About the Ephesiology Podcast

Join us as we engage in a community dialogue about the intersection of theology and movements. Find us on your favorite podcast app or watch the video podcast below.

Our podcasters are dedicated to not only the study of a New Testament movement but the application of timeless principles in the 21st century. More than anything, they are sold out to seeing more people worship God (Rev 5:9). If you are interested in movements in the United States and around the world, please feel free to connect with them. And, be sure to join them each week on their Ephesiology Podcast.

Look inside the Ephesiology Podcast

Featuring interviews and conversations about movements and culture.

    1. About the Podcast

    2. Partner with the Ephesiology Podcast

    3. Help Us End a Theological Famine

    1. Ep 2: The Legacy Church, Part 1

    2. Ep 3: The Legacy Church, Part 2

    3. Ep 4: Introducing Ephesiology

    4. Ep 5: Church Planting Movements in Acts

    1. Editors' Introduction to Volume 2.1

    2. Contributing Factors in the Resurgence of Paganism in Western Society

    3. Wiccans and Jesus

    4. Musterion: God’s Story and Our Story

    5. Christians and the New Pagans

    6. Neopagan and Wiccan Views of Jesus: A Reformed Christian Assessment

    7. Animals and Morality: Four Views

    8. Editors' Introduction to Volume 2.2

    9. Neo-Paganism: Is Dialogue Possible

    10. A Postmodern Counterculture: Christian Ancestors and Neo-Pagans

    11. The Wheel of the Year

    12. Animals Matter to God

    13. Paganism, New Spirituality, and Christianity: Looking for a Holistic Ecological Ethic

    1. Editor's Introduction to Volume 3.1

    2. The Family International: A Brief Historical and Theological Overview

    3. Research Observations: The Meaning of Life in Contemporary Druidry

    4. Latter Day Saints, Rituals, Pilgrimage and Cultural Symbolics: Neglected Sources for Understanding Engagement

    5. US Religious Landscape: Analysis with Potential Implications for American Religious Identity

    6. STJ Interview with Douglas Cowan

    7. Editor's Introduction to Volume 3.2

    8. Predatory Spirituality: Vampire Religion in America

    9. Kang Jeun San: The Object of Belief in Jeung San Do

    10. D.T. Suzuki and Zen: Re-envisioning Buddhism for the West

    11. Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue - Review

    12. Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue - Review

    13. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – And Doesn’t - Review

    14. Twilight - Review

    15. Trinity Consultation on Post-Christendom Spiritualities: Report

    1. Editor's Introduction to Volume 4.1

    2. Sacred Tribes Journal and the Study of New Religions

    3. Burning Man Festival in Alternative Interpretative Analysis

    4. Answering the Evolutionary Understanding of Humans and Nature in Neo-Spiritual Milieu

    5. The Missing Years of Jesus: The Greatest Story Never Told - Review

    6. Special Edition, Volume 4.2 - Introduction to the Peaceable Christian

    7. Resources and Contributors to this Special Edition of Sacred Tribes Journal

    8. Necessity of Worldview Understanding for Sustainable Peace

    9. Psychological Perspectives on Peace: An Evangelical Analysis

    10. Christian Schools: Training God's Soldiers or God's Peacemakers?

    11. Perspectives on a Biblical Theology of Peace

    12. A Philosopher's Reflections on Peacemaking and the Just War Theory

    13. Concluding Response

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Our Podcast Co-hosts

Join our podcasters each Tuesday for an informative conversation about cultural engagement.

Associate Pastor, Neartown Church Andrew Johnson

Andrew is a proud husband, father and pastor in the Bayou City, Houston, TX. Previously, he’s ministered in Chicago, Flagstaff and Tempe in a variety of church contexts. Andrew as a BA in Christian Ministry from Trinity International University. After graduating Phoenix Seminary, he, his wife, and three kids moved to Houston join the growing ministry at Neartown Church, a church geared towards starting and supporting other strong local churches through church planting. He is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at Kairos University. When not at work, he’s an avid disc golfing, ultimate playing, Spider-Man following/collecting fellow. Go Pacers.

Professor of Missiological Theology Michael T. Cooper

Dr. Cooper earned a PhD in Intercultural Studies with a focus on religious movements and a minor in theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He currently serves as a missiologist for a missions agency where he focuses on missiological research and equipping missionaries for effective cultural engagement. He has thirty years of missions experience, including ten years as a pioneer church planter in Romania after the fall of communism and has equipped church planters and leaders in Africa, Europe, North America, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is a guest faculty at Torch Trinity Graduate University, adjunct faculty at Mission India Theological Seminary, Asia Graduate School of Theology Nepal, and Ebenezer Bible College in Katmandu, and affiliate faculty at Kairos University. He has written and contributed to more than 30 books and academic articles and has presented conference lectures at the London School of Economics, University of Bordeaux, Loyola University, Baylor University, and many others. His recent book, Ephesiology: A Study of the Ephesian Movement is a best seller at William Carey Publishing.

Featured Past Guests

She is Safe, Regional Director Kathryn Richards Bhatia

Kathryn Richards Bhatia, MDiv, BCC, has served since 2014 with She Is Safe, a non-profit ministry working with women and girls at extreme risk of abuse and slavery, particularly among war refugees and outcast people groups. A board-certified chaplain with a focus on trauma and resilience, she has developed a paradigm for healing called The Three Healing Friends: Laughter, Tears and Silence and recently co-edited Social Injustice, Volume 2: Evangelical Voices in Tumultuous Times. Born and raised in the Middle East, she’s a third-culture kid, a fourth-generation minister of the Gospel, and mother of five adult children. She is married to Dr. Amit Bhatia, with whom she shares a love of Indian food, international travel, and hiking in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

Founder, Movement Leaders Collective Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch is the founding director of Forge Mission Training Network, 100Movements, The 5Q Collective, and Future Travelers. All these are focussed on developing missional leadership and movemental organization. Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is considered to be a thought-leader and key mission strategist for churches across the Western world. Hirsch is the author of The Forgotten Ways; 5Q; The Shaping of Things to Come, ReJesus, and The Faith of Leap (with Michael Frost); Untamed (with Debra Hirsch); Right Here, Right Now (with Lance Ford), and On the Verge (with Dave Ferguson).

Senior Fellow, C.S. Lewis Institute Randy Newman

Dr. Newman is the Senior Fellow for Evangelism and Apologetics at The C. S. Lewis Institute in the Washington, DC area. He has also taught at numerous theological seminaries and colleges. After serving for over 30 years with Campus Crusade for Christ, he established Connection Points, a ministry to help Christians engage people’s hearts the way Jesus did. He has written a number of books and articles about evangelism and other ways our lives intertwine with God’s creation. He is also the host of Questions That Matter, a podcast of the C. S. Lewis Institute. He and his wife Pam live in Annandale, VA and are grateful for their children and a growing number of grandchildren.