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How does transformation happen? Is there more to therapy-speak online? What do we do with the toxic fruit of American Christian discipleship? Is there an answer to expressive individualism? In this wide-ranging conversation, Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales, a pastor and PhD, sit down with Curt Thompson, MD, who deftly combines interpersonal neurobiology and Christian faith. We talk about institutions, the lack of fruitfulness amongst Christians, and developing a Christian imagination. A must-listen: thoughtful, warm-hearted with practical tips to help you love your people and your place. The Cartographers Podcast combines academic expertise with pastoral heart to help 21st century Christian leaders chart a way through the changing cultural landscape. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Resources Curt's latest book: The Soul of Desire Curt's website Curt's podcast Mark Oppenheimer, "The Schools that Ban Smartphones," The Atlantic The Cartographers Podcast, a production of The Willowbrae Institute. The Cartographers is a production of Willowbrae Institute. Find out more at willowbrae.org and sign up for our newsletter. The Cartographers is hosted by Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales and mixed and edited by Nathan Michel. Subscribe today. Megaphone Update test 06/27/23 02:11PM CDT

Mapping the Cultural Landscape for 21st Century Christian Leaders. Everything Just Changed host, Bryce Hales, starts a new podcast: The Cartographers. The Cartographers charts a way forward for 21st century Christian leaders in a changing cultural landscape. Join Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales, pastor and PhD, as they talk with guests about charting a path through culture wars to create vibrant, resilient and fruitful Christian communities. Listen on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Cartographers is a production of The Willowbrae Institute. Find out more and sign up for our newsletter at our website.

SUBSCRIBE to PostEverything via APPLE or SPOTIFY We all know what it feels like to live in a "liminal age," but describing it is surprisingly difficult. Why? Because it is both an acceleration of something familiar AND it is even more dehumanizing than we thought. In what we hope is an incredibly validating conversation, Brad and John outline the 3 Primary Symptoms of Life in a Liminal Age (Loneliness, Loss of Capacity, and Disorientation) and lay a foundation for a 3-Part mini-series on "remapping culture" in all its surprisingly precedentedimplications... Was this episode helpful or encouraging in some way? Great, you won't want to miss what's next, so subscribe now and send this episode to a friend! Thank you! 🙏 We are just getting started! To stay up to date, first and foremost: subscribe! Then follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to join the dialogue! Resources Watch The (Many) Conspiracy Theories About Denver International Airport Video Read How The Blue Horse ("Blucifer") at DIA Killed it's Creator (no, really) Buy the Faith Among the Faithless Book Buy the You Are Not Your Own Book Buy the Loneliness Epidemic Book Listen to the Everything Just Changed Interview with Chris Bruno Buy the Strong and Weak Book Read the "Locus of Control & Pro-Social Behavior" Study via The National Bureau of Economic Research Read the Earthquake Causes Fluvial Tsunami in Mississippi Article

It's one thing to experience a change in circumstances, but something wholly different when we experience such a fundamental change in values and assumptions that we no longer HAVE a social consensus to fall back on. It's as if the rules of the game changed at half-time, and now we're playing a sport we don't even recognize. Welcome to our "PostEverything" world, where what came before is no longer, but what's next is still very unclear... but not without hope. Was this episode helpful or encouraging in some way? Great, you won't want to miss what's next, so subscribe now and send this episode to a friend! Thank you! 🙏 We are just getting started! To stay up to date, first and foremost: subscribe! Then follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to join the dialogue!

Mark Sayers is the Senior Leader of Red Church and a writer focusing on the intersection between faith and culture. In this episode of Bait & Switch: The State of Pastors and How Ministry Just Changed, Mark joins Bryce and Brad to discuss the direction of the church post-pandemic. Poetically, Mark explains the disconnect most of us experience while living through a pandemic and shares his perspective on the future shift within the church. Mark also shares what it was like being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and how he navigated this part of his journey. Listen now! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Twitter. You can connect with the EJC community in the Everything Just Changed Facebook Group and share with us what just changed for you. We’d love to hear from you! Don’t forget to subscribe to the EJC Newsletter here.

