Rounding out the crew from the Whiskey Bench podcast, Kat Dwyer joins Ravel to discuss her spiritual journey from being raised Catholic in church and private schools, moving from that context to the very Protestant Calvary Chapel, and now how she is thinking about her relationship to her faith and the church.

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Mentioned in the episode:

• Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

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Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

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Another guest host from the IN2 podcast, Kevin comes on to talk about separating the "spiritual" from the "religious". We dig into the ubiquity of spiritual experience available to us from sports, concerts, and communities and how it's problematic for the church to claim a monopoly on spiritual experience. At the very least, churches should be honest about the manipulation used on Sunday mornings and stop attributing it to movements of spirit, because there is good to be done and for people and we ought to be honest about how we share it.

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Mentioned in the episode: 

• The Variety of Religious Experience by William James
• Kevin's intro video for camp

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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

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Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

Ravel is a proud founding member of the Highline Media Network, bringing the art of podcasting back to normal people in normal places.

STARTER PACK: Press F To Doubt

Continuing our guest host series, Tracie Falconburg joins us to talk about being in relationship with those embarking on a deconstruction journey. Tracie shares the story of when her marriage felt threatened by evolving beliefs in her husband and how they overcame doubt in their relationship by choosing to grow together no matter what. We discuss the fear and risk involved in love and some thoughts how we can hold space for those in the middle of faith crisis or remodeling beliefs. (We highly recommend making sure you've listened to our previous episode featuring Tracie's husband, Marv, to get the full picture of their story!)

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Mentioned in the episode: 

• 2 Corinthians 6:14 - Unequally yoked
• Ephesians 2:8-9 - Saved by grace not by works
• Luke 15:11-32 - Prodigal Son
• Love Wins by Rob Bell

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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

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Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

Ravel is a proud founding member of the Highline Media Network, bringing the art of podcasting back to normal people in normal places.

STARTER PACK: The Apologists Can't Hurt You Here

"Pops" comes from the IN2 Podcast ready to talk about all things science. We dig into the philosophy of faith and science, listening to God's creation as a mode of learning truth, the evolution of our species, the new meaning for the "Fall" in the Garden of Eden, the inspiration of inerrant Scripture, and much more!

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Mentioned in the episode: 

• Non-overlapping magisteria Wiki
• A New Look at an Old Earth by Don Stoner
• The Language of God by Francis S. Collins
• Matthew 18:12 - Leave the 99
• Thank God for Evolution by Michael Dowd
• Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. Behe
• The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

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Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

Ravel is a proud founding member of the Highline Media Network, bringing the art of podcasting back to normal people in normal places.

Stephen Torna joins Ravel to discuss the parallels between American politics and American Christianity. We attempt to diagnose the aligning of "progressive" or "conservative" Christians with their respective modern political parties and dream about what it would be like for faithful people to break out of that binary. With his own interests in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Torna brings a unique perspective to the table.

Connect with Stephen on Twitter and Instagram!
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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

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Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

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We kick off our guest host series with Katie Falcongrove! She brings a question about our youth group experiences and we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly. We get into the fun games we played (and some gross games!), the way groups were separated by age and gender, the use of metaphors in purity culture, and our complicated feelings about our leaders. We also make an attempt to build our perfect youth group, modeled after the show, Queer Eye!

Connect with Katie on Twitter and Instagram!
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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

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Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

Ravel is a proud founding member of the Highline Media Network, bringing the art of podcasting back to normal people in normal places.

STARTER PACK: Meet Me At The Hot Topic

In today's episode and Emily's final taping before maternity leave, she brings a wide-ranging discussion on capital punishment. We ravel out many thoughts on the nature of justice and the Foucaultian concepts of the monastic cell in our modern culture. We ask questions about whether we are choosing to follow the model of Jesus or the Bible itself when they appear to be at odds regarding capital punishment and the rights to life and death.

Mentioned in the episode: 

• Matthew 5:38-48 - An Eye for Eye
• Romans 13:1-7 - Respecting Authorities
• Executing Grace by Shane Claiborne
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
• The Sword of Damocles
• A Walk Through The Complex blog
• Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides by Sheldon Ekland-Olson
• Philippians 2:5-11 - Equality with God Not Grasped

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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

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Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

Ravel is a proud founding member of the Highline Media Network, bringing the art of podcasting back to normal people in normal places.

Josh is curious to find where culture and religion overlap and intersect. Is at "at large" somewhere or does the venn diagram lie within every individual? We try to define culture as the atmosphere between two or more people and look to identify markers of unhealth that could poison an otherwise healthy culture. And we ask if it's possibly to humbly share that which matters most to you without an air of superiority.

Mentioned in the episode: 

• Seven Mountains of Culture article
• Matthew 18:20 - Wherever Two or Three Are Gathered
• Galatians 3:26-29 - No Jew or Gentile
• Matthew 7:5 - Logs and Specks

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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

Join our community at patreon.com/ravelpod! You can also connect with Ravel on Twitter and Instagram at @ravelpod.

Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

Ravel is a proud founding member of the Highline Media Network, bringing the art of podcasting back to normal people in normal places.

 Stephen attempts to pitch clever names for the phenomenon of theology taking root and bearing fruit. The "head theology to heart theology pipeline; the "orthodoxy to orthopraxy" pipeline; the "apologetics to mysticism" pipeline. We explore the dualism between the head and heart in our culture and discuss what it means to be in a spiritually "dry season".

Mentioned in the episode: 

• Pipeline Tweet
• God of the Possible by Greg Boyd
• Matthew 22:37 / Mark 12:30 - Love the Lord Your God
• Luke 11:37-53 - Woes to Pharisees and Lawyers
• Matthew 5:27-28 - Jesus on Adultery
• Galatians 5:22-23 - Fruits of the Spirit
• Mark 11:12-25 - The Cursed Fig Tree

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• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

Join our community at patreon.com/ravelpod! You can also connect with Ravel on Twitter and Instagram at @ravelpod.

Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

Ravel is a proud founding member of the Highline Media Network, bringing the art of podcasting back to normal people in normal places.

Today we attempt to ravel out the ties among spirituality, mental health, and demonic influence. Where can we draw the line between psychologizing something spiritual and spiritualizing something psychological? What are the markers we can look at for true demonic influence? We then wrap up on discussing healthy self-care and our favorite practices.

Mentioned in the episode: 

• The Happiness Lab: PJ and Alex Love to Gripe

Follow the hosts on Twitter: 

• Josh: @joshlieuallen
• Emily: @RevRettinghouse
• Stephen: @stephenghenning

Join our community at patreon.com/ravelpod! You can also connect with Ravel on Twitter and Instagram at @ravelpod.

Thank you to Louie Zong for use of his song In Full Color, off his album, Here. Find his work on Spotify and Bandcamp!

Ravel is a proud founding member of the Highline Media Network, bringing the art of podcasting back to normal people in normal places.