The Pocket Contemplative

• 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.

Let's be clear: church services work just great for a whole lot of people and a whole lot of Blue Ocean Faith churches. But lots of ex-churchgoers and current churchgoers find themselves triggered by things they used to like. Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer and fellow Blue Ocean leaders Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers are each leading local conversations about messing with what churches look like. What are they learning? 

Mindfulness is being taught in most public schools, in businesses, in seminars--but often not in churches. Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer is joined by fellow Blue Ocean leaders Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers. Ryan, a former evangelical pastor, discovered that regular mindful practices "took his anxiety from a 7 to a 4." Christina has reconnected with Orthodox roots and discovered that her version of mindfulness has opened up her relationships and ability to connect with God in more of her day. 

Kevin Roose writes a new column in the New York Times called The Shift. Focusing on technology, it deploys him to understand people who run alt right sites or to figure out the impact of Russians manipulating Facebook among many other things. Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer and New York Times reporter Peter Eavis (he returns to his beat at the Times next week) talk with Kevin about how pervasively the internet changes everything for us. We close by asking Kevin about his 2009 book The Unlikely Disciple in which he went undercover at Liberty University to better understand these evangelical students.