A blog by Adam W. Christman

Category: Podcast

  • May 2020

    More than 3 years since my last post has hardly been a challenge for most, I’m sure, but here we are. I wanted this blog as a discipline and practice to hone my writing, and to be able to further communicate out my podcasting work (hobby?).

    Two days ago, May 18th, 2020, I learned I was done with my Ph.D. in New Testament studies. That means this is the first week of a new era! It has been a long road to this point. Though I am disappointed at the inability to enjoy an in-person commencement in the coming days, the piece of paper will read just the same. Plus, I’ll get a chance to actually walk in a ceremony in the Fall or next Spring.

    With the dissertation off my plate, I’ll be able to do more of what I would like to do at this point: my job, for starters, plus a hobby or two, and more writing here. If you are still subscribed to this feed: hello! And thank you for forgetting to drop this inactive blog from your subscriptions, haha.

    Regarding the podcasts, they have both been on hiatus since 2018 in order to allow me to complete my primary responsibilities. Either one, or both, could come back in similar or fresh forms. If you’re unfamiliar with them, I encourage you to look up “An Oral History of the Church” and “Saints Gone Before” on your podcast app of choice or by clicking through to their pages on this site.

    I’ve had thoughts percolating on various writing projects I could try to tackle, so please stay subscribed if you might be curious about my thoughts on the intersection of faith, biblical studies, history, theology, culture, and even pop culture. Blessings to you!

  • Podcasts Update and Query

    Podcasts Update and Query

    I haven’t written a blog post in over a month because I’ve been so focused on so many other tasks. But! I’m writing one today to let anyone who missed it know the current state of the two podcasts I co-host.

    “An Oral History of the Church” has completed it’s second volume (season). We invested an 8-part study on historiography — the philosophy and process of writing history. You can get it on iTunes, Google Play, Podbean, Player FM, Blubrry, Podcast Addict, and any other app that aggregates from those sources. You can also listen on our YouTube channel, though there are no photographs to accompany the videos like for our first volume. (To find the direct download of the first episode, CLICK HERE.)

    Volume Three comes out in July, and its focus is on the Lutheran wing of the Protestant Reformation, continuing through the end of 2017.

    “Saints Gone Before” is our audiobook podcast presenting classic texts from across the length and breadth of church history, and we’ve already released a dozen episodes! We put a new one out every Monday. If you haven’t tried it, the episode format is very simple. We introduce the text, give a brief mention of its historical context, list the source of the text, then we read it. When the text (or section of text, as the case may be) is over, we announce the next episode’s subject, give the credits and contact info, and play you out with the theme song.

    Some of my personal favorite texts so far have been The Didache (parts one and two), The Schleitheim Confession, and Martin Luther’s Concerning Christian Liberty (part one of five).

    If you already listen to Saints Gone Before, what has been your favorite text(s) so far? Do you have any suggestions for something we could read on the podcast?

  • Final Episode of the GGBTS Campus Relocation Project

    It’s true! The Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary Campus Relocation Project (hang on….let me catch my breath….whew….) is now complete. As an initial volume of An Oral History of the Church, we feel really good about it.

    We accomplished what we set out to do.

    • Record the perspectives of seminary-related people on and around the Mill Valley campus as it affects them.
    • Record anecdotal stories about the people involved on the seminary side of the campus sale and relocation.
    • Capture a glimpse at what, or who, the seminary was during this period in her history.

    If you want to catch the final episode, you can click here, or here. You can subscribe on iTunes, most other podcast apps, or YouTube. Thank you to everyone who listened to any of the episodes, and thank you for sharing them with others.

    I want to thank my friend and co-host Jonathan McCormick for all the work he put in on this project with me. We did it, man. We finished it. I also want to thank everyone who managed to make the time to sit down with us and allowed us to share their stories. Finally, I want to thank Dr. Jeff Iorg who gave Jonathan and I his blessing on the project and encouragement to see it done.

    Postscript…

    If you listen to the end of the final episode, you’ll hear Jonathan and I announce the topics and release dates for the next TWO volumes of An Oral History of the Church.

