Punk Theology

By Russ Shaw

Religion & Spirituality Spirituality

What's Punk Theology about?

The loud, encouragingly troublesome, rebellious, colorful artistry of what one really, actually believes.
In a world of people addicted to some piece of certainty on "faith-based" reason. Punk Theology exists to explore some hopeful, uncomfortable questions on growth, peace, well-being, recovering what's lost, understanding the shit of "the other", faith, fear and being alive.
An examination of the misfit's awakening spirit. So, how do we refine of what really is meaning, beauty and truth?

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S04 Kicking off! Kids, Mush...

10.23.2020

Punk Theology kicks off season four and in a very punk rock kind of way! We don’t really change much of anything! No new plot twist, no solving the dissonance of season 3's cliffhanger. Everyone's doing that. Instead the four ...

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10.23.2020 S04 Kicking off! Kids, Mushrooms and Emotions Punk Theology kicks off season four and in a very punk rock kind of way! We don’t really change much of anything! No new plot twist, no solving the dissonance of season 3's cliffhanger. Everyone's doing that. Instead the four ...
10.05.2020 S03E30 Safe People As we carry out the business of living many of us carry weight that when we share that weight it feels less burdensome. The weight, pressure and struggle of life can get really heavy if one no I mean no ...
09.14.2020 S03E29 Emotionally Exhausted in Summer 2020 In the summer of 2020. It seems nothing is simple.. Everything takes more energy, relationships feel not as accessible, plans altered or cancelled, trust is questioned and patience are tested...
09.07.2020 S03E28 A Want To Button? The Punks discuss the frustration of not knowing how to get loved ones to want to work on the relationship.
08.19.2020 S03E27 Scary Men The Punks discuss how being male makes their emotions scary to other people. And how can that result in suffocated emotional expression? Punks elaborate... PunkTheology.net PunkTheology.com aP5Yd9WpgBRLBiWrxJu8
08.05.2020 S03E26 What is The Machine? As we journey on this life. As we age as we experience things as we grow and or atrophy. What is the machine? Is it blocking us? Or do we have a relationship that’s dependent on it continuing to turn? ...
07.30.2020 S03E25 How U know U Woke? Steve, Derek and Russ bring you another installment of Woke Academy! How do you know when your woke? How do you know other people aren’t woke? Is it a matter of consciousness vs unconsciousness? Or is it, I know something ...
07.10.2020 S03E24 Vagina Envy 3 dudes, Yeah these 3 men, Steve the Boomer, Derek the millennial and Russ the Gen Xer discuss their envy for vaginas?! Yes? No? Kinda? What does Vagina envy mean and how do we put language to something many men ...
07.08.2020 S03E23 Everyday Modern Mystics interview of Russ Shaw by Rev Wendy Wolf 2 of 2 Everyday Modern Mystics interview of Russ Shaw by past guest Rev. Wendy Wolf. She phones up PT host Russ Shaw on a zoom call for Every Day Modern Mystics Playground, her Facebook group. You can also find some more of ...
07.03.2020 S03E22 Choose You Own Reality We’ve all heard a virtual reality but the question beckons in summer of 2020... How good are we at making up our own realities? How do we know the difference? Do we live in a day and age of choose ...
07.01.2020 CHAZ aka CHOP RIP!? And Every Day Mystic Wendy interviews Russ Shaw S03E21 CHAZ AKA CHOP DONE? And the Modern Mystic interview of Russ Shaw by past guest Rev. Wendy Wolf. She phones up PT host Russ Shaw on a zoom call for Every Day Modern Mystics Playground, her Facebook group. You ...
06.26.2020 S03E20 Married Man Female Friend? Punks discuss the sometimes sticky, tricky eyebrow raising feelings of a married man being friends with a human female adult person. And... CHAZ AND CHOP UPDATE June 2020.
06.19.2020 S03E19 SPORTS 2 Take Me To Church! The critically acclaimed conversation about sports being both meaningless and meaningful not only continues but tends to have a different kind of energy during these times. So Chuck, Derek, Steve and Russ ask how we gonna play/watch Sports post in ...
06.02.2020 S03E18 Injustice and Social Unrest Powerlessness 3 The feeling of powerlessness continues with this episode of powerlessness three. More evidence of uncertain times as injustice leads to social unrest. Derek and I respond to the feelings of powerlessness that can come when authorities, tasked to serve and ...
05.22.2020 S03E17 Survival Panic Too! You, Your living through a global Effin pandemic! Our adrenal glands, hormonal system, cardiovascular system, and brain are constantly in a state of preparedness for survival. Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However what about when a person ...
05.09.2020 S03E16 Survival Panic! Another Punk Theology Zoom Episode! A boomer, millennial and a gen-Xer discuss the art of continuing to live, exist or thrive during Covid-19's take over of spring and possibly summer of 2020.
04.25.2020 S03E15 Spring 2020 TRIGGERED AF Steve, Derek, Russ and Chuck stops by to talk about how us Americans are processing the cognitive dissonance around uncertainty and risk-taking in the age of covid-19. The effects this light apocalypse is having on our anxiety sense of safety ...
04.12.2020 S03E14 Dean G's Story Meth and Resurrection Dean shares escaping the clutches of one of the most stubborn, deadly and inevitably body and soul deteriorating addictions known to man. One of Russell’s oldest friends stops by the Punk Theology Podcast to boldly and courageously share his story ...
04.05.2020 S07E13 Powerless 2 CoedCovid A Global shaking of the Snow Globe! What do you men Toilet Paper doesn't just show up at the store automatically?!?! Punks talk about the consciousness in and of the logistics of how a society functions during the light apocalypse ...
03.23.2020 S03E12 Global and Personal Powerlessness Recorded a few blocks away from the hospital where the first Novel Coronavirus Outbreak was reported in the United States. Steve, Derek and Russ talk about the effects this light apocalypse is having on our anxiety sense of safety and ...
03.05.2020 S03E11 Chuck's in Checks in! Long time favorite PT member from season one and season two checks in. Speak candidly about struggling with dissociative identity disorder, previously called multiple personality disorder. A complex psychological condition that is likely caused by many factors, including severe trauma ...
02.19.2020 S03E10 Dreams of Beauty and Truth This podcast has no description and needs no introduction. FYI The Punk Theology Podcast is a loud, encouragingly troublesome, rebellious, colorful artistry of what one really, actually believes.
02.03.2020 S03E09 Dopamine Fasting Silicon Valley giving birth to a curious moral trend? What is dopamine fasting? And how is it different than religious ideas of sin and repentance? Derek Steve and I talk about the interesting trend of dopamine fasting on Punk Theology
