Thinking God Podcast

Thinking God Podcast

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Thinking God Podcast episodes

  • Diana Butler Bass is Awake, Alive and Grounded
    Diana Butler Bass is the author of 9 books, a highly sought-after speaker, and one of Ameria's top scholars on religion and culture.
    She is also articulate and engaging concerning her own spiritual and political journey, and a very good guest. 
    It's worth your time to find out more about her and her books, and the best plact to do that is here:
    http://dianabutlerbass.com
    1 hr 13 min
  • A Wild Goose Chase with Vanna Fox, Who Is No Stranger to the Unexpected Nature of Faith and Reconciliation
    Vanna Fox was on her way to the mission field (as a music missionary, no less!), when her path shifted and landed her for the next 17 years on drive time radio in North Carolina. But when she heard the call of the Wild Goose, she left the airwaves to surf the spirit waves of the nation's largest progressive Christian Festival.
    She likes to laugh, and has a great story.
    Stay tuned to the end of the bumper music on this podcast for a very special Wild Goose message.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Radical, Journalist and Jew Living in Evangelicalworld, Finds God in the Funniest Places, and in a Few Not So Funny
    Mark Pinsky is a newspaperman, author, lecturer and insightful man.
    Did I mention he was a newspaperman? I mean it in the old-school, highest-compliment sense of the word. Pinsky has a drive an desire to find good stories, but to make sure they are written and researched in a manner rare these days, and present them in compelling ways.
    His books include: "The Gosple According to the Simpsons," "A Jew Among the Evangelicals," "The Gosple According to Disney," "Unfinished Business: The True Story of an Appalachian Cold Case Murder," and "Amazing Gifts: Stories of Faith Disability and Inclusion."
    He still writes regularly for a variety of publications and it is worth you time to Google his name and read his work.
    1 hr 20 min
  • Maggie Rowe Recaps How She Learned to Sin Bravely in her new book, but she's still a bit "Flaked" and a victim of "Arrested Development"
    If, as Anne Lamott writes, laughter is the carbonated form of the Holy Spirit, Maggie Rowe is a major distributor of divine carbonation for the third member of the trinity, something for which we can all be grateful.
    (And for the record), though she worried at one point she was getting close, Maggie has never managed to blaspheme her bubbly supplier.
    As writer, comedian, actor and the author of "Sin Bravely: My Great Escape from Evangelical Hell," she brings some serious fun to the Thinking God Podcast.
    You may have seen her in such movies as "Ocean's Thirteen" or "Fun With Dick and Jane," or the monster television series "Arrested Development," a show for which she is also a writer.
    And for 15 years she has been a key part of the Comedy Central show "Sit 'N' Spin."
    Maggie is currently writing for the wonderful series "Flaked," which is available on Netflix. 
    She is also someone who has found a path of recovery from misgued religion to a place of faith and hope, which makes her the perfect guest.
    47 min
  • Maggie Rowe Recaps How She Learned to Sin Bravely in her new book, but she’s still a bit “Flaked” and a victim of “Arrested Development”

    If, as Anne Lamott writes, laughter is the carbonated form of the Holy Spirit, Maggie Rowe is a major distributor of divine carbonation for the third member of the trinity, something for which we can all be grateful.


    (And for the record), though she worried at one point she was getting close, Maggie has never managed to blaspheme her bubbly supplier.


    As writer, comedian, actor and the author of "Sin Bravely: My Great Escape from Evangelical Hell," she brings some serious fun to the Thinking God Podcast.


    You may have seen her in such movies as "Ocean's Thirteen" or "Fun With Dick and Jane," or the monster television series "Arrested Development," a show for which she is also a writer.


    And for 15 years she has been a key part of the Comedy Central show "Sit 'N' Spin."


    Maggie is currently writing for the wonderful series "Flaked," which is available on Netflix. 


    She is also someone who has found a path of recovery from misgued religion to a place of faith and hope, which makes her the perfect guest.


     

    47 min
  • Bill Mallonee, a big talent with a big heart
    Bill Mallonee talks about three decades of singing/sonwriting, the music business, Neil Young's "More Barn" mixing, living in the Rockies and how his faith has influenced his life and work.
    I have known Bill longer than any of my other guest to date, and can say he is one of the most under-appreciated artists of his time, and more talented than he knows.
    And his heart is as big as the New Mexico sky that fills the nights over his house.
    1 hr 10 min
  • Alba Onofrio is on a mission to wipe out shame and fear. She is also engaging and committed to her faith, and I am impressed.
    From her bio on soulforce.org
    Alba Onofrio believes in abundant life and fully-embodied, loving affirmation of the spirit, thus vehemently rejects any notion of the Divine that perpetuates fear, harm, and domination of our peoples. She holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Vanderbilt University focused on race and gender theologies of sex and sexual ethics based in queer desire. As a Southern Appalachian Latina Femme, Alba found cultural and political home in SONG (Southerners On New Ground) while working for queer liberation in the South at the intersection of race, class, culture, gender, and sexuality. Alba has also been passionate about eliminating borders en la lucha for over a decade through learning, writing, being in community, teaching English for nine years, and providing services and immigrant advocacy as the Executive Director of the largest grassroots Latino community center in North Carolina for several years after graduating from Duke University with a degree in Comparative Area Studies: Latin American-North America.  Alba is wholeheartedly dedicated to raising their amazing radical kid and eradicating shame and fear wherever found.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Alan Bean a real friend to those battered by the "justice" system
    Alan Bean is not the astronaut, and it's a good thing because his calling is much higher tha flying in a spaceship. Bean is executive director of Friends for Justice, an organization that "creates a powerful synergy between grassroots organizing, civil rights advocacy, the legal community, the mass media and ultimately the political establishment."
    As minorities and other disadvantaged Americans find it more and more difficult to get a fair shake in the courts, Bean and his group come along side to help. And help they have. Visit their website friendsofjustice.wordpress.com to read stories of their victories and heartbreaks.
    You can also support them financially.
    The bible is on his side.
    "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow." - Isaiah 1:17
    God's on his side as well, so if you haven't thought much about justice lately, this podcast might get the old gears turning.
    1 hr 29 min
  • Alan Bean a real friend to those battered by the “justice” system

    Alan Bean is not the astronaut, and it's a good thing because his calling is much higher tha flying in a spaceship. Bean is executive director of Friends for Justice, an organization that "creates a powerful synergy between grassroots organizing, civil rights advocacy, the legal community, the mass media and ultimately the political establishment."


    As minorities and other disadvantaged Americans find it more and more difficult to get a fair shake in the courts, Bean and his group come along side to help. And help they have. Visit their website friendsofjustice.wordpress.com to read stories of their victories and heartbreaks.


    You can also support them financially.


    The bible is on his side.


    "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow." - Isaiah 1:17


    God's on his side as well, so if you haven't thought much about justice lately, this podcast might get the old gears turning.


     


     

    1 hr 29 min
  • Greg Boyd want you to renew your mind by rethinking everything you thought you knew.
    He's a pastor, speaker, scholar and an author whose path to seeking God has been a winding one. 
    He has been called a Christian anarchist, and over the years worked his way through almost every Christian tradition.
    He is also a drummer who is redefining trancendence and who has a lot to say that people need to hear. Or maybe it's just me that need to hear his message, though I doubt it.
    Check out his website at http://reknew.org/ or his podcast.
    You'll be glad you did.
    56 min

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Thinking God is weekly podcast featuring discussions with writers, speakers, educators and artists who take spirituality seriously and who share the conclusion that hope is still a viable option.

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