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
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.
Tuesday Jun 30, 2015
Tuesday Jun 30, 2015
Paul Nevison
of the Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, joins the show to discuss
who is a bigger Richard Rohr fan, how Eucharist is the great leveler,
and all things newsworthy in the June wrapup.
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.
Monday Jun 01, 2015
Monday Jun 01, 2015
Science Mike returns to the show to discuss why he's been talking
with people in the adult entertainment business, parenting in an age of
accessible porn, and the science of viewing pornography.
Sunday May 31, 2015
Sunday May 31, 2015
At the 8:00 minute mark Sara Barton returns to the show to discuss
breaking gender barriers, the book of James, and the grief of a
missionary. At the 31:00 minute mark Luke's Dad returns to the show to
discuss all things Rob Bell and Richard Beck.