Mike: What is Ekklassia? Theo: Ekklassia (Ekklassia) is the Greek word in the New Testament that we translate “church.” It literally means “gathering.” For instance, from the Old Testament, we use the Greek name from the Septuagint for the book of Ecclesiastes, because Solomon’s wisdom is being imparted to “the gathering.” So for the purposes…
Your new album You Are My Hiding Place features songs you wrote between 1971 and 2000. Why did you think it was important to put those songs out now? My wife, Marian, picked some of her favorites from my 200 plus songs. I have two previously recorded albums, Deep Calls to Deep, and Who is,…
I’ve been enthralled with Brian Godawa’s book series Chronicles of the Nephilim. I reviewed his latest book in the series Jesus Triumphant for Down the Line and was really looking forward to the next book in the series and was surprised that his latest book was not the next in the Chronicles of the Nephilim…
I’m not sure when or where I first became aware of DW Dunphy and his awesome music. It might have been in the Dambed (The Daniel Amos Message Board) many years ago. That seems like the most plausible scenario since that is where I came across most of the artists who have been featured on…
The last time we caught up with Brian Godawa was right before the books Joshua Valiant and Calab Vigilant were released. Since then he has come out with When Giants Were On The Earth and David Ascendant. This series is fascinating, full of great writing and has caused me and I’m sure most other readers…
I have recently become a fan of Dr. Glenn Peoples. Glenn is a contributor to Rethinking Hell and also hosts the podcast and writes the blog found at rightreason.org. Dr. Peoples and the team at Rethinking Hell are Evangelical Christians who believe and defend conditional mortality. They believe the Bible does not teach that the soul…
The newest addition to the Down The Line Collective is Bram Cools. Bram describes himself as an eclectic singer-songwriter from Belgium with lo-fi roots, somewhere in between weird folk, electro-acoustic noise and christian antifolk. However you slice it, the man writes some killer tunes. Since Bram is the newest addition, I thought a few questions…
I have been enthralled by the book series the Chronicles of the Nephilim by Brian Godawa. Abraham Allegiant has just been released as book four in the series. Only a few chapters in and I already had some questions for Brian. Brian, I recently asked a pastor with a degree in Hebrew how many giants…
The premiere Christian music festival for many had been The Cornerstone Festival – which ran from 1984 till 2012. The final 2012 gathering was mourned by many and there were some who were not willing to let their community, their family slip away that easily. The rumblings on social media began and then, boom! AudioFeed…
(Intro by Matt Crosslin) I love science fiction and fantasy. I am less than enthusiastic about what passes as either genre in Christian bookstores. There are a few good books out there in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre, but they are few and far between. When I heard that Indest was interviewing Brian Godawa, I was intrigued.…