What does it look like to define faith and purpose not through being right about anything or knowing stuff, but through being connected to ourselves, others, God and the world? Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer explore the implications of living this way.

Mentioned in Today's Podcast:

Books

• Let Your Life Speak - Parker J. Palmer : https://amzn.to/2yuEOwq

Websites

• Blue Ocean Faith Perspectives

What I'm Into

• Tour De France

Other Episodes Mentioned

• Episode 102 - On Men's Spiritual and Emotional Development

Blue Ocean Faith is known for many things. But its take on M. Scott Peck's theory of spiritual and emotional development is right up there. Is it helpful to think about spiritual/emotional growth through the lens of stages? Is it--as is sometimes charged--elitist? Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers have a lively discussion about how this continues to have leverage in their lives and those of their friends.

If you would like to continue the conversation about the stages theory, email [email protected] and we will follow up with an online format to continue chatting.

Metioned in Today's Episode:

Books

• Faith Shift - Kathy Escober : https://amzn.to/2t944m1

Websites

• Pete Enns: https://peteenns.com/

Podcasts

• Kate Spade on How I Built This with Guy Raz 

Videos

• Dave Schmelzer - M Scott Peck's Stage Theory : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHyqDGAiEpA

What I'm Into

• Breathe 4 Change Yoga: https://www.breatheforchange.com

Previous Episodes Mentioned:

• Episode 103 - WM. Paul Young on The Shack, God and a New Reformation

In this revisiting of a favorite episode from 2016, Angie Thurston--a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and the Director of Formation at On Being Impact Lab--co-wrote 2 groundbreaking studies of how millennials are gathering together to find purpose and meaning and what that looks like in spiritual settings. She fills Dave Schmelzer, Val Snekvik, and Tom Wassink in on what the spiritual landscape looks like today.

Mentioned in Today's Episode:

Websites:

• How We Gather - https://www.howwegather.org/

What I'm Into:

• The Hero's Journey -  Joseph Campbell :https://amzn.to/2HGNpvl

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown :  https://amzn.to/2L39vKV

Other Episodes Mentioned

• Episode 100: Why Do Christians So Love Personality Profiles?

Podcast

• Seeing White Podcast

Links

• Bounded/Centered Set Photo Explanation

What I'm Into:

• Madison Farmers Market

Wm. Paul Young went from working three jobs to doing press conferences in Croatia and South Korea--and throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world. Suddenly he heard many different stories and perspectives about profound worldwide shifts in how people view God and meaning. Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers have a lively conversation about these big ideas.

Mentioned in today's episode:

Books:

• Lies We Believe About God - WM. Paul Young

Artist:

• M.C. Escher

What I'm Into:

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness

Dan Littauer, who used to work with Blue Ocean Faith, now leads groups focusing on men's spiritual development in several places, from M.I.T. to prisons. How is the path to spiritual and emotional growth the same and different for men and women? Drawing from the wisdom of people like Father Richard Rohr and Carl Jung and many thoughtful teachers, Dan talks about this work with Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers.

Mentioned in today's podcast:

• The Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller

Websites

• The Mankind Project 

   Movies

• "The Work" trailer 

   TV Series 

• Timeless

• The Invitation - www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-invitation-by-oriah-mountain-dreamer

David Brooks begins his New York Times editorial on Anthony Kronman by saying, "Not long ago, an astonishing book landed on my desk." Joshua Rothman begins his New Yorker piece this way: "Anthony Kronman, age seventy-one, may be the world’s most fulfilled man." Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School and a longtime Yale teacher of philosophy and law, has taken what might be the first big intellectual swing in decades at what faith can look like in today's Western world. Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer chats with Professor Kronman about the wonder and fulfillment he finds in what he calls "born-again paganism." 

Mentioned in today's podcast:

Books

• Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan - Anthony T. Kronman

Articles

• "The Beauty of Big Books" - David Brooks; The New York Times, October 4, 2016

• The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective - Richard Rohr & Andreas Ebert

What I'm Into:

• WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

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• Blue Ocean Faith - Dave Schmelzer

Articles

• https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/scientists-established-link-brain-damage-religious-fundamentalism/

• Dave explains the Stage Theory

• The Untethred Soul - Michael A. Singer

How do kids grow up in Christian families and yet find a faith that they own as their own in adulthood? Centered-set thinking has an unexpected answer to that question. Caroline Park--Blue Ocean's leading thinker on kids' spiritual development--joins Blue Ocean Faith leaders Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers to hash this out.