New Freebie Up
March 20, 2008
We try to make it worth your while to leave the closed world of iTunes and check out our website. We do this by trying to bait and switch you with a “freebie” hosted on the website. So this month we’ve got a free sample chapter from Doug Pagitt’s new book, A Christianity Worth Believing. You can also hear Doug reading Chapter 1 of the book here. Doug also recently unveiled his new website at DougPagitt.com.
ep 7.6 - DJ Chuang
March 15, 2008
Our guest this week is DJ Chuang, a well respected leader in the emerging church community and an equally strong voice in the Asian American community. DJ works with the L2 Foundation and Leadership Network. We discuss white privilege, minorities, technology, contextual theology, and the future of the church.You can find DJ Chuang’s personal blog at www.djchuang.com and his book, CONVERSATIONS: Asian American Evangelical Theologies in Formation, here.
ep 7.1 - Chris Haw from the Camden House
February 18, 2008
This podcast is a conversation between Josh and Chris Haw from the Camden House in Camden New Jersey. Chris is the co-author of the upcoming book, Jesus for President, with Shane Claiborne. This podcast was recorded while Josh was at the A Sustainable Faith Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida at the beginning of February. As I say in the intro, I think Chris is one of the most insightful and provocative people that I’ve talked to in the past couple of years. What he’s thinking in relationship to the church’s role in response to government, economics, and civil engagement is some of the most deep thinking that is out there today. I hesitate to use the word cutting edge, because I think it’s a rediscovery of Jesus’ relationship to empire. But I will be so bold as to say that I think what he’s working through right now is what the rest of us will begin to wrestle with 10 years from now. And into the future. So in that respect . . . I think he’s way ahead of the game in imagining what a post-oil, sustainable world looks like in relationship to country and allegiance.
He also co-wrote the litany that Shane shared at the Catalyst conference last year that caused a bit of a ruckus in the evangelical world. You can find that litany in the sidebar in our YouTube player.
I don’t have much to put in the show notes. Chris and everyone involved at the Camden House have a low internet presence, which I think is the way they like it so that people can’t emulate a “model”.
But you can find Chris’ blog here, although I’m not entirely sure it even gets updated.
You can check out the promo stuff for JesusForPresident and to find out more about the tour by going here.
ep 7.0 - Shane Claiborne
February 10, 2008
Shane Claiborne joins us this week for the podcast. Shane is his usual hospitable, nicest guy in the world, self. He waxes poetic with us about justice, poverty, and economics with his east Tennessee southern drawl. Read more
ep 6.9 - Tony Jones & The New Christians
February 4, 2008
This week Tony Jones stops back by the podcast to admit that we have the best emergent podcast on the net. He also said that we throw softballs to our interviewee’s. So for this show - we don’t pull any punches.
It should be said that this interview is just an audio rip of an actual Video Chat Interview. Some of you may have been online to see it over at Shape Vine. Shape Vine is an interesting site you may want to check out. In a few weeks our video with Tony will be up.
We introduced a couple new pieces. We let Tony give us a review of our podcast. We did a “Word Blitz” where we asked about the definition of some words that he used in his new book. [pogroms, modicum, un-pin-downable, jejune, bloviations, nefarious, short shrift]
Tony talked about his new book, The New Christians. Josh has been raving about the book and his full review is here. In the end Nick gave it 8/10 Mclarens and Josh gave it 10/10. Nick played the hard ass and gave it a less than warm response in order to play into Tony’s criticism.
You can pre-order the book here at Amazon.
Tony provided the first chapter for our listeners. You can get that here.
We are aware that tony had a little bit of a hot mic. Sorry - it will be distracting, but it shouldn’t take away from the content. We were new to the mics through Shape Vines system.
