Ep 42 - Diana Butler Bass ”Grounded”

The Deconstructionists

John Williamson

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Guest Info/Bio: This week we welcome Dr. Diana Butler Bass to the show! Diana is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of nine books, including “Grounded: Finding God in the World - A Spiritual Revolution.” Diana regularly speaks at conferences, consults with religious organizations, leads educational events for religious leaders, and teaches and preaches in a variety of venues. She writes at The Huffington Post and The Washington Post and comments on religion, politics, and culture in the media including USA TODAY, Time, Newsweek, CBS, CNN, FOX, PBS, and NPR. Guest Links: www.dianabutlerbass.com Facebook: @d.butlerbass Twitter: @dianabutlerbass (Selected) Guest Published Works: “Grounded: Finding God in the World - A Spiritual Revolution, Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening, A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story, Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith.” Special guest music on this episode provided by: Greta Isaac www.soundcloud/gretaisaac Facebook: @gretaisaac Twitter: @gretaisaacmusic Enjoy the songs? Songs featured on this episode were: “Intro (Creatures of Habit), Don’t Tell, & You.” You can find Greta’s music on iTunes, SoundCloud, YouTube, Apple Music, & Spotify. If you’d like to support Clay’s project and help him fund his musical venture, visit: www.gofundme.com/claykmusic The Deconstructionist’s Podcast is mixed and edited by Nicholas Rowe at National Audio Preservation Society: A full service recording studio and creative habitat, located in Heath, Ohio. Find them on Facebook and Twitter or visit their website for more information. www.nationalaudiopreservationsociety.weebly.com www.facebook.com/nationalaudiopreservationsociety Twitter: @napsrecording Donation: If you’re digging what we’re doing here consider making a small donation. Maintaining a podcast isn’t cheap and every dollar donated helps us to keep this thing going. Money donated goes to helping to purchase research materials, maintenance of the website, storage of episodes, etc. Click the link below to donate: Htps://squareup.com/store/thedeconstructionists Brand new unisex T-Shirts now available! https://squareup.com/store/thedeconstructionists Find us on social media! If you enjoy our show consider leaving us a nice 5 star review on iTunes. It helps new people find us! www.thedeconstructionists.com Twitter: @deconstructcast Facebook: deconstructionistsanonymous Instagram: deconstructionistspodcast Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello deconstructionist listeners. My name is Clay Kirchenbauer, and I'm a singer-songwriter from Northern Ohio.
0:17.1	You may have heard my work on this podcast in episode 24 with Deb Harsma,
0:21.2	and on episode 41 with Alexander Shia through my band The Undeserving.
0:25.5	Over the past few years, I've gone on my own path of deconstruction,
0:28.4	and as songwriters do, I wrote some songs about it,
0:31.0	many of which were inspired by things I learned on this very podcast.
0:35.1	John and Adam have been kind enough to allow me to share with you my crowdsourcing
0:38.4	campaign for this project, tentatively titled Wanderer. It aims to tell stories of people on their
0:44.0	journeys through faith and doubt and hopefully to connect with people on a deeply personal level.
0:48.9	If you would like to help get this project off the ground, go to gofundme.com slash clay k music. Any donation would be deeply, deeply
0:57.1	appreciated and most of all keep deconstructing. It taught me something new, you know, really,
1:08.8	sometimes all it's about is going out into the street where human beings are and holding up, blessed are the poor.
1:18.0	You know, people are hungry to hear that.
1:20.7	It's not about anything more than that and it's not about anything less than that. Welcome once again, everybody to the deconstructionist podcast. We are your ever-loving hosts. I'm Adam
2:04.1	Norlock. And I am John Williamson. And I promise this time I will mention the correct person.
2:10.4	This is take two. Oh man. Adam and I like to record multiple intros at the same time, and sometimes John gets his notes a little mixed up.
2:18.8	It's so much fun. But this is another kind of almost cellar-aged bottle of deconstructionist juice here.
2:27.7	Almost want to throw our apologies out to this lovely lady, because we've been sitting on this for some time now, and it's...
2:32.8	I guess it hasn't been that long
2:34.2	but too bad but um this is if you love um cutting wit and a warm heart and beautiful scholarship
2:44.2	and somebody that writes straight to the heart of what's going on our very own sort of new
2:50.3	phyllis tickle in a lot of ways. Oh, yeah. Here we have. Who do we got, John? Who do we got? We have Diana Butler Bass. It's so much fun to say Diana Butler Bass. We can't put Freakin in the middle again. We ran into this problem with Glennon. What if we did like too many names? Freaking Diana, freaking Butler, freaking bass.
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