Glenn Packiam is a Pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs and the author of several books. In his most recent, The Resilient Pastor, Glenn outlines four current challenges for pastors and four challenges for the church. Today, we learn what led Glenn to write The Resilient Pastor. He and Bryce dive into the eight challenges presented in the book and look at where we can start reacquainting ourselves with God and what we can do to support pastors (hint: praying for others is a great place to start). Listen now! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Twitter. You can connect with the EJC community in the Everything Just Changed Facebook Group and share with us what just changed for you. We’d love to hear from you! Don’t forget to subscribe to the EJC Newsletter here.

Will Willimon is a Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at Duke Divinity School and joins us for our series, Bait & Switch: The State of Pastors and How Ministry Just Changed. Will discusses pastoral ministry and what our roles as pastors genuinely are. We discuss the need for our churches to recover a biblical understanding of pastoral ministry and the dangers of not doing so. In these talks, we can find and work on solutions to better the well-being of our churches and our pastors. Listen now! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Twitter. You can connect with the EJC community in the Everything Just Changed Facebook Group and share with us what just changed for you. We’d love to hear from you! Don’t forget to subscribe to the EJC Newsletter here.

Jon Medlock is a pastor who now focuses on researching the health of pastors, making him a perfect guest in our series, Bait & Switch: The State of Pastors and How Ministry Just Changed. Today, Jon joins us in continuing our conversation on pastoral burnout. He helps us navigate why this is happening to pastors, discusses tensions most commonly seen in the field, and what we can do to better the well-being of pastors. Listen now for a deep dive into the research on the health of pastors today. To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Twitter. You can connect with the EJC community in the Everything Just Changed Facebook Group and share with us what just changed for you. We’d love to hear from you! Don’t forget to subscribe to the EJC Newsletter here.

Ministry is challenging. Pastors are present for any challenging circumstances that can come up in our lives. In this episode of Everything Just Changed in our series Bait & Switch: The State of Pastors and How Ministry Just Changed, we look at five ideas that could play a role in pastoral burnout. Our goal with these ideas is to bring people together and start the conversation to prepare us for upcoming storms instead of waiting for them to come to us. To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Twitter. You can connect with the EJC community in the Everything Just Changed Facebook Group and share with us what just changed for you. We’d love to hear from you! Don’t forget to subscribe to the EJC Newsletter here. Resources: 38% of U.S. Pastors Have Thought About Quitting Full-Time Ministry in the Past Year The first Christmas as a layperson: Burned out by the pandemic, many clergy quit in the past year Our Pulpits Are Full of Empty Preachers

The pandemic has significantly impacted the church, with pastors reaching their breaking point and considering leaving. Why? What exactly is happening to pastors? This week on Everything Just Changed we launch the first episode in our new series, Bait & Switch: The State of Pastors and How Ministry Just Changed. We hope to reflect on what's changed and how we can move forward, with guests such as Mark Sayers and John Medlock helping us along the way. To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Twitter. You can connect with the EJC community in the Everything Just Changed Facebook Group and share with us what just changed for you. We’d love to hear from you! Don’t forget to subscribe to the EJC Newsletter here. Resources: 38% of U.S. Pastors Have Thought About Quitting Full-Time Ministry in the Past Year The first Christmas as a layperson: Burned out by the pandemic, many clergy quit in the past year Our Pulpits Are Full of Empty Preachers

Thanks for joining us as we've explored the topic of power over the last several months. We hope it’s been helpful for you, we’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, further questions, let us know at our Facebook group! We'll be back soon with a new series...It’s no secret that the church in north America has taken some serious blows over the past couple of years, and we want to try to understand why that is, what’s going on, and especially ask the question of what’s happening to and with pastors. So whether you are a pastor, or you care about pastors, or maybe you’ve got a real problem with the church and its leaders, you won’t want to miss this next series, that’ll be out in a couple of weeks.

How does power relate to our sexuality? How does our sexuality relate to our identity? In many ways, those questions are fundamental to how we think about and engage in the culture war in our time. As conscientious objectors to the culture wars, here at Everything Just Changed, we are trying to find an alternative to navigate and discuss these important and yet very contentious issues—a way that is generous, grounded in grace, and doesn’t involved condemning those we disagree with. Today we’re talking with Jim Pocta about his own story and the way that sexuality has been central in both his life and his work. Jim is a counselor in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and the author of a forthcoming book on Christianity and sexuality. If you're interested in learning more about the PCA's study report on human sexuality that Jim mentions in our conversation, you can find that report, as well as a video summarizing it, here. What changed for you after listening to this conversation? Let us know on our Facebook group.

