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Brad and John discuss with Andy Crouch the importance of institutions and the decline of institutionalism in society. Crouch highlights the denial of power in Christian circles and the rise of social media as a counterfeit institution. The influence of social media on honor and shame dynamics is explored, as well as the loss of forgiveness and humility in society. The conversation explores the language of shame and victimhood, particularly in the context of political discussions. The cross is shown to be way out of victimhood, offering a path of forgiveness and redemption. The power of friendship and hospitality is discussed as a means of building meaningful connections and creating lasting change. Finally, the need for trust and thread to build institutions is explored, emphasizing the importance of long-term thinking and investment.
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Today, we continue the conversation started in our last episode (LINK) on how generational differences affect spiritual formation. This time, Brad and John are joined by Michael Phillips, the Pastor of Spiritual Formation at The Table Church in Lafayette, Colorado. Michael explains how each generation has roots in individualism and self-reliance and issues an “old” call for this “old” problem: a return to abiding in Christ.
But what must one do to abide? How does it involve accepting limitations and how should the Church create opportunities for abiding to take place? What should form (and what should fall by the wayside) as we abide in Christ?
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Whether you're a Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, or Gen Z, your generation is a spiritually formative influence on your life. But how? Being aware of this is a helpful step for identifying both the sins of our generation and it's strengths as we seek to follow Jesus.
In this episode, John and Brad talk through Jeanne Twenge's new book, Generations, and how generational differences spiritually form us in specific ways.
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Brad Edwards and John Houmes explore how cultural understandings of individualism and collectivism shape our identities and relationships. Guest Dr. Brad Vaughn discusses how Eastern cultures emphasize collective responsibility and interdependence versus the Western focus on individual rights and autonomy. They look at how these differing perspectives impact how we understand concepts like shame, love, and obedience in Scripture. Vaughn encourages rethinking the church's role in identity formation and articulating a gospel of mutual belonging rather than individual salvation. Edwards and Houmes wrestle with applying these insights, seeking to foster commitment over feelings and responsibility alongside rights in how we live as the people of God.
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We are formed by our history. Andrew Wilson helps us see how in his new book Remaking The World.
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John and Brad interview Mike Graham about the life and ministry of Jack Miller and the influence of his ministry through the Sonship program. The Sonship program, initially focused on leadership training, evolved into a counseling-focused program that helped individuals recover the gospel and experience transformation in their lives. Graham highlights the importance of embracing weakness as an advantage and the need for a theology of disappointment. He also addresses the different levels of legalism and the dangers of a self-reliant religion. Overall, the conversation emphasizes the centrality of the gospel and the power of grace in the Christian life.
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John and Brad sit down with Bob Thune to discuss the turbulent cultural waters Christians now navigate. Bob sees expressive individualism raging through culture, accelerated by social media, eroding our identity.
As liberalism drifts from God's created order, people bump into humanity's limitations. Yet constraints cultivate flourishing - if only we'd plant ourselves in place. Social media scatters communities while connecting us to everywhere and nowhere.
The church's opportunity to counter rootlessness is by committing members to the pattern of Acts - the apostles' teaching, fellowship, breaking bread and prayers.
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In this teaser for the upcoming third season of Post Everything, hosts John Houmes and Brad Edwards discuss the themes of formation and flourishing. They explore how identity is formed through both common grace and as Christians. Additionally, they examine what social formation looks like as believers seek to bear the fruit of the Spirit in various areas of life from masculinity and femininity to civic and political involvement. Houmes and Edwards also consider the topic of spiritual formation, questioning how discipleship has been impacted by individualism. Furthermore, they discuss what it means to be part of the body and bride of Christ and experience spiritual formation.
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On this episode, join Brad Edwards, John Houmes, and guest Steve Cuss who shares about his personal journey of understanding anxiety from a systems perspective. He discusses how recognizing his own anxiety patterns and the false beliefs that fueled them helped him lead with less reactivity. Steve also touches on how admitting mistakes publicly freed him to be human with his community and built trust. You'll learn about the importance he places on prioritizing community care over being the sole caregiver, and how that empowered others in his church to support one another through challenging seasons. It's a thoughtful discussion around managing anxiety from the inside out in order to better shepherd God's people.
