Month: August 2022

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“Do I stay Christian?” That’s the title and focus of Brian McLaren’s most recent book. It provides reasons both to depart and to stay. We’re processing through some of the lingering doubts inspired through Christian history and questions of faith with Brian on this episode of Compass.

Brian 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” – one that is just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He gained a lot of notoriety for writing several well-regarded books, including “A New Kind of Christianity” “A Generous Orthodoxy” and “Everything Must Change”.  His newest books are “Faith After Doubt” (January 2021), and “Do I Stay Christian?” (May 2022).

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Throughout August of 2022, our content focused on being on mission. What does that mean? Well, we have some great posts about how the church moves into the world to meet people… and also how God takes the initiative to speak to us. We’re offering a double dose of articles in this edition, so we’ll hear from our authors more than once. In this edition of the audiomag, we’ll hear:

• “Church is mission: Do you accept?” by Joseph Yoo
• “How ‘Nope’ helps us see the eschatological ending” by Nathan Webb
• “Holy intersection and Haywood Street Congregation” by Ryan Dunn
• “Why tradition actually means something in faith” by Joseph Yoo
• And “Thor and an angry god” by Nathan Webb

 Let’s enter into our August 2022 edition of the Rethink Church audio magazine.

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Damon Garcia, author of “The God Who Riots”, is our fellow sojourner and seeker for this conversation on Compass.

He invites us to think about Jesus’ view of holy action and belief. It’s a bit of a disruption if you grew up with the notion of Jesus being a calm and passive presence seeking to teach people about the afterlife. Instead, Damon comes at us talking about Jesus in the here and now disrupting our acceptance of systems of harm and injustice.

Let’s meet Damon Garcia, he is a public theologian, writer and video essayist–you can find his work on YouTube and in the book “The God Who Riots: Taking back the Radical Jesus.” Damon helps people unsettle and untangle the influence of Christian teachings that have done harm in the past… things like colonialism.

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Rev. Joseph Kim shares insights on our political calling in faith and raising up a prophetic witness for justice.

In America, church and state are meant to be distinct and separate. And yet, we have to admit that church often bleeds over into matters of state and vice versa, despite the intention of separation.

So when a church explicitly says “we’re going to talk about church and state”, it raises some attention–for better and worse. Pastor Joseph Kim and his faith community at Bothell United Methodist Church have been on a bit of a personally meddlesome journey, talking about prophesy and politics and a lived out faith.. and good trouble.

For sermon series and more on Joseph Kim: www.bothellumc.org

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