About this episode

The episode explores the relationship between wealth and poverty through a theological lens, featuring a conversation with Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty.

Some conversations want to be in a coffee shop, not a studio — and this is one of them. Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty and I share a particular endangered species of Baptist heritage, the small, ecumenical, justice-formed wing whose patron saints include her father, Glenn Hinson, the Baptist church historian who taught half my div-school professors how to take the contemplative tradition seriously. So before we got anywhere near the politics of freedom, the problem of wealth, or the murderus super chickens of late-stage neoliberalism, we sat in her father's legacy for a while. The conversation took a different shape because of it. What follows is a slow take — on the perversion of freedom in white Christian America, the way our politics has lost any room for loss or failure, and what theological education has to do now if it is going to do anything at all. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty is the J. Roy Davis Family Chair of Theology and History at Union Presbyterian Seminary's Charlotte campus, where she teaches theology and ethics. Ordained in the PC(USA), she previously taught for nearly two decades at Bellarmine University, and earned her…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Tripp Fuller

Guest: Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty

Topics covered

• wealth
• poverty
• theology
• Christian ethics
• freedom
• Baptist heritage
• neoliberalism

Keywords

• Christianity
• theology
• justice
• Baptist
• freedom
• neoliberalism
• ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Union Presbyterian Seminary, PC(USA)

Books & works: Authentic Christian Freedom: Deconstructing the American Gospel of Liberty, The Problem of Wealth: A Christian Response to a Culture of Affluence

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