re-imaginging the church for our current moment
Today’s space for faith episode has a little bit of everything with Sean Palmer. It starts early with Sean comparing Taylor Swift with Shakespeare and quickly moves to talking about the Enneagram, cancel culture, Power over persuasion as the normal experience culturally and in the church, the church recapturing the ability to have difficult conversations…
Aaron Niequist is a liturgist, writer and pastor currently living in NYC. Having led worship at Mars Hill, and Willow Creek, Aaron has created A New Liturgy, written The Eternal Current, and leads the Pastors, Priests and Guides Retreat. Aaron and I talk about his movement from being an evangelical megachurch worship leader to becoming…
Sarah is Co-Pastor and founder of Cascade PDX. In her pastoring work, she began to discover parents who had gone through their own deconstruction process who were trying to figure out how to engage in their kid’s faith development. In addition to pastoring, she began to lead cohorts for parents who are trying to figure…
Mathew Vines, author of God and the Gay Christian and founder of The Reformation Project joins us today. We talk about the church and why it still matters, not losing discipleship in the midst of reevaluating your beliefs, how you can hold onto a high view of Scripture while becoming inclusive of LGBTQ folks, and…
Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum join us on the podcast today. Gail is the Lead Pastor of Quest Church in Seattle and Brian is a Professor of Theology at Garrett Seminary. We spend some time talking about what it’s like for Gail to be a woman leading a church, about Brian’s work on the…
Todd Deatherage spent sixteen years in senior positions in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government before co-founding the Telos Group. From 2005 to 2009, he was Chief of Staff in the Secretary of State’s Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. He also spent two years as Senior Advisor in…
Miley Waterman is the CEO of Brave Global, an organization working to empower vulnerable girls in partnership with churches and local communities and organizations. Miley is also an event producer and helped to run the Post Evangelical Pastor and Church Leader Gathering that we held last October. We talk about that gathering, about doing preventative…
Brenna Rubio and Bill White Co-Pastor City Church Long Beach and also founded Small Church Big Table to help deconstructing faith leaders dismantle toxic leadership patterns and learn power-sharing practices to build potent, inclusive communities. They share with us about what it’s like to co-pastor a church, how to share power without just swinging the…
Brian Zahnd is the Lead Pastor of Word of Life Church in St Joseph, Missouri. He’s a prolific author, with his most recent book When Everything’s on Fire now available. For many of us, particularly pastors, who were looking for other pastors who were wrestling deeply with what he calls a theological remodeling, Brian has…
April Diaz from Ezer and Co joins me on today’s podcast. April talks with us about how men and women can work well together in partnership. She shares some safeguards that she has in her own marriage without needing to operate in the Billy Graham Rule. She helps us to see how churches that have been…