Reclaiming Christianity
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and contains a reading of a section, a review and running commentary. John understands that Christianity is a mess, both corporately and personally, but believes it is worth reclaiming.
Episodes
June 4, 2019 • 66 mins
Deconstruction & Reconstruction. John & Jennifer conclude a 3-episode series based on The Universal Christ by Fr Richard Rohr. Topics discussed include:
Myth
Order, disorder and reorder
Thanking Jesus vs Following Jesus
The necessity of The Fall
Fundamentalism
Other names for Salvation
Suffering
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and ...
Myth
Order, disorder and reorder
Thanking Jesus vs Following Jesus
The necessity of The Fall
Fundamentalism
Other names for Salvation
Suffering
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and ...
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June 3, 2019 • 66 mins
The lenses through which we see the world. John & Jennifer continue a 3-episode series based on The Universal Christ by Fr Richard Rohr. Topics discussed include:
Acknowledging your biases
Material worldview
Spiritual worldview
Priestly worldview
Incarnational worldview
Christ by any other name
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and ...
Acknowledging your biases
Material worldview
Spiritual worldview
Priestly worldview
Incarnational worldview
Christ by any other name
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and ...
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April 20, 2019 • 76 mins
Jesus & Christ. John & Jennifer kick off a 3-episode series based on The Universal Christ by Fr Richard Rohr. Topics discussed include:
Jesus & Christ
Creation: the first incarnation
Supernatural & natural
God loves things by becoming them
The eternal Christ
Names of God
Incarnational worldview
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and c...
Jesus & Christ
Creation: the first incarnation
Supernatural & natural
God loves things by becoming them
The eternal Christ
Names of God
Incarnational worldview
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and c...
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April 20, 2019 • 60 mins
Listener feedback. John & Jennifer conclude a 3-episode series based on Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time with listener feedback. We’d love to hear YOUR voice on our next audience response episode. Email johnweldy@gmail.com for details.
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and contains a reading of a section, a...
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and contains a reading of a section, a...
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March 30, 2019 • 69 mins
The politics of Jesus. John & Jennifer conclude a 3-episode series based on Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. Topics discussed include:
Compassion - the central quality of God
Compassion - a sociopolitical paradigm
Compassion v mercy
Holiness v compassion
The purity system
The three macro-stories of the Bible
What does it mean to believe?
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each e...
Compassion - the central quality of God
Compassion - a sociopolitical paradigm
Compassion v mercy
Holiness v compassion
The purity system
The three macro-stories of the Bible
What does it mean to believe?
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each e...
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March 30, 2019 • 64 mins
The Divine Feminine. John & Jennifer continue a 3-episode series based on Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. Topics discussed include:
- Jesus as son
- Sophia, the Wisdom Woman
- Jesus, child of Sophia
- Paul and the pre/post-Easter Jesus
- Logos
- Breaking patriarchal imagery
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and...
- Jesus as son
- Sophia, the Wisdom Woman
- Jesus, child of Sophia
- Paul and the pre/post-Easter Jesus
- Logos
- Breaking patriarchal imagery
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and...
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February 10, 2019 • 73 mins
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. John & Jennifer begin a 3-episode series based on Marcus Borg’s Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. Topics discussed include:
Childhood image of Jesus often does not evolve
Your image of Jesus influences your Christianity
The historical Jesus
The influence of Christian tradition on the gospels
The nature of God
pre-Easter and post-Easter Jesus
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast abo...
Childhood image of Jesus often does not evolve
Your image of Jesus influences your Christianity
The historical Jesus
The influence of Christian tradition on the gospels
The nature of God
pre-Easter and post-Easter Jesus
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February 9, 2019 • 66 mins
A new beginning. John & Jennifer introduce themselves and talk about what the podcast will look like in season 2.
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and contains a reading of a section, a review and running commentary. We understand that Christianity is a mess, both corporately and personally, but believe it is worth reclaiming...
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John & Jennifer love, and contains a reading of a section, a review and running commentary. We understand that Christianity is a mess, both corporately and personally, but believe it is worth reclaiming...
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August 29, 2018 • 31 mins
A new season. John wraps up season one of Reclaiming Christianity and discusses the guiding questions for season two:
Who are our enemies?
Why are they our enemies?
What could happen if we got to know them?
What do they think of us?
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and contains a reading of a section, a review and running commentary. Jo...
Who are our enemies?
Why are they our enemies?
What could happen if we got to know them?
What do they think of us?
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and contains a reading of a section, a review and running commentary. Jo...
