{"id":2296,"date":"2012-11-30T20:12:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2015-03-02T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:53:33","slug":"the-will-to-embrace-in-search-of-christian-hospitality-dr-richard-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2012\/11\/30\/the-will-to-embrace-in-search-of-christian-hospitality-dr-richard-beck\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Will to Embrace: In Search of Christian Hospitality&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Richard Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Suter Science Seminar &#8211; Richard Beck, PhD<\/h3>\n<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/11.30.12--RichardBeckSuterSicenceSeminar.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p><em>\u201cPractice hospitality.\u201d So commands Paul in Romans 12. And yet, a host of social and psychological dynamics often conspire to make faith communities insular, inward-looking and unwilling to engage with the \u201ctax collectors and sinners\u201d of our world. The presentation will focus on the features of purity psychology and how these undermine, at the psychological level, Jesus\u2019s call for us to be a missional people characterized by welcome, mercy, and hospitality. How are faith communities to overcome these dynamics? The presentation will conclude with an analysis of Miroslav Volf\u2019s \u201cwill to embrace,\u201d arguing that the change we seek is largely affectional in nature, with the root of the problem being found in our emotional stance toward strangers and out-group members.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Beck is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Abilene Christian University and is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/unclean-meditations-on-purity.html\">Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/authenticity-of-faith-now-available.html\">The Authenticity of Faith: The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience<\/a>. As an experimental psychologist Richard has also published extensively in the empirical literature examining the intersection of Christianity and psychology. Richard also writes regularly about the interface of theology and psychology at his popular and award-winning blog <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/\">Experimental Theology<\/a>. Richard is married to Jana, who is a high-school theater teacher; they have two sons\u2014Brenden and Aidan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/11.30.12--RichardBeckSuterSicenceSeminar.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>Suter Science Seminar &#8211; Richard Beck, PhD \u201cPractice hospitality.\u201d So commands Paul in Romans 12. And yet, a host of social and psychological dynamics often conspire to make faith communities insular, inward-looking and unwilling to engage with the \u201ctax collectors and sinners\u201d of our world. The presentation will focus on the features of purity psychology....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[4538,4194],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapel","tag-hospitality","tag-richard-beck","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}