These are strange times for College Life Christian Fellowship. We are apart. In many ways it might feel like you're walking through the valley of the shadow of death (or anxiety, or frustration, or fill in the blank). Psalm 23 tells us that in those seasons, God's own rod and staff comfort and lead us. We hope to have conversations on this podcast that could be occasions of God leading you through this time. We hope you learn, think, wonder and laugh. This is: Your Pod and Your Staff.
"Some valorize doubt; others demonize it...[but there's] an alternative path"
After a long podcast silence, Stanford and Peter are back with a banger! They sit down with A.J. Swoboda, pastor, professor, and author of After Doubt - a popular new book exploring the experience of deconstruction and doubt and asking the very simple question: "is it possible to question your faith without losing it?". Chances are that you or someone you love is in the beginning, middle, or ending stages of a deconstruction journey. These stories are common, often-disorienting, and sometimes-exhilarating. We hope that this conversation is helpful regardless of where you are on that journey.
There's more to say than what could be said in this short conversation, but this is a great place to start: What is deconstruction? Why does it seem to be happening so much right now? How do you believe something you don't necessarily like? Where does the Church go from here?
Want more from A.J.?
Read his book: After Doubt (https://www.amazon.com/After-Doubt-Question-without-Losing/dp/1587434512/ref=sr_1_3?crid=38VA0Y1GBYBW3&dchild=1&keywords=after+doubt&qid=1629759272&sprefix=after+doubt%2Caps%2C542&sr=8-3)
Listen to his podcast: In Faith and Doubt (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-faith-doubt/id1556188087)
2 Jun 2021
Talks on Talks: Paige Abril and Kyle Jung
Jerry Seinfeld’s Mom was incredulous that anyone could not like her son. And apart from that being a hip reference to draw you in, it also matches our thoughts on stars of this episode.
Kyle Jung and Paige Abril: how could anyone not like them? (Well, John might not like them, but John’s got other problems. Make it to Quarantine Corner, you’ll get what we mean). These two are some of the best conversation partners around, and when you add in the salt of their expertise on their passages, it becomes a tasty-tasty dish.
This is Talks on Talks. We’re pouring cups of recappaccino for anyone who will listen.
Enjoy the podcast!
This episode was edited by Mike Loretto: mikelorettocoaching.com (//mikelorettocoaching.com)
26 May 2021
The Next Decade: College Life Legends Nathan Ely and John Bailey
“We want your time in college to be the best years yet; but we want to do it in a way that ensures the next decade will be even better.”
If you’ve been around College Life, you’ve heard something like that. We don’t want College Life to be the best it gets for our students, we hope that it’s a launching pad to further faithfulness and fruit in Jesus.
Nathan Ely and John Bailey, are two College Life legends who graduated about a decade ago. So we pose the question to them, “how’s it been going?” A decade out, what’s your faith like? Would the college-you like what has become of current-you?
This conversation is provocative, surprising, messy, and hopefully a realistic primer on what life is like in the Next Decade. Our greatest hope is that it’ll help you start to envision what you want your life to look like in a decade.
Enjoy the podcast!
This episode was edited by Mike Loretto (//mikelorettocoaching.com)
Resources:
After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith Without Losing It (https://www.amazon.com/After-Doubt-Question-without-Losing/dp/1587434512), AJ Swoboda
Check out Caroline Ely's Podcast! Good Christian Fun (https://www.goodchristianfun.com/)
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