Rethinking and reimagining your faith? That matters. You are not alone. Follow those questions, doubts, and curiosities with us on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month. Hosts Bonnie, Casey, Jeff, and Rajeev cultivate thoughtful conversations for the spiritual journeyer. Especially if you’re evolving out of Evangelicalism or Christian Fundamentalism, you are Irenicast.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 5 hours 49 minutes
episode 180: Your Authentic Self - The Difficult Work of Becoming
Discovering your authentic self is something that can seem like a vague or cliche notion. Is there a balance between authentic inner life and authentic communal life? Where are the tensions? What does it even mean to be your...
episode 179: Changing God - A Way Out of Omni-imperial Theology
In response to a listener question about God’s immutability, all five co-hosts discuss a changing God. The conversation begins with the God of the bible before it turns toward the God of human experience. Co-hosts reflect on the groups that might...
episode 178: Stages of Spiritual Development - Movement Over Evolution
The episode begins by framing some language around stages of spiritual development. Co-hosts take a trip down memory lane as they dig up developmental language from their former faith communities and from broader American culture. The conversation...
Awakening Compassion - Why Was It Ever Asleep?
All five co-hosts grab some tea, full of compassion for one another, to talk about awakening compassion. The conversation begins with definitions and connections to spirituality. Since everyone thinks compassion is a good thing, co-hosts wonder how we...
episode 176: Abortion - Uteruses and Moral Agency
Casey and Bonnie have a heart to heart on the topic of abortion. They begin by sharing their experiences with abortion, planned parenthood, anti-choice protestors and sexuality education. Casey shares his mom’s story. Bonnie shares her own. Co-hosts...
episode 175: Atonement Theology Revisited - What’s the Cross Got to Do with It?
At the terrific suggestion of a listener, the Irenicast crew takes up the Atonement Doctrine for round 2 in Atonement Theology Revisited. The episode begins with each co-host picking up from where we left off in Episode #59 - Why Did Jesus Die? The...
episode 174: A Cadence of Despair with Tenneson Wolf
In this interview Casey draws out wisdom carried by his friend Tenneson Woolf. Tenneson is a consultant, facilitator, workshop leader, coach, teacher, and writer. Keeping an eye on our collective global pandemic experience, Casey and Tenneson talk...
episode 173: Parenting - Simple Word, Infinite Implications
In this episode, Jeff, Bonnie and Rajeev take on the topic of parenting. They begin with their definitions of parenting before moving into the struggles of parenting. Co-hosts notice how parenting children often triggers a return to the parent’s own...
episode 172: The Rev. Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre - Racism, Sexism and Trickster Ethics
Rajeev and the Rev. Dr. Miguel De La Torre converse about belonging, sexism, racism, pluralism, immigration, internal integrations and synthesis, violence, hope and hopelessness, the climate of Trump’s America and more in this packed episode that is...
episode 171: Continuing the Conversation White Supremacy in Progressive Christianity
This is the audio from our Continuing the Conversation on White Supremacy in Progressive Christianity on Facebook and YouTube Live. Jeff and Rajeev take thoughts and questions from listeners about episode #171. Catch these conversations...