Lively Faith The Rev. Nathan Stomberg

We celebrate the one-year anniversary of the podcast by looking back at our favorite moments and looking ahead to our vision for the future. The Revs. Stomberg and Galloway discuss generational differences, technological change, and the temptation to value style over substance.
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00:00 – Introduction
01:00 – Favorite moments, generational differences
05:00 – Keeping up with technological change
11:00 – The moral poverty that comes with advanced tech
18:15 – The loss of community and face-to-face communication
22:00 – Learning about Orthodoxy
24:30 – Rhode Island is the most Catholic state
26:50 – Biggest surprises, new relationships
28:00 – A new way of sharing the Gospel
29:00 – The breakneck speed of current events
33:00 – Discussing ideas, not just reacting to events
37:00 – Correct predictions, artificial intelligence
42:00 – The collapse of cryptocurrency
45:00 – What we’ve learned about podcasting
50:00 – Admitting when you don’t know something
52:20 – Ways we’ve improved, being real
58:40 – Our goals for improvement
01:03:00 – Style vs. substance
01:06:00 – Be bold about the truth
01:09:00 – Vision for the future
01:13:00 – Current turmoil in the Church
01:15:40 – Conclusion
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In this episode, we discuss the state of the Anglican Church, the GAFCON Kigali Statement, the start of the Catholic "Synod on Synodality", and divisions in the SBC over women pastors. We also answer the questions: Why should Christians care about these issues, and how can we have peace during religious turmoil?
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00:00 – Introduction
01:48 – What is GAFCON?
05:00 – The structure of Anglicanism
09:00 – GAFCON Kigali rejects the Archbishop of Canterbury
11:00 – Anglicanism in the Majority World
14:00 – Why GAFCON rejected Archbishop Welby
15:30 – Why Christians should care about Anglicanism
17:50 – Reviewing the GAFCON statement
20:50 – Gender and sexuality issues are clear in the Bible
22:30 – Relationship of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Anglicanism
25:00 – Where the GAFCON statement is incomplete
27:00 – Why Holy Communion is an independent Anglican Church
28:00 – Hans Boersma’s critique of GAFCON Kigali
30:20 – The marital act must be open to life
32:20 – Humana Vitae was prophetic
35:20 – Controversy in the SBC over female pastors
38:00 – Responding to Rick Warren and Albert Mohler
39:00 – Ontological and Headship arguments against female pastors
41:00 – Gender and sexuality issues have overwhelmed the culture
42:40 – The fallout from SBC division
44:40 – The Catholic “Synod on Synodality”
47:40 – Hypocrisy in the Vatican
50:00 – German Catholic churches fueling the sexuality issue
54:00 – “Synodality without Spirit”
59:00 – Potential fallout from the Catholic Synod
01:02:00 – How to avoid despair, complaining about the Church
01:05:00 – Our first allegiance is to Christ alone
01:08:00 – Christianity requires personal sacrifice
01:09:40 – Reasons for hope
01:13:00 - Conclusion
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Friday, June 23, 2023 - AlbertMohler.comSynodality without SpiritA New “Synodal Church” Undermines the Catholic ChurchWalking the Synodal Way . . . Off a Cliff | Raymond J. de Souza | First ThingsIs the Anglican “Reset” Truly Anglican? | Hans Boersma, Gerald McDermott, Greg Peters | First Things
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We interview the Rev. Mark Galloway about his experience living with Parkinson's and POTS, how Christians should respond to suffering, how to best care for loved ones, and spiritual advice for handling chronic illness.
Disclaimer: This episode does not constitute medical advice as we are not medical experts.
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00:00 – Introduction
02:00 – Stiff Man Syndrome
06:30 – Mark’s first encounter with Parkinson’s and POTS
13:00 – First diagnosis
15:20 – Living with POTS, stealing salt packets
17:00 – Deciding to retire
19:35 – What “normal” looks like
22:00 – Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
23:00 – Adjusting to a new phase of life
27:00 – Muscle spasms
28:30 – Chronic illness as spiritual battle
32:00 – We are disconnected from death
33:00 – Using AI to replace deceased family
35:50 – Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living, Holy Dying
37:00 – Going to cognitive therapy
39:10 – The importance of trusted medical professionals
42:50 – Getting proper medical care
45:50 – Undergoing spinal procedures
48:40 – Daily pain management
53:40 – Suffering as vocation
56:00 – Preaching the Truth in season and out of season
58:00 – Stations of life as vocations
59:30 – Nursing homes
01:00:45 – Impact on family
01:03:40 – Managing the expectations of others
01:06:00 – Getting out of bed in the morning
01:09:19 – The blessing of Godly family
01:10:20 – Showing charity to others
01:11:50 – The danger of comparing your suffering to others
01:14:45 – Going bald and gray
01:16:10 – Mark’s experience at the barber
01:18:00 – Emotional vs. physical suffering
01:19:00 – Future austerity measures
01:20:10 – How to talk to the Church about suffering
01:22:10 – The tendency to embrace nihilism
01:24:10 – Conflating suffering with not getting our way
01:25:25 – How to best care for others with chronic illness
01:30:55 – Suffering is a part of being a Christian
01:32:47 – The centrality of the Sacraments
01:35:10 – The need for Confession
01:37:22 – No situation is ever hopeless
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Get to know the hosts! In this episode, the Rev. Nathan Stomberg and the Rev. Mark Galloway share their personal backgrounds and how they came to faith in Jesus Christ. They also discuss how Christian life and ministry has changed over the last 50 years, and what the future looks like for the next generation of pastors.
