Irenicast - A Progressive Christian Podcast

This week Mona has a conversation with her friend Stomp NYC cast member Jesse Armerding. Jesse talks about the importance of creativity in his own life and career. The conversation muses about who is "creative," the importance of being in the present moment, our human capacity to wander and wonder, and the idea of art as a search for God.

Interview with Stomp NYC Cast Member Jesse Armerding (00:40)

RELEVANT LINKS

Stomp - Jesse Armerding's Bio, Tour Dates,

Primus (band)

Danny Elfman (composer)

Jeff Buckley - Wiki Page, Jeff Buckley Interview

Kevin Smith - Wiki Page, Kevin Smith on art (video), What Makes You A Filmmaker? (video)

Obama signs new K-12 education law that ends No Child Left Behind (article

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life by Ken Robinson (book)

You Made it Weird #152: Rob Bell (podcast episode, Pete Holmes interviewing Rob Bell)

Episode 26 | The Pete Holmes Experience (podcast episode, Rob Bell interviewing Pete Holmes)

Tom Waits (singer-songwriter, composer, and actor)

Modern Masters: Pablo Picasso (Documentary)

Billy Martin - Wiki Page, Wandering by Billy Martin (book)

Trey Anastasio (Phish guitarist)

THANK YOU

A special thank you to Jesse Armerding for joining us this week!

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The holidays are here and they're bringing cheer! But maybe not for everyone - feelings of loneliness and isolation are sometimes most acute this time of year. So what exactly is loneliness? Are there different kinds of loneliness? Is it avoidable and can we address it? Jeff, Mona & Allen discuss the elements of isolation, open up about their own struggles with feeling alone, and share some helpful ways for making Numero Uno no longer the loneliest number. Then they play an epic first round of "Mind Meld" to foster some intimacy in addition to fun.

Conversation on Loneliness and Isolation (01:20)

Mind Meld Segment (49:04)

RELEVANT LINKS

Spire Wearable for Mind & Body, for iOS - "fitbit for your emotions" (product)

Who are lonely? Loneliness in different age groups (18-81 years old), using two measures of loneliness (research article)God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (book)Minecraft (video game)Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle (book)The Dangers of Loneliness (article)The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (book)

9 Secret Signs of Loneliness (article)

A 6-Item Scale for Overall, Emotional, and Social Loneliness Confirmatory Tests on Survey Data (abstract)

On Feeling Melancholy (youtube video)Mistakes Lonely People Often Make (article)

Check out episode #004, The Nature of Biblical Texts - Wholly Scripture, Batman!, to hear Jeff misunderstand the rules of our game "Missing Link"

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A fourth voice, Katie, joins our conversation on family relationships. Specifically family systems theory and internal family systems theory. Katie, M.Div., M.S.W., has served as the Director of Children and Youth Ministries at Fourth Presbyterian Church in South Boston since 2013. Prior to serving at Fourth, she worked as a community organizer with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organzation (GBIO). Katie received her M.Div. and M.S.W. from Boston University, and was inspired to pursue the dual degrees out of her summers working with Appalachia Service Project, a nonprofit that strives to eradicate substandard housing in Central Appalachia. Katie helps the team discuss family relationships. We close out this weeks episode with a round of Jesus Juke.

Family Relationships Conversation (00:18)

Jesus Juke Segment (42:42)

RELEVANT LINKS

The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family (organization)

• Family Systems Theory
• The 8 Concepts of Family Theory

1. Triangles
2. Differentiation of Self
3. Nuclear Family Emotional System
4. Family Projection Process
5. Multigenerational Transmission Process
6. Emotional Cutoff
7. Sibling Position
8. Societal Emotional Process

Internal Family Systems Outline (from Center for Self Leadership)

Managing Anxiety in the Family - Strategies for Changing our Relationship Dance (from the Fuller Youth Institute)

The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion by Peter L. Berger (book)

David Émile Durkheim (French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher)

The first appearance of our Jesus Juke segment was from Irenicast episode Reconciling Scripture with Science - EVILution - 003

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Thank you Katie for joining our conversation this week and providing your insight and expertise.

