A Pastor Walks Out of The Church and Into The Woods (#249)

Religion on the Mind

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Our very own Tony Jones (Generation Gap Culture Hour episodes, author, theologian, recovering youth ministry wunderkind) joins Dan for a very special conversation about the release of his brand new book, The God of Wild Places. Their conversation follows a three-act structure: Tony's early ministry days, then his escape into hunting while his marriage and life were crumbling, and finally the re-approaching and rethinking of his theology and faith in light of those experiences. Along the way, they also touch on mid-century mainline Protestantism, the spirituality and ritual of indigenous hunting practices, and the costs and benefits of organized religion versus a more "disorganized" spirituality. This is not one you'll want to miss, especially if you enjoy Tony on the GGCH episodes. Tony's Website: https://reverendhunter.com/ RESOURCES MENTIONS: James Dobson’s “Preparing for Adolescence”: https://www.drjamesdobson.org/broadcasts/preparing-for-adolescence-part-1 **Watch this episode on YouTube** https://youtu.be/wbAuF3YKj3A ____________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia.com -- he is accepting more work!) Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.com YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by sprungle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to You Have Permission, the show that aims to take both Christianity and the modern world of science and culture very seriously.
0:13.3	I'm Dan Koch. I'm a licensed therapist. And what have I been saying? I'm a post-evangelical, liberal Protestant. And you know what I'm trying to do, Tony?
0:24.3	What's that? I'm just trying to tame the wild place that is my facial hair at the moment. I hope God is there in that wild place. With me today, Tony Jones, author, theologian, co-host of the Generation Gap
0:39.5	Culture Hour episodes of which regular listeners will know. I mean, whatever. Your guys are,
0:44.6	I guess I host, a regular contributor maybe. Regular contributing contributing. I know,
0:50.3	I'll take the upgrade. Okay, regular. I mean, if you're in every single one, I don't think that's a regular contributor. I'll take the promotion for sure. I think the three of us kind of with Josh, we sort of co-host that. Anyway, we are here to talk about your book. I mean, we talk about all kinds of stuff, you know, every month or two. And, you know, you've mentioned that you've been writing this book, that it's been coming out. There's been some funny stories about reviews
1:14.7	of the book and people's reactions to the book and some inside baseball, which I always
1:19.3	appreciate around publisher decisions and all that kind of thing. But now we are finally here
1:23.9	to talk about the book itself, the content of the book, The God of Wild
1:28.2	Places, which comes out tomorrow as of this release, Tuesday, April 2nd. This is going to come
1:33.9	out Monday the first. And I'm excited. I'm happy the days here. Congratulations, Tony. Thanks.
1:39.5	It's, it's been a long time coming. And it took me 10 years to write my shortest book of all my books.
1:48.3	I think that it may not be.
1:49.3	It's like 150 pages.
1:51.0	Yeah, it's very digestible.
1:52.4	I know I've talked to people who've read the whole thing in a day.
1:54.6	Yeah.
1:55.5	Yeah.
1:56.0	Yeah.
1:56.7	I want to say what I like about it before we kind of get into our conversation.
2:02.5	Actually, I realized this morning while I was driving my son to preschool that it's like the new
2:09.1	Netflix show, The Three Body Problem, which I was watching the first episode last night with
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