S2 Ep1150: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art: Josh Porter

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Joshua S. Porter is pastor of teaching and creative vision at Van City Church in Vancouver, Washington. He is also a former member of the experimental art-punk band, Showbread, and the author of the novel Punk Rock Vs. the Lizard People. His most recent book is With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art, which examines a biblical theology of art.

Find out more and connect with Joshua at joshuasporter.com.

In this podcast conversation, we talk a lot about how Christians should think through offensive themes in movies and music. We discuss the genre of horror and why it's intrinsically spiritual. We talk about Christian themes in secular movies and music, the meaning of "Christian" music and film, whether sex and nudity in films should also be rejected, the theme of nudity in historic Christian art, and some problems with contemporary "Christian" worship music.

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0:00.0	Hey friends want to let you know that I have a book coming out in March of
0:03.4	2024 it's called Exiles the Church in the Shadow of Empire if you've been
0:08.0	listening to me for more than like five seconds you've probably heard me use the
0:11.2	phrase exile or you know that we are exiles living in
0:14.9	Babylon and you know that's something I've said for many years and so this book is kind of the
0:19.5	culmination of my thinking through the question what is a biblical theology of a Christian
0:25.9	political identity so this book does just that it looks at how the people of
0:31.9	God throughout scripture navigated the relationship
0:34.8	with the various nations and empires that they were living under in order to
0:39.6	cultivate a framework for how Christians today should view their relationship with whatever state or empire that they are living under.
0:47.0	So I invite you to check it out. It's available for pre-order now.
0:50.0	The name is Exiles, the Church in the Shadow of Empire.
0:53.4	Check it out.
0:54.8	Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology
0:56.9	and Ra. My guest today is my friend Josh Porter.
0:59.2	Josh is a writer, a musician, and a pastor, and he recently released his book
1:06.0	With all its teeth,
1:08.0	Sex, Violence, Profanity,
1:10.0	and the death of Christian art.
1:12.0	Josh is he's he's not your conventional pastor let's just say he is he's an
1:19.9	artist a really provocative and profound thinker.
1:24.5	I think he's a brilliant writer,
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