and a composer of about 75 hymns for children. She stopped by recently to talk with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” about her life, her battles with cancer, and how hym...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Timothy Dalrymple <- Back to Episodes Timothy Dalrymple, Christianity Today Dr. Timothy Dalrymple is the new CEO and Editor-in-chief of Christianity Today (CT). He has come to this position after a long and storied career as an elite gymnast, an academic, and a successful entrepreneur. In fact, everything “Tim” Dalrymple has done smacks of excellence, greatness, creativity, and devotion to God. Now in this new endeavor, he brings his many gifts ...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Robert Morgan <- Back to Episodes Robert Morgan, Then Sings My Soul Robert Morgan, teaching pastor at the Donelson Fellowship in Nashville, TN, has authored more than twenty books. He lectured at the Stone Chapel on August 21, 2021. While at the library, he talked with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel Podcasts” about his series, Then Sings My Soul published by Thomas Nelson,, particularly the third volume in that series. Morgan has been dubbed “...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Andy LePeau <- Back to Episodes Andy LePeau, Mark through Old Testament Eyes Andy LePeau has been in academic publishing for many years with InterVarsity Press. He is also a talented writer and the author of a new book with Kregel Academic entitled Mark through Old Testament Eyes. He serves as series editor for this new background and application commentary called “Through Old Testament Eyes” and stops by to talk with David Capes on “The Stone C...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Kevin Grasso <- Back to Episodes Kevin Grasso, Biblingo.org Kevin Grasso and Nick Messmer are co-founders of Biblingo.org, a website dedicated to helping people learn and retain Greek and Hebrew. Kevin stopped by to talk with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” regarding their project and how their approach differs from other programs or website. The bottom line is this: they draw from some of the best practices and literature on second language a...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Ida Glaser <- Back to Episodes Ida Glaser, Centre for Muslim Christian Studies, Oxford Dr. Ida Glaser, International Academic Coordinator and Founding Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about her life and the mission of the Oxford Centre she and her husband, David Coffey, established. They bring Muslims and Christians together in formal study to relate honestly, think rigorou...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Vincent Bacote <- Back to Episodes Vincent Bacote, Reckoning with Race Dr. Vince Bacote, Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College, joins David Capes to talk about his new book, Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News: In Search of a Better Evangelical Theology (Brill, 2020). Dr. Bacote is interested in rehabilitating the evangelical movement when it comes to how racial mi...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Steve Stewart <- Back to Episodes Steve Stewart, The Beatitudes for a Time of Crisis Steve Stewart—pastor, church leader, and founder of Impact Nations—joined David Capes to talk about God’s work in his life and Impact Nations, an international organization dedicated to the whole gospel which means impacting whole persons, spiritually, economically, educationally and socially. Out of the Covid pandemic and the racial, political predicaments wash...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes John Peckham <- Back to Episodes John Peckham, Divine Attributes Dr. John Peckham, professor of theology and Christian philosophy at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, is a fine young scholar, and he has written a new book entitled, Divine Attributes: Knowing the Covenantal God of Scripture (Baker Academic, 2021). He joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about his book which is a great contribution to knowing the God whom...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Scott Sager <- Back to Episodes Scott Sager .Scott Sager, Vice President for Church Services and a member of the Bible faculty at Lipscomb University, stopped by to talk about his new book, Jesus in Isolation: Lazarus, Viruses, and Us (Wipf & Stock, 2021) on “The Stone Chapel.” Although the book project began years before Covid 19 hit, it was the virus itself and subsequent isolation that sharpened Sager’s thinking about the book. Inspired b...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Clint Burnett <- Back to Episodes Clint Burnett Clint Burnett (PhD, Boston College) joined David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about his new book Interpreting the New Testament through Inscriptions (Hendrickson Academic, 2020). Dr. Burnett discusses what inscriptions are, what they tell us about the world of the New Testament, and how scholars go about dating them to the period. There are a lot of places where the New Testament and inscrip...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Sandra Richter <- Back to Episodes Sandra Richter Sandra (‘Sandy’) Richter (PhD, Harvard) joined David Capes by Zoom to talk about her 2020 book The Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says about the Environment and Why It Matters (IVP, 2020). David and Sandy’s paths have crossed a number of times in meetings of Scripture scholars. Much of what Sandy has thought and written about during her career has to do with creation and the fall (Genesis 1-3)....
