The Evolving Faith Podcast Trailer
Hosted by Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu, this is a podcast for the wounded, the misfits, and the spiritual refugees to let you know you are not alone. No matter where you are on your journey, no matter what your story is, you are welcome! We're doing our best to listen - to God, to one another, and to the world.
This season will feature the main stage sessions from our 2018 gathering. You'll finally have a chance to hear Austin Channing Brown preach the roof off the place, Nish Weiseth tell you how best to love your neighbour, Jen Hatmaker talk honestly about the cost of laying down her status as an evangelical darling, Mike McHargue deliver a straight-up sermon about climate change, Osheta Moore offer a path for raising peacemakers, Jeff Chu's just-checked-and-yep-still-no-one-has-recovered-yet talk about compost, Rachel Held Evans herself on evolution and apocalypse along with an interview with Dan Evans and Amanda Opelt, and so, so, so(!) much more.
We’ve set a big rowdy table in the middle of the wilderness and together, we’re having a feast of conversation. We saved a spot for you. There’s bread and wine, stories and songs, wonder and curiosity, renewal and redemption too.
Welcome home, friends. We’ll see you there.
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If you’d like to be featured on an upcoming episode, just call our voicemail inbox at +1(616) 929-0409. Leave your first name and state or province and answer this question: How are you cultivating hope in the wilderness right now? It can be something small - a song, a poem, a practice - or something big. There are no wrong answers. Just please try to keep your answer to under a minute so we can feature a few of you every episode.
Transcript
(Instrumental music playing)
JEFF: Hi everyone, I'm Jeff Chu.
SARAH: I'm Sarah Bessey. And we have an announcement.
JEFF: Maybe you feel like you don’t belong in your faith tradition anymore.
Maybe you feel alone in the wilderness, unable to find a way forward.
Maybe you’re ready to reimagine scripture and theology you used to take for granted. You’re searching for answers at the intersections of faith, sexuality, justice, scripture, church, and life. There’s something about Jesus that just keeps you coming back.
You’re ready to reimagine, to rebuild, and even resurrect a faith that works not only for you but for the whole messy and good world.
Here's the good news: You’re not as alone as you think.
SARAH: We had a big gathering a little while back called Evolving Faith. With 1500 of our closest friends, we met up in the fall, in the mountains of North Carolina, to try to cultivate some hope and love in this wilderness. It was a wild and imperfect and beautiful two days. And we recorded most of it. Now we're ready to share those days with you and reflect on some the things we've learned since then. That’s right - The Evolving Faith Podcast is ready to go.
JEFF: This is a podcast for the wounded, the misfits, and the spiritual refugees to let you know you are not alone. No matter where you are on your journey, no matter what your story is, you are welcome! We're doing our best to listen - to God, to one another, and to the world.
SARAH: You can go ahead and subscribe already to The Evolving Faith Podcast in your podcast app or go to evolvingfaith.com and click on Podcast for instructions. And while you are there, sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss a thing.
We have set a big rowdy table in the middle of the wilderness and together, we’re having a feast of conversation. We saved a spot for you. There’s bread and wine -or tea, in my case…
Jeff: …Rice for me, thanks…
SARAH: …stories and songs, wonder and curiosity, renewal and redemption too. Welcome home, friends. We’ll see you there.
