36 episodes
The Broken Book Bible Podcast Sam and Amanda
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- Religion & Spirituality
Considering the Bible's saintly reputation, it packs surprising gore, horror, and depravity. As well as beauty, wisdom, and tedium. For millennia, the Bible has held Western culture captive to its strange stories of ancient people trying to figure out God.
Maybe you're not religious, but you're curious about the Bible. Maybe you grew up in church, but you're looking for a new way to relate to the Bible.
Welcome! We're Sam and Amanda. We're obsessed with the Bible. Sam is a liberal Presbyterian who became post-modern by studying the Bible too much. Amanda is a mystic naturalist Unitarian Universalist with Reformed and Evangelical roots. We are wrestling with what the Bible can mean in the midst of radical questioning, faith changes, depression, and self-doubt. We hope you'll join us as we appreciate, dissect, criticize, defend, and generally nerd out about the Bible from our progressive religious perspectives. Where to Find Us Podcast Directories: Stitcher, iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-broken-book-bible-podcast/id1172672907?mt=2 , Google Play Email: sam@brokenbookpodcast.com & amanda@brokenbookpodcast.com Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/brokenbookpod Twitter: @BrokenBookPod
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The Realities of Social Construction: Interview by Micah Redding, Executive Director of the Christian Transhumanist Society
Joint project with the Christian Transhumanist Podcast! https://www.christiantranshumanism.org/podcast
Lots of interesting questions. How can we love religion when so many are hurt? How do we describe the reality of social construction? Does Jesus have a personality? What's St. Paul's social media presence? Is God an AI? -
God as Living Liminality: A Queer Nonbinary Theology - Episode 34
Adriaan Dippenaar, director of the Seattle Nonbinary Coalition joins in to discuss how queer identity, queer tension, and queer magic helps them imagine God. God is absurd, and that's okay! The divine does not fit into any clear, clean label. This is what gives God the power to create and the power to live. This power leads us to struggle with the marginalized.
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Blasphemy: Reciting the Apostles Creed in First Person - Episode 36
If the Spirit of Christ dwells in are hearts, and if we are supposed to be Christlike. . . then the Apostle's Creed is about us.
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Autism: Finding God on the Spectrum - Episode 33
Sam, who is on the autism spectrum, discusses how his diverse theory of mind has brought him on a unique, exciting, and terrifying journey with and towards God.People on the spectrum develop their sense of theory of mind differently than neurotypical people. Theory of mind is how we distinguish objects and ideas from each other and from ourselves. Which profoundly relates to faith. This journey has many blessings, many curses, and many exegesises of the song 'Moon River.'
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Trinity and Biblical Authority: Reclaiming Truth - Episode 32
This episode was originally recorded over two years ago, and shows us at a different stage in our spiritual development. Amanda, a Unitarian, defends the trinity. Sam, a relativist, defends Biblical' authority and infallibility. As modernism is challenged, new possibilities of truth open up. God can live in relationship. Scripture can serve as revelation. Humans can live after death.
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Creation in Bondage to Decay: When God cursed the ground after Eden - Episode 31
After Eden, God curses the world with hard child birth, patriarchy, toil, and death. The curse sets female against male, humans against nature, and humanity against the snake. We explore how these curses mirror the evolution of humans and the birth of agriculture. But. Good news. We are fighting the curse. And success is possible.