Nijay Gupta on Women in Leadership, Receiving Criticism, and Paul's Vision for Meaning in this Life.
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
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Nijay K. Gupta (PhD, Durham University) is Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. Gupta is an award-winning author of numerous books, including Tell Her Story, Strange Religion, and commentaries on Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and 1 and 2 Thessalonians. He is also a senior translator for the New Living Translation, and co-host of the Slow Theology podcast. He joined me talk about the response to From Genesis to Junia and his own experience writing on women in leadership. He also shared about his upcoming book, Paul for the World.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Nijay Gupta, we are here in Portland. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. Welcome to the Rose City. You've been in Portland for how long? Almost 12 years. Okay. Does it feel like home? It does. It does. I've heard like seven years in a city. It feels like home. Yeah. My kids, it's pretty much all they remember and all they know. |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah. You're a Portlander. Yeah. How would you describe Portland? I mean, everybody has a perception. |
| 0:28.3 | I feel like the internal perspective isn't always the same as the out. Yeah. External perspective. |
| 0:31.8 | I mean, is it as liberal and progressive and protest everywhere as people think? |
| 0:37.2 | It is. |
| 0:38.0 | I mean, you know, when we had, you know, all the crazy ice stuff, you know, what you know from, |
| 0:44.5 | which is pretty true for the media is we mobilize the frog suits. |
| 0:48.7 | Do you remember the frog suits? |
| 0:50.8 | Right? |
| 0:52.6 | And then the naked bicycle ride. |
| 0:54.9 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:11.8 | That's my first. I first heard about that. Is that still going? Is that still going? Like they just go in a loop. Yeah, yeah. No, does that thing? People ride bikes? Oh, yeah. It's a huge thing. So, you know, we tell our kids like, okay, it's that time. So stay inside. Okay. That just seems impractical for multiple reasons. |
| 1:13.7 | Don't question it, Preston. I don't want to... |
| 1:14.2 | Don't question it, Preston. I don't want to, yeah, maybe, is this what we're talking about? Make advice for it. Um, yeah, I'll describe it. I'll describe it to you. You know, the perception, the perception is like, you know, oh, it's this, you know, give the finger to the man sort of thing. And there's some of that. You know, when I think of Portland, the creatives, you know, oh, it's this, you know, give the finger to the man sort of thing. And there's |
| 1:27.9 | some of that. You know, when I think of Portland, the creatives, you know, it's a city of |
| 1:32.4 | loads of creativity, you know, places like the Bible Project would be an example of just |
| 1:38.7 | beautiful creativity. It really is a place of like individual expression and and some parts that I really like |
| 1:47.4 | like you go to you know a certain other maybe suburban city and it's like everybody has to have |
| 1:52.5 | these shoes everybody has to wear these clothes and here it's like you just look around and |
| 1:57.3 | like people are just wearing whatever they want okay and there's no keeping up with |
| 2:01.1 | the Joneses it's like you do you and no the keeping up the Jones is is like be yourself self |
| 2:06.3 | expression and that leads to some lack of um kind of cultural stickiness there with kind of we're all in |
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