A conversation with Luke Goodrich

We have a habit of prioritizing and privileging our experience but it comes at the cost of missing and ignoring the stories and experiences of the global Church. And we don’t want to miss that because if we start paying attention we might just being to see what God is doing in this world.

In this episode of The Peoples Theology we interview Dan Stanford author of the book,Losing the Cape, and ask what kind of person does it take to impact the world? Do we need to be powerful, wealthy, charismatic? Do we need to fit a certain mold or be a certain type of person? Because if you look around at the leaders and celebrities of our culture there is really only one model.

On this episode of The Peoples Theology, we continue exploring the role of the church in engaging our cultural moment. In this episode, we have a conversation with Charles Kiser about living out the good and beautiful life of Jesus as the Church.

How do we engage our world? How do we make it better? To help us answer that question we interviewed author, professor, and pastor David Fitch. Fitch is interested in how the church, which is so often compromised by culture, can become a community that serves and loves the world well. How we can be the people Jesus intended us to be. 

The People’s Theology is returning.

David Foster Wallace in his now very famous commencement speech tells a story about two fish and in it he asks a question, "what is water?" Meaning, what are the pieces of our world we don't recognize but are fundamental to it's existence.  In this episode we try and answer the question, what is water. *podcast includes two expletives. 

In this episode, we are continuing that conversation. Except we aren’t exploring a set of feelings, yet, instead we need to do some history in order to understand how we got to now. 

The Peoples Theology is back. In our first episode of season two, we are exploring a feeling. Author Pankaj Mishra, calls our specific cultural moment an "age of rage." All of us, at some level, can this. We watch it play out on the news, in our Facebook feeds, in conversations with family, and many of us feel it. The question is why. 

In our final episode of 2017, we have a conversation about sexual assault and the role of friends, family, and the church with Pastor Heather Thomas. Historically, the Church hasn't been a place that cultivated conversations about sexual assault and abuse. In fact, the institution of the church has often been complicit. The question on the table then, is what can we do differently? How do we become a people that advocates for victims, creates safe places, and always offers mercy? 

Part 2 of our conversation with author Josh Butler about moments of Holy War in the Old Testament. How do we reconcile the "love of God" with the drastic marching orders he seemingly gives to the people of Israel throughout the conquest narratives. What does it mean for us?