Bonnie Kristian: Flexible Faith and the Multiplicity of Christianity

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June 27, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

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Jeffrey Pugh: Religionless Christianity and Bonhoeffer for Today

You'll enjoy this episode as much as Dr. Pugh is currently enjoying retirement. In this episode, Dr. Jeffrey Pugh talks about Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity. What did Religionless Christianity mean for Bonhoeffer in his day and what could it mean in ours?

Guest Info/Bio:

Jeffrey Pugh was a professor of Religious Studies at Elon University and an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church. His books include: Religionless Christianity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Troubled Times and The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times: Theology After You've Been Left Behind.

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June 13, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

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Diana Butler Bass: Grateful and the Subversion of Gratitude

Let us all be grateful for the wisdom of Diana Butler Bass. In this episode she talks about her new book, Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks, and how gratitude subverts the hostility of current-day American political and religious life.

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Diana Butler Bass is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture.

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Brandan Robertson: Our Witness and LGBTQ+ Spirituality

May 30, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

Brandan Robertson is here to talk about his new book, Our Witness: The Unheard Stories of LGBT+ Christians. We also touch on his own spiritual journey, the inspiration behind the book, and the ways in which LGBTQ+ Christians are faithfully changing the institution of the church.

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Brandan Robertson is an author, pastor, thought-leader, and contemplative activist working at the intersections of spirituality, sexuality, and social renewal.

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Tori Williams Douglass: Anti-Racism, Science, and Spirituality

May 16, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

Check your whiteness at the door and join Tori and I, as she talks about the intersection of anti-racism, spirituality, and science. She talks about the work she does at a neuroscience lab in Oregon and how their research equips people in the work of anti-racism. She also talks about her spiritual journey and how it relates to her passion for anti-racism and science.

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Tori is a writer, an anti-racist activist and educator, neuroscience research assistant, history nerd, and an ex-evangelical. She uses neuroscience to re-frame the way culture engages with mental health, race, racism, spiritual abuse, sexuality, and the legal system.

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Drew Moser: Ready or Not and #twentysomethings in the Church

May 02, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

Christian higher education has never been so religionless! In this episode, Drew Moser and Mason talk about Drew's new book, Ready or Not: Leaning in Life in Our Twenties. They talk about the ways in which millennials are engaging with the church and spirituality.

Guest Bio/Info:

Drew Moser is a Dean and Professor at Taylor University in Indiana. He’s also a writer, speaker, and consultant on twentysomethings and vocation.

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April 18, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

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Jason Chesnut: #SlateSpeak and Online Spiritual Community

Jason Chesnut joins us to subvert institutionalized Christianity! Jason and Mason talk about #SlateSpeak, an online spiritual community. He talks about the ways in which people foster their faith online and how this medium of faith fostering subverts institutionalized Christianity.

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Jason is an organizer, filmmaker, and co-curator of The Slate Project.

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April 04, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

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Hannah Paasch: #millenneagram, #churchtoo, and Twitter Spirituality

Garbage Oprah is here and the only thing she's giving away to you is snark, Enneagram wisdom, and spirituality on Twitter. She bestows upon us mere peasants the wisdom of the Enneagram for millennials, her spiritual journey, the #churchtoo movement, and her sense of spirituality formed on Twitter.

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Hannah Paasch is a writer, trauma researcher, and the Internet's girlfriend.

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March 21, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

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David Congdon: The God Who Saves and the Ecclesiastical Future

Theology nerds rejoice, David Congdon is here! David and I talk about his most recent book The God Who Saves and its contribution to the way soteriology informs our ecclesiology. Speaking of which, David and I also get all up in your ecclesiastical business talking about technology’s impact on the future of the church, finding “church” outside of church, and religionless Christianity.

Guest Bio/Info:

David Congdon is an author, speaker, and scholar working in the area of theology and culture. He hails originally from Portland, Oregon, completed a B.A. in English at Wheaton College, acquired an M.Div. and Ph.D. in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, and has since worked in the publishing industry as an academic editor.

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March 07, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

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Brian McLaren: The Great Spiritual Migration and Upcoming Projects

Brian McLaren. Yes, you read that correctly. We have Brian McLaren here today on Religionless Church. Brian and I talk about his book The Great Spiritual Migration as it relates to religionless Christianity and upcoming projects on which he’s working.

Guest Bio/Info:

Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good.

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February 21, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

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Tim Burnette: The Way Collective and Process Ecclesiology

Tim Burnette is in the house! Tim and I have an ecclesiastical rich conversation that convalesces to topics of process theology, process ecclesiology, and The Way Collective.

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Tim Burnette is a Doctor of Ministry student at Claremont School of Theology and pastor of The Way Collective, a new movement in Santa Barbara, CA, and is a community for people looking to unite by living well for the common good in an increasingly divisive world.

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February 07, 2018 / Mason Mennenga

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Doug Pagitt: Emergent Church and New Projects

In this very first episode of Religionless Church, we have Doug Pagitt. We talk about the emergent church movement Doug was a part of in the late 1990s and early 2000s, his new book coming out in 2018, and his new organization, Greater Things.

Guest Info/Bio:

Doug Pagitt is a pastor, author, and a convener who seeks to be a goodness conspirator & possibility evangelist finding creative, entrepreneurial and generative ways to enlist people to join in the hopes, dreams, and desires of God for the world.

Doug has written A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in us All, Flipped: The Provocative Truth That Changes Everything We Know About God, Church in the Inventive Age, and many more.

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