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Like-Minded Deviants with Dr. Lindy Backues, Jon-Michael Odean, and Justin Stewart-Fritz is a podcast that seeks to deviate from the norm. As two of Lindy’s former graduate students, Justin and Jon-Michael bring an extended friendship with him cultivated over years, enriched by their present ministries, life as educators, a good dose of grassroots practitioning, and deep respect as close friends and colleagues. Each week these three come prepared to engage in a provocative conversation. A co ...
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A Language for Growth: Attempting to Name the Mystical
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In previous episodes we have suggested the importance to push beyond deconstruction into a process of reconstruction. We believe such a move to not only be possible, but helpful. What does such a move look like? How can we talk about it, what sort of language best helps us to identify such a disruptive yet exciting process? Join us in this episode …
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Evangelicalism Part 5: Moving to Reconstruct through Streams of Mysticism
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Over the course of this season, we have been making a case for deconstruction of the traditional Evangelical faith system. We have been saying that healthy moves and progress are often found as one throws off the legalism and the surveillance mentality found in much of American Evangelical faith systems. Maturity can result in the loss of a person'…
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Evangelicalism Part 4: Deconstruction Continued; Moving from Fundamentalist to Secularist, Arriving at the Mystical
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Deconstruction is a word that one finds floating around in Christian circles quite a bit lately. For some, the term promises liberating possibilities, an open door allowing fresh air into a context that has long felt stifled. For others, the deconstruction process is dangerous, something that provokes deep anxiety, a move that threatens an unnecess…
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Get ready for part 3 of our Evangelicalism series where JM, JSF, and Dr. Lindy Backues discuss deconstruction in light of our context in Evangelical America today. This conversation ranges from discussing why deconstruction can sometimes be healthy to a deep dive into the phenomenon itself in with helpful language to make sense of its natural place…
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Evangelicalism Part 2: What's up with "Christianese"? The language of Evangelicalism in America; why it matters and the baggage it brings.
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Join us for our first Friday release for the second episode in the "Evangelicalism" module, where Lindy, JSF, and JM dive deep into a conversation on "Christianese" in America today (yes we know--very "meta'). It is commonplace knowledge that how we as humans talk and the language we use affects how we see the world around us. In short, the languag…
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Evangelicalism Part 1: Examine the Lens. What is it? Where's your starting point?
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Welcome back for season 2 of the Like-Minded Deviants Podcast! We begin season 2 with the first in our multi-episode module on Evangelism. In this episode, we take a biographical and personal look at what has come to be called Evangelicalism in the West--predominantly the cultural phenomena in the United States. Where did it come from? What was it …
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Join us for our Preview for season 2 of Like-Minded Deviants as we loop you in for a few program updates, and release schedule as we get set for season 2! We are so excited to be back and look forward to our first module releasing in the near future! We have been so excited by the response to our podcast and we want these to be informed by YOU, so …
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BONUS EPISODE! BAR Talk: The conversation after class and on-tap. Reflecting on the season... and what comes next!
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Join us for our last episode of the first season – appropriately themed Bar-Talk episode as we reflect on the season as a whole, its impact on us, and what we have in store for season 2. In these episodes we connect for a lower key/more relaxed conversation, what we like to call, the conversation after the class! So feel free to grab a drink and jo…
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The Answer: The Church...Christian Community as a Counter Force?
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Throughout this season we have arrived at the idea that the Church is not in itself the Reign of God, but the Reign of God is both its starting point and its goal. So that leads us to the question, how does the Church (as God’s idea) address the ‘crackedness’ of the cosmos (the problem of evil we explored at the beginning of the season)? How does i…
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Bookshelf Episode! Macro-Economics Part 1: What Is It?
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Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Macro-Economics. Contact Us! Twitter: @PodLmd Facebook: facebook.com/LMDPod Web: lmdpod.buzzsprout.com Email: lmdpod@gmail.com *Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think…
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Toolbox Episode! Macro-Economics Part 2: A Theological Critique and the Environmental Crisis
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Join us for the second part, and main conversation in our "Toolbox"* episode, where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Macro-Economics, our Metaphors, the environmental crisis, Globalization, Internationalization, and The Pathetic God. Contact Us! Twitter: @PodLmd Facebook: facebook.com/LMDPod Web: lmdpod.buzzsprout.com Email: l…
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Bookshelf Episode! Socialism Part 1: What is it?