  • Episode 7 of An Oral History of the Church – The Podcast Awakens

    Episode 7 of An Oral History of the Church – The Podcast Awakens

    Jonathan and I had a good, long chat with Katie and Dr. Kent Philpott from Miller Avenue Baptist Church in Mill Valley, CA about their experiences with Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and their perspectives on the relationship between the seminary and its neighbors in Marin County. This episode marks our first with a pair of interviewees; in this case, a married couple.

    The Philpotts own and operate Earthen Vessel Publishing, which produces a wide variety of quality works on the basics of Christianity, as well as Islam, Santeria, the Jesus People movement of the 20th century, and more. Visit them here: http://evpbooks.com/

    There are a few hiccups in the audio of this interview, and for that, we apologize. Please bear with us, as the Philpotts’ story is a helpful and needed one.

    You can download it on iTunes, most other podcast apps, or you can listen to it on YouTube right here: https://youtu.be/kCuA_JJ5fDg

     

  • Episode 3 of the GGBTS Campus Relocation

    Episode 3 of the GGBTS Campus Relocation

    If you’re wondering where episode 3 of the GGBTS Campus Relocation was, wonder no longer! This episode features an interview with Dr. Rick Melick, Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Affiliated Faculty with Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s Academic Graduate Studies Program. I thought it was a great conversation about some interesting topics.

    You can give it a listen on YouTube here.

    Or you can get a direct download here.

    Or you can get it through iTunes or your podcast app of choice!

  • Episode 2 of the GGBTS Campus Relocation!

    Episode 2 of the GGBTS Campus Relocation!

    Today we released the second episode of the GGBTS Campus Relocation project for our podcast, An Oral History of the Church. Master of Divinity student Daniel Choi sat down with me last month to talk about why he chose GGBTS, what he thinks about the move, what his experience has been like, and what he hopes the seminary will prioritize in the future. I had a great time talking with him and I think this is a great addition to the oral history project.

    Please give it a listen HERE RIGHT HERE YOU CAN CLICK HERE. 🙂

    Please subscribe to An Oral History of the Church on iTunes, or your favorite other podcast app, or on YouTube. Please give us a rating, and please share with your friends so other people might get to enjoy this institutional history who haven’t heard about it yet.

  • An Oral History of the Church

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    In order to achieve a kind of symmetry with the announcement of the campus sale on April 1, 2014, our first official episode of the #GGBTSrelocation launches on April 1, 2016. This time, we interview Dr. Jeff Iorg, current president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary about the campus relocation.

    Check out this episode!

  • Episode_0.mp3

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    An introduction to the podcast and to the first project.

    Check out this episode!

  • Podcast Coming Soon – Prepare with Episode 0!

    Oral History of the Church - St Pauls Cathedral London.jpgThe first episodes of An Oral History of the Church are coming soon – April is just around the corner. Get caught up on our first project by listening to episode 0! https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Zet4fY44hGN2NONmFKemNRdUE

  • New Podcast Begins in 3 Weeks!

    That’s, um.

    That’s pretty much it.

    But if you’re interested in those precious DEETS (details, ya know…don’t you love it when jokes are explained?)…

    Jonathan McCormick and I have begun work on a podcast called “An Oral History of the Church.” Overall, the podcast will be a conversational walk through various events, movements, and persons in the history of the Christian church. We are taking a topical approach on our subject matter. In addition, we’ll be releasing the podcast as seasons (which we’ll call ‘volumes’ because we can – THIS IS AMERICA!), and each volume will release episodes on a weekly basis.

    The first volume is a project where we present an oral history of the campus relocation of our alma mater, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. They are moving their main campus from Mill Valley, CA to a new site and building in Ontario, CA in June of this year. We have interviews recorded and scheduled to be recorded with past and present students, faculty, staff, and administration, as well as neighboring church members and pastors.

    For more information on the focus of this project, what an oral history even *is* in the first place, our methodology, who we are, and what we hope to experience in this project, please take a listen to our preface to the project, episode 0. Our current distribution platform is YouTube, but we plan to also put it out through traditional podcasting platforms in the future. Please subscribe and share with your friends. We’re collecting some pretty interesting conversations with some pretty interesting people as we get a look at what this relocation looks like here on the ground at GGBTS.