130 But Then Something Happened

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

I’m joined today by theologian and author Pete Enns, who also co-hosts a podcast called The Bible for Normal People. Although we talk about quantum physics at the end, the focus of our conversation is “What do you do when you experience something that calls into question your understanding of who God is and what God is doing in the world?” Pete calls these experiences curveballs, and he suggests that these experiences are good things that cause us to grow and mature in our faith. If you want to hear more about this topic, you can check out his recently published book Curveball.

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0:00.0	All right, you are listening to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and I am joined today
0:06.8	by Professor Pete ends Pete. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much in the place I find myself in this right here with you
0:14.4	Isn't that nice?
0:15.4	You're an Old Testament professor. You are an author of several books about about the Bible about theology and
0:22.1	You're a fellow podcaster you co-host with with Jared bias a podcast called the Bible for normal people
0:29.1	Right, and I have I have been a listener of that podcast and an admirer of yours for many years and I emailed you a couple weeks ago
0:37.1	Because you just published a new book curveball and the subtitle the subtitle of your book is when your faith takes turns
0:46.0	You never saw coming
0:48.0	So let's just start with the title. What do you mean by curveball?
0:53.3	What I mean by that is just unexpected things that come at us in life which are happening all the time if we're paying attention
1:01.4	and
1:02.6	I don't mean things that are like oh that that was sort of weird
1:06.0	I mean really disruptive things that
1:08.6	That affect our whole narratives and how we look at ourselves and how we look at our faith and
1:13.2	these are these are things that happen to us that are
1:16.3	Actually and not just unavoidable, but necessary for us to be able to grow in faith and to
1:26.5	sort of get to know
1:28.5	a bigger and better God than the ones we always have carrying around in our heads
1:33.0	So that's a big theme of the book that our experiences
1:37.9	Actually affect how we think of God and that's that's a good thing not a bad thing and and sometimes it's pain that gets us to that place
1:46.2	More quickly and that's where the curveballs come in the the thing you can't handle the thing you couldn't handle
1:51.2	You have to adjust to it and all of a sudden you're thinking differently about God and about Jesus and
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