After I listened to this podcast, I asked Michael if we could re-post it, I don’t know how many of you may have had the chance to catch it on his podcast, so here it is.

I was impressed.

Here are the original show notes:

Michael Dowd steps up to the microphone to extemporaneously present his boldest ideas yet: “I want to encourage religious people not to get defensive when the New Atheists are attacking religion or attacking concepts of God. Instead, recognize that they are fulfilling the role of a prophet. Traditionally, a religious prophet is someone who has sensed what is real in the moment and what is emerging and then has given voice to what is emerging and what is real in a way that was challenging, that was pointed, that was prophetic. Prophets were not typically your most polite people. They were sometimes curmudgeons. They were sometimes quirky. But they spoke with the authority of reality.” Dowd continues, “The religion that the New Atheists are attacking is otherworldly, superstitious religion when it’s interpreted as objectively real. And that’s not where the power of our religious language lies. . . So long as religious people interpret our scriptures literally, interpret our miracles literally, interpret our language about God and all our traditions literally, we deserve to be the brunt of attacks by the true prophets of our age, which are the New Atheists, who are the defenders of objective reality.” (You can also access online the audio of Dowd reciting the preface of his book.)

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Kimberly Knight is a pastor of a congregation in Second Life, an online avatar driven community.

This conversation stemmed from some buzzing discussion about what is church and what is virtual church.

Zach Lind and I did a rantcast about it a few months back and then some discussion flowed out of that. I think that podcast was started by an article on Out of Ur. All of that to say it was a busy conversation and here is some follow up with a practitioner.

Check out Kimberly’s personal blog here and the Second Life communities site here

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Philip Clayton & Dan Dennet Conversation link.

Theology After Google link.

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No interview this week, just some chatting. Hope you enjoy it. And don’t forget to pick up a copy of the hopeful skeptic, now displayed on the left side of our website.

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IT WAS BOUND to happen. The Nick & Josh Podcast scooped the Almighty. Oprah that is. Last Tuesday I recorded a podcast with one of the co-founders of Kiva. And Friday they went into Oprah’s studio to record Tuesday’s Oprah television show. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they mentioned just how cool The Nick & Josh Podcast was/is.

But besides scooping Oprah, we had a great conversation with Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva (co-founder with her husband Matt). If you’re not familiar with Kiva . . . this is a great chance to get to know them and what they’re about. And if you’re already a fan and partner . . . then you can hear Jessica talk about a variety of things including social networking in giving, flattened relational models, the power of women in power, and Kiva’s leveraging of their relationships with big business Silicon Valley giants for their role in micro-loans.

Unfortunately, Nick couldn’t make this podcast and as usually is the case when I fly solo, I struggle to sound coherent and intelligent. He is truly worthy to be Wayne while I am nothing but Garth. But despite my suck-i-ness in “interviewing” . . . I did get to talk to somebody whose going to talk to Oprah . . . and that’s got to count for something right?

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Sara talks about her story and self publishing.

Check out her website

Order her book

Read her blog here

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Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is the author or editor of a dozen books and professor at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, relational theology, science and religion, Wesleyan/Holiness/Church of the Nazarene thought, Evangelical theology, and postmodernism. [From the Bio Page on his site]

Thanks to Megan Glenn for the suggestion on getting Thomas for the podcast, its a great interview. Hope you enjoyed the sound byte in the intro, it was a fun Christmas Dinner.

Here is the YouTube clip I was mentioning

Thomas’ Website

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In this episode Josh Case turns the tables and interviews Nick about his recently released book, The Hopeful Skeptic.

Check out his website at

thehopefulskeptic.com

And order the book here

There was an invitation for the first two emailers to get a free copy of the book in exchange for a review on their blog, if you are taking Nick up on this offer email him at [nickfiedler@me.com]

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Nick’s book The Hopeful Skeptic was released at Amazon and soon bookstores. Please pick up a copy.

Then we get to the meat of the podcast and talk to Troy Bronsink about what he is doing in Southwest Atlanta with his community Neighbors Abbey and with Emergent Village as well as the overarching Church As Art project he is part of.

Here are the Links

Emergent Village

Church as Art

Links on how to get involved with Emergent Village

A Call for Voices
The New Structure

A link to “Neighbors Abbey Big/Small Near/Far giving campaign, a challenge for 200 people to give $10 a month for Neighbors Abbey’ ministry in 2010.”

Troy’s music

Generate Magazine

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This book is a well needed piece in the conversation about faith and interfaith connections.

Here is the New York Times Review and here is the Pomomusing’s Review

You can follow Samir on twitter at @SamirSelmanovic

And here are links to

His website

and

Faith House Manhattan

Let us know what you think about the book and about the podcast.

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