S2 Ep1016: #1016 - Rethinking Church-Based Theological Education: Drs. Branson Parler and Jeff Fisher

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Branson and Jeff have been involved in theological education for several years and recently launched an innovative church-based organization for theological education. It’s called The Foundry. Their mission is to strengthen and support church leaders at every level with biblical and practical training.

Branson also just released an outstanding book on a theology of the body and sexual ethics called Every Body’s Story: 6 Myths about Sex and the Gospel Truth about Marriage and Singleness.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the ROM. My two guests today are
0:04.8	Branson Parler and Jeff Fisher. Branson is a director of theological education, professor of theology
0:11.6	at the Foundry and Jeff is also a professor of theology and director of spiritual formation at
0:17.1	the Foundry. Both of them are former professors at Kuiper College. Both have PhDs, one in theology,
0:23.3	the other in Jeff's PhDs in historical theology. And I've known Branson for years now. He's part of
0:29.4	our collaborative team at the center for face sexuality and gender. And I've just briefly met
0:33.6	Jeff in passing many years ago and had a wonderful conversation with both of them. The Foundry
0:38.9	is a sort of innovative church-based way of doing theological education. The mission of the Foundry
0:45.2	is to strengthen and support church leaders at every level with biblical and practical training.
0:50.2	I remember when Branson said he was starting the Foundry and I was really intrigued. So I wanted
0:54.1	to have them both on to talk about what it is because I do think that there's going to be an
0:59.0	ongoing need in the church for innovative forms of theological education, not as we say in the
1:04.8	podcast, not to replace traditional college or seminary. I'm a huge fan of seminary. But to come
1:10.2	alongside traditional forms of theological education to reach more people with biblical training.
1:15.5	So please welcome to the show for the first time, Jeff Fisher and Branson Parler.
1:18.7	All right, hey friends, I'm here with Branson and Jeff, who are co-leaders of the Foundry.
1:33.2	I don't know if that's right or way to describe it. I should have checked with you before I
1:36.4	said that. Is that how you introduce yourselves?
1:38.7	Yeah, well, that's one of the fun things about what we do is there's not this template for it.
1:46.9	And in some ways, we're trying to think outside the box a little bit. But I think the two of us
1:51.5	along with our colleagues here are being our together of functioning in different ways. Each of us
1:56.6	have different areas that we're helping to lead and guide in. But really working as a team,
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