What is "Near"?

It is Near

it is Near explores the immediate future -- the next two or three decades from now to 2050.
Is it bad? Way worse than even pessimists think,
Is it good? Way better than any of us can imagine.
I'm hoping you will join me to look with curiosity and without fear at all of the happenings that are right around the corner. My goal is not to preach, or change you. We are exploring the human condition without trying to influence what comes next. We need to turn down the volume on judging and blaming others, and turn up the intensity of our efforts to understand.
Regardless of your background or beliefs, you will be challenged and at times irritated when you hear things you don't believe. This will be good, because the truth is wider and deeper than all of us are able to wrap our heads around.

It is Near focuses on the alarming and the hopeful; the frightful and the forgotten; the blinding glare of giant problems, and the dark secrets that lurk even more menacingly in the shadows of global trends. "Amazing Grace" may have taught our hearts to fear, but for most Christians and non-Christians alike, divine grace as commonly conceptualized does not those fears relieve. It is Near will be informative, accessible, comforting, and challenging to every thinking person. It will call Christians to account and provide a breath of fresh air for secularists who, for once, would like to hear a conciliatory and intellectually honest message from a thoughtful Christian voice. Owen Kindig of Sitka, Alaska is your host, and is responsible for the content.
"Even the bad news is good news."

Chapters

1. opening - intro - Exploring the next 20 years... (00:00:00)

2. You are curious... respect for all sides (00:01:57)

3. Contrasts, contradictions, paradoxes are part of truth. (00:05:08)

4. "It is Near." What is near? First, a detour to Sodom and Gomorrah... (00:08:21)

5. A problem: Christian apologists are ignoring the grace of God toward Sodom promised in the Bible. Matthew 11 and 12, and Ezekiel 16 (00:26:52)

6. Everyone is going to be restored to life -- even Sodom. A kingdom that includes everyone? (00:49:46)

7. The thing that "is near"... "The fig tree"; "summer"; "new heavens and new earth"; "the reconcilation of all"; "times of trouble" ... (00:53:30)

8. How we can learn from each other in this podcast... to find "the horizon of truth". (00:55:31)

9. Have you noticed that people can now imagine what it would be like to live forever? (00:56:48)

10. Imagining a world at peace. (01:05:43)

11. Amazing grace. (01:14:13)