Guns and God
Conversations about places where faith and politics overlap, with particular interest in extremism and violence. Run by the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence www.csbvbristol.org.uk. Meet our hosting team. Helen Paynter is a Baptist minister and biblical specialist, and director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Matthew Feldman is an expert on the radical right and director of the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right, although he speaks here in a private capacity. Maria Power is a Catholic social historian and an expert on peace-making initiatives in Northern Ireland. She is director of the Human Dignity Project at the Las Casas Institute, Oxford and research associate at the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Michael Spalione is a political theologian and research associate at the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. We usually have an invited guest. Conversations focus on a diverse range of topics, such as antisemitism, the myth of redemptive violence, BLM, Islamism, and MAGA. Music at the beginning and end of each episode was from "Pride Cometh", used by kind permission of FALL Hardcore.
Guns and God
Helen and Matthew introduce 'Guns and God'
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Helen
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Season 1
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Episode 1
In this episode, podcast hosts Helen Paynter and Matthew Feldman introduce themselves and open up some of the questions that the series will be addressing.
Helen Paynter is the director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, and Matthew Feldman is the director of the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right, although in this podcast series he is speaking in a private capacity.
Feel free to get in touch about suggestions for future episodes.
paynterh@bristol-baptist.ac.uk
mfeldman66@gmail.com
Helen's book on domestic abuse and the Bible can be found here.