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The New Evangelicals Podcast

86. The God Who Riots // with Damon Garcia

The New Evangelicals Podcast

Tim Whitaker

News, Religion & Spirituality, Politics, Christianity

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Damon Garcia, minister, social media content creator, artist and author of the new book The God Who Riots:Taking Back the Radical Jesus, sits down with Tim to discuss his new book. Damon explains his background in Evangelical culture and what led him to ultimately leave Evangelicalism. Tim and Damon discuss both the theological and political reasons for his deconstruction. Tim and Damon discuss his reasons for writing the book and what the terms abolitionist and radical mean to him. Lastly, Tim and Damon discuss the best way forward for the church, specifically those who are deconstructing. Sign up for Theology Beer Camp (Promo Code: TNE) Get mad with Mad Priest Coffee (Promo Code: TNE20) Follow us on Instagram: @thenewevangelicals Support Our Work Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi friends welcome back to another episode of the new evangelicals

0:16.1

podcast great to be with you on this episode of the show I have Damon

0:21.0

Garcia who wrote the book The God Who riots taking back the

0:25.4

radical Jesus. This is a great book. It's thought-provoking. It's super

0:29.3

helpful. And so I brought Damon on to talk about his time being a youth pastor in evangelical spaces.

0:36.3

What led him to get to walk away from all of that and to think about liberation in a totally different way and to think about what it means to be part of the

0:46.2

tradition of the God who riots.

0:49.0

What does that mean?

0:50.0

So this podcast episode is all about that.

0:52.1

I hope you enjoy it.

0:53.0

Make sure you pick up his book you can get.

0:54.7

You can get it by clicking on the link in our show notes.

0:57.4

And like I said, friends, it's a great read.

1:00.4

That being said, as always, I want to thank you so much for tuning into our episode and to our

1:05.8

podcast. We continue to grow because of listeners like you. It means so much. Just to know that people

1:11.8

are finding the work that we're doing helpful so we don't

1:14.6

take that for granted we really appreciate it I get told more often than ever

1:18.9

now oh my so-and-so a friend of mine listens to you or this person is a mailman they listen to you

1:24.6

it's like wow that's just so cool to know that that folks are tuning in so thank you it

1:28.9

means the world if you want to support the show you can do it by clicking on the

1:32.4

link in our show notes.

1:33.2

Really the new evangelicals are much bigger than this podcast.

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