S5 Ep502: 502.c Assertive Spirituality: What Difference Does It Make? (Show Bundle Conclusion)
Come to Talk-Back, Wednesday 9/28 at 7pm Eastern! DS Leiter will be our guest, and you can comment and ask questions. Email for the zoom link: whatingods@ribeye-media.com
30m Sep 21, 2022
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S5 Ep502: 502.b DS Leiter and Assertive Spirituality in Conversation (Show Bundle Part Two)
Come to Talk-Back, Wednesday 9/28 at 7pm Eastern! DS Leiter will be our guest, and you can comment and ask questions. Email for the zoom link: whatingods@ribeye-media.com
49m Sep 21, 2022
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S5 Ep502: 502.a Assertive Spirituality: What Is It? (Show Bundle Part One)
Come to Talk-Back, Wednesday 9/28 at 7pm Eastern! DS Leiter will be our guest, and you can comment and ask questions. Email for the zoom link: whatingods@ribeye-media.com
9m Sep 21, 2022
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S4 Ep445: GOD DOESN'T CARE..... about your political party. Discuss.
in which Shayna tickles Chris' inner conservative https://www.whatingods.com/
31m Sep 08, 2022
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S4 Ep444: Peter Admirand on Dialogue and Encounter (Summer Replay)
Practicing a theology of encounter could change our culture.
45m Aug 25, 2022
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S4 Ep444: Courtney Banghart, UNC Tarheels Women's Basketball Coach Part Two (Summer Replay)
Perfectionism and the fear of making mistakes: anxiety in our time, especially with young people.
27m Aug 18, 2022
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S4 Ep444: Competition in Our Culture with Courtney Banghart, UNC Tarheels Women's Basketball Coach (Summer Replay)
Competitiveness can bring out the best in us. It can bring out the worst, as well.
28m Aug 11, 2022
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S4 Ep444: Community Organizing for Our Time with Angela Pape (Summer Replay)
The principles of community organizing are the principles of a civil society.
27m Aug 04, 2022
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S4 Ep444: Angela Pape: Love and Anger as Motivators (Summer Replay)
Which motivation is more powerful: love or anger?
25m Jul 28, 2022
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S4 Ep444: Willie Bodrick and Laura Everett: Faith and Political Life from October 2020 Webinar (Summer Replay)
Willie Bodrick helps us understand the relationship of faith and politics more fully.
12m Jul 21, 2022
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S4 Ep444: Kathleen McTigue on Social Activism and Spiritual Practice Part Three (Summer Replay)
It doesn't matter what your spiritual practice is, just practice! Repetition is the key. The practice will see you through the times of dryness.
26m Jul 14, 2022
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S4 Ep444: The Us/Them Binary with Kathleen McTigue (Summer Replay)
The corrosive effects of self-righteousness appear when humility disappears, and yet we still must exercise the practical wisdom of when to stand firm, and when to yield.
29m Jul 07, 2022
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S4 Ep444: Kathleen McTigue: The Deep Foundation of Social Justice (Summer Replay)
Social justice is deeper than equity. It's about the intention inherent in creation.
28m Jun 30, 2022
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S4 Ep443: Leslie Rawlings on Mental Health (Summer Replay)
We're interested in mental health from a social systems perspective. It's not just about individuals.
27m Jun 23, 2022
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S4 Ep442: Leslie Rawlings: Any Functional Adults Out There? Summer Replay
This is a summer replay of our best special guests from the last 2 years.
34m Jun 16, 2022
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S4 Ep441: We Can't Turn Away: Stuck Systems and Bringing Pressure for Change on Gun Violence
Below are some further resources--positive action on gun violence that you can join or support; theological reflection on gun violence that helps our thinking become more creative: Actions of Shareholders: https://www.iccr.org/shareholders-approve-call-human-rights-risk-assessment-sturm-ruger https://www.iccr.org/sr-judy-byron%E2%80%99s-statement-smith-wesson-agm  https://www.iccr.org/sites/...
25m Jun 09, 2022
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S4 Ep440: Come With Us On The Hard Journey: Elizabeth Bruenig on Uvalde and American Violence
What In God's Name goes into shadowy places, but always holding on to hope. Come with us. We can walk this together. Repair and renewal begin with truth-telling, and allowing the pain of what is true into our hearts, is hard. Hard-- and necessary.
30m Jun 02, 2022
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S4 Ep439: Be of Courage, and Look: Our Sick Society and What to Do About It
We're adults. We can't look away. Even if we're comfortable, we should be uneasy. Our shared common life is broken, with too much violence in too many places. Hope is also present. People are doing good things. We need to name the things that make us uncomfortable, and join with others who are awake, aware, and already bringing healing and hope.
