Deep Talks: Exploring Theology and Meaning Making
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
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Would a corporate ethics or emotional intelligence employee training course from a healthy American company work aboard a Klingon "Bird of Prey" ship in Star Trek? Probably not. (Don't worry, you don't have to be a Trekkie to understand the thought experiment in today's video!)
That's because, whether we are aware of it or not, there is an assumed narrative structure in our culture that informs our ethical norms. But we bump up against a real problem in postmodernism with the claim that any transcultural, overarching guiding story is an attempt to colonize other cultures and that ethics can only be relativistic cultural guidelines . If this is true, would we every be able to say that particular ethical norms in the fictional Klingon or the ancient Spartan culture are wrong?
In my last conversation with John Vervaeke and Paul VanderKlay, John brought up a sincere concern about Christianity as a force of cultural assimilation. To use Star Trek lingo, does Christianity function like the Borg? Or do we need to distinguish between Christendom and The Way of Jesus? #culturaltheology #theologyofculture #startrek #scienceandfaith
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Ep 100: Invisible Stories Manifest in Visible Institutions (Behind the Image Leadership Podcast interview)
Ep 99: Paul Vander Klay - Did Blockbuster Video Kill Church?
Ep 98: Gods, Wizards, Witches, & the End of Secularity - HERE COMES THE NEW GODS (Part 2)
Ep 97: Fr. Kenneth Tanner- Discovering a Better Christian Story
Ep 96: Gods, Wizards, Witches, & the End of Secularity (part 1)
Ep 95: Ted Kim, John Mark McMillan, & Andy Squyres- RE-ENCHANTMENT
Ep 94: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Part 3/Conclusion)
Ep 93: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World- For the Bible Tells Me So (Part 2)
Ep 92: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Part 1)
Ep 91: Jon Guerra- When Beauty Disarms Our Cynicism
Ep 90: Dan Kent & Paul debate Open Theism, Satan & Spiritual Warfare, & The Problem of Evil
Ep 89- Dr. John Walton- Answers in Genesis? Creation, Evolution, & The Lost Biblical World
Ep 88: The Problem of Evil Finale- The Most Beautiful of All Possible Songs
Ep 87: The Problem of Evil (Part 17)- In Conclusion | The Bible, Right-Ordered, Non-Ordered, & Dis-Ordered Suffering
Ep 86: Ted Kim- Finding the True Story in a Post-Secular, Cross-Cultural World
Ep 85: American Civil Religion- How Did We Get Here? w/ Adam Russell & The Ferment Podcast
Ep 84: The Problem of Evil- Greg Boyd & Thomas Jay Oord Conversation. Open Theism Vs. Essential Kenosis/God Can't
Ep 83: John Vervaeke - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Ep 82: The Problem of Evil (Part 16)- Open Theism
Ep 81: The Problem of Evil (Part 15)- Process Theism | Creative Solution or A New Gnosticism?
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