Today we continue our series on power, talking with Abby Hutto about gender and the role of women in the church. Abby is the author of God for Us: Discovering the Heart of the Father through the Life of the Son and the director of spiritual formation at Story Presbyterian Church in Westerville, Ohio. Connect with Abby at her website. What changed for you after listening to this conversation? Let us know on our Facebook group!

We thought we were wrapping up this series, but as Russia invaded Ukraine last week, we wanted to explore the power dynamics playing out in real time. So we’re talking again with our friend and former Department of Homeland Security official Elizabeth Neuman, about the way disinformation has been used as a weapon of power in the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Join the conversation on our Facebook group and let us know what changed for you after listening to this episode.

We’ve been exploring the issue of power over our last several episodes, and we’re doing this because we want to help Christians and those interested in Christianity learn to steward power wisely, and that means learning to understand and distinguish between what is biblical and theologically driven, on the one hand, and what is merely a cultural assertion. One area where the church has struggled the most to understand and navigate that distinction, is when it comes to the topic of race. Today we're talking with Dr. Alex Jun about race and power, Dr. Jun is a professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, and former moderator of the Presbyterian Church in America. After you've finished the episode, let us know what just changed for you? Head over to our Facebook group and leave us a comment.

With millions of downloads you’ve likely heard of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, a podcast about the abuse of power. But now that it’s over what does its creator, Mike Cosper, think about power? And how did he steward his own cultural power in the midst of telling the story about power’s abuse? This week we're talking with Mike Cosper about the podcast, some of the questions we've wondered about while listening to this story, and about what Mike learned from diving in to the power dynamics at Mars Hill. We'd love to hear from you: What changed for you after listening to this episode? Did your perspective on The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill change after hearing this conversation? And we get ready to wrap up this series on power, what questions are you asking about power, what have we missed? Let us know in our Facebook group.

We’re living in a time where, for some people the concept of truth is merely a power play, while others seek to use truth to advance their own ends. We’re having a series of conversations about power as we seek to understand why power has become such an explosive topic in our time, and we’re hoping to understand what it would look like to recover a Christian approach to power. Today we’re talking with former Department of Homeland Security official Elizabeth Neumann about information and misinformation, and the way information has been marshaled in the service of power in our cultural moment. Join the conversation on our Facebook group and let us know what changed for you after listening to this episode.

Often when we think about power, we think of it only in it’s negative connotations, we think about the misuse of power, and the ways that power is used to hurt others. But what does it looks like, not just to use power in good and life-giving ways, but to redeem power, to correct its misuse? Today Bryce and Brad talk with Dr. Diane Langberg about her new book, Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church. We talk with Dr. Langberg about her work in counseling those who have been the victims of abuse, and about how she maintains hope while walking with others through very difficult circumstance. After you listen to the episode, let us know "what just changed for you?" Leave a comment in our Facebook group and let us know.

This week David French joins us again to help us understand power in a rapidly changing cultural context. And we really want to hear from you.... What changed for you after listening to our conversation with David French? Did you love it, or hate it? Let us know why at our new Facebook group. This will be our last episode for the year, so make sure to subscribe if you haven't already. We'll be back on January 3rd, talking with author and psychologist Dr. Diane Langberg about power and abuse as we continue our series about power, the church, and the culture.

Today we’re talking with Dr. Russell Moore about power in the Christian church, and about the way the church wields power at a time when it seems to be loosing cultural influence. Russell Moore, is Public Theologian at Christianity Today and Director of Christianity Today’s Public Theology Project. The Wall Street Journal has called Moore “vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate.” He was named in 2017 to Politico Magazine’s list of top fifty influence-makers in Washington, and has been profiled by such publications as the Washington Post and the New Yorker. Russell was President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention from 2013 to 2021. Prior to that role, Moore served as provost and dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also taught theology and ethics. Dr. Moore is the author of several books, including The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing Your Soul, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel and The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home. A native Mississippian, he and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons. We want to share with you an advent song that’s related to the themes we’ve discussed today, you can find that by heading over to our new Facebook group or by searching for Everything Just Changed on Facebook