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Daniel TNT Today

This morning I will be chatting with Tripp about preaching through the book of Daniel with the theme of resilience and resistance. You can tune into the live stream here:

YouTube Live Link

It is going to be interesting because I have not preached from the book of Daniel in almost 20 years when I was an Evangelical and I truly believed in biblical prophecy.

A lot has changed since then – including the hermeneutical lens through which I read scripture and specifically how it relates to dating the writing of the text. I had also never even heard of the concept of ‘Liturature of the Opressed’.

If you are interested, you can see the first 4 sermons in the series on the Twin Falls UMC YouTube channel.

They are the first 5 videos that come up here: Daniel Sermon Series 1-4

Tune in (or watch the recording later) and let me know what you think.

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What Else Should Bo Be Reading? (conserva-curious)

For past several months, I have exploring a project that I am not quite ready to go public with. Part of the project involves attempting to understand the motivations and convictions of my more conservative / right-leaning  friends and family. (I migrated about 15-20 years ago and a lot has changed over there in the time).

This new ‘far-right’ mentality is not exactly the conservatism that I was raised with, so I have been attempting to get up to speed on some of the more current thinking that is fueling the public outrage / backlash.

On the most recent episode of the Theology Nerd Throwdown, starting at minute 25, I fleshed out some of my concerns that are driving this emphasis. I went back and read everything from a seminar I took in 2010 called ‘Liberalism and Its Critics’. Then I launched out to find some newer material more specific to the current situation in N. America.  

Here is a sample of the kinds of things I have been looking at – and I would love some help as to what else I should engaging.

  • Political Theology: a guide for the perplexed by Elizabeth Phillips
  • A World After Liberalism by Matthew Rose
  • Regime Change by Patrick J. Deneen
  • How the Liberal Cathedral Cracked Up by Ross Douthat
  • The Virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre by Stanley Hauerwas
  • Podcast interview with James Pogue

Ok, so I really looking forward to your helpful suggestions! Thanks ahead of time.

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Mentored Podcast Interview

I was honored to chat with Carson Pue on the ‘Mentored Podcast’ that Carson and my father started. It was a wonderful way to process some of my grief and to celebrate my dad’s legacy and impact.

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You can listen on Itunes here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-legacy-of-leadership-remembering-with-bo-sanders/id1708137910?i=1000680827022

Or on the website here: https://thementoredpodcast.blubrry.net/2024/12/18/episode-27-a-legacy-of-leadership-remembering-with-bo-sanders/

After listening to it myself, I realized that I am healed up enough to begin again with the project that I had started before my father’s memorial. Look for new episodes to start rolling out after Christmas.

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I have no children as wrong as J. D. Vance is.

People with no children play an important role in our future, communities, congregations, and families. #social #relational #identity #politics #family

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This is not The End Times?

I am preaching through the Gospel of Mark this year and I am up to chapter 13 where Jesus turns on the doom and gloom. Many people have been told that this is about our time (currentist) or about the near future (futurist) but do not know about the preterist perspective that everything that Jesus was predicting about actually happened in the first century.

I made this short video about my plan to address it in my sermon:

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The OT in the NT via Taylor Swift

We began reading the Gospel of Mark last week as a congregation and one of the commitments that we have made is to stop and turn to any reference in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament.

NT Wright has a classic analogy that alludes to Shakespearean plays … but I have an updated analogy about Taylor Swift lyrics that I hope is helpful.

Check out the video and let me know your thoughts.

Taylor Swift lyrics are better than Shakespeare for this analogy.
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Update ahead of 50

Academic update, turning 50 and future videos

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Should Christians Be Good Citizens?

This week I begin a Summer Sermon Series that promises to be exciting. 

“Should Christians Be Good Citizens?” is our question. 

I am going to make 3 cases:

  1. Christians should be the best types of citizens: invested, loyal, trustworthy, sacrificing, etc. 
  2. Christians should be troublemakers who interrogate, subvert, and undermine the injustices. 
  3. It is a bad question: we are not citizens of this world system at all but of a different kingdom. 

The big theme is “What is our relationship to power?”

Are we supposed to be ‘in charge’ ?
Are we the minority report?
Are we the band-aid on the wounds?
Are we loyal to this world’s systems ?

If you are interested, you can join in the conversation at 10am Sunday mornings (online or in person) through http://www.VermontHillsUMC.org

I will also be posting recap videos and the sermon notes here on my blog if that works better for you.

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CRT Controversy

The ongoing storm around Critical Race Theory (CRT) can be confusing … because its opponents intentionally want it that way.

Today’s video tries to distinguish between the fruit and the actual root of the problem.

You can also check past post about CRT here: https://bosanders.com/critical-race-theory/

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