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This episode wraps up season two of the PostEverything podcast. John Houmes and Brad Edwards reflect on what they have learned over the season about artificial intelligence. Brad talks about the importance of thinking critically about AI and viewing technology as having a formative influence on people, rather than just seeing it as a neutral tool. They discuss different postures people can take toward technology, such as determinism, which sees technology as determining outcomes, and pragmatism, which views technology as something people can control and shape to their ends. Going forward in season three, Houmes and Edwards plan to explore the topic of "formation" - how people are shaped and develop maturity - looking at areas like institutions, gender roles, faith, politics, and more. The goal is to bounce around different topics relating to how formation happens in various areas of life.
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In this episode, we dive deep into the intersection of technology and theology with Michael Whittle, exploring the innovative tool, PulpitAI. This generative AI-based tool is not just a technological marvel but a pastoral assistant, enabling pastors to upload sermon audio and transform it into various content forms like devotionals, Bible reading plans, and discussion questions.
Michael shares the foundational philosophy of PulpitAI, emphasizing that it's "AI-generated, but human perfected," assisting pastors to transcend the blank page and create content that resonates with and disciples their congregation. The conversation navigates through the turbulent waters of content creation in a digital age, addressing the challenges pastors face in a culture saturated with competing voices and content.
We reflect on the crucial role of local church pastors in shaping and discipling their congregations amidst the digital noise, underscoring the importance of maintaining theological and doctrinal integrity in AI-assisted content creation. The episode also peeks into the future, exploring the potential of creating theological and denominational personas within AI, ensuring that the technology serves the message and not the other way around.
Join us as we explore the possibilities, challenges, and future of employing AI in pastoral work, ensuring that the message of the local church not only competes but thrives in the digital arena.
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Join hosts Brad Edwards and John Houmes on the PostEverything podcast as they engage in a thought-provoking discussion with Jonathan Rauch, author of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." Rauch sheds light on the current epistemological crisis, addressing issues such as cancel culture, thought policing, and the spread of disinformation. He emphasizes the importance of a reality-based community and the need for institutions grounded in truth.
The conversation explores the challenges faced by churches and society as a whole, where subjective experiences often overshadow objective facts. Rauch raises questions about the erosion of trust in institutions and the rise of conspiracy theories. This episode provides valuable insights into the nature of truth and the impact of the epistemological crisis on our democracy.
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In this episode, Brad Edwards, John Houmes, and our guest Michael Sacasas explore the complex issues surrounding the outsourcing of virtue in the age of social media. We delve into the challenges of moderating content on online platforms and the blurred boundaries of free speech. Drawing parallels to historical and bureaucratic settings, we discuss the difficulties of governing large communities.
Throughout the conversation, we discuss the consequences of relying on algorithms and the impact on individual judgment and responsibility. We highlight the overwhelming abundance of information in the digital media landscape, the shift from a narrative experience to a database experience, and the importance of media literacy in navigating conflicting opinions and finding the truth.
The discussion also touches on the pressure to speak on social media, the use of emotionally charged language for attention, and the tendency to default to tribal thinking. We emphasize the need for critical thinking, patience, and humility when encountering these complex issues.
L. M. Sacasas is associate director of the Christian Study Center of Gainesville, Florida and author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and society.
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In Robot Theology: Old Questions Through New Media, Joshua K. Smith doesn't so much as explain as demonstrate just how unprepared and unaccustomed to thinking Christianly about technology as a whole, and especially about Artificial Intelligence. How do we approach technology more like Imago Dei stewards than uncritical consumers? What difference does it make to ask not just how something was designed, but why? What are the policy ramifications, never mind the spiritual implications for human individuals and society?
Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about Social Robots, Battle Bots, Brad's toaster
, and the (surprisingly) complex ethics of both creating and using AI with one of the field's preeminent advocates.Josh serves as the Senior Pastor of a Southern Baptist Church in Mississippi, and holds a B.A. in Religion from William Carey University, an M.T.S from Gateway Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Theology from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His dissertation focused on a critique of Robotic Futurism and the potential of Dehumanization.
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(BOOK) Robotic Persons: Our Future with Social Robots
(BOOK) Violent Tech: A Philosophical and Theological Reflection
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Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, the author of both Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights and The Selfish Genius (coming 2023). As the host of the BBC Radio 4’s The Spark, The Church of Social Justice, and (our favorite) The New Gurus, few journalists have a more consistent track record in asking hard, vulnerable questions about the beliefs and values of their own tribe. As an atheist brought up in the Catholic Church, she's especially interested in exploring how otherwise secular beliefs are nevertheless functioning like a religion the less religious we become. And she is positively fearless in following wherever that question leads.