29m May 26, 2022
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S4 Ep438: Dynamic Tension, Or Impending Implosion? America In A Tough Moment
The fundamental tension is whether a liberal society--characterized by individual rights and tolerance for diversity--can find enough moral glue to hold together. Join us in this important conversation. We want to hear from you. https://www.whatingods.com/
29m May 19, 2022
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S4 Ep437: Be Kind, Tell The Truth, Stay Connected: Moral Communities In An Amoral Society
If American society only had a political dimension and an economic dimension, what would be missing?
26m May 12, 2022
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S4 Ep436: Beyond The Binary: Moral Conversations (about Abortion) in the Public Square
We didn't intend to talk about the leak of Justice Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, but when the topic is religion in the public square, we couldn't avoid it. Listen for some nuance on a topic that is usually framed in stark terms; listen for some consideration of how politics limits moral conversation and forecloses deeper moral reasoning; listen for a way forward.
26m May 05, 2022
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S4 Ep435: Dr. Peter Admirand: The Dialogue of Life
We talk with theologian Peter Admirand about liberation theology, religious pluralism, and atheist/theist dialogue. All of these can help us restore a more life-affirming public square--anywhere we meet another.
44m Apr 28, 2022
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S4 Ep434: Amelia Tracy: Leading from Vulnerability
Amelia works in construction, building houses. She works in building community. You don't want to miss how she got to where she is, and how she brings spiritual and moral practice into the world. This show is about a small company in Maine. This show is about our shared common life. Both are true.
39m Apr 21, 2022
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S4 Ep433: Fearful People Do Great Harm: Power, Weakness, and Sacred Story
We use a story from the time of the Roman Empire as a point of departure to shed light on the perennial problem of violence that rises from fear. This story, revelatory of a theological understanding of what is often true of men who want to appear strong but who are really weak, illuminates current events: accusations of abuse in some Hillsong churches, and Putin in Ukraine, for example. Good...
27m Apr 14, 2022
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S4 Ep432: Climate Dialogues: Tom Ackerman and Michelle Frazer
Why are science and religion-- and more particularly climate science and Christianity-- seen as being at odds with one another, in American culture today? We talk to Tom and Michelle: both are practicing climate scientists, and both are practicing Christians.
1hr 7m Apr 07, 2022
1hr 7m
S4 Ep431: The Climate Dialogues: Abigail Andre and Susan Hoffman-Fishman
Abigail Andre practices environmental law and teaches at Vermont Law School. Susan Hoffman-Fishman is a visual artist focusing on water and the climate crisis. They join us for the second of our signature series Climate Dialogues.
53m Mar 31, 2022
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S4 Ep430: The Climate Dialogues: Tori Goebel and Lila Kohrman-Glaser
Tori Goebel of Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, and Lila Kohrman-Glaser of 350nh, join the show. Listen to these two young leaders talk about their work on the climate crisis, about their motivation to be involved in the work they do, and about the challenges they face. Through dialogue and appreciative listening, we help open new perspectives on our shared common life. The Climate Dia...
51m Mar 24, 2022
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S4 Ep429: Disrupting Public Conversations: Climate Dialogues as Paradigm Shift
Ways of proceeding can be the change we want. In other words, the journey can be the destination. The question can be the answer.  Join Chris and Shayna to consider how "conversation-ology" and interdisciplinarity disrupt reductive, corrosive, public discourse 
27m Mar 17, 2022
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S4 Ep428: The Meaning Of Social Health
When we talk about spiritual and mental health, we tend to leave out the possibility that deviance is healthy, if the society is sick.
30m Mar 10, 2022
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S4 Ep427: Theological--Not Geopolitical--Reflection On Ukraine
Is there such a thing as moral progress? Is evil perennial? Is violence eradicable? Is there such a thing as a "just" war? Creative Commons License Kevin MacLeod--"Private Eye"
33m Mar 03, 2022
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S4 Ep426: Is There A Spiritual And Mental Health Crisis In The United States?
Is there a spiritual and mental health crisis in the United States? Hint: yes. And it's not just private. It affects our shared common life.
28m Feb 24, 2022
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S4 Ep425: Unvaccinated: We Talk With A Person Who Made That Choice
Who do you trust? How do you seek information to disconfirm your biases, to test your worldview? How do you balance individual liberty with communal responsibility? Another in our series on the mental and spiritual health of our society in pandemic time.
31m Feb 17, 2022
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S4 Ep424: Show Improv: "How To Survive Pandemic Trauma" Tabloid Article Cold Read
In the improvisational mode that comes when a playful, childlike spirit is present, we riff on an article on pandemic trauma that appeared recently in the National Examiner.
23m Feb 10, 2022
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S4 Ep423: Leslie Rawlings In Conversation: Your Body and Trauma
 Leslie Rawlings in conversation about mental health and trauma, part of our mini-series on the mental/spiritual health of our society as we tell a deeper story about our shared common life. Music under Creative Commons License: Private Eye by Kevin MacLeod Strike One by Terry Devine King Can We Be Friends by Lobo Loco 
26m Feb 03, 2022
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S4 Ep422: Leslie Rawlings In Conversation: Any Functional Adults Out There?
