RePlacing Church: Local Spirituality, Innovative Community & Social Change with Ben Katt

Ian Cron is a popular speaker, Enneagram teacher, psychotherapist, and Episcopal priest. He is co-author with Susan Stabile of The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery and the author of Chasing Francis and the spiritual memoir, Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me. Together with Susan Stabile he also hosts The Road Back to You Podcast, a podcast that looks at life through the lens of the Enneagram. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, Ian joins me to discuss:

A brief introduction to the Enneagram

Why growing in self-knowledge is a core part of the Christian journey

How we can use the Enneagram to understand particular places and cultures

What the 10th type would be if the Enneagram were actually the Decagram

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Production Assistance by Nate Tubbs.

Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers is the author of the forthcoming book, Sex, God & the Conservative Church – Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy. She promotes a “sex-positive Gospel” in her work as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy and Director of Medical Family Therapy at Seattle Pacific University, and blogger and speaker. She is the founder of the Thank God For Sex Project, an online community for people who have experienced religious sexual shame, and the Northwest Institute on Intimacy, which trains psychotherapists in sex and spiritual intimacy therapy. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, she joins me to discuss:

A brief history of sex in the church

Her four-part model of helping people heal from religious sexual shame

How to talk to your kids about sex -the power of telling others the story of your sexuality

How to reclaim your body from damaging cultural and ecclesial narratives

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Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" and "You Won't Walk Alone" by Mercir. "Closed" by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission.

Production Assistance by Nate Tubbs.

Christine Sine a contemplative activist, passionate organic gardener, and author who is committed to helping others integrate spiritual practices with everyday life. She is the founder and contributor to Godspace, an online community focused on spirituality, sustainability, hospitality, and community. She cofounded Mustard Seed Associates with her husband, Tom, where she served as Executive Director until recently. A former physician, she previously practiced medicine in Australia, New Zealand, and around the world as the medical director of Mercy Ships. In addition to her Godspace contributions, she has authored numerous books, including Return to Our Senses: Reimagining How We Pray and To Garden With God. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, she joins me to discuss:

The power of contemplative spirituality

Why we should value creative practices - making, writing, gardening, etc - and how they can help you connect with God

How to understand the difference between restorative practices and transformative practices and how to incorporate both into your lifestyle

How we can be unique and diverse yet fit together in community in the body of Christ

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Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" and "You Won't Walk Alone" by Mercir. "Closed" by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission.

Production Assistance by Nate Tubbs.

Mark Charles is the son of a Navajo man and a woman of Dutch heritage. He is a speaker and writer focused on forging a path of healing and conciliation in the United States by fostering a deeper understanding of American history regarding race, culture, and faith. Currently, much of his emphasis is on the Doctrine of Discovery and how it has shaped the foundations of our nation. He is currently writing a book about the Doctrine of Discovery with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah. After living on the Navajo reservation with his wife and three children for over a decade, Mark and his family moved to Washington, D.C. where he serves as the correspondent for Native News Online. He continues to write at http://wirelesshogan.blogspot.com. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, part one of a two part conversation, he joins me to discuss:

What the Doctrine of Discovery is and how it has shaped the foundations of the United States

How the church’s complicity with the empire led to the Doctrine of Discovery

What white trauma is and how it manifests itself

Why white america can’t fix racism

Why Racial “Conciliation” is a more appropriate term than Racial Reconciliation

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Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" and "You Won't Walk Alone" by Mercir. "Closed" by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission.

Production Assistance by Nate Tubbs.

Mark Charles is the son of a Navajo man and a woman of Dutch heritage. He is a speaker and writer focused on forging a path of healing and conciliation in the United States by fostering a deeper understanding of American history regarding race, culture, and faith. Currently, much of his emphasis is on the Doctrine of Discovery and how it has shaped the foundations of our nation. He is currently writing a book about the Doctrine of Discovery with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah. After living on the Navajo reservation with his wife and three children for over a decade, Mark and his family moved to Washington, D.C. where he serves as the correspondent for Native News Online. He continues to write at http://wirelesshogan.blogspot.com. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, part one of a two part conversation, he joins me to discuss:

How boarding schools were used to assimilate Native Americans into Western European American culture.

