S9 Ep932: The Church, Intellectual Honesty, Nonviolence, and Rene Girard: Jeremy Duncan
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy is the founding pastor of Commons Church in Calgary, BC--a rather unique church that prioritizes intellectual honesty and the centrality of Jesus above tight-knit doctrinal statements. I found Jeremy on Twitter and was fascinated by his ecclesiology, so I invited him to come talk about it on the show. We ended up talking quite a bit about belonging, sexual ethics, polyamory, LGBTQ inclusion, and how the philosophy/theology of Rene Girard informs and shapes much of the ecclesiological vision of Commons.
Find out more about Jeremy here: https://www.jeremyduncan.ca
Learn more about Commons Church here: https://www.commons.church
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the rock. |
| 0:03.3 | If you'd like to support to show, you can go to patreon.com forward slash theology in the raw, |
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| 0:19.2 | attend the theology and raw exiles and Babylon conference March 31st to April. Second space is |
| 0:25.3 | filling up. It's less than goodness, almost well, just about three months away. So if you want to |
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| 0:38.5 | limit on how many people can view it online. So all the info is at pressensprinkle.com. |
| 0:43.3 | My guest today is pastor Jeremy Duncan, who is the founding pastor and lead pastor of the |
| 0:49.2 | commons church in Calgary, BC. And yeah, I met Jeremy just briefly on Twitter. Somebody |
| 0:59.7 | reached out to me and said, Hey, whenever I hear you talk about church, you describe a kind of |
| 1:03.6 | church that sounds kind of like Jeremy Duncan's church that he pastors at. So I looked it up and |
| 1:08.3 | said, Hey, let's have a conversation. And that's what led to this podcast. So I had no agenda, |
| 1:12.8 | no prior knowledge of Jeremy before this conversation. So it was just kind of a free flowing raw |
| 1:18.0 | conversation. And it was super fascinating. So please welcome to the show. If you want an only |
| 1:23.5 | pastor, Jeremy Duncan. |
| 1:41.3 | Hey friends, I'm here with a pastor and future author. Well, you're a blogger already, |
| 1:46.8 | but you're writing a book. If I can mention that, Jeremy Duncan. Jeremy, thanks so much for |
| 1:50.9 | being on the Algebra. No worries. Thanks for having me here. So this is a really, I guess, a super |
| 1:58.1 | raw conversation, because somebody who listens to my podcast, and you know, from time to time, |
| 2:04.1 | I talk about church and church structure. And do we really need to do things this way? |
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