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June 28, 2018 • 74 mins
Homosexuality & Romans 1. John and the panel discuss a progressive Christian view of Homosexuality in the Bible as a collaborative round table discussion based on Rev Mary Loker's workbook Interpretation: Homosexuality. This episode we look at Romans chapter 1, the most cited of the New Testament “clobber” passages. Does it really say what we think it says?
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June 13, 2018 • 64 mins
Sodom & Gomorrah. John and the panel discuss a progressive Christian view of Homosexuality in the Bible as a collaborative round table discussion based on Rev Mary Loker's workbook Interpretation: Homosexuality. This episode we look at the Genesis account of Sodom & Gomorrah. What was their sin?
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June 7, 2018 • 72 mins
Dismantling the "clobber" passages. John and the panel discuss a progressive Christian view of Homosexuality in the Bible as a collaborative round table discussion based on Rev Mary Loker's workbook Interpretation: Homosexuality. This episode we analyze I Cor 6:9 and I Tim 1:9-10, two NT passages often used as proof texts by conservative Christians.
Panelists: Rev. Mary Lokers, Nathan Jennings, Jennifer Neyhart
Reclaiming Christianit...
Panelists: Rev. Mary Lokers, Nathan Jennings, Jennifer Neyhart
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June 5, 2018 • 78 mins
The chronological New Testament. John and the panel discuss how the New Testament and Christianity evolved during its first century through the lens of Evolution of the Word by Marcus Borg. This episode we discuss 2 Corinthians, Romans, Mark and James.
Panelists: Jennifer Neyhart, Jason Armold
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and contai...
Panelists: Jennifer Neyhart, Jason Armold
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and contai...
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May 25, 2018 • 78 mins
Is this all there is? John and the panel discuss the need for transcendence, and whether religion is the only way to fill that need. The conversation is shaped by the book “Why I Left, Why I Stayed” by humanist Bart Campolo and his father, evangelist Tony Campolo.
Panelists: Nat Fitzgerald, Shan Edgington
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John love...
Panelists: Nat Fitzgerald, Shan Edgington
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John love...
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May 17, 2018 • 75 mins
Bridging the differences. John and the panel discuss the importance of dialogue between those who left religion and those who stayed. The conversation is shaped by the book “Why I Left, Why I Stayed” by humanist Bart Campolo and his father, evangelist Tony Campolo.
Panelists: Wayne Holmes, Cathie Slabaugh
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John love...
Panelists: Wayne Holmes, Cathie Slabaugh
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John love...
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May 10, 2018 • 79 mins
Does Jesus Work for You? John and the panel discuss Jesus and cross from the perspective of a Christian and a former Christian. The conversation is shaped by the book "Why I Left, Why I Stayed" by humanist Bart Campolo and his father, evangelist Tony Campolo.
Panelists: Jennifer Neyhart, Thad Crews
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and ...
Panelists: Jennifer Neyhart, Thad Crews
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and ...
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April 19, 2018 • 75 mins
The chronological New Testament. John and the panel discuss how the New Testament and Christianity evolved during its first century through the lens of Evolution of the Word by Marcus Borg. This episode we introduce the concept of studying the NT in the order the books were written, look through Borg's timeline, and discuss the first five books: I Thessalonians, Galatians, I Corinthians, Philemon and Philippians.
Panelists: Jennifer...
Panelists: Jennifer...
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April 5, 2018 • 99 mins
This is a very special episode where my friends Bre & Beck respond to recent actions by Bethel, Redding against the LGBTQ+ community. We also discuss the Reclaiming Jesus statement and what Christians and other allies can do to help.
Panelists: Bre & Beck Hanan
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and contains a reading of a section, a revi...
Panelists: Bre & Beck Hanan
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered around a book that John loves, and contains a reading of a section, a revi...
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March 29, 2018 • 75 mins
Finding other sojourners. John and the panel discuss finding community while you're going through deconstruction through the lens of Finding God in the Waves by "Science" Mike McHargue. What's the most important thing for someone going through a faith shift? What can you do when you've been hurt by the church? Now that you're a "heretic", where can you find community?
Panelists: Michelle Collins, Nathan Jennings
Reclaiming Christiani...
Panelists: Michelle Collins, Nathan Jennings
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March 22, 2018 • 67 mins
God & the Brain. John and the panel discuss Christianity, Atheism and Buddhism as through the lens of Finding God in the Waves by "Science" Mike McHargue. How does God affect your brain? Does an angry God affect the brain differently from a loving God? Can doubt and faith coexist in the same skull?
Panelists: Thad Crews, Jason Armold
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered ...
Panelists: Thad Crews, Jason Armold
Reclaiming Christianity is a book review podcast about God, faith and life. Each episode is centered ...
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