Why contextualizing the gospel in native communities is challenging

How different cultural perceptions of time play themselves out in church and culture

An eye opening, but common story that captures the failure of the western european church to promote gospel contextualization

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Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" and "You Won't Walk Alone" by Mercir. "Closed" by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission.

Production Assistance by Nate Tubbs.

Dr. Ron Ruthruff is the author of The Least of These: Lessons Learned from Kids on the Street and Closer to the Edge: Walking with Jesus for the World's Sake. He is the Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. Ron has spent thirty years serving unhoused, street involved youth and their families, and has cultivated community for over twenty-five years in Seattle's Rainier Valley with his wife Linda. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, he joins me to discuss:

Having the courage to step 'towards the edge' and into the unique faith journey God has for you

How to listen to, understand and value people with different experiences to your own

Admitting our shortcomings and taking a posture of humility and mutuality

Why we must locate our faith in the context of our neighborhood

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

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Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" and "You Won't Walk Alone" by Mercir. "Closed" by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission.

Production Assistance by Nate Tubbs.

Casper Ter Kuile is co-author (along with Angie Thurston) of the How We Gather report and its sequel, Something More, which map a landscape of life-giving organizations that are emerging even as religious affiliation declines, such as Crossfit and The Dinner Party.

Casper is training to be a minister for non-religious people to build a world of joyful belonging. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity and Kennedy Schools, the co-host of the hugely popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, named of one of iTunes best podcasts in 2016, and a fellow and contributor with Krista Tippet's On Being.

In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, he joins me to discuss:

How the religiously unaffiliated are finding and forming spiritual community

What new expressions of spiritual community are emerging

How accountability is making a comeback

Why covenants are important in community and how to craft them

How to engage Harry Potter like a sacred text and why that's connecting with so many people.

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

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Killian Noe is the Founding Director of Recovery Cafe in Seattle, WA, a refuge of healing and transformation for women and men who have been traumatized by homelessness, addiction and other mental health challenges. Prior to moving to Seattle in 1999 and starting Recovery Cafe in 2003, Killian lived in Washington, D.C. where she was a part of Church of the Saviour and was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Samaritan Inns, a non-profit providing housing and recovery services. She currently serves as a Pastoral Counselor at Recovery Cafe and also helps groups beyond Seattle start Recovery Cafes in their communities, which you can learn more about here. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, she joins me to discuss:

 

The work of Recovery Cafe

Why they call people at Recovery Cafe “Members” and not “Clients”

The power of Recovery circles

How to start a Recovery Cafe in your community

The one thing she would replace in the church

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

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Dr. Robin DiAngelo is the author of What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy, and co-author with Ozlem Sensoy of Is Everyone Really Equal? An introduction to key concepts in social justice education. She is a former Associate Professor of Education, a Lecturer at the University of Washington, and the Director of Equity at Sound Generations in Seattle. She has been a consultant and trainer on issue of social and racial justice for over 20 years. She is a leading national voice on White Fragility and White racial identity, and her work has been featured in Salon, NPR, Slate, Alternet, and the Seattle Times. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, she joins me to discuss:

What is White Fragility?

On growing up white and poor

Racism as an adaptive system

Racism as a social construct

Why she takes issue with the question, “What can white people do?”

On the importance of facing your own racism rather than being primarily worried about changing others

Why the church as a hard time acknowledging white privilege and racism

The problem of the white savior

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

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In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, I talk about the relationship between the church and politics, God's political platform as expressed in Psalm 146 and Jesus, and 3 post-election practices for the local church.

*Originally posted at theV3movement.org

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Episode Song Credits: "Since the End" and "You Won’t Walk Alone" by Mercir. “Plumes,” “Post,” “Alphanumeric,” and “Closed” by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission.