Peace, Love, & Understanding

About Peace, Love, & Understanding

Welcome to my podcast, Peace, Love, & Understanding. I am a believer, wandering in the wilderness, rethinking and re-examining some long-held beliefs. Wandering, but not lost. In the meantime, I want to be with other not-lost wanderers. I'm a Christian who believes that the words and the work of Jesus are just as relevant to the 21st century as they were to the first century. I believe he speaks to us and to all our concerns, life and death and everything in between: ideas, art, beauty, nature, work, play, books, movies, music, history, governance -- everything -- and most importantly, our connection to him and to one another. But I think his people are in a shambles. The edifice of institutional Christianity is crumbling, not in its foundation, but from the top, where leaders and shepherds have turned so much of the beautiful thing Jesus created and intends for us into a political action committee, and a religious empire, and a business franchise. I’ve been thinking hard about how people who love and follow Jesus can perhaps help clean up this mess, see and think more clearly, listen more, and return to the beauty and simplicity of the life and the work -- and the mission -- that Jesus calls us to. If that piques your interest, why don’t you listen in? I am talking with people who are speaking the truth in love, or least the glimpses of truth that they have found and we can benefit from. I want to dialog rather than debate, in hopes of finding a better way forward for our faith in this century. Regardless of your journey or your beliefs, you're invited to join us. I think it'll be interesting. And I think it'll be fun. Come check us out.

Publisher

Steve Dehner

Category

religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2022

Latest episode

7 Jan 2023

Latest episodes

11 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Jan 2023

   We're between Seasons

   My hiatus is longer than planned, but I will return.

2. 

   2 Oct 2022

   BRB

   Announcing the show is on hiatus for the month of October, 2022.

3. 

   20 Sept 2022

   Is BLM a Marxist Movement?

   White opponents of the Black Lives Matter movement are trying to discredit the movement by calling attention to BLM's -- the organization’s -- Marxist connections, but these charges are simply a way to provide an excuse for dismissing the movement by labeling its core philosophy Marxist, an ideology most Americans reject.

4. 

   6 Sept 2022

   Sunday Morning at the Movies | Part 3

   What did the earliest Christians do when they met together? It would take too long to list all the things your church does that they did not. But it only takes a few minutes to say what they did do. Check out the third and last installment of Sunday Morning at the Movies.

5. 

   23 Aug 2022

   Sunday Morning at the Movies | Part 2

   Did the apostles and the first disciples ever use anything but their own houses or open-air spaces to meet? 99.9% never. Ever wonder why?

6. 

   11 Aug 2022

   Sunday Morning at the Movies | Part 1

   If our Sunday morning services were a movie, could we say with a straight face it was adapted from the bestselling Book?

7. 

   2 Aug 2022

   Jesus is Not Your Mascot

   I'm so tired of shallow and trite uses of Jesus to further current ideologies and agendas, and seeing how he's distorted both by people who profess faith in him and by people who are critics of him. I think you're both wrong, and I wish you'd stop.

8. 

   26 Jul 2022

   Crazy Love

   Reflecting on how to confront evil ideas, and whether and when to cut ties with a friend - or a favorite public figure - who has lost their way.

9. 

   19 Jul 2022

   I Smell Nazi in the Rain

   How a brief conversation demonstrated so much of what is wrong in our blighted society right now.

10. 

    12 Jul 2022

    Wandering Like Gandalf: Intro to the Podcast

    In my premiere episode, I describe my hopes for the show, its purposes and goals, my philosophy of public discourse, where the show's name comes from, and give a brief rundown on myself.

11. 

    3 Jun 2022

    Peace, Love, & Understanding Trailer

    A little bit about the Peace, Love, & Understanding podcast, from host Steve Dehner.