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Regent College Podcast

Regent College Podcast

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We're finishing the year by squaring the circle and chatting again to Dr. Quentin Genuis ahead of his J-Term class at Regent on Addiction, Personhood and Christian Communities. Quentin has just released a book, Recovering People: Addiction, Personhood and the Life of the Church, distilling insights and stories from his work as an emergency doctor, his theological training and experience learning in community in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. Quentin speaks compassionately and insightfull...

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We're finishing the year by squaring the circle and chatting again to Dr. Quentin Genuis ahead of his J-Term class at Regent on Addiction, Personhood and Christian Communities. Quentin has just released a book, Recovering People: Addiction, Personhood and the Life of the Church, distilling insights and stories from his work as an emergency doctor, his theological training and experience learning in community in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. Quentin speaks compassionately and insightfull...

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Society & Culture,

Episodes (20/333)

Regent College Podcast

Regent on Tour at AAR/SBL 2025

In this first episode of 2026, picture yourself in Boston in late November. It’s chilly, a little rainy, and there are scholars everywhere. Rachel is on the road, meeting Regent alums and early career researchers at the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Conference. In this special episode, she catches up with Madison Lyonhart, Abraham Wu, James Smoker and Rachel Wilkowski, hearing about their presentations, research projects, and perspectives on the conference. T...

1 week ago

45 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Quentin Genuis: Addiction, Personhood and Christian Communities

We're finishing the year by squaring the circle and chatting again to Dr. Quentin Genuis ahead of his J-Term class at Regent on Addiction, Personhood and Christian Communities. Quentin has just released a book, Recovering People: Addiction, Personhood and the Life of the Church, distilling insights and stories from his work as an emergency doctor, his theological training and experience learning in community in the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. Quentin speaks compassionately and insightfull...

1 month ago

1 hour

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Carolyn Watts: Discovering God's Gentleness by Risking Rest

In this episode, Regent grad and spiritual director Carolyn Watts shares about her life and learnings from serving as an obstetrician in Afghanistan until a debilitating chronic illness (POTS) ended her medical career. Reflecting on her memoir, Risking Rest, Carolyn shares how her obstetrical training gave her images for interpreting God's intimate care for us, as well as His invitations to us to rest from our labours. Carolyn also shares about the gifts of singleness, trusting God in challen...

1 month ago

52 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Carmen Joy Imes – Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters

What is the biblical vision of the church, and what does it mean to be a family in Christ, adopted as brothers and sisters? Especially when family is messy. In this conversation with Dr. Carmen Imes, we broach a biblical theology of the church and Scripture's emphasis on the need to be in community across difference and despite previous experiences of harm. Carmen encourages us towards healthy interdependence, a diversity of opinions and perspectives, and honesty in our communal relationships...

2 months ago

58 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Shelly Rambo: Twenty Years at the Intersection of Trauma and Theology

Claire and Rachel caught up with Dr. Shelly Rambo, a theologian at Boston University, working in the areas of trauma, spiritual care and chaplaincy. Shelly’s book Spirit and Trauma is a seminal work in the field of trauma and theology, and she brings over twenty years of thought and exploration to the study of Scripture and the Christian tradition through the lens of trauma. We talk about the reality of trauma that remains, and how Jesus prepares us to live with the unresolved, what we can le...

2 months ago

1 hour 12 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Aubrey Buster: The Book of Daniel

Do you have questions about the Book of Daniel? What’s going on with the Daniel diet? What about linguistic issues like the use of Hebrew and Aramaic in Daniel, and what it communicates about living as exiles in an oppressive empire? How do we understand God’s deliverance in the court tales and the apocalyptic imagery that comes later? We discuss all these topics and more with Dr. Aubrey Buster, who has been collaborating on a commentary series on Daniel with Dr. John Walton. Aubrey was with ...

3 months ago

54 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred: Becoming Relatives through Reconciliation

Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred joins Claire and Rachel to share his journey of faith and ministry, the spiritual work of healing and reconciliation, and the significance of Truth and Reconciliation Day/Orange Shirt Day in Canada. Ray’s generous pastoral heart and years of ministry experience are reflected in his commitment to developing empathy for the pain of others. Framing reconciliation through the lens of becoming relatives, he shares Indigenous perspectives on relationality, connecting them to ins...

3 months ago

54 minutes

Regent College Podcast

An Interview with President Dr. Paul Spilsbury: Rooted and Growing, A New Season at Regent

Welcome back to the Regent podcast after our summer hiatus! We are kicking off Season 7 with our new President, Dr. Paul Spilsbury. In this conversation, we take some time to learn about Paul’s connections to Regent, his holistic vision for the College’s flourishing, which he describes as “Rooted and Growing,” and his plans to build on the College's strategic goals. We especially focus on building a healthy community, deepening formation, and growing enrollment. Paul’s interview is a must-lis...

3 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. James Smoker: Imagining Being Human with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Claire and Rachel are joined today by Dr. James Smoker, the Registrar at Regent College and the original instigator of the Regent College Podcast. We talk about his PhD research, which focused on the thought and theology of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A close friend of William Wordsworth, Coleridge is renowned for observing and learning from the natural world, grappling with life’s profound questions through fairy tale, and incorporating theological reflection into his work. As...