01.24.2020 S03E08 Death Positive 2020 What if in this hopeful new year 2020 we could be more positive about the fact that people die. The western world tends to have a stigma towards death and dying. The facts are that death is as natural as ...
01.07.2020 S03E07 Giving Up Today on the podcast, is there a healthy kind of giving up? Got a New Year’s resolution? That word tends to trigger me because it’s from the realm of law. that word, it’s a legal term and isn’t it interesting ...
12.31.2019 S06E06 The Good News & "The Shack" Author Wm. Paul Young Some Punk Psychology, Philosophy and yes Theology with The Shack author Wm. Paul Young we discuss the complexities of pain, joy, fear, trust and growing faith and/or fear in the uncertain realm of our relationships with everything. Starting to think ...
12.23.2019 S03E05 So This is Christmas Time? So this is Christmas time. Steve touches on emotions surrounding the song so this is Christmas by John Lennon. Christmas episode ends up the stirring questions like... 1. Why does it seem so hard to spend time just for the ...
12.06.2019 S03E04 OK BOOMER Disrespectful? A witty comeback? Malignantly dismissive? Or simply a way to let out some frustration? A millennial, a gen Xer and a Boomer discuss the meme heard round the world OK Boomer!
11.28.2019 S03E03 And Then There were 3 Punks are Back! 3 3 and now 3
09.16.2019 S03E02 JayBakker Our first honored guest of season 3. You may know him from the Sundance television series one Punk under God. He is the author of Son of a Preacher Man: My Search for Grace in the Shadows. Why did he ...
08.22.2019 S03E01 I'm Better and Everything's Worse S03E01 I’m Better And Everything is Worse. Season three Gets off to a bumpy start. John leaves before the topic begins. Remaining punks discuss how getting better doesn’t mean the consequences of life get any better.
06.26.2019 S02E30 Carlton Season 2 Finale Season 2 finale With our very special guest Carlton. A patron show supporter, listener and Lutheran pastor from the Canadian part of the Midwest?! That’s right we even shelved this episode to make it our season finale. A fascinating conversation ...
06.18.2019 S02E29 Radical Compassion A conversation inspired by Amanda Palmer punk front woman for The Dresden dolls a Brechtian punk cabaret from Boston Ma. Amanda inspires a conversation about Sex, Me Too, Abortion, Miscarriage - 2 PT punks review a night in Vancouver British ...
06.14.2019 S02E28 Good Grief 2 Chuck's Story Another episode rebelling against the popular ‘always keep it positive’ cultural faults narrative. One that suggests we can ignore the suffering of life, sufferings like the loss of a loved one. What does it look like it actually grieve the ...
05.25.2019 Derek’s Sister Kristin Discusses Miracles with Punks! S02E28 We talk about miracles with our honored guest Kristin! She is a Listener to the podcast, a therapist and also Derek’s sister! The Question?!?! What are we really saying when we say "I need a miracle"? Are big miracles ...
05.01.2019 S02E27 Divorce, Jesus And Gay Sex Addressing the lack of critical thinking in evangelical circles when it comes "Being a city on the hill" to marginalized people. Would Jesus have more of a "woe to you" attitude when it comes to the actions of actually loving, ...
04.23.2019 S02E26 HOPE HOPE Dictionary.com 1, the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best. 2. a particular instance of this feeling: the hope of winning. 3. to look forward to with desire and ...
03.26.2019 S02E25 Future Tripping Out of all the things we are wanting for, nice house, fulfilling job, money, spouse, kids? What if underlying all of that is the ability to be present? Is it Punk to today to even talk about the desire to ...
03.19.2019 S02E24 Empthy For The Grind Are we trying to escape from the work a day life? Is the solution to feeling STUCK some outside force that will rescue us from our work a day life? Is it true that we need some kind of purpose ...
03.12.2019 S02E23 A Curse Called Fame Has there been a cultural tide change with societies relationship with fame? Is it because over the last few years icons have rapidly fallen to scandals that they may have kept hidden a decade ago? Is that due to changes ...
02.28.2019 S02E22 Familiarity Breeds... Is it contempt? Or could it be (with a little emotional trigger discipline) curiosity instead of contempt? And does social media advocacy really work? I mean for normal people not celebrities and not the news media. Does anyone really give ...
02.09.2019 S02E21 Healthy Anarchy Can we agree that dismantling groupthink could be considered healthy anarchy? Russ works to get the other punks to understand why groupthink is a good topic and how letting everyone have a voice is really actually is healthy anarchy.
01.31.2019 3 Punks do Psychedelic Shrooms as 3 Observe Three punks go on a voyage. Three punks trip sit, why?! Three punks got curious about the healing effects of psychedelic mushrooms.
01.22.2019 S02E19 Rage Against the Inferiority! Do people places and situations make Individuals feel inferior? Does inferiority start with value statements about ourselves or judgments towards others around us? What does it mean to push back against, no to RAGE against the feeling of inferiority living ...
12.27.2018 S02E018 The Punk Philosophy of Self Parenting Punks are on holiday this week. So it’s up to us machines to intro the show. The Christmas holiday has had the guys Reminiscing, ruminating and talking about... The punk philosophy of self parenting. You’re listening to Punk Theology, closing ...
12.21.2018 S02E17 Handeling Ones Sh#t We covered the importance of dealing with Ones sh#t. But what about handling Ones sh#t? Doing day-to-day life. Getting up in the morning, working a job, having relationships, paying bills. Dealing with Ones sh#t usually happens when life becomes unmanageable, ...
12.03.2018 S02E16 Attachments The questions we ask today; How good is self-help if we keep giving up when the emotional attachment malware has us thort our own plans from the inside out? And how fearful are aware of actually knowing our emotional attachments ...
11.11.2018 S02E15 Good News Does how one defines good news insure a certain level of happiness in life? When do safe places and safe spaces get invaded? Do we grow up and start questioning if good news is really good news? Are there areas ...
10.25.2018 S02E14 Monster Child What scares our inner kids? Ghosts, vampires and zombies? What a great metaphor for how people and families can be haunted with relational issues and unfinished business. Blurs the lines between the supernatural and our fearful childhood selves.
10.19.2018 S02E13 Good Grief S02E13 Good Grief At Punk Theology we aren’t big on saying things like "there's a right way to do this and the right way to do that" Having said that the question arises... Is there a way to grieve that ...

