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Soul School – Lesson 32 – Counterfeit ID?

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Each Wednesday is a Soul School lesson and each Friday is a conversation with a featured guest.

Today’s Soul School is about Counterfeit Identity, valuing our worth, and taking the risk of being original.

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Eps 61: Co-Leadership, Male and Female

If you serve or cater to both men and women, it makes sense that you represent those people with both men and women in leadership. But, this is a very modern development. Event in many business sectors the lack of women in top positions of leadership continues to be a problem.

Reflecting a true image of humanity back to those we lead or serve in ministry shouldn’t be such a strange concept either, but it’s often rare and controversial in religious spheres.

 

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Today my guests are Kathy Escobar and Karl Wheeler, Co-Pastors for more than ten years of the Refuge, a mission center and Christian community near Denver, Colorado.

• They also have a new podcast called Faith Circus where they record their “big tent, high-wire conversations of faith, church, and life (and the occasional elephant in the room)”.

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SHOWNOTES

MIN 1
Where I (Lisa) went to Evangelical Seminary in Myerstown, PA. Tony Blair is the President, a professor and the co-pastor of a church called Hosanna! A Fellowship of Christians in Lititz, Pennsylvania with female pastor Jo Ann Kunz.

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MIN 4:00

Was there pushback when you began as equal partners in church leadership ten years ago at the Refuge?

6:20
Understanding co-pastoring. A team-planted the Refuge.

8:10
Equality in Christ.
People assume they must be married because they are co-pastors.

10:30
Having a restored image of God.
Men sometimes find women easier to share private things with.

12:00
Circumcision is an old covenant (males only).
Baptism is a new covenant (open to both males and females).

13:30

Faith Circus – The podcast

Makes space for talking about difficult things.

14:40

Unity not uniformity

15:30
Covering the topic of abortion

17:00
Creating connection

18:00
real conversations

20:30
A culture of honesty.

“Diversity is a reflection of God’s Kingdom”

22:00
The Gay Marriage issue that unfolded in their church

26:00
“What’s your position?” is a tricky question–a litmus test.

32:00
The Refuge writes doctrine in pencil so they can be reexamined.
“What we believe so far…”

37:00 Next topics coming on Faith Circus

39:00
Violence and guns?

Non violent communication

Marshall Rosenberg

42:00
Taking winning off the table. Use empathy and understanding.

43:00

We stop listening and we need to slow down to start thinking again.

 

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Soul School – Lesson 31 – Finding YOUR Identity

Thank you so very much for listening!
Welcome.


Each Wednesday is a Soul School lesson and each Friday is a conversation with a featured guest.

Today’s Soul School is about Identity. What is it really and how do you find it?

It applies HERE too. I’ve made an Identity shift with Spark My Muse.

I’ve learned in little over a year of making 90+ episodes that co-creation and collaboration is what sparks my muse–so no more going it alone!

It’s a relief to find this out and it’s a joy to my soul to know that the infusion of energy and goodwill with others, like you and other creators, makes things easier, not harder.

• I’m at just the right spot to invite you into what I’m doing so we can all have fun together. Thanks for being a part of this AMAZING story and co-creation project with me and the tribe that’s been created. You are welcome here.

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•  Do you have a question or a topic you think I should cover? LET ME KNOW!

• Do you know a guest that would make a good fit?

A creator, scientist, spiritual leader, author…? LET ME KNOW!

• Do you think I should revisit or delve more deeply into a topic that I’ve already covered? LET ME KNOW!

…and there are a few more….

Put some skin in the game and contribute. It only takes $1. Take look at the questions I’ve put up this week and check out the rewards, too, here. LET’S DO THIS!!! 

Monthly Supporters at the $5 level get some extra perks.
(It’s called “Varsity Club”).

• SOME of the PERKS include: Live event replays, and live and exclusive online member-only events are included too. Access video lessons and handouts from Lessons 18-29.

By supporting for $1 you also get a PREVIEW of extras from Varsity Club.
You can see PART II of Lesson 28.
• Click-here to get access now.

Be sure to subscribe (see below) and listen to the Friday episode with my featured guests, Kathy Escobar and Karl Wheeler.  

Eps 60: The Science of the Imagination and Fascination

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This week Spark My Muse has hit a milestone. 30 episodes of Soul School and 60 regular Episodes! It also marks a big shift for things moving forward. The show will be far more collaborative and listener-driven.

This week, I have posed some specific questions for listeners/supporters to help decide some new and  important directions and decisions for the show. More questions will follow in the weeks to come. To participate, co-create, collaborate, give input, make suggestions, and be a part of this new era, put some skin in the game. It only takes $1 and you can make BIG difference.

Decide on guests, events, swag, and a lot more. You make the calls.

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This week, I welcome Jim Davies, an associate professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is the Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, and the Author of “Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe.”

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SHOW NOTES

MIN 1:20
Where do the pictures in our visual imagination come from?

Do blind people have a visual memory?

MIN 6:00
The literal details and the meaning and symbol parts of the brain

Can computers imagine or learn to?

MIN 9:30
3D Environments

Neuro modeling simulation of thoughts and imagination.

MIN 14
Jim’s book called “Riveted”

Rules of art form and folk wisdom are they backed by science?

Cognitive science of religion and why we find anything interesting.

MIN 19
The genetics behind the desire for connecting with something greater.

MIN 22:00
What surprised him most in his research?
60% of religiosity is determined.

MIN 23:00
Groups that have religion outcompete groups that don’t
Moral code so you don’t cheat your neighbors.
Pro-social.

The Kibbutz secular vs religious

Prayer and meditation helps you cope with stress.

MIN 27
Why jokes make us laugh.
Social signals about danger.

MIN 28
about why offensive jokes might be funny

LINK TO SPARK MY MUSE
EPISODE 30 on the Science of humor
WITH NEUROSCIENTIST Dr VINOD GOEL

MIN 30
Our brain doesn’t really sense what is fiction or reality 100%

The “Finding Nemo” story

36:00
Jim’s TEDx talks

37:30
Planning bias and completion times

 

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Soul School – Lesson 30: Collaboration

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I’m taking this milestone–the 30th lesson of Soul School–to make a shift. I’m opening up what I’m doing to you the listeners in a richer way. For now on, things will be more collaborative.

• Today’s Soul School is about why collaboration matters and why it matters to me and what I’m doing now. I’ll be collaborating with more and more people in year 2 of Spark My Muse and I let you know who a few of those people are.

Join me at PATRON.com/sparkmymuse to help me make decisions about the direction of the show and make suggestions like…who should be invited onto the show, what diverse ideas, topics, and voices should come on the program?
Plus, other fun things like picking out swag: T-shirts or travel mugs?
Do a retreat or a festival?
…..Who should be invited to speak or play music? We need games, right? Food trucks?
These will be decisions YOU make.
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• This week, I’ll have you weigh in on some decisions I’d like to make with your input! Check each Wednesday and respond within a week’s time to make sure your voice is heard.

Monthly Supporters at the $5 level get some extra perks.
(It’s called “Varsity Club”).

• Live event replays, and live and exclusive online member-only events are included too. Access video lessons and handouts from Lessons 18-29.

By supporting for $1 you also get a PREVIEW of extras from Varsity Club.
You can see PART II of Lesson 28.
• Click-here to get access now.

Thanks for listening today. Be sure to subscribe (see below) and listen to the Friday episode with my featured guest.