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Today my guest is the Associate Editor of FULLER Studio and Magazine, Michael Wright (MA, Theology and the Arts). *photos used by permission from FULLER Studio of Fuller Seminary
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PROGRAM DETAILS: UPDATED January 2017 • This podcast is released each Wednesday.
(Guest interviews, “Soul School Lessons”, or other types of programing.)
The Spark My Muse show relies on listener support (from you) to keep going, not advertising money or grant money.
Today my guest is Dr. Wendy Farley a Professor of Christian Spirituality and Director of the Program in Christian Spirituality at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Dr. Farley, a premier theologian who has written extensively on women theologians and mystics, religious dialogue, classical texts, contemporary ethical issues, and contemplative practices, has been a member of the faculty of Emory University since 1988. She is the author of many books and articles, including the one we will discuss today, The Thirst of God: Contemplating God’s Love with Three Women Mystics (Westminster John Knox, 2015) which hexplores the spirituality of medieval mystics Marguerite Porete, Mechthild of Magdeburg and Julian of Norwich.
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Rev. Brandan Robertson is a noted spiritual thought-leader, contemplative activist, and commentator, working at the intersections of spirituality, sexuality, and social renewal.
Brandan earned his Bachelors Degree in Pastoral Ministry & Theology from Moody Bible Institute and is pursuing his Masters of Theological Studies from Iliff School of Theology.
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• Each FRIDAY, guests join me in a conversation.
• Come back each Wednesday
(on “Hump Day” aka Midweek) for a brief Soul School “lesson”–something for your interior world and common life.
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Background… interests and the journey to create a podcast.
EXPLAIN Catacombic Theologian /
A desiring theology of becoming.
MIN 3:00 Education and a distaste for academia and models and formulas created there.
4:30
Explaining the name “freestyle Christianity”
experimental and a space that is open and with no doorkeepers.
And giving up the name
7:30 Religious background in childhood and how that’s changed
YWAM (Youth With a Mission)
10:00 Reading apologetic and learning about the boogie men of Evangelicals
Philosophy and Theologian as neighbors and a matter paychecks
12:30
Catacombic Theology explained in brief
asking to explain in old categories
Henri Berson
Taught to answer specific questions to guide our search for truth…. we should be shaping the questions.
We confuse the less with the more.
15:30
Why is there always something NEW?
17:30
• [Society] becomes oppressive because eventually the powerful decide the categories.
Sacrifice and squeezing in other groups into a form that wasn’t ever might for them and oppressive.
19:00 Cathedrals – catacombs in the basement. It may not reflect truth. It reflects what is being preached.
Re-present what we think is the truth. Not trying to re-present something.
Our theology (our cathedrals represent the people who built it.). We build boards (whether we see them or not and they function in an exclusive fashion.
The proclamation the church made that the spirit doesn’t move outside the Father or Son and the Son is found in the Church. (inside)
In theology, difference is looked at as if is presupposes opposition.
But it’s the other way around, opposition presupposes difference.
Novelty
26:00
EXAMPLE: the Internet and new categories .
The Pope follows no one back on Twitter, because an old institution is misunderstanding a new category of communication.
27:30
How do the people of the Church gather in a way that works?
PETE ROLLINS episode & pints and parable
HERE THE EPISODE WITH PETE ROLLINS:
Twitter democratizes people and strips off labels of an old (pre digital) world.
New hierarchies are being created online where added a meaningful contribution makes you an important member.
Humans continue to have the same desire to connect (in-person) and gather.
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4:30
Pub culture in Ireland and not running from doubts and pain.
(Repression is the term in psychoanalysis)
Sharing in each other’s suffering.
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9:00
JRR Tolkien Eucatastrophe (a good undoing, like the kind that happen in Fairy Stories)
Irish culture / music / art
The 18 foot woman in a dress at IKON. Ravel and unravel.
13:30 Pete’s Memento Mori
Pete’s Happy Reaper jacket pin
Something to remind you of death.
• Pete’s happy reaper memento mori.
• Lack and nothingness has a painful side but there is a way to find a fuel from it for life and living.
The painters called the Dutch Masters featured a theme: Vanity / futility of life.
Pieter Claesz, “Vanitas” (1630)
The authentic, lively and cohesive pub [juxtaposed with] the vacuous and lonely night club.
