The Powers and the Pastorate Podcast
By Powers and the Pastorate
The Powers and the Pastorate PodcastOct 21, 2020
Episode Eight: The Powers of Seixism
Corey is joined this week by JillAnn Knonenborg, recently ordained elder in the Indiana Conference of the UMC, to talk about sexism and sexual ethics in the church and how these factors play into everything from appointments to relationships.
Episode Seven: That's Not It
Corey sat down this week with Darren Calhoun, vocalist in The Many, associate fellow for racial justice with Christians for Social Action, and worship leader at the Urban Village in the South Loop Chicago, to talk racial justice, the phenomenon of MAGA, and the hope for God's Kingdom.
The song in the beginning of the episode is The Many's Tear Down the Walls from their album Love > Fear which you can find on Spotify or your listening platform of choice.
The book recommendation this episode is Matthais Robert's Beyond Shame.
Episode Six: A Different Way
This week Corey sits down with Lydia Wylie-Kellermann and Kateri Boucher, editors of Geez Magazine, to talk about prophetic witness and the work towards justice. In it Corey shares a bit of his story about what it feels like to beat a gun into a garden tool.
Our book recommendations this week are
Resistance and Contemplation by James Douglas
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
Rally edited by Brittney Winn Lee
Hot Takes: Do We All Just Want a Beast?
Eric Metaxas: provocateur, sycophant, "biographer." Corey and Ethan sit down in this bonus episode to talk about Eric's newest stunt, tweeting something that sounds a bit too much like a line from Revelation.
Is this all in good fun or is even Eric confused about what he's trying to say or what the joke is?
Episode Five: When Guns Become Garden Tools
This week Corey sits down with Mark Martin, director of RAWtools Inc out of Colorado Springs to talk guns, the image of Christ in our neighbor, and the opportunity for a better way of life. What might it look like if we lived more egalitarian lives? What might it mean for our stuff or for our sense of convenience if we lived as though Christ really was in our neighbors
Episode Four: The Principalities Possess Us
In this week’s episode Corey sits down with Dr Rick Elgendy, professor of public theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC to talk about his upcoming book on the powers and the principalities, modern politics, the dehumanization of our political leaders, and Star Wars.
Karl Barth’s Christian Life Fragment
Barbara and Karen Fields’ RaceCraft
Stanley Cavell’s, City of Words
Episode Three: People Are Not Their Principalities
There exists in all dialogue, it seems, the temptation to conflate people with institutions, ideologies, images and too often this creates difficulty in communicating as one person might be critiquing an institution while the other hears it and believes them to be critiquing the people who are within that institution. Corey is joined by AhnnaLise to talk about this phenomenon and the experience of dehumanization, rounding out their conversation with a conversation on HBO's new horror series, Lovecraft Country and the dehumanizing themes of cosmic horror contained therein.
You can find more information on Lovecraft Country Radio here.
You can find Kelly Brown Douglas' Stand Your Ground here.
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Episode Two: When the Powers Push Back
For the fuller background on Liam's story you can find it at What the Hell is a Pastor?
This week Corey sits down with Liam, a licensed pastor in Pennsylvania to talk about what it looks like when the principalities resist change and confrontation. The two commiserate for a short while on the likeness of their situation before working to break it down theologically into the topics of general disruption, sexism, and white supremacy, all topics tied to the church drama.
They ask the question - is the institutional church as it stands really something worth preserving?
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Episode One: Laying the Foundations
In this inaugural episode Corey takes some time to offer some foundations for what's coming in the series, laying out the framework and the language for future episodes.
If you're unfamiliar with the powers and principalities then this is the place to start, if you're interested in what this podcast is going to be about then this is the place to start. In all regards of this podcast, this episode is the place to start.
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