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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-27T05:03:00.000Z",
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    "Timothy Tennent",
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    "IRD YouTube channel",
    "SoundCloud podcast account",
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  "textContent": "On April 20 IRD’s John Wesley Institute (JWI) hosted the Second Annual Tennent Lecture in Washington, DC. Dr. Timothy Tennent spoke on, “Longing for the Lost Caliphate: the Religious Context of the Current conflict with Iran.”\n\nTennent, an American Methodist missiologist and expert on world Christianity, joined IRD’s John Wesley Institute as Distinguished Fellow in 2024, working to promote formation in the Wesleyan tradition. He serves as the Methodist Chair at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Tennent served for 15 years as the President of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky having also served on the faculty at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts.\n\nJWI promotes Wesleyan theological education and witness in the church and in society.\n\nVideo of the lecture is available below via the IRD YouTube channel and SoundCloud podcast account.\n\nThe IRD · Tim Tennent on Longing for the Lost Caliphate: the Religious Context of the Current conflict with Iran\n\n**More from IRD** :\n\nWesleyan Theological Formation: Tim Tennent and Ryan Danker\n\nInaugural Tennent Annual Lecture on World Christianity\n\nTimothy Tennent Archives\n\nThe post Second Annual Tennent Lecture on World Christianity appeared first on Juicy Ecumenism.",
  "title": "Second Annual Tennent Lecture on World Christianity"
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