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With a show hosted by all youth group kids and two former youth pastors we were bound to have an episode on the joys of adolescence eventually. Understanding teenagers can be a difficult undertaking, especially the further we are removed from our own youth. This week we look at what adolescence is, how it has changed and how we can help be a part of creating a space for the emerging generation to thrive. The episode finishes with a new segment called Top 3. Jeff, Mona and Allen share their top 3 fictional adolescent characters.

Understanding Teenager Conversation (00:26)

Top 3 Fictional Adolescent Characters Segment (52:22)

RELEVANT LINKS

From our Understanding Teenagers Conversation

• Adolescence overview (article)
• The Invention of Adolescence (article)
• The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction (article)
• Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers (book)
• A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence (book)
• Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement (book)
• The Last Christian Generation (book)
• Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you (article)
• We Must Stop Criminalizing Adolescence (article)
• Returning To The Teachings: Exploring The Aboriginal Justice (book)
• Your Brain on Porn: How Internet porn affects the brain (article)
• Vulnerability and the Ritz Cracker People (irenicon blog post)

From our Top 3 Fictional Adolescent Characters Segment

• A Goofy Movie (imdb)
• The Vampire Diaries (imdb)
• The Goldbergs (imdb)
• Deep Impact (imdb)
• Little Giants (imdb)
• Weird Science (imdb)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (imdb)
• Allen's mind melding with Cameron - museum scene (youtube)
• Daria (imdb)
• The Simpsons (imdb)
• The Sandlot (imdb)
• Good Burger (imdb)
• Smallville (imdb)
• A Walk to Remember (imdb)

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In a 24 hour period there were terrorist attacks in Baghdad, Beirut and Paris by suicide bombers and shooters in what are being attributed to the work of ISIS terrorists. The world is reeling. Countries are debating closing their borders to refugees, communities are dealing with the strains of fear, and we are all left with hard questions. What is going on? What are we going to do about it? What do we do when peace eludes us? And in this episode, listeners weigh in with questions of their own.

LISTENER QUESTIONS FROM FACEBOOK

Well, i do have a couple questions in regards to the paris tragedy.

First... would you condone the waterboarding of 5 people if it were to prevent a terrorist attack like Paris?

Second, If someone was caught for a terrorist attack on a scale of this size, does the death penalty get enacted?

Third,,, With the refugees from Syria being a pipeline for terrorists to move into locations, do you stop the syrian refugees from coming in to places, or do you develop another solution. Perhaps set up a temporary refugee camp in an isolated area? Perhaps greenland?

Is it fair to jeopardize our own country by exposing ourselves to a known terrorist threat?

Sorry if these questions seem harsh, but i know that people are going to be responding to these events in a variety of ways.

-Tommy

What do you feel is the best way to discourage the xenophobia that results from terrorist attacks like these?

Also, the go-to response seems to be retaliation. As followers of Christ, do you feel this is an acceptable response?

-Ross

What are the costs of non violent response?

How do we react in ways that both engage the pain and suffering of the victims while acknowledging the imago dei, even in those branded our "enemies?"

-Adam

What are your thoughts on the French cartoonist asking people to stop praying for Paris? In situations like these are some forms of compassion or empathy inferior to others?

