Biblical Scholarship, Race, Sports, BBQ, and Everything Else: Dr. Esau McCaulley
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Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
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Esau McCaulley, PhD, is Pastor of All Saints Anglican Church in Naperville IL. He is also an author and The Jonathan Blanchard Associate Professor of New Testament and Public Theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. His research and writing focus on New Testament Exegesis, African American Biblical Interpretation, and Public Theology. Esau's latest book is a children's Bible called God's Colorful Kingdom, which celebrates God's heart for diversity throughout scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Esau McCauley. I'm the host of what I'm the host of the Eastomac, creatively entitled |
| 0:04.3 | The Issa Macaulay podcast with Holy Post Media. We're in my studio and recorded a podcast |
| 0:10.9 | with someone else. And I got a book that I think you should buy. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology Draw. |
| 0:21.9 | This is a special episode, the first of four episodes that were shot on site in Chicago at the Holy Post studio. |
| 0:30.9 | Shout out the Holy Post for allowing us to use their beautiful studio. |
| 0:34.7 | And this first episode is with Issa McCulley. And this was an absolutely fun, |
| 0:41.6 | free-flowing episode. Most of you know who Issa is. He is a Bible scholar and author, a professor |
| 0:47.1 | of theology and Bible at Wheaton College and just an all-around fun dude. We also recorded in-person episodes with |
| 0:56.6 | Mark Yarrhouse, Caitlin Chess, and my good friend Joel Willits, which will be released over the |
| 1:02.7 | next few weeks. I know many of you listened just to the podcast on audio, but I would encourage |
| 1:08.9 | you to hop over to YouTube and check it out because |
| 1:11.5 | the studio was just so beautiful. And you can see me in person interacting with my guest. So you |
| 1:16.8 | can pop over to Theology and the Raw on YouTube and go from there. So please welcome back to |
| 1:24.2 | the show, the one and only, Issa Mekoli. |
| 1:30.7 | I was wrong about soccer. |
| 1:34.8 | This also, I use this as an example of being like energetically wrong. |
| 1:36.6 | And people ask you what were you wrong about? |
| 1:38.4 | I just go like, this is stupid. |
| 1:39.6 | They only score one goal. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:42.5 | Now, yeah, ties. |
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