S2 Ep1148: Jesus, the Flesh, and the War of Wants: Dr. A.J. Swoboda

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Dr. A.J. Swoboda (Ph.D., Birmingham) is an associate professor of Bible and Theology at Bushnell University and lead mentor for the Doctor of Ministry Program on Spiritual Formation and Soul Care at Friends University. He is the author of many books, including The Gift of Thorns (Zondervan), After Doubt (Brazos), and the award-winning Subversive Sabbath (Brazos). He lives and works on an urban farm with his wife and son in Eugene, Oregon.

In this podcast conversation, we talk about the content of his forthcoming book The Gift of Thorns. We discuss the nature of desire, how our desires play into discipleship, how saying "no" to our wants actually increases our joy, the therapeutic benefit of communal confession of sin, the pleasure of self-denial, why we need more slow thinking/writing on tough topics, and how we can become incapacitated over all the books and articles and "things" we feel like we need to know.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, the Exiles and Babylon Conference is right around the corner, April 18th through the 20th in Boise, Idaho.
0:07.4	All the information is at theology in the rod.com. If you do want to attend live, and I would highly recommend if you can afford it if you have the time to come out to Boise, Idaho attend the conference live space is filling up so you want to register ASAP.
0:20.0	We are tackling loads of really important and very controversial topics.
0:24.4	We're talking about deconstruction and the gospel.
0:27.0	We're going to hear from people who have had a journey of deconstruction, tell us why they
0:32.1	did so. We're going to hear from women. of people and the church we're talking about different Christian views of politics
0:44.8	that should be loads of fun if not really intense and we just added a very
0:49.3	important pre-conference symposium on the theology and politics of Israel, Palestine.
0:56.0	And we're going to have different viewpoints represented.
0:58.5	Various discussions are going to be engaged in with that really important conversation.
1:02.7	So come to Boise, you can ask questions, you can engage the speakers, engage other people who are
1:08.1	at the conference.
1:09.1	It is loads of fun.
1:10.1	It really is, I would say, the highlight of my year.
1:12.2	So again, April 18th of the 20th of the voice
1:14.4	of the Idaho, check out all the information
1:15.9	at theology and the raw dot com.
1:18.3	Hello, friends, welcome back to another episode
1:19.8	of theology in the raw.
1:21.6	And if you are watching on YouTube you will notice that I have a new studio. Well, I moved
1:27.7	to a different corner in my basement and my daughter Aubrey helped me with all the new lighting, the background, the cool
1:35.6	bookshelf you see over to my right shoulder there and yeah I hope you find the
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