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Todd Still <- Back to Episodes Todd Still, George W. Truett Theological Seminary Todd Still (PhD, Univ of Glasgow) joins David Capes to talk about the mission of George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. Since becoming the dean, Todd Still has watched the numbers of students and the reach of the seminary expand. While other seminaries are contracting and facing financial difficulties, Truett Seminary is growing and raising more...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Gib Allen <- Back to Episodes Gib Allen, The Moses Way Dr. Gib Allen joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to discuss his new book The Moses Way: A Pastor-Directed Model to Address Conflict (2020). “Gib” is a friend and patron of the Lanier Theological Library and has pastored churches for nearly 40 years in Arkansas and Texas. Not long after beginning his ministry, he discovered that his seminary education had taught him little to nothing abo...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes A.J. Swoboda <- Back to Episodes A.J. Swoboda Dr. A. J. Swoboda (PhD University of Birmingham), assistant professor of Bible, theology, and world Christianity, has written a terrific book for everyone who struggles with doubt. It is called After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It (Brazos Press, 2021). He joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to discuss what motivated him to write the book and what he has learned by walking wit...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Ben Homan <- Back to Episodes Ben Homan Ben Homan, president of The Langham Partnership USA, joins David Capes to talk about the mission and history of one of the most important partnerships supporting the equipping of preachers and teachers across the world (www.langham.org). In 2020 they trained over 30,000 pastors who have never had any formal training in Bible, theology or preaching. They have helped over 300 scholars from the majority world...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Amy Allan <- Back to Episodes Amy Allan Amy is a third year Old Testament Biblical Studies Ph.D. student at Wheaton College under the supervision of Dr. Michael Graves. Her research interests include patristic and rabbinic interpretations of Scripture, anthropomorphic language for God, Old Testament prophets, theology, literary characterization, rhetoric, and ancient Near Eastern culture. Amy completed her M.Div. at Covenant Theological Seminary...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Carmen Imes <- Back to Episodes Carmen Imes, Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters Dr. Carmen Joy Imes, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Prairie College in Alberta, Canada, joins David Capes to talk about her book, Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters (InterVarsity Press, 2019). While some Christian leaders want to disconnect from the Old Testament law, Dr. Imes thinks is it indispensable that we get back to Sinai in order to...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Lynn Cohick <- Back to Episodes Lynn Cohick, The Epistle to the Ephesians TSC_047 Lynn Cohick, The Epistle to the Ephesians Dr. Lynn Cohick, Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs at Northern Seminary, Chicago, IL, joins David Capes to talk about her new commentary, The Epistle to the Ephesians in The New International Commentary on the New Testament Series. After talking about her new role at Northern Seminary, she discusses some of the salient i...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Kyle Hughes <- Back to Episodes Kyle Hughes, How the Spirit Became God Kyle Hughes has written an important book, and he joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to discuss it. The book is How the Spirit Became God: The Mosaic of Early Christian Pneumatology (Cascade Books, 2020). In this book Hughes tells a compelling story of how the church came to recognize the Spirit as divine and person. With a firm grasp on relevant primary and second liter...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Leigh McLeroy <- Back to Episodes Leigh McLeroy, The Beautiful Ache Leigh McLeroy (MA in Cultural Apologetics, Houston Baptist University), writer, speaker, ghostwriter, dog-lover, stops by to talk with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” about her amazing book, The Beautiful Ache: Finding the God Who Satisfies When Life Does Not. Leigh is a wonderful writer who weaves together stories from life and Scripture to talk about all of our spiritual jou...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Matthew Bates <- Back to Episodes Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance Dr. Matthew Bates, (PhD Univ of Notre Dame) is associate professor of theology at Quincy University in Quincy, IL. He is the author of several books and hosts a popular podcast along with Matt Lynch and others entitled “OnScript.” Dr. Bates joins David Capes to talk about his recent book, Gospel Allegiance: What Faith in Jesus Misses for Salvation in Christ (BrazosPress, 2019). O...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Scott Harrower <- Back to Episodes Scott Harrower, God of All Comfort Dr. Scott Harrower, Associate Professor of Theology and History at Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia, has written a timely and significant book: God of All Comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of This World (Lexham Press, 2019). Prior to his academic career, he grew up in Argentina and saw the horrors that went on there. Then he became a trauma nurse and saw deepl...
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Joshua Jipp <- Back to Episodes Joshua Jipp, Messianic Theology of the New Testament Dr. Joshua Jipp, associate professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, has written an important book entitled The Messianic Theology of the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2020). His particular focus is to survey and understand the royal messianism associated with the Davidic dynasty. He makes the point that there is no standardized, pre-existing...
