Like Minded Deviants
Like-Minded Deviants with Dr. Lindy Backues, Jon-Michael Odean, and Justin Stewart-Fritz is a podcast that seeks to deviate from the norm. As two of Lindy’s former graduate students, Justin and Jon-Michael bring an extended friendship with him cultivated over years, enriched by their present ministries, life as educators, a good dose of grassroots practitioning, and deep respect as close friends and colleagues. Each week these three come prepared to engage in a provocative conversation. A conversation that intentionally and sometimes irreverently unpacks events and ideas plucked from newspapers and headlines, unashamedly channeling these conversations through a theologically jarring lens.
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In previous episodes we have suggested the importance to push beyond deconstruction into a process of reconstruction. We believe such a move to not only be possible, but helpful. What does such a move look like? How can we talk about it, what sort of language best helps us to identify such a disruptive yet exciting process?
Join us in this episode as we focus on the sort of speech that can help us better understand the ...
Over the course of this season, we have been making a case for deconstruction of the traditional Evangelical faith system. We have been saying that healthy moves and progress are often found as one throws off the legalism and the surveillance mentality found in much of American Evangelical faith systems. Maturity can result in the loss of a person's cherished Evangelical faith system, landing the journeyer in a place of skepti...
Deconstruction is a word that one finds floating around in Christian circles quite a bit lately.
For some, the term promises liberating possibilities, an open door allowing fresh air into a context that has long felt stifled. For others, the deconstruction process is dangerous, something that provokes deep anxiety, a move that threatens an unnecessary (and perhaps heretical) dismantling of valuable, historic non-negotia...
Get ready for part 3 of our Evangelicalism series where JM, JSF, and Dr. Lindy Backues discuss deconstruction in light of our context in Evangelical America today. This conversation ranges from discussing why deconstruction can sometimes be healthy to a deep dive into the phenomenon itself in with helpful language to make sense of its natural place within a faith journey.
As always we want these to be informed by YOU, so...
Join us for our first Friday release for the second episode in the "Evangelicalism" module, where Lindy, JSF, and JM dive deep into a conversation on "Christianese" in America today (yes we know--very "meta').
It is commonplace knowledge that how we as humans talk and the language we use affects how we see the world around us. In short, the language we use helps shape the way we experience l...
Welcome back for season 2 of the Like-Minded Deviants Podcast! We begin season 2 with the first in our multi-episode module on Evangelism.
In this episode, we take a biographical and personal look at what has come to be called Evangelicalism in the West--predominantly the cultural phenomena in the United States. Where did it come from? What was it in response to? What did it do? How has it changed?
JM and J...
Join us for our Preview for season 2 of Like-Minded Deviants as we loop you in for a few program updates, and release schedule as we get set for season 2! We are so excited to be back and look forward to our first module releasing in the near future!
We have been so excited by the response to our podcast and we want these to be informed by YOU, so let us know what you think, send us your thoughts, we may even try a few! ...
Join us for our last episode of the first season – appropriately themed Bar-Talk episode as we reflect on the season as a whole, its impact on us, and what we have in store for season 2. In these episodes we connect for a lower key/more relaxed conversation, what we like to call, the conversation after the class! So feel free to grab a drink and join us!
Throughout this season we have arrived at the idea that the Church is not in itself the Reign of God, but the Reign of God is both its starting point and its goal. So that leads us to the question, how does the Church (as God’s idea) address the ‘crackedness’ of the cosmos (the problem of evil we explored at the beginning of the season)? How does it ‘dramatize’ and manifest grace, love, justice, and the dream of God?
Joi...
Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Macro-Economics.
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Join us for the second part, and main conversation in our "Toolbox"* episode, where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Macro-Economics, our Metaphors, the environmental crisis, Globalization, Internationalization, and The Pathetic God.
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Join us for the second episode of our new "Toolbox"* where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Socialism and The Pathetic God.
- Bob Goudzwaard, Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979 (ISBN: 978-0853647706).
- David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Editio...
Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Socialism.
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*Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of the "Bookshel...
Join us for the first of our new "Toolbox"* For a theological engagement and critique of Capitalism and The Pathetic God.
- Ellul, Jacques, Money and Power. Second Edition, Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1984 (ISBN: 978-0877849162).
- David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0...
Join us for the first of our new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Capitalism.
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Twitter: @PodLmd
Facebook: facebook.com/LMDPod
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Email: lmdpod@gmail.com
*Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of t...
In the Church today there is confusion as to how storied, biblical truth might be translated into principles, themes, and motifs that later can be applied to the world that surrounds us. Like finding a common note in a song, or a common image in a story, we can locate repeatedly appearing images, ideas, or themes running throughout the biblical story, ones that can help us evaluate the economic and political world around us.
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What is the goal of all of this? Where was Jesus headed? If we are to offer grace as God offered grace, if we are to love in a way that aligns with the Cross, if we are to be just in a way that frees the chains of the poor, how does that fit with the message of the gospel, the message that Jesus came to preach, the core of the message found in the New Testament?
The core of that message can be found in the phrase ‘The Ki...
Justice is a concept, a concept that can be very theoretical and abstract. But, we must ask ourselves, what does justice look like?
Justice - like everything else we examine - must look like Jesus! Jesus came to fulfill justice proactively, in community, so that we might live and participate in a way that is dynamic, actively toward the fringes and margins of the system, so that those who have previously been excluded ...
The word justice appears in a lot of places in the biblical record. As a community seeking to follow the pattern of Jesus – a community attempting to live in a way that is Christomporphic, that is ‘in the shape of Jesus’ – we must put the idea of justice as central to our understanding of the good news as did Jesus.
The trouble is, though, we often do not know what justice is. We often see justice as a ‘one-size-fits-all...
So many of our popular songs, hit movies, favorite poems, social media spin around us the notion of love. We all teach about love, sing about love, long for love, shoot--we even cry out for love! That being so, surely we must know what love is, right?! No doubt, we got love down, don’t we, since we seem obsessively focused on it almost all of the time? Not so fast! Let’s be real, WE know, that YOU know, that we really mean differ...
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