-Mia

RELEVANT LINKS

Beirut, Baghdad and Paris: how 24 hours of Isis terror unfolded around the world (article)

How to Break a Terrorist (book)

Bush Directly Authorized Use Of Waterboarding, Still Rejects 'Torture' Classification In New Book (article)

Believe Me, It's Torture (article about voluntary waterboarding of reporter)

Kafka Comes to America (book)

Shunning refugees is no answer to terror (article)

Why Syrian refugee passport found at Paris attack scene must be treated with caution (article)On Paris (Culturemakers article)

Xenophobia – Nothing to Fear but Everyone – 030 (irenicast episode)

Muslims Against Terrorism (website)

Words matter in 'ISIS' war, so use 'Daesh' (article)

Beyond Jihad (excerpt)

Paris: You Don't Want to Read This (Peter Van Buren article)

Why ISIS Attacked Paris (article)

Ethics (Bonhoeffer book)

Paris & Peace (Storied Theology article)

What I Discovered From Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters (article)

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist doesn't want you to pray for Paris (article)

Letter From Birmingham City Jail (excerpts)

Beirut, Baghdad, Paris and selective grief (article)

Dunbar's Number (wikipedia article)

Russell Brand Has The Solution To Terrorism. Everyone Needs To Hear This. (youtube video)

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (book)

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If you or someone you know suspects someone might be a victim of trafficking, contact the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline at 1-888-373-7888

This week's conversation tackles the horrific reality of human trafficking around the world. Jeff, Mona and Allen discuss the realities of forced labor, the underground sex industry, roles that race and patriarchy might play, and offer partial solutions to this global, systemic evil. After such a heavy topic, the co-hosts talk about the ways they care for their own emotional and mental health when confronting the heaviness of the world.

Conversation on Human Trafficking Around the World (00:07)

Segment on Self-Care (46:56)

RELEVANT LINKS

Slavery: Alive and well in the 21st century (article)

Global Sex Trafficking Fact Sheet (Equality Now article)

104 countries do not have a law against forcing children into the sex industry (article)ILO says forced labour generates annual profits of US$ 150 billion (article)Why you should be wary of statistics on 'modern slavery' and 'trafficking' (article)Identifying Trafficking Conditions (article)

The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence (book)Sean 'Diddy' Combs Urges Associated Press to Stop Using Phrase 'Child Prostitute' (article)Super Bowl Is Single Largest Human Trafficking Incident In U.S.: Attorney General (article)

Nepal quake survivors face threat from human traffickers supplying sex trade (article)Pygmalion Effect (wikipedia article)Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: Public Defenders (youtube video)Race and Human Trafficking in the U.S.: Unclear but Undeniable (article)16 Years Since Decriminalizing Prostitution, Here's What's Happening in Sweden (article)

Criminal Justice and Restoration – Why the Lock Up Should Be on Lockdown – 017 (irenicast episode)Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted (article)7 Ways to Practice Consent Outside of the Bedroom (article)"ROOT: Now u understand why I homeschool. My kids are going to eat these kids for breakfast." (facebook status update)Report: Dentist Walter Palmer, Who Killed Cecil the Lion, to Return to His Practice (article)

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Thank you to all of our listeners for helping us reach 10,000 downloads in 8 months!

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Mona sits down with guest Allison Bovell for a discussion on hunger in America. Allison is the Research, Policy and Communications Coordinator for Children's Health Watch. She will help provide needed insight on the issue of hunger in america. Things like government assistance programs, economic factors, health and developmental issues, and of course a theological perspective.

RELEVANT LINKS

1:10 - Household Food Security in the United States in 2014 (study)

1:40 - Food Security, Poverty, and Human Development in the United States

1:53 - Are Food Insecurity's Health Impacts Underestimated in the U.S. Population? Marginal Food Security Also Predicts Adverse Health Outcomes in Young U.S. Children and Mothers

3:04 - Do healthier foods and diet patterns cost more than less healthy options? A systematic review and meta-analysis

4:45 - The Farm Bill: From Charitable Start To Prime Budget Target

7:20 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy

8:10 - The Real Cost of a Healthy Diet: 2011

9:08 - Rep. Jim McGovern on the Food Stamp Challenge

11:19 - Chart Book: SNAP Helps Struggling Families Put Food on the Table

11:32 - The Relationship Between SNAP and Work Among Low-Income Households

12:26 - Food Insecurity and Health across the Lifespan

12:39 - Food Insecurity and the Risks of Depression and Anxiety in Mothers and Behavior Problems in their Preschool-Aged Children and Food Insecurity Works through Depression, Parenting, and Infant Feeding to Influence Overweight and Health in Toddlers

