Missing your lectures? Eyes need a break? Need to kill some time over the Christmas period? Want to impress your friends (and enemies) with your learnedness? Check out some of the following links (which are mostly from our friends at Holden Village):

H. George Anderson

• Creation Accounts – Part 1: Old and New (1980)
• Lutherans and God’s Mission – Part 1 (1982)

Karl Barth

• “Was ist für Sie Mozart?”. Gespräch mit R. Schmalenbach (Text Schweizerdeutsch Text Standarddeutsch). Aus “Musik für einen Gast” (Radio Interview vom 17.9.1968, geführt von R. Schmalenbach). [mp3]
• Weihnachtsgruss 1960 (siehe auch Letter Nr. 12) [mp3]
• Institutio-Jubiläum 1959 (siehe Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Nr. 158, vom 11./12. Juli 2009, S. B 3) [mp3]
• Aus dem Gespräch mit den Tübinger Stiftlern vom 2. März 1964 über die Entstehung der Barmer Theologischen Erklärung (siehe K. Barth, Gespräche 1964–1968, hrsg. von E. Busch [Gesamtausgabe, Abt. IV], Zürich 1997, S. 111–114; auch in: K. Barth, Texte zur Barmer Theologischen Erklärung, hrsg. von M. Rohkrämer, Zürich 2004², S. 221–223) [mp3]
• Aus dem Gespräch mit der Kirchlichen Bruderschaft Württemberg vom 15. Juli 1963 über die Bedeutung von Barmen (siehe K. Barth, Gespräche 1963, hrsg. von E. Busch [Gesamtausgabe, Abt. IV], Zürich 2005, S. 54; auch in: K. Barth, Texte zur Barmer Theologischen Erklärung, hrsg. von M. Rohkrämer, Zürich 2004², S. 191) [mp3]
• Aus “Die Liebe”, Abschiedsvorlesung Karl Barths vom 1. März 1962 an der Universität Basel (siehe K. Barth, Einführung in die evangelische Theologie, Zürich 2004⁵, S. 220) [mp3]
• Aus “The Community”, Vorlesung Karl Barths vom 26. April 1962 in Chicago und 2. Mai 1962 in Princeton (siehe K. Barth, Evangelical Theology. An Introduction, Grand Rapids, MI 1979, S. 41) [mp3]
• Aus “Commentary”, Vorlesung Karl Barths vom 23. April 1962 in Chicago und 29. April 1962 in Princeton (siehe K. Barth, Evangelical Theology. An Introduction, Grand Rapids, MI 1979, S. 9–12) [mp3]
• Tondokumente aus Letter Nr. 6.
• Gespräch mit R. Schmalenbach. Aus “Musik für einen Gast” (Radio Interview vom 17.9.1968, geführt von R. Schmalenbach). [mp3]
• Gespräch mit der Kirchlichen Bruderschaft in Württemberg. Aus dem Gespräch am 15.7.1963 im Restaurant Bruderholz in Basel. [mp3]
• Gespräch in Bièvres. Aus der Diskusion am 20.10.1963 über Fragen im Zusammenhang seines Buches «Einführung in die evangelische Theologie». [mp3]
• Podiumsdiskussion in Chicago. Aus dem Schlusswort bei der Podiumsdiskusion in Chicago 26.4.1962. [mp3]

Carl Braaten

• Authority & Power in the Church (1984)
• Evangelization in the Modern World (1984)
• Fireside Chat
• Kingdom and the Church’s Mission (1984)
• Ministry Offices in the Church (1984)

Walter Brueggemann

• Enculturation of the Church – Part 2: Out of Slavery: Problem of insanity (1975)
• Fireside Chat With Helmut Thielicke: Lutheran Theological Conference at Holden Village (1975)
• Enculturation of the Church: Part 1 (1975)
• Enculturation of the Church: Part 3 (1975)

Nancy Eiesland

• Disability and the Politics of Care (2005)
• Experience and Theology (2005)
• The Bible Problem & Disability (2005)
• The Disabled God (2005)

Terry Fretheim

• Bible Study – Part 1: What Kind of God Do You Believe In? (2008)
• Bible Study – Part 2: Did God Create the World Alone? (2008)
• Bible Study – Part 3: Are the Bible and its God Committed to Environmental Causes? (2008)
• Bible Study – Part 4: Did God Create the World Good, but NOT Perfect? (2008)
• Bible Study – Part 5: God and Natural Disasters (2008)
• Creation – Part 1 (2005)
• Creation – Part 2 (2005)
• Creation and Job (2005)
• Creation and Relationship (2005)
• Creation and Suffering (2005)
• Emotions of God (1988)
• God & Our Enemies (1984)
• God & the World (1984)
• God, Power & Prayer (1984)
• Presence of God (1984)
• Prophets for Today – Part 1: True and False Prophets (1986)
• What Does God Know? (1984)
• What Kind of God Do You Believe In? (1984)
• Promises, Promises: Abraham and Promises (2010)
• Promises, Promises: Abraham and Covenant (2010)
• Promises, Promises; Abraham, Sodom & Gomorrah (2010)
• Promises, Promises: Abraham and Near Sacrifice of Isaac (2010)