5 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Karen Swallow Prior: You Have a Calling – Beyond Following Your Passions

Today we are joined by a favourite past (and future) summer professor who teaches in the Literary Arts, Dr. Karen Swallow Prior. We are focusing on her new book, You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful, which releases on August 5, 2025. In our conversation, Karen dismantles some contemporary thought around calling (in the Instagram world) to present a vision of a good, true and beautiful life – even when we are not paid to do what we love. She brings years o...

5 months ago

56 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. David Robinson and Students: MA in Leadership, Theology and Society (MALTS)

What is the Masters of Arts in Leadership, Theology and Society (MALTS)? What might it involve, how does theology integrate with the workplace, and what’s it like to study while continuing to work in a leadership context? In this episode, we catch up with Dr. David Robinson and three MALTS students, Israel, Jonathan and Zelna, to hear more about the 2-year cohort-based program. David helpfully frames the vision and ideas behind MALTS and the students bring it to life, sharing examples from th...

5 months ago

54 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. George Kalantzis: The First Christian Centuries

What was it like to be a Christian in the earliest centuries after the resurrection of Christ? How did theological thinking and the understandings of authority develop? Dr. George Kalantzis helps us consider the layers of complexity that early Christians wrestled with as the church was established. George points out the important place of canon, creeds, apostolicity and ethics, underpinned by submission to the Holy Spirit. Born and raised in Athens, Greece, George brings a unique perspective ...

5 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. John M. Owen IV: Christian Political Engagement – Past, Present and Future

How do we thoughtfully engage with the political realms in which we find ourselves, and what might we learn from our forebears in how they tackled the division of church and state? In this conversation, we learn from Dr. John M. Owen IV about the Catholic, Lutheran, Anabaptist and Reformed traditions and their approaches to political engagement. After tracing through points in history, we return to the present day, considering what it means to engage politically when global democracy appears ...

6 months ago

1 hour 18 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Susan Currie: A Rule of Life for a Way of Life

Today Claire and Rachel have a wonderfully rich conversation with Dr. Susan Currie, a Spiritual Director and Minister of Spiritual Formation at Leadership Transformations, Inc. Susan brings her experience of theological education, spiritual direction and training spiritual directors to her understanding of a Rule of Life. She shares about her own journey to becoming a spiritual director, the history of a Rule of Life, individual and communal rules, Jesus’ rhythms, and the underpinning goal of...

6 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Jeff Greenman: Looking Back – 10 Years As President of Regent College

Claire and Rachel take some time with outgoing Regent President and resident penguin fanatic, Dr. Jeff Greenman to look back on his tenure since 2015. They hear about Jeff’s student experience at Regent, the joys and challenges of leadership, why he loves Regent students, the projects that he has spearheaded and seen to fruition – from student housing projects to the Master of Arts in Leadership, Theology and Society, and some of his quirkier traits and trademarks! It is a deeply hopefu...

6 months ago

1 hour 14 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Everett Hamner: Climate Theology and Storytelling

What does climate have to do with theology and where does storytelling come in? Today, we sat down with Dr. Everett Hamner to talk about his interdisciplinary journey at Regent, and how it has shaped his interests in ecotheology, climate literature, and responding to the very real crisis we are facing globally as a result of our consumption. By delving into stories that create and envision alternative futures, such as Playground by Richard Powers, Everett weaves together science, faith and ar...

6 months ago

1 hour 12 minutes

Regent College Podcast

The Anachronists: Augustine's Confessions

Claire and Rachel caught up with Regent alums Andrés Pérez González, Corey Janz, and Jonathan Lipps, also known as the Anachronists, to talk about their beautiful new indie-folk EP Confessions, based on Augustine’s famous work of the same name. In this special podcast episode, we hear excerpts from the songs, their process of writing and reflecting on the Confessions over Zoom during COVID, and we get the chance to hear the world premiere of “All of Our Decayed Parts.” They also reflect on th...

6 months ago

1 hour 15 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Amy Brown Hughes: Understanding Theology as the Church in Dialogue – From the Patristics to Today

Have you ever felt intimidated by theological conversations? Today, we talked to Dr. Amy Brown Hughes about the role of dialogue in generating theology in the early church. Famous theologians like Methodius, Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine published conversations with others, including prominent women in their lives, such as Thecla, Macrina and Monica. Amy argues that theology was not an elite genre or closed discussion then – nor should it be so today! She thoughtfully engages with many issue...

7 months ago

1 hour 26 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Sarah C. Williams: Marriage, Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective

Claire and Rachel are joined by Dr. Sarah C. Williams for an engaging conversation about marriage, sex and gender throughout Christian history. Beginning with reflection on the 1960s to today, Sarah shares some insights from her upcoming summer class on the relationship between Christianity and the ever-shifting cultural matrix of political, societal and phenomenological values that shape our understanding of marriage, celibacy, sex and gender identity. In particular, Sarah reflects on the co...

7 months ago

51 minutes

Regent College Podcast

Dr. Brad East: The Doctrine of Scripture

This week, Dr. Brad East joins us for a deep dive into the Doctrine of Scripture and its implications for how we read and interpret the Bible, engage with church tradition and confess weekly that “This is the Word of the Lord.” How did we get there? Brad talks about inspiration, canonisation, and the Scriptures in the life of the church. He also delves into different denominational approaches to Scripture, touching on infallibility, perspicuity and sufficiency, amongst other topics. Finally, ...

7 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes