856: After Doubt: Questioning your Faith without Losing it: Dr. A.J. Swoboda
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🗓️ 8 April 2021
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Summary
A. J. Swoboda (PhD, University of Birmingham) is assistant professor of Bible, theology, and world Christianity at Bushnell University. He also leads a Doctor of Ministry program around the Holy Spirit and leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of a number of books, including the award-winning Subversive Sabbath. He is married to Quinn and is the proud father of Elliot. They live and work in Eugene, Oregon.
In this podcast episode, we talk about his latest book After Doubt, which is all about deconstruction and doubt; or, as the subtitle states: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It. And A.J. is the perfect guide. He has his own deconstruction story and he very much resonates with some of the problems that conservatives or progressives have with American evangelicalism. And he helps us navigate these issues in this podcast episode.
Learn more about A.J. here: https://www.ajswobodawrites.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology Narrah. I have on the show today, |
| 0:04.3 | my good friend, AJ Swabota. AJ has been on the show several times. He might be the most frequently |
| 0:10.4 | recurring guest on Theology Narrah. If you don't know of AJ, he is a assistant professor of Bible |
| 0:19.0 | and Theology and World Christianity at Bushnell University in Oregon. He has a PhD from |
| 0:25.6 | University of Birmingham. He's the author of several fantastic books. Subversive Sabbath is one |
| 0:34.0 | of his more recent ones, The Dusty Ones, and there's several others. A glorious dark is a fantastic |
| 0:40.4 | book that was the first book I read of AJ and led him to becoming one of my favorite Christian |
| 0:46.3 | authors. The guy is an incredible writer. He gifted the church. His most recent book is After |
| 0:50.4 | Doubt. How to question your faith without losing it. Most importantly, apparently his wife |
| 0:57.2 | Quinn is an advid listener to Theology Narrah. So a little shout out to Quinn. Thank you so much |
| 1:01.8 | for your allegiance to this podcast. Really honored that you are listening. Hopefully to this episode |
| 1:08.8 | or me and your husband are going to band around and pool our ignorance together. In this episode, |
| 1:14.1 | oh my gosh, we talk about lots of different things related to faith and culture of the church. |
| 1:21.2 | We even talk about podcasting. Is podcasting helpful for the church? Is it helping to nurture |
| 1:30.1 | people's faith identity in their local church? Or is it hindering that? We wrestle with the |
| 1:34.8 | new degree of that conversation among many, many others. So I'm so excited for you to engage |
| 1:40.2 | this conversation. If you would like to support the show, again, you know it patreon.com forward |
| 1:45.2 | to slash Theology Narrah support to show for his little five bucks a month and engage in our monthly |
| 1:49.6 | Q&A Patreon only podcast. We can send in questions and hear me respond to those questions. |
| 1:56.6 | All the info is in the show notes. So without further ado, please welcome to the show for the |
| 2:01.2 | like umpteenth time. Do you want to know the doctor AJ Swabotter? |
| 2:21.4 | Hey, what's up, dude? There he is. There I am. Look at you. Look how smart with your books. |
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