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Theology in the Raw

821: Deconstruction, Progressive Christianity, and Our Cultural Moment

Theology in the Raw

Theology in the Raw

Christianity, Culture, Politics, Theology, Discipleship, Religion & Spirituality

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A.J. Swoboda a brilliant thinker, a relational pastor, and possesses an uncanny ability to think critically about the intersection of faith and culture. In this conversation, we talk about a lot of things related to his own journey of deconstruction and reconstruction, progressive vs. conservative Christianity, politics, and our cultural moment. A.J. has a Ph.D. from University of Birmingham (U.K.) and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies and World Christianity at Bushnell University.

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0:00.0

Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw if you like the sports show you can go to patreon

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com forward slash theology in the raw sports show for as little as five bucks a month get access to premium content and

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become part of the theology in the Ra community.

0:13.0

As I said in a previous podcast,

0:14.8

I don't know when I said this, but it was a while back.

0:17.2

I have almost exclusively moved my Q&A time for Theology Naraara. Theology-Nara started as primarily a Q&A platform where you would

0:28.0

send in your questions and I would do my best to respond to and sometimes even answer those questions. And I do that from time to time on the public

0:37.1

podcast, but I have, for various reasons have moved that part of this podcast to the

0:43.6

Patreon-only platform so that most of my Q&A engagement does happen within the

0:49.3

tighter knit patron community.

0:53.0

In a sense, it's a lot easier to have those kinds of conversations,

0:56.3

field the questions that come in when they are sent in from my Patreon audience.

1:00.9

And then not only do I get to respond to the questions but when I post my

1:05.6

Q&A podcast then various it allows the the questioners of the Patreon community to kind of comment back on that we can have an

1:14.3

ongoing conversation about these complex topics.

1:18.7

So again, that's Patreon.com forward slash The Algendara, I'll go check it out. My guess today is A.J. Swabona, who is my favorite Christian

1:26.6

writer, no offense to NT Wright, and others. Well, actually, I've got a few really Christian writers

1:35.9

that I love, but there's something special about AJ

1:38.0

and his writing style, the things he writes about,

1:41.4

his mind is so, just the he's I hate the word balance the word balance can be overplayed but he

1:51.1

He doesn't fit into any kind of one box.

1:55.0

He's such a good thinker.

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