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 41: The Problem of Evil (Part 1)- Intro & Job
Ep 40: John Mark McMillan - Finding God in the Transcendent & the Immanent
Ep 39: The Sermon on the God of War's Mount
Ep 38: Dr. Jeannine K. Brown- A Better Way to Read the Bible
Ep 36: Paul Vander Klay Returns! Stories from Charismatic culture, Communion, Jordan Peterson
Ep 35- Bruxy Cavey- Questions about Anabaptism
Ep 34- Faith Deconstruction & Why It May Be Scientifically Normal
Ep 33: Live from Ottertail, MN- Art, Work, and the God(s) We Worship
Ep 32: Dr. Jim Stump, VP of BioLogos- Evolutionary Creationism?
Ep 31: Micah Redding- SciFi Theology? Transhumanism & Christianity
Ep 30: July Q&A- Origins of Sin, Predestination & Prayer, Worshipping Mary, & More!
Ep 29: Christ & Culture (Pt. 3)- Battle of The Gods!
Ep 28: Christ & Culture (Pt. 2)- Synthesis, Paradox, or Metamorphosis?
Ep 27: Christ & Culture- From Jesus Freaks to Christian Nazis (Part 1)
Ep 26: The Afterlife- What Does It Really Say in the Bible?
Ep 25: Prophetic Dreams- The Bible, Science, Consciousness
Ep 24: Dr. Glenn Packiam conversation. Seeing the Sacred Everywhere
Ep 23: The Eucharist is Everywhere- Paul's story on The Ferment Podcast
Ep 22: Dr. Clay Routledge conversation- Science Behind Our Meaning Crisis
Ep 21: Dan Kent conversation. Theological Psychology of Pride, Shame, Humility
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