Steve Brown Etc. Videos

This week on Steve Brown Etc., two old white guys for the price of one! Join Steve and Tony Campolo as they talk about the ups and downs of today s youth, Obama s Nobel prize and how to disagree on issues without resorting to personal attacks. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) You’ve probably seen Tony talking about politics and religion on Nightline, CNN, MSNBC, Politically Incorrect, etc. He s Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University and the Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education. Find out more about our favorite lib at TonyCampolo.org. Tony Campolo is the author of 35 books, his latest three being Letters to a Young Evangelical, The God of Intimacy and Action and his most recent release, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics.

David Crowder took a break from his tour supporting the new David Crowder Band album, Church Music, to hang out on this week s Steve Brown Etc. Join us as we talk about death, mourning and hope. Trust me, it s a lot more fun than it sounds. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see player options.) The rock-and-roll extravaganza known as The David Crowder Band has won a bunch of Dove Awards. David and his bandmate, Mike Hogan, have written a book titled Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, but Nobody Wants to Die: Or the Eschatology of Bluegrass. You should read it.

In an effort to help those less fortunate, many churches and Christians are actually hurting the poor (and themselves) in the process. Join Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert on Steve Brown Etc. for an eye-opening discussion of their book When Helping Hurts. (If you re on the front page of the site, click read more to see player options.) Brian Fikkert is Associate Professor of Economics and the founder and Executive Director of the Chalmers Center at Covenant College. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Yale and has been a consultant to the World Bank. Steve Corbett is an Assistant Professor of Community Development at Covenant College and serves as a Distance Learning Trainer for the Chalmers Center. Find out more at WhenHelpingHurts.org.

Leadership principles, church programs, moralism and guilt is that what Christianity is all about? Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola say we re missing something. Actually, they say we re missing Someone. Join Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola on Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century. (If you re on the front page of the site click Read More to see audio player options.) Dr. Leonard Sweet is a historian of American culture, futurist, preacher and writer. His latest books include So Beautiful, 11: Indispensable Relationships You Can t Be Without and The Gospel According to Starbucks. Find out more at LeonardSweet.com. Frank Viola is a speaker, organic church planter and author of Pagan Christianity?, Reimagining Church and From Eternity to Here. Click here for Frank s last appearance on SBE.

Andrew Farley says that if you re a Christian, you can chuck the 10 Commandments. And while you re at it, asking God for forgiveness and tithing can go too. Check out this week s Steve Brown Etc. as we talk with Andrew about his book, The Naked Gospel: The Truth You May Never Hear in Church. (If you re on the front page of the site click Read More to see audio player options.) As a young man, Andrew was consumed with the fear that God was disappointed with his performance as a Christian. He literally couldn t sleep at night unless he had witnessed to someone. Some nights he d jump out of bed and run to a 24-hour convenience store to share the gospel. He s pretty much over that kind of thing now. Andrew Farley is lead teaching pastor of Ecclesia. He served as a professor of linguistics at University of Notre Dame for five years and is now a tenured professor at Texas Tech University.

Join Donald Miller on Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss his new book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life. (If you re on the front page of the site click Read More to see audio player options.) One catch, our connection was so bad that Don might as well have been a million miles away. We only had him for a short time. But don t let that stop you from listening. We had a great discussion about the new book and the impact it can have as we begin to edit our own lives. Donald Miller is also the author of Blue Like Jazz, To Own A Dragon, Searching for God Knows What and Through Painted Deserts. He s currently on tour promoting A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Click here to find out if the tour is coming to your town and visit DonMillerIs.com for all things Don. Also, don t miss Susan Isaacs post from the million mile tour bus in the SBE Guest Room.

Imagine if a murderer was released from prison to live in your neighborhood. Imagine that this person was not only a killer, but the man who murdered your family. Now imagine forgiving that man and peacefully living in the house he built for you. That s one of the true stories documented in the award-winning film, As We Forgive. Join Laura Waters Hinson and Steve Brown on this week s SBE as they talk about radical reconciliation in Rwanda. Laura is the producer/director of As We Forgive and she s currently engaged in a nationwide screening tour, presenting the film to the U.S. Congress, the State Department and the World Bank, and at various universities and institutions. You can join Laura as a voice for reconciliation. Go to AsWeForgiveMovie.com and be a part of the 4GIVE campaign by hosting an As We Forgive screening and discussion event focused on why Rwandans reconciling after genocide may be the most hopeful story for the world today. It’s a chance to spark a real conversation in your community about the power of forgiveness and the ways that giving is at the heart of it all. Also, click here for our interview with Catherine Larson about the book, As We Forgive, that was inspired by Laura s documentary.

Join Douglas Gresham in the studio on this week s Steve Brown Etc. as we talk about his experiences as C.S. Lewis stepson and the upcoming movies based on Lewis books. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) Gresham is one of the two heirs of C.S. Lewis literary work. He s also the producer of The Chronicles of Narnia films and the upcoming adaptation of Screwtape Letters. We get the inside scoop on Screwtape and the production of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Don t miss it. Also, be sure to check out Gresham s books, Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis and Jack s Life: The Life Story of C.S. Lewis. They are both must-reads for any Lewis lover.

Evolutionists, young earth creationists, proponents of anonymous intelligent design bring em all on. Dr. Hugh Ross has revealed a testable model for creation by the God of the Bible. And, while Dr. Ross is a gentleman, we re not above rubbing the facts in the face of those who disagree with us. Join Dr. Ross on this week s Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss his long-awaited book, More Than a Theory. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) Dr. Hugh Ross is an astrophysicist who travels the world challenging students and faculty, churches and professional groups to consider what they believe and why. He s written numerous books on the intersection of faith and science, and he s the founder and president of Reasons to Believe, an organization that keeps tabs on the frontiers of research to share with scientists and non-scientists how new discoveries connect with biblical theology. After you listen, check out the DVD of Dr. Ross at the Skeptics Society Conference with Victor Stenger that we mentioned on the show.