13:06 - SNAP and Public Health: The Role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Improving the Health and Well ‐ Being of Americans

13:41 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Facts About SNAP

14:03 - Policy Basics: Introduction to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

16:58 - Dietary Quality of Americans by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Status: A Systematic Review

18:18 - Access and Access Barriers to Getting Food Stamps: A Review of the Literature

22:08 - The Economic Case for Food Stamps

23:14 - Within Reach: Global Development Goals The 2013 Hunger Report

25:19 - If we want a civilised society, charities can't fill the void left by government

29:54 - Food insufficiency, family income, and health in US preschool and school-aged children and Child Food Insecurity: The Economic Impact on our Nation and Food Insufficiency and American School-Aged Children's Cognitive, Academic, and Psychosocial Development

30:07 - Household Food Insecurity: Associations With At-Risk Infant and Toddler Development

30:30 - Family Food Insufficiency, but Not Low Family Income, Is Positively Associated with Dysthymia and Suicide Symptoms in Adolescents

30:42 - Baby's Brain Begins Now: Conception to Age 3

31:17 - Too Hungry to Learn: Food Insecurity and School Readiness

33:41 - Toxic Stress

35:08 - Cumulative Hardship and Wellness of Low-Income, Young Children: Multisite Surveillance Study

36:17 - Learn More: A Collection of Resources on Two-Generation Approaches

37:24 - Labor Day 2014: Minimum Wage to Rise but Challenges Remain

38:44 - Why are Pediatricians and Child Health Researchers Talking about Tax Policy?

39:31 - When 2 + 2 = 5: How co-enrollment in public assistance programs leads to stable housing for America's young children

40:37 - The Economics of Food Insecurity in the United States

41:06 - SNAP/Food Stamp Participation Data

46:20 - How Poverty Taxes the Brain

49:40 - The Hunger Vital Sign

49:57 - Promoting Food Security for All Children

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In one of our more surprisingly combative Irenicast episodes, Jeff, Mona and Allen discuss various things related to Halloween and the supernatural. Everything from their favorite Halloween memories, scary encounters, angels, demons, fear and of course some history and theology. This witch's brew of topics concludes with a new segment: Pursuit of the Trivial.

Halloween and the Supernatural Conversation (00:23)

Pursuit of the Trivial Segment (53:03)

RELEVANT LINKS

From our Conversation on Halloween and the Supernatural

• Halloween: An Epic Christian Holiday (irenicon article)
• All Saints' Day (wikipedia)
• Soul Cakes: Hallowed Offerings for Hungry Ghosts (article)
• Rebuilding Catholic Culture: All Hallows' Eve and the Doughnut (article)
• Samhain (wikipedia)
• Kirk Cameron: Halloween masks mocking Obama celebrate Jesus defeating Satan (article)
• SOUNDS FROM HELL : Siberia Sound Recording 1989 Drilling to Hell HIGHEST QUALITY - HD (youtube video)
• Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (2 Volume Set) (book)
• Of Miracles, David Hume (wikipedia)
• 2007 Pew Research survey: two-thirds of Americans (68%) completely or mostly agree that angels and demons are active in the world (article)
• Do Humans Have Souls ? – I Challenge You To A Dualism! – 007 (irenicast episode)
• Christopher B. Hays: 'Some People Call Me the Space Cowboy, Some Call Me the Gangster of Love': Interstellar's New, Ancient Theology of Salvation (article)
• The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium, Walter Wink (book)
• Me, my brain and hypochondria: is fear of illness a problem or a curious blessing? (article)
• My Life With Night Terrors, Demons, And "Alice In Wonderland Syndrome" (irenicon article)
• What is a Psychopath? - inability to feel fear linked to psychopathy (article)

From our Pursuit of the Trivial Segment

• The Story of the Sandwich (article)
• Notes - Arrested Development Wiki "and that's why you always leave a note" (article)
• Office of the First Lady (article)

THANK YOU

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Also a thank you to @liztai for her tweet to the podcast that said, "Enjoying your podcast, @irenicast. Always amazing to find someone who puts my thoughts into words."

