In this episode, I talk with Barry Taylor. Barry is a theologian-philosopher, musician, artist, academic and writer who has spent more than thirty years challenging traditional notions of religion and church and creating alternative communities built on the idea that life is uncertain, the future is unwritten and that none of us has the answer.

Barry's work collapses the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, blurs the lines between theism and atheism and raises new questions about life, death and everything in between.

Barry also writes books, makes music with his friends, produces daily art works and spends a lot of time in coffee shops reading. Born in the U.K. he recently returned to London after living in Los Angeles for many years.

This is a conversation about his latest book “Sex, God, and Rock N’ Roll: Catastrophies, Epiphanies, and Sacred Anarchies.” The book is a theological memoir about life. It is organized around Freud’s four palliatives; art, sexual love, intoxicants and religion, from his book Civilization and its Discontents, as a way of dividing up the essays- these sections focus on the biological, aesthetic, experiential and spiritual aspects of life. Barry has lived an interesting life, from a sound technician for AC/DC to a professor at a marketing school and beyond. Barry and I are both bricoleurs, piecing together a philosophical life out of a multitude of sources.

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https://www.amazon.com/Sex-God-Rock-Roll-Catastrophes/dp/1506409067