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Cocktail Theology episodes
- War: What Is It Good For?
Elane and Benton discuss the characteristics of a "just war," pacifism versus passivity, and when it's okay for a Christian to support a war.
Cocktail: The William Henry Harrison
Theme song: "Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)" by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith. Full song available wherever you stream music.
23 min - Reclaiming: "Born Again"Elane and Benton demystify and unweaponize the phrase "born again" as they start a new season of Cocktail Theology.
Cocktail: Gin & Danger (from the Cocktail Theology Cocktail Book)
Theme song: "Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)" by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith. Full song available wherever you stream music.
23 min - Episode 47: An Interview With Michael-Ray Mathews
Michael-Ray Mathews is an ordained American Baptist minister, Host of the Prophetic Resistance podcast, and Deputy Director of Faith in Action, a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities.
Elane and Benton talk with Michael-Ray about racial reconciliation, what we can learn from our ancestors, and addressing issues of social injustice within the church.
Morning Cocktail
Coffee for us. Tea for our guest.
Music Credits
“Sacred” Words & music by Benton Stokes.
Copyright 2019 Songs From the Basement (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
Our theme music: “Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)”. Words & music by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith.
Copyright 2018 Songs From the Basement (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
48 min - Episode 46: On Parenting: Gender, Identity, & Self-Acceptance
Responding to a listener’s request for help raising a gender nonbinary child, Benton and Elane discuss parenting, holy listening, their own journeys, and our need to accept ourselves the way God accepts us.
Recorded in Truckee, California in September 2020.
Cocktail: Wine.
Music Credits
"The Guy I'm Growing Up To Be" Words & music by Benton Stokes. Available on the EP Love Is The Way Back Home--stream it on Apple Music, Spotify, or wherever you listen to music!
Our theme music: “Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)”. Words & music by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith. Available on Grace & Gravity (CD on BentonStokes.com; digitally on Amazon and iTunes)
Copyright 2018 Songs From the Basement (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
33 min - Episode 45: The Trouble With Jesus
In Episode 45, Benton and Elane discuss the challenges around calling Jesus “Lord,” how to reconcile Jesus the man and the Jesus the Christ, and how the glorified, eternal Jesus was able to pick up bread after his resurrection. So many conundrums!
Recorded in Truckee, California in September 2020.
Morning Cocktail
More coffee.
Music Credits
“It Is Well With My Soul” Words & music by Horatio Gates Spafford and Philip Paul Bliss. Public Domain. Performed by Benton Stokes.
“Be Thou My Vision” Words & music by Eleanor Henrietta Hull | Mary Elizabeth Byrne. Public Domain. Performed by Benton Stokes.
Our theme music: “Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)”. Words & music by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith. Available on Grace & Gravity (CD on BentonStokes.com; digitally on Amazon and iTunes)
Copyright 2018 Songs From the Basement (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
39 min - Episode 44: Purity Culture
Benton and Elane talk classic cocktails. And nomenclature. Over Manhattans.
Recorded in Truckee, California in September 2020.
Cocktail
Manhattan
Music Credits
Our theme music: “Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)”. Words & music by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith. Available on Grace & Gravity (CD on BentonStokes.com; digitally on Amazon and iTunes)
Copyright 2018 Songs From the Basement (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
31 min - Episode 43: Loving God and Neighbor In Trump's America
In Episode 43, Elane and Benton talk about the challenges of loving God and loving your neighbor in an America that is antagonistic to people who follow God in the way of Jesus--and no, they aren't talking about evangelicals.
Recorded in Truckee, California in September 2020.
Morning Cocktail
More coffee.
Music Credits
“Now” Words & music by Benton Stokes
Our theme music: “Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)”. Words & music by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith. Available on Grace & Gravity (CD on BentonStokes.com; digitally on Amazon and iTunes)
Copyright 2018 Songs From the Basement (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
41 min - Episode 42: Do Christians Worship God?
Recorded in Truckee, CA as part of The Truckee Sessions, Elane and Benton discuss what worship is and what (and who) Christians worship. Hint: it's not always God.
Music Credits
“Devoted” Words & music by Benton Stokes
Our theme music: “Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)”. Words & music by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith. Available on Grace & Gravity (CD on BentonStokes.com; digitally on Amazon and iTunes)
Copyright 2018 Songs From the Basement (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
32 min - Episode 41: Interview with Judge Tim Fall
Elane and Benton chat with Judge Tim Fall, author of Running For Judge, where he describes the perils of running for reelection in Sacramento, the anxiety he suffered, and the kind of faith that brought him through.
Recorded in the first days of Shelter In Place in the morning, Benton and Elane were drinking coffee. Lots of coffee.
28 min - Episode 40: Who Is Satan?
Elane and Benton discuss personified evil, usually referred to as Satan or the devil. Does Satan exist? Does he have horns and a tail? Is he as powerful as God? So many questions!
Music credits: "The Chains Of Maybe," "People Change," "California" Words & music by Benton Stokes.
Cocktail Theology's theme music is "Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)" Words & music by Benton Stokes & Janine Smith.
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About Cocktail Theology
From the publisher's feed
Life and God from a very broadly Christian perspective, with no filter, over cocktails.
Progressive, Biblically grounded, LGBTQ-affirming, candid discussions about faith, life, politics, roller coasters, sex, and anything else that matters.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Benton Stokes is a songwriter, a recording artist, an author, a worship leader, a podcaster, a collector of comic books, a lover of roller coasters, a dad, a friend, and (with ministry partner Elane O'Rourke) half of School For Seekers.
Benton has a passion for helping post-Evangelicals, particularly queer men, find their way to healthy theology and healing perspectives.
Benton co-hosts (with Elane) Cocktail Theology — a podcast that tackles topics such as defining what an abomination actually is, exploring why Christians and science are at odds all the time, and reclaiming Christian-ese language like "born again." All while sipping tasty libations.
Rev. Dr. Elane O'Rourke is a spiritual director, lifelong teacher, theologian, mom, contemplative, Enneagram 1, and a bunch of the things Benton wrote. She was a philosophy prof for a decade, a pastor for another decade, and the instigator of School For Seekers since 2014.
Elane's first book was A Dallas Willard Dictionary, written to explain the difficult words of Christian philosopher Dallas Willard, which may explain her role in the podcast she co-hosts with Benton, Cocktail Theology.
Elane's deepest desire, and life's work, is for you to believe that you are God's cherished and beloved child, worthy of care and respect.
For more information about Cocktail Theology, or its sponsor, School For Seekers, visit www.schoolforseekers.com