This week Nick interviews Anne Jackson about her recent book Permission To Speak Freely. The basic idea came when her blog blew up when she asked her readers what they didn’t think they could say in church. That blog post went viral and Anne wrote an amazing book that talks about her life and the [...]
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This week Josh talks to Jeff Sharlett about the topic of two of Jeff’s books, christian fundamentalism inside our government. It is like a Dan Brown novel, but with historical accuracy. To prepare for the episode read this Wiki Article on The Fellowship and C Street. And after the interview I definitely suggest picking up [...]
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This week Nick talks to Matt Litton the author of The Mockingbird Parables. We celebrate 50 years of To Kill a Mocking Bird, and talk about his book and his thoughts of teaching this book to his students. Here are some more thoughts from Matt: Setting out to write TMP I had been caught up [...]
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In this episode, Josh interviews Kimberly Knight. They talk about Kimberly’s experience with Big Tent Christianity and her experience of sharing the lime-light with Doug Pagitt in his new book Church in the Inventive Age. The two also discuss the need for a Christian response to the recent month of tragic suicides and deaths of [...]
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This week Nick talks to Jack Jenkins, from The Church is Alive. Jack blogs personally here He tweets @jackmjenkins I have also included some of his mean harp playing below. [Direct link to ep 164 - Jack Jenkins, The Church is Alive/Social Media/Obama]
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