Podcasts
Welcome to the podcast series “Inching Forward”. In June 2020 INCHE began this audio series to deepen knowledge of formation, teaching, and scholarship through worldwide Christian education. Each podcast is about 20-30 minutes in length; and it explores some aspect of Christian higher education. To access a particular podcast, click on its link. Gradually, the number of available podcasts will expand.
Dr. Cephas Tushima has been a leading professor of Old Testament at the Jos, Nigeria-based seminary for the Evangelical Church Winning All. Also, he has been a Fulbright Scholar at Geneva College (PA); and currently, he is designated as a Langham Scholar as well as a Fellow with the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity of Calvin University. In this podcast, Dr. Tushima describes his background, African perspectives on the Old Testament, and his approach to understanding Biblical stories. Then, the podcast focuses on his latest scholarly project exploring Old Testament foundations for engaging gendered identity and human sexuality.
In this podcast, Joel and Hailey Altena discuss how they discovered their calling to work at LCC International University in Lithuania. Joel now is serving as the university chaplain while Hailey is the director of their student success center. In this podcast they describe the origins of the university, its mission, and hopes for their work with students, faculty, and staff in this university community.
Victor Uredo Emma-Adamah began his life in West-Africa where he became fluent in both French and English. Then after undergraduate and graduate study in South Africa, early in 2020 he completed his PhD in Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge with a focus on philosophy of religion. Victor has served in University of the Free State-South Africa as the assistant director of the Jonathan Edwards Centre, a research affiliate of Yale University. During 2018 Victor was a visiting fellow with the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity, sponsored by Calvin University. In this first of two podcasts, Victor discusses his young adult motivation to study theology, historic connections between African and European theology, and the nature of African theological scholarship.
In this second of two podcasts, Victor Uredo Emma-Adamah discusses the French tradition of philosophy and interpretation that has an impact on theology as a “living thing”. He also reflects on his own identity as a Christian studying philosophical theology.
In January 2021 Dr. James Kombo becomes the new Vice Chancellor of St. Paul’s University in Kenya. He has been a leader at Daystar University, a Christian university in Nairobi for more than two decades. For many years he invested in teaching and leadership in academic administration. At the same time, he pursued scholarship as a Christian theologian. His publications include The Doctrine of God in African Christian Thought: The Holy Trinity, Theological Hermeneutics and the African Intellectual Culture (2007) and Theological Models of the Doctrine of the Trinity: The Trinity, Diversity and Theological Hermeneutics (2016). From February through July 2020 he was a fellow of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin University. In this first of three podcasts, Dr. Kombo discusses his origins and the ways in which language affects our understanding of God.
In January 2021 Dr. James Kombo becomes the new Vice Chancellor of St. Paul’s University in Kenya. He has been a leader at Daystar University, a Christian university in Nairobi for more than two decades. In this second podcast with Dr. Kombo, we consider his scholarly thinking about the Holy Spirit and the ways in which our understanding of the Christian Trinity is woven into Christian higher education.
In January 2021 Dr. James Kombo becomes the new Vice Chancellor of St. Paul’s University in Kenya. He has been a leader at Daystar University, a Christian university in Nairobi for more than two decades. In this third podcast with Dr. Kombo, we consider Christian eschatology and its implications for Christian higher education. How does eschatology, namely questions about the future of individuals and the world, shape a sense of purpose, direction, and ethics for this world as well as our relationship to eternity? Why is the Christian university one of the best places in which to address these types of challenging theological questions?
The Right Reverend David Zac Niringiye is a Ugandan Anglican theologian and pastor. After a first degree in physics and a teaching diploma at Makerere University, he completed an MA at Wheaton College (Illinois) and a PhD at the University if Edinburgh. Niringiye worked with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students and as regional director of the Church Missionary Society to promote mission work throughout Africa. He was consecrated as Assistant Bishop of Kampala in 2005. In 2012 he took an early retirement to focus on social justice initiatives in Uganda. He is a senior fellow in a budding Uganda think tank named the Institute of Religion, Faith, and Culture in Public Life. In this podcast, he describes his personal Christian commitments and current calling to influence public justice, peace, and interfaith common ground.
Bishop Zac Niringiye is a Ugandan Anglican theologian and pastor. He was consecrated as Assistant Bishop of Kampala in 2005. In 2012 he took an early retirement to focus on social justice initiatives in Uganda. In this second podcast, we ponder how Christians bear witness in our varied locations as well as interfaith practices within pluralistic societies. How do we read the Bible carefully and apply it in our cultural contexts? African Christian scholarship by nature is contextual and provides its own lens for seeing deeply into how we understand the Bible and its worldwide implications.