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00:00 – Intro
02:00 – Growing up in 1960’s Exeter
05:00 – Trailer homes and one-room schoolhouses
07:00 – The sociology of rural mid-century RI
11:00 – Growing up Catholic
16:10 – Growing up poor
18:15 – Mark’s childhood
24:00 – Demographic transformation of Exeter
25:00 – Mark’s spiritual formation
26:40 – Mark’s high school experience
32:00 – An existential crisis
35:00 – Joining the Anglican tradition
36:00 – What drove Mark to go into ministry
40:30 – Starting out as an Episcopal priest
43:50 – Working at different churches
45:34 – Growing up in middle-class West Greenwich
48:59 – Nathan’s spiritual formation
51:50 – Focus on academic achievement and identity
57:50 – Graduating valedictorian
58:30 – Going to WPI
59:30 – Getting into cross-country and track
01:04:00 – Spiritual maturation and the Rite of Confirmation
01:07:00 – Christian Bible Fellowship at WPI
01:10:00 – Nathan’s denominational journey to Anglicanism
01:12:00 – Planting Holy Communion and getting ordained
01:15:00 – Preparing for ordained ministry without seminary
01:17:55 – Future reality of church ministry
01:19:58 – The paradox of ordained ministry
01:23:00 – Christians need to be more joyful
01:24:50 – The wonder of God’s providence
01:27:00 – The future of Christian ministry
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In this episode, we continue our conversation with Subdeacon Cory Dupont about Orthodoxy. We dive into the economy of salvation, differences between Eastern and Western Christianity, our love for the ESV translation, why Orthodox Easter falls on a different date than Western Easter, the Asbury revival, and our common hope in the Resurrection.
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00:00 – The Economy of Salvation
01:30 – The role of St. Augustine in Orthodoxy
03:20 – Orthodox objections to St. Augustine
05:00 – Bishop N.T. Wright’s perspective
06:50 – The Church Fathers didn’t all agree with each other
08:00 – The Fathers are not complete by themselves
08:55 – Why the Orthodox don’t accept the Immaculate Conception
10:00 – Why the ESV is our favorite translation
11:40 – Orthodox views on Atonement
16:10 – Cultural barriers between East and West
19:00 – God’s Mercy and the Jesus Prayer
20:00 – Fasting in the Orthodox life
22:30 – Differences from Evangelicalism
24:30 – God’s Essence & God’s Energies
26:15 – Divisions over metaphysics
29:30 – Relations between Western Protestants and Orthodox
32:10 – The Dogmas of the Church in Orthodoxy
36:45 – The Western Rite and the Anglican Ordinariate
39:40 – Is Orthodoxy a denomination? Does it have
denominations? The structure of Orthodox Churches
46:00 – The nationalistic nature of Orthodox Churches
49:00 – Orthodox socio-political challenges
51:10 – Break
51:40 – Why is Orthodox Easter after Western Easter?
01:00:55 – What we can learn from the Amish
01:03:50 – Reflections on Lent & Easter
01:08:20 – The Asbury Revival
01:13:35 – Hope in the reality of the Resurrection
01:18:20 – Easter is about being alive
01:20:00 – “BC” vs. “BCE”
01:22:00 – Conclusion
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In this episode, we examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence and discuss how Christians should think through the worldview issues that come with this new technology. We also discuss what it means to be human, how our relationship with technology has changed over time, and we read AI-generated sermons.
(Please excuse us as we work through audio issues in this episode.)
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LINK to the Rev. Stomberg’s article on AI: https://holycommunionri.org/2022/12/02/the-ai-question/
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00:00 – Introduction
02:00 – First impressions of AI
07:00 – A definition of AI & neural networks
08:00 – AI Image generators
10:00 – Midjourney won an art competition
12:00 – AI-based assistants
13:00 – Stephen Spielberg’s movie, Artificial Intelligence
15:00 – There is nothing new about human nature
16:30 – The need to think critically about AI
17:30 – Parallels to artificial insemination
18:40 – Similarities to splitting the atom
20:00 – Defending the human person
21:00 – Our tendency to ignore negative consequences
22:00 – We should be sober-minded about technology
23:00 – Utilitarian definitions of humanity
25:00 – The pursuit of immortality
26:30 – Elon Musk’s Nueralink
28:40 – Attacks on the Imago Dei
30:30 – Impact of AI chatbots in schools
33:00 – Chat-GPT
34:00 – Captain Kirk delivers a sermon
35:20 – The worldviews of those behind the chatbots
36:00 – Experimenting with Chat-GPT
39:00 – What we can learn from the Amish
40:30 – We need to reject anything that moves us away from God
42:00 – Using technology to avoid suffering
44:00 – Generational perspectives on new technology
48:30 – Impact of technology on the spread of the Gospel
51:50 – Explaining 21st-Century ministry to St. Paul
54:00 – Sharing the Gospel is not complicated
55:15 – Gen X’s relationship with technology
59:00 – The Internet changed how we receive information
01:03:00 – Living in embodied community
01:08:00 – Problems with outsourcing our knowledge
01:11:00 – When clergy misplace their virtue
01:14:30 – The disassembling & re-assembling of the Church
01:19:00 - Conclusion

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