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Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Socialism. Contact Us! Twitter: @PodLmd Facebook: facebook.com/LMDPod Web: lmdpod.buzzsprout.com Email: lmdpod@gmail.com *Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of th…
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Toolbox Episode! Socialism Part 2: A Theological Critique
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Join us for the second episode of our new "Toolbox"* where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Socialism and The Pathetic God. Bob Goudzwaard, Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979 (ISBN: 978-0853647706). David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Ki…
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Toolbox Episode! Capitalism Part 2: A Theological Critique
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Join us for the first of our new "Toolbox"* For a theological engagement and critique of Capitalism and The Pathetic God. Ellul, Jacques, Money and Power. Second Edition, Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1984 (ISBN: 978-0877849162). David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edit…
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Bookshelf Episode! Capitalism Part 1: What Is It?
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Join us for the first of our new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Capitalism. Contact Us! Twitter: @PodLmd Facebook: facebook.com/LMDPod Web: lmdpod.buzzsprout.com Email: lmdpod@gmail.com *Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical l…
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Principles for Economic Life: Stewardship
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In the Church today there is confusion as to how storied, biblical truth might be translated into principles, themes, and motifs that later can be applied to the world that surrounds us. Like finding a common note in a song, or a common image in a story, we can locate repeatedly appearing images, ideas, or themes running throughout the biblical sto…
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What is the goal of all of this? Where was Jesus headed? If we are to offer grace as God offered grace, if we are to love in a way that aligns with the Cross, if we are to be just in a way that frees the chains of the poor, how does that fit with the message of the gospel, the message that Jesus came to preach, the core of the message found in the …
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Justice is a concept, a concept that can be very theoretical and abstract. But, we must ask ourselves, what does justice look like? Justice - like everything else we examine - must look like Jesus! Jesus came to fulfill justice proactively, in community, so that we might live and participate in a way that is dynamic, actively toward the fringes and…
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The word justice appears in a lot of places in the biblical record. As a community seeking to follow the pattern of Jesus – a community attempting to live in a way that is Christomporphic, that is ‘in the shape of Jesus’ – we must put the idea of justice as central to our understanding of the good news as did Jesus. The trouble is, though, we often…
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So many of our popular songs, hit movies, favorite poems, social media spin around us the notion of love. We all teach about love, sing about love, long for love, shoot--we even cry out for love! That being so, surely we must know what love is, right?! No doubt, we got love down, don’t we, since we seem obsessively focused on it almost all of the t…
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Episode 8 – Response Ethics to the Divine Act (Grace) In this episode we begin to address the problems (of evil) that we looked at in previous episodes. If we take our previous conversations seriously, we will notice we are a bit stuck – in fact, if left to ourselves, we seem completely screwed. There seems no way out – our systems are fallen, our …
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BONUS EPISODE! BAR Talk: The conversation after class and on-tap!
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Join us for our first (of many) Bonus Episodes. This time we connect for lower key/more relaxed conversation, what we like to call, the conversation after the class--and this time in a much-enjoyed bar talk! So please, go grab a drink and join us! As a bonus episode, we want these to be informed by YOU, so let us know what you think while we have s…
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Epicurean Redux: The Pathetic God?! We take a renewed look at the Epicurean dilemma: what needs to give? Is God loving but not powerful? Is God powerful but not loving? Neither loving or powerful? Is there another option? How does this Christian God suffer the existence of evil? Richard Bauckham, God Crucified : Monotheism and Christology in the Ne…
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Evil is not merely personal; it is also systemic and structural and outlives us all. Wickedness is tied to and enshrined in our laws and governmental structures. What should God do about that? What should we do about that? What does all of this mean for those of us who wish to be good? Texts: David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Foll…
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Evil is bigger than humanity - seeing as how there is a cosmic side to evil, how should we fit that into our theology? Here we take a broader look at the brokenness of creation and the problem this presents for those of us who wish to stand before a just God. Texts: David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary…
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We’ve got a problem that is bigger than evil. We look around and evil exists - but what do we do with God in the face of evil? This episode dives rather deeply into this dilemma that has haunted thinkers for millennia. If there is evil, how can a loving God stand by? If there is evil, how can a powerful God be loving? Texts: David P. Gushee & Glenn…
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In the West, we have long been taught that truth is found in objective, universal data points, independent formulas and equations. Christian theological views of truth challenge that assumption, with storytelling serving as the bedrock of what we can and should know. Texts: David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Cont…
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Pilot: Welcome to the Community of Like Minded Deviants
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Welcome to the Like Minded Deviants (LMD) Podcast! In this episode, Jon-Michael, Lindy, and JSF talk through what LMD is, why they are passionate about this project, and what is to come. David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (IS…
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