A podcast to help you navigate faith in the modern world. Luke Norsworthy interviews academics, artists, authors, pastor, and more about spirituality, faith, and anything else that's newsworthy.
Episodes
Thursday Jul 23, 2015
Thursday Jul 23, 2015
For our first ever mailbag podcast we discuss living in awareness of the presence of God, V-Neck shirts, narcissistic guests, eroding morality in America, the Church's shrinking political power, receiving communion and the Cosmic Christ.
Monday Jul 20, 2015
Monday Jul 20, 2015
Dr. Richard Beck returns to the show to discuss his recent trip to the United Kingdom, the demise of the American Church and his athletic career, Rob Bell's tour, the Omega Point, Humanity's progress, public executions and Richard's trip to Selma.
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Enneagram teacher Suzanne Stabile joins the show to discuss what the Enneagram is, why Richard Rohr told her to not speak about the Enneagram for five years, why Luke doesn't care about doing the dishes, how learning the Enneagram helps you see the world the way others do and the flaw in the Golden Rule.
Monday Jul 06, 2015
Monday Jul 06, 2015
Sociologist Dr. Josh Packard along with pastor/philosopher Jeff Cook join the show to discuss why spiritual people are leaving the church, the Dones, Shadow Missions, the recent Pew Study on people leaving church, and Church Refugees. Luke also defends Josh's brutal attack on preaching.
For more on Josh Packard's ongoing work understanding the current trend in the religious landscape and finding a way to provide more religious spaces for people who feel that traditional religion has cast them aside check out dechurched.net.
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
Nadia Bolz-Weber returns to the show to discuss Luke's visit to House for All Sinners and Saints, Nadia's re-connection with the churches of Christ, twelve minute sermons, church plants as a birthday party you throw for yourself, well-differentiated leaders, democratizing church and of course, CrossFit.
Don't forget to pre-order Nadia's book Accidental Saints.
Friday Jun 26, 2015
Friday Jun 26, 2015
Brian McLaren returns to the show to discuss the legacy of Phyllis Tickle, the questions that sustained the Emergence Church, Gatekeepers, The Righteous Mind, the scandal of continual incarnation, Racism, Phyllis Tickle: Evangelist of the Future and Luke's silly questions.
Monday Jun 22, 2015
Monday Jun 22, 2015
Dr. Tony Jones returns to the show to discuss why he stopped
blogging, the legacy of his friend Phyllis Tickle, Emerging Church, the
five hundred year rummage sale, and Phyllis Tickle: Evangelist of the Future.
Monday Jun 15, 2015
Monday Jun 15, 2015
Two of our favorite scholars, Pete Enns and Chris Green, return to
the podcast to have a Hunger Games style showdown on how to read the
Bible. We discuss the Historical-Grammatical approach, favoring texts,
Chris Green bashes N.T. Wright (farewell Chris Green), personal
formation as an interpretive tool, who wrote the 10 commandments and the
problematic texts of the Old Testament.
Tuesday Jun 09, 2015
Tuesday Jun 09, 2015
Josh Cobia, author of the viral blog post ""
joins the show to discuss planting a church with the reality television
stars as the first members, youth ministry at the Kardashian's home, sharing the table with the LGBTQ community, the one thing he would say to his friend Caitlyn Jenner.
For more about this month's sponsor, The Abilene Christian University Graduate School of Theology, click here.
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
Sunday Jun 07, 2015
Jonathan Martin and Ian Morgan Cron join us for another podcast from
the Praxis Conference in Houston, TX.
Jonathan Martin discusses the
centrality of the Eucharist, the awkwardness of a preacher not preaching
and Jonathan announces his new job.
For more on Abilene Christian University's Graduate School of Theology click here.