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Is humanity good or bad? What is total depravity and original sin and are they helpful for the life of faith? Emilie, an Irenicast listener, touches off a conversation between Jeff, Mona & Allen over these questions and more when she wonders if "being told every Sunday morning for decades on end that you are dirty, sinful, wicked, and completely worthless" makes theological sense. And in honor of Back to the Future Day's impending arrival, your hosts offer a few 30-year predictions of their own.

Are People Good or Bad Conversation (00:10)

Future Predictions Segment (48:44)

RELEVANT LINKS

total depravity (wikipedia)

original sin (wikipedia)

The Confessions, Augustine (book)

Martin Luther's Commentary on Romans (book)

Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion (book)

semipelagianism (wikipedia)

prevenient grace (wikipedia)

The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended, Jonathan Edwards (online book)

protestant work ethic (wikipedia)

Pygmalion effect (wikipedia)

Francis Chan interviewed by Mark Driscoll and Joshua Harris - The Gospel Coalition (video)

A Theology for the Social Gospel, Walter Rauschenbusch (free ebook)

Theology for the Community of God, Stanley Grenz (book)

Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism, Tracey E. Hucks (book)

Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian (book)

Marty McFly Returns? (Back to the future hoax)

Back To The Future In ACTUAL 2015 (youtube video)

The Lexus Hoverboard: It's here (youtube video)

BELIEF - Tony Hawk prank (youtube video)

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Does life exist on other planets? If we discover an alien civilization, does that mean God won't love us or hang out anymore? Is Allen's alien superpower the lamest thing ever or the greatest? Our co-hosts answer these questions and more in this week's episode on God and aliens.

Conversation on Faith and Aliens (00:25) Alien Superpower Segment (47:46)

NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars (article) Ancient Cosmology (image) Lion King Astronomy Clip (youtube video)

How many stars can you see on a clear, moonless night? (article)

The Milky Way's 100 Billion Planets (NASA article)

Exoplanet History - From Intuition to Discovery (article)

How Many Galaxies Are there? (article)

The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2) (youtube video)

Kardashev Scale (wikipedia article)

The Deep Future: Crash Course Big History #10 (youtube video about potential human colonization of the galaxy)

A New Physics Theory of Life (article on "life arises when you shine light at matter for long enough")

Life Might Spread Across Universe Like an 'Epidemic' in New Math Theory ("panspermia article)

C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy (book series)

What C.S. Lewis thought about space exploration and aliens (article)

Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet (book)

Creationist Ken Ham Says Aliens Will Go To Hell So Let's Stop Looking For Them (article)

Pope Francis says he would baptise aliens: 'Who are we to close doors?' (article)

Poisonwood Bible (book)

Water On Mars! (Political cartoon of Nestle drilling for water)

Process Theology (wikipedia article)

Open Theism (wikipedia article)

Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil (article)

The War on Science (youtube video - "the bank bailout cost more than NASA's entire 50 year running budget")

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (book)

The Martian (book)

How a book about fish nearly sank Isaac Newton's Principia (article)

Tardigrades (wikipedia article)

And God Blessed The World With The Babel Incident (article - an irenicon)

Why Christians should get on board with space exploration (article)

Health Benefits Of Bananas And Their Peels: 10 Unusual Ways To Use The Entire Fruit (article)

Doctor Who (TV show)

Firefly (TV Show)

The James Bond gadget that turns you into a FISH: Mask lets you breathe underwater without oxygen tanks (article)

Use Your imagination - Hook (youtube video)

For this episode (032): "The History of Fishes" was published in the 17th century (1686), Allen misspoke -- apologies.

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