Leslie Rawlings in conversation about mental health and trauma, part of our mini-series on the mental/spiritual health of our society as we tell a deeper story about our shared common life. Music under Creative Commons License: Private Eye by Kevin MacLeod Strike One by Terry Devine King Can We Be Friends by Lobo Loco
34m Jan 27, 2022
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S4 Ep421: If Craziness Makes You Nuts, You're Healthy: A Pandemic Spiritual Health Check-In
We begin a mini-series on our society's mental and spiritual health, using the lens of trauma and trauma response, from Shayna's experience as a leader of critical incident debriefings with first responders.
31m Jan 20, 2022
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S4 Ep420: Antarctica Theophany: God at the End of the Earth
Shayna returns and shares the wisdom of her encounter with the awesome wildness at the heart of creation. 
30m Jan 13, 2022
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S4 Ep419: Defying Aloneness, Defeating Alienation: Beloved Community (Top Show Replay from Feb. 2021)
Shayna is on her way back from Antarctica. Top Show Replay from 2021: beloved community and hope, as an act of rebellion against loneliness and disconnected, selfish individualism.
27m Jan 06, 2022
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S4 Ep418: It's Not About Politics: The Cult of Selfishness (Top Show Replay from January 2021)
Shayna is in Antarctica. We invite you to reflect on the apotheosis of the individual: today's golden calf in America. And why this is a false god that cannot satisfy.
27m Dec 30, 2021
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S4 Ep417: Jeff MacDonald: Journalist, Author, Pastor-- A Conversation
WIGN talks with Jeff MacDonald about churches in pandemic time, and the needed disruption to our usual ways of framing conversations about our shared common life.
37m Dec 23, 2021
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S4 Ep416: Darkness, Light, And The Perennial Human Mess: Advent In Our Shared Common Life
Longing for the light of the nations. Called to prepare room for a different way of being, together. Music by Lobo Loco; Kevin MacLeod
29m Dec 16, 2021
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S4 Ep415: Church Today: Who Needs It? (Continued)
What if the end of the world was "lights on," not "lights out"?
28m Dec 09, 2021
28m
S4 Ep414: The First Shall Be First: Perverting the Christ Message and Longing for Light
Shayna and Chris revisit the Doctrine of Discovery as the seed of varieties of oppression. Where do we go from here?
30m Dec 02, 2021
30m
S4 Ep413: Widening The Circle Of Thanks Giving
We are ALL held in a grace beyond imagining. Therefore, we give thanks without complacency, and without condemnation. The pain of the world covers a wide territory, and goes deep.
30m Nov 25, 2021
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S4 Ep412: Tell Me Truly: Six Stories To (Re)Frame Our Shared Common Life
Live into the stories that tell you truly, who YOU are and who WE are, together. Naming the specific stories that recast the narrative of our shared common life.
30m Nov 18, 2021
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S4 Ep411: Church Today: Who Needs It?
The old is dying away. The ancient songs, the old stories: they await a new voice.
28m Nov 11, 2021
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S4 Ep410: What Do You Say To Soul-Crushing Mammon? Enough! Turning Towards Life, Together
Squid Game, Petronuses, and the armor of God all make an appearance in our continuing theological consideration of our common public life together. Join us! We like to hear from you: whatingods@ribeye-media.com whatingods.com
30m Nov 04, 2021
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S4 Ep409: Jammin' On Mammon: The Small "g" god of The Market
The "revaluation of values" is a Nietzschean phrase that the German philosopher used in his critique of Christianity. We apply that phrase in this show to mean: the market, in its current outsized place in our culture, and which functions as an impersonal deity, scrambles traditional ways of assigning value and meaning. The Market, as a demanding god, revalues human values. And, sorry to say,...
27m Oct 28, 2021
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S4 Ep408: Covid Flux: Re-Framing Mental Health As A "We" Story
Why are depression and anxiety framed as problems that individuals have, rather than as manifestations or symptoms of a sick society? How does Covid Flux Syndrome illuminate the liminal space in which human lives unfold? What are the stories and practices from spiritual wisdom, that help locate ourselves and our society, within that liminal space?
26m Oct 21, 2021
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S4 Ep407: Take Our Quiz: Where Are You On Democracy And Spirit?
10 Questions. Agree or Disagree. And if any of our questions rings a bell for you, something you want to respond to, and maybe even join us on the show to discuss: send us an email at whatingods@ribeye-media.com. Even if you are not finding this show until months (years?) after it drops, the conversation will never be old. We want to hear from you. Kindly put "10 Questions" in the subject line.
27m Oct 14, 2021
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