From the outside, it looked like Pastor Pete Scazzero was on top of the world. The church he planted in New York was filling up with people (many of them new Christians) and the atmosphere was electric. But on the inside, Pete was secretly dying. Then he hit the wall. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) Whether you re in full-time ministry or a regular churchgoer, don t miss Pete Scazzero on Steve Brown Etc. this week as he talks about moving past manic religious activity to emotionally healthy spirituality. Pete Scazzero is the senior pastor of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York and author of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality and The Emotionally Healthy Church. Visit EmotionallyHealthy.org for more info and helpful resources.

Sick of hearing the same old thing over and over again in the battle for health care reform? If so, don t miss Steve Brown and Tony Campolo on this edition of SBE. Listen to hear the solutions that emerge when right and left stop with the self-serving rhetoric and discuss options that would bring real change to a broken system. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) Then Michael Craven joins us to talk about his book Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity. Use one of the options below to hear a discussion about our compromised and boxed version of Christianity in relation to the vitality of the Kingdom of God. Michael is the president of the Center for Christ Culture located in Dallas, Texas, where he studies, writes and lectures on the relevant intersection of theology, philosophy and culture. Tony Campolo is a speaker, author, sociologist, pastor, social activist, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University and the Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education. But most importantly…he’s Our Favorite Lib.”

If you re not careful, reading the Bible can make you weird. Have you ever struggled with being a Bible-believing Christian without becoming an out-of-touch fundamentalist or wacky liberal? If so, don t miss Scot McKnight on this week s SBE. If not, listen anyway. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) Scot McKnight is a biblical scholar, beliefnet blogger and author of The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible. Join Steve and Scot as they discuss blue parakeets and how to handle the biblical view of homosexuality without being an uptight jerk.

Steve often says that pagans don t pray because they re afraid God might be there, and Christians don t pray because they re afraid he might not be. When it feels like God s ignoring you, or worse, messing with you, it can put a strain on the relationship. Join us on this week s Steve Brown Etc. as we talk with Matt Woodley about practicing the absence of God. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) Then, we go from dealing with a difficult God to dealing with difficult people. We also talked with Dr. Alan Godwin about solving your people problems. Dr. Godwin is a licensed psychologist and the author of How to Solve Your People Problems: Dealing with Your Difficult Relationships. Since 1990, he has dedicated himself to helping couples, businesses, churches and individuals develop better ways of handling conflict. Find out more at PeopleProblems.org. Matt Woodley is the author of The Folly of Prayer: Practicing the Presence and Absence of God. Email MattWoodley77@yahoo.com, tell him you heard him on SBE and he ll send you a free study guide based on the material in his book.

There s a lot of confusion and controversy surrounding AD/HD. Some even say there s no such thing, that kids are naturally hyperactive and that focus problems can be eliminated with discipline. The latest science shows otherwise. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) Maren Angelotti joins us on this week s Steve Brown Etc. to discuss the latest research on AD/HD and how it s part of God s plan for kids with learning differences. We also talk about where to start if you suspect your child may have ADD or dyslexia. Maren Angelotti is a reading therapist for dyslexic students and an ADD coach. Three of her four children have learning differences and she s the author of Of Different Minds: Seeing Your AD/HD Child Through the Eyes of God. Visit OfDifferentMinds.com for more.

Join Steve Brown and his good buddy Tony Campolo on this edition of SBE as they hang out and talk about The Shack, uptight Christians, forgiveness and unity. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) You’ve probably seen Tony talking about politics and religion on Nightline, CNN, MSNBC, Politically Incorrect, etc. He s Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University and the Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education. Find out more about our favorite lib at TonyCampolo.org. Tony Campolo is the author of 35 books, his latest three being Letters to a Young Evangelical, The God of Intimacy and Action and his most recent release, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen’s Guide to Faith and Politics.

If you re pure and holy like Steve Brown, you probably don t need to listen to this show. But if you struggle with guilt and temptation like me, and you’re going through free sins like a bag of chips, join Steve and Dr. Larry Dixon on this week s Steve Brown Etc. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see player options.) Larry Dixon is a theology professor at Columbia International University Seminary and School of Missions, and the author of When Temptation Strikes. Listen as we discuss his book, cheap grace, temptation and how our demons die in the light.

There are a growing number of Christians who are sick of being told that they re not committed enough, good enough and spiritual enough. But when enough is enough, are our only options to either fake it or bail on church altogether? If not, is there hope of getting any better? Jim Robbins has answers to those questions that come from the heart. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see player options.) Join Steve and Jim on this week s Steve Brown Etc. as they talk about Jim s book, Recover Your Good Heart: Living Free from Religious Guilt and the Shame of Not Good-Enough. Then get more from Jim at RobbinsWritings.com and look for his entire interview with Steve next week on The Brown Sessions.

Q: What do you get when you cross a forgotten woman, an eternal quest and a new species? A: The meaning of life. Frank Viola stopped by Steve Brown Etc. to talk about that eternal purpose in the context of the three stories in his new book, From Eternity to Here: Rediscovering the Ageless Purpose of God. (If you re on the front page of the site, click Read More to see audio player options.) If you ve been burned or bored by religion, don t miss this program. Frank Viola is a speaker, organic church planter and author of Pagan Christianity?, Reimagining Church and the newly-released From Eternity to Here. Click here for Frank s last appearance on SBE and go to FromEternityToHere.org for more on the book.