{"id":2294,"date":"2012-11-30T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2015-03-02T16:53:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:53:39","slug":"a-world-without-strangers-the-practice-of-radical-hospitality-richard-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2012\/11\/30\/a-world-without-strangers-the-practice-of-radical-hospitality-richard-beck\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A World without Strangers: the Practice of Radical Hospitality&#8221; &#8211; Richard Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/11.30.12--RichardBeckChapel.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p>One of the most radical and controversial aspects of Jesus\u2019 life and ministry was how he constantly crossed social, political, religious and moral boundaries to embrace the \u201ctax collectors and sinners\u201d of his day. And yet, modern Christians struggle with how to follow that example. What is getting in our way? And what dangers must be negotiated if we are to follow Jesus\u2019 radical openness to others?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard Beck is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Abilene Christian University and is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/unclean-meditations-on-purity.html\">Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/authenticity-of-faith-now-available.html\">The Authenticity of Faith: The Varieties and Illusions of Religious Experience<\/a>. As an experimental psychologist Richard has also published extensively in the empirical literature examining the intersection of Christianity and psychology. Richard also writes regularly about the interface of theology and psychology at his popular and award-winning blog <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/\">Experimental Theology<\/a>. Richard is married to Jana, who is a high-school theater teacher; they have two sons\u2014Brenden and Aidan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/11.30.12--RichardBeckChapel.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>One of the most radical and controversial aspects of Jesus\u2019 life and ministry was how he constantly crossed social, political, religious and moral boundaries to embrace the \u201ctax collectors and sinners\u201d of his day. And yet, modern Christians struggle with how to follow that example. What is getting in our way? And what dangers must....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[4538,4194],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapel","tag-hospitality","tag-richard-beck","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}