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re-imagining the church for our current moment with mike goldsworthy
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Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Jeff Lockyer is the Lead Pastor of Southridge, one of the largest churches in Canada, eh. I love the way he thinks about gaps in the church and how to close them; the way his church does many similar things to other churches their size, but the heart and motivation behind them is very different; the way he thinks about operationalizing ministry concerns and heartbeats. he is a mature and thoughtful leader and I've learned a lot from Jeff.
Find Jeff's book, Finding Our Way
And check out Leader's Village
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To help support me and my work, particularly with post-evangelical churches, you can make tax-deductible donations to:
“WE Ministries”
And mail it to:
Mike Goldsworthy
6285 E. Spring St #474
Long Beach, CA 90808
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Jared Byas is the cohost of the popular The Bible for Normal People podcast. He previously served as a pastor, but he continues the work of helping people find and save their faith by introducing them to honest engagement with the Scriptures. I loved his previous book, Love Matters More. Today we talk about his newest book, Jonah for Normal People, where he helps us see Jonah with fresh eyes while engaging in thoughtful scholarship.
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To help support me and my work, particularly with post-evangelical churches, you can make tax-deductible donations to:
“WE Ministries”
And mail it to:
Mike Goldsworthy
6285 E. Spring St #474
Long Beach, CA 90808
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Angie Hong is a worship leader, writer and speaker based in Durham, NC. She is also a co-founder of Kinship Commons, creating resources to equip worship cultivators of color, which is one thing we'll discuss in this episode.
Angie and I talk about the pressure that is often put on worship leaders of color when significant events that gain national attention take place. We talk about cultivating diversity in who you're learning from, experimental liturgies and the work she's doing with the Faith and Justice Network.
Here's a few links mentioned:
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This episode was sponsored by Urban Pioneer Roasters (our first episode sponsor!).
Urban Pioneer Roasters was founded by Colin Stringfellow when he was saving up to buy a ring for his soon-to-be fiance (and now wife). Mike and Allison have been buying our coffee from him for a couple of years. He's been an important part of the space for faith community and is now using his coffee roasting as a part of the way that he is caring for his family as he pursues his Ph.D.
Check out Urban Pioneer Roasters on Instagram and message Colin on there to buy a pound or more of his coffee.
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To help support me and my work, particularly with post-evangelical churches, you can make tax-deductible donations to:
“WE Ministries”
And mail it to:
Mike Goldsworthy
6285 E. Spring St #474
Long Beach, CA 90808
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Nancy Beach and Samantha Beach Kiley share with us about their new book, Next Sunday: An Honest Dialogue About the Future of the Church. They show us what it looks like to have humility about the way we think about God and the church, being open to seeing things through others' perspectives. I think this will be an important book at opening up a cross-generational dialogue about reimaging the church for our current moment.
Next Sunday releases June 14, but we are having a giveaway on Instagram of 2 copies of the book - so head over to @mgoldsworthy to enter
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Kevin Sweeney is the co-founder and pastor of Imagine Hawaii and the author of The Making of a Mystic.
We talk about what authenticity and integrity will cost you, what it is to be a mystic and the integration of those experiences into the normalcy of life, and the process he's going through of learning to let go as Imagine moves towards its final days and he enters into a new season.
We also briefly talk about the Post Evangelical Collective Gathering for pastors, artists, and other church leaders who are reimagining the church for our current moment. Find out more about that gathering happening in Denver Oct 11-12 here
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Rob Schenck is a public theologian and founder of The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute in Washington DC. Formerly, Rob had been significantly involved in a high public platform in the Religious Right until he went through his own journey of his faith evolving.
Rob talks to us about the intersection of power and having a public faith platform, how Abigail Disney opened him up to what he calls his third conversion experience and how Dietrich Bonhoeffer saved his faith.
For more info on The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute - TDBI.org
For registration to the Post Evangelical Collective Gathering, October 11-12 - LINK
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
If you are a pastor, artist, or other church leader who feels connected to the post-evangelical space – which is to say that you have felt ecclesiologcally homeless in the larger church landscape. Not quite sure where you fit, but you’re not ready to give up on the church and you’re a part of reimagining what it looks like for our current moment.
If that’s you, I’d love to have you join us and bring others from your church along with you to the Post-Evangelical Collective Gathering in Denver, October 11-12
Registration is now open HERE.
This is a gathering of pastors, artists, and other church leaders in the post-evangelical space in order to connect, share resources, learn from one another, and know that you’re not alone as you seek to lead the church into new spaces.
These are pastors, artists, and other leaders who find the boundaries of evangelicalism too narrow for our experience of God and its politics corrupted by an un-Christlike vision. Who seek a more just and inclusive expression of faith, but also reject the temptation to trade one exclusionary stance for another in the effort to address the need for justice and inclusion. Who believe in the importance of deconstruction, but also believe in rebuilding faith as followers of Jesus. Who see the Spirit moving through new ideas and theological visions, but who also embrace the depth and breadth of historical faith.
This will be an opportunity to build relationships, learn from one another, and see the larger movement that the Spirit is stirring beyond our local context.
We wanted to continue to make this gathering as accessible as possible while also working to make it sustainable for the long term. As a result, there are several different registration options, including a group discount, buy-one-gift-one for those who are able, and a pay-what-you-can option.
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Today’s space for faith episode has a little bit of everything with Sean Palmer. It starts early with Sean comparing Taylor Swift with Shakespeare and quickly moves to talking about the Enneagram, cancel culture, Power over persuasion as the normal experience culturally and in the church, the church recapturing the ability to have difficult conversations together, the pragmatics of communicating to multiple enneagram numbers, and preaching and leading in post-evangelical spaces.
Sean is always one of my favorite people to talk to, and I think you’ll hear that as we jump from subject to subject.
He’s also got a new book coming out May 10 called Speaking by the Numbers, which he talks about in the second half of our interview.
Sean is an author, an enneagram theorist, a speaking coach, and a teaching pastor at Ecclesia Houston.
Speaking By the Numbers - Sean's new book
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Sarah is a Co-Pastor and founder of Cascade PDX. In her pastoring work, she began to discover parents who had gone through their own deconstruction process who were trying to figure out how to engage in their kid's faith development. In addition to pastoring, she began to lead cohorts for parents who are trying to figure that out.
We have a great conversation about her church in Portland and some of its uniqueness, the path of deconstruction, as well as the way that parents often react to the faith development of their kids because of their own experiences and trauma.
Parenting After Deconstruction Cohorts
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To help support me and my work, particularly with post-evangelical churches, you can make tax-deductible donations to:
“WE Ministries”
And mail it to:
Mike Goldsworthy
6285 E. Spring St #474
Long Beach, CA 90808