Join us for wide-ranging discussion about how our (increasingly desperate) search for meaning is leading us everywhere from "White Women's Tears" and Gigachads to Productivity idols and - yes - Artificial Intelligence.
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(PODCAST) The New Gurus
(AUDIO) The Church of Social Justice
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Jason Thacker was thinking, writing, and speaking about AI before it was cool - and long before the most recent “hype cycle.” His first book, The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, tackled the theological, ethical, and anthropological dimensions of technology in general, and AI specifically. And as you will no doubt be able to tell from our conversation, he’s more than an expert or an ethicist - he is a teacher and a disciple who’s love for and hope in Jesus is only more magnified by the technological challenges of our liminal age.
Jason is the assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College and a research fellow in Christian ethics at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. His work has been featured at Christianity Today, World Magazine, The Week, Slate, USA Today, Politico, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God. He is the author of several books, including Following Jesus in a Digital Age and The Digital Public Square.
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Peter Warren Singer is the Strategist and Senior Fellow at New America, a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and Founder & Managing Partner at Useful Fiction LLC. He previously was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, and was named by the Wall Street Journal as “the premier futurist in the national-security environment." While that's quite the real-world résumé, we wanted to talk to him about science fiction...
Specifically, Burn-In: The Real Robotic Revolution, the near-future science fiction novel he coathored with August Cole to stretch the imaginations of National Security, Intelligence, and State Department professionals needing better conceptual handholds for grasping AI's potential to reshape... well... all of human society.
Oh, and did we mention he's also an actual, real-life "Mad Scientist?"
Join us for a very imagination-stretching conversation about the potential near-future challenges, opportunities, and yes, dangers posed by Artificial Intelligence.
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(BOOK) Burn-In: The Real Robotic Revolution
(WEB) Official Website
(LLC) Useful Fiction
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Danny Rankin is a jack-of-all-trades and a master of several: he served for 6 years in US military (cryptologic farsi linguist & US Air Force Band), invented and designed one of Kickstarter’s most popular projects in 2017 (a cooperative card game called “Ravine”), and graced the stage with his (hilarious) talk at TEDx Mile High
on "the art of counterfeit design." As an instructor at the University of Colorado's ATLAS Institute (an institute for radical creativity and design innovation for both engineering and the arts), Danny has been working through the interdisciplinary pros/cons of AI and its various implications for educational institutions before it was cool.
Join us as Danny helps us understand what is even meant by "AI" right now, how it may or may not impact society as a "Novel Technology," and otherwise explore how to think well about Artificial Intelligence and the Imago Dei!
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(ARTICLE) Speculative Design and a Cone of Possibilities
(PODCAST) Synthetic Humanity: AI & What's At Stake
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Season 2 is officially HERE. As two pastors with zero combined experience using technology more advanced than a fancy microwave, we decided it would be only natural to dedicate an entire season to ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
And by "we," we mean "Brad."
John was ALSO (very) skeptical at first, so we couldn't think of a better introduction to Season 2 than to force Brad to make the case for how this quixotic idea could possibly be within the scope of "remapping culture and rethinking leadership for a liminal age." It turns out that digging into AI and all it's implications holds at least as much promise for deeper understanding of what it means to be HUMAN as it does potential for profound societal DISRUPTION.
Welcome back to our Liminal Age and let the "Skynet" jokes commence!
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(NYT) A Valentine's Day Conversation with Bing's Chatbot by Kevin Roose
(NYT) A Wellness Chatbot is Offline After a 'Harmful' Focus on Weight Loss
(PODCAST) “The Quiet Catastrophe Brewing in Our Social Lives” with Ezra Klein -
Western culture has long celebrated the individual. But the global pandemic accelerated the pervasiveness of individualism within our long-held institutions, like churches. This has led to an incredible burden on individuals to make meaning and a deepening polarization of tribes. In other words, it’s not good.
In March 2022, Brad Edwards gave a talk called “PLANTING CHURCHES THAT FUNCTION AS GREENHOUSE INSTITUTIONS” at the Spanish River Church Planting Conference.
In his talk, Brad diagnoses the warning signs of individualism solidifying in our culture and churches, and offers three mindset shifts for planting churches (and growing institutions) that grow people out of individualism, rather than further solidifying them in it.
RESOURCES:
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, by Alan Kreider
Panel:
Al Barth – Director of Church Planting at SRC
David Cassidy – Lead Pastor at SRC
Rick Hunter – Director of City Church Project
Moussa Intiga – Lead pastor at Christ Central Church in Soweto, South Africa - Laat meer zien