Martin Marty

• Christian Responses: Alternatives (1980)
• Hardline Religion vs the Sacred (1993)
• Historical Perspective (1994)
• Holden Fireside Conversation (1980)
• Hunger For Wholeness (1980)
• Legitimate Hungers (1980)
• Sacred and the Active Life (1993)
• Softline Religion and Healing (1993)
• Worship the Sacred (1993)
• Between World Views (1969)

Bonnie Miller-McLemore

• Children and the Christian Faith – Part 1: How has history understood children (2005)
• Children and the Christian Faith – Part 2: How has Psychology understood children (2005)
• Children and the Christian Faith – Part 3: How has scripture understood children (2005)
• Children and the Christian Faith – Part 5: How has the family understood children (2005)
• Sanctifying the Ordinary (2009)
• Paying Attention (2009)
• Doing Justice (2009)
• Reading as a Spiritual Practice (2009)
• Blessing and Letting Go (2009)

Jürgen Moltmann

• The Parchman Endowed Lectures, Baylor University. Session 1; Session 2; Session 3 (2000)
• Biography and Interview (2007)
• “God’s Unfinished Future: Why it Matters Now, Part One“; Part Two; Interview; Biography; Lecture given at Trinity Wall Street, January 23-24, 2007.
• The Vital Power of Hope (2007)
• Sighs, Signs, and Significance: A Theological Hermeneutics of Nature (2008)
• Darwin and the Interpretation of Natural Theology (2008)
• The Church in the Power of the Spirit

Ched Myers

• Baptism: Vision Quest (1996)
• Jesus, Presence in the Storm: Questioner of Our Answers (1996)
• Through the Waters: Liberation (1996)
• Under the Waters: Judgement (1996)
• Who Is This?: Journey to the Other Side (1996)

Lesslie Newbigin

• Nihilism
• Christ: Unique and Universal (1991)

John Polkinghorne

• Universe as Creation – Part 1: The Context of Creation: Anthropic Principle, etc.  (2001)
• Universe as Creation: The History of Creation: Evolution, Divine Action (2001)
• Universe as Creation: The History of Creation: Evolution, Divine Action (2001)
• Universe as Creation: The Future of Creation: Cosmic Futility, Eschatological Hope, etc.  (2001)

Dorothee Sölle

• Allah has a Hundred Names (1998)
• An Outline for a Mystical (1998)
• I Am What I Do (1998)
• Introduction to Mysticism (1998)
• Loving God – Without Whys and Wherefores (1998)
• Mysticism and Resistance (1998)
• Peter, Paul, and John (1998)
• Speaking of God (1998)
• Still, Still With Thee (1998)

William Stringfellow

• Civil rights movement – an interview with Robert Penn Warren: Part I, Part II (1964)

Helmut Thielicke

• Death & Eternal Life (1975)
• Sermon – Unconditional Forgiveness (1975)
• What is Christian Freedom? (1975)
• Crisis of Progress or Progress Devours its Children (1975)
• Teilhard de Chardin or the Future of Man (1975)
• Sermon – Christian Joy (1975)

Vitor Westhelle

• The Church as Community of Solidarity & Protest I: The Case for a Weak Church (2002)
• The Church as Community of Solidarity & Protest II: The Church as a Community of the Cross (2002)
• The Church as Community of Solidarity & Protest III: Church & Society (2002)
• The Church as Community of Solidarity & Protest V: Church & the Kingdom (2002)
• The Church as Community of Solidarity & Protest IV: Church & Tradition (2002)

Rowan Williams

• The Future of Interfaith Dialogue (2011)
• What should the Word of God sound like? (2011)

Umhau Wolf

• Death & Dying: On the Modern Scene (1979)
• Eastern Orthodox Connection – Part 3: Forgotten Sacrament – Foot Washing (1979)
• How Old is Old? (1979)

John Howard Yoder

• Apostles of Non-Violence – Part 1 (1981)
• Apostles of Non-Violence – Part 2 (1981)
• Hiroshima & The Augsburg Confession (1981)
• If We Can’t Rule the World With the Gospel: What Can We Do? (1978)
• Political Shape of the Gospel – Part 1 (1981)
• Politics of Jesus – Book Discussion (1981)
• The “Free Church”, Alternative to “Main-Line” Christianity – Part 1: Reformation or Restoration, an Alternative to History (1978)
• Theology of Peace – Part 1 (1983)
• Theology of Peacemaking – Part 2: The Fall and Rise of the Just War Tradition (1983)
• What Can Justify a War? (1978)
• What Kind of Political Person was Jesus and Why? – Part 1 (1978)