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Punk Theology episodes:

S04 Kicking off! Kids, Mushrooms and Emotions

S03E30 Safe People

S03E29 Emotionally Exhausted in Summer 2020

S03E28 A Want To Button?

S03E27 Scary Men

S03E26 What is The Machine?

S03E25 How U know U Woke?

S03E24 Vagina Envy

S03E23 Everyday Modern Mystics interview of Russ Shaw by Rev Wendy Wolf 2 of 2

S03E22 Choose You Own Reality

CHAZ aka CHOP RIP!? And Every Day Mystic Wendy interviews Russ Shaw

S03E20 Married Man Female Friend?

S03E19 SPORTS 2 Take Me To Church!

S03E18 Injustice and Social Unrest Powerlessness 3

S03E17 Survival Panic Too!

S03E16 Survival Panic!

S03E15 Spring 2020 TRIGGERED AF

S03E14 Dean G's Story Meth and Resurrection

S07E13 Powerless 2 CoedCovid

S03E12 Global and Personal Powerlessness

S03E11 Chuck's in Checks in!

S03E10 Dreams of Beauty and Truth

S03E09 Dopamine Fasting

S03E08 Death Positive 2020

S03E07 Giving Up

S06E06 The Good News & "The Shack" Author Wm. Paul Young

S03E05 So This is Christmas Time?

S03E04 OK BOOMER

S03E03 And Then There were 3

S03E02 JayBakker

S03E01 I'm Better and Everything's Worse

S02E30 Carlton Season 2 Finale

S02E29 Radical Compassion

S02E28 Good Grief 2 Chuck's Story

Derek’s Sister Kristin Discusses Miracles with Punks!

S02E27 Divorce, Jesus And Gay Sex

S02E26 HOPE

S02E25 Future Tripping

S02E24 Empthy For The Grind

S02E23 A Curse Called Fame

S02E22 Familiarity Breeds...

S02E21 Healthy Anarchy

3 Punks do Psychedelic Shrooms as 3 Observe

S02E19 Rage Against the Inferiority!

S02E018 The Punk Philosophy of Self Parenting

S02E17 Handeling Ones Sh#t

S02E16 Attachments

S02E15 Good News

S02E14 Monster Child

S02E13 Good Grief

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