Episodes
Monday Jul 06, 2020
TalkBack: Walk The Earth 3
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Being active in a church, really active, often involves a spoken or unspoken expectation of very steady attendance. Learning what other churches and denominations are doing can be challenging, if not impossible, in such circumstances. The initial phase of "walking the earth" was eye-opening for this reason. Even the definition of "sermon" raised immediate questions. The first two episodes in Walk The Earth covered what I considered to be easy questions. This question was the first that led me to think I ought to record my answers.
http://www.inappropriateconversations.org/e/walk-the-earth-3/
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
TalkBack: Walk The Earth 30
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
My first of more public commitments to being an ally was the weekend of August 28, 2015, in Las Vegas. Walk The Earth 30 is a recording of a live podcast at Pride48 that year. For me, this moment was historic.
http://www.inappropriateconversations.org/e/walk-the-earth-30/
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Talkback: Walk The Earth 2
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
As the old saying goes: the church is not a building; the church is the people. Well, I've been interacting with some of those people in new/old ways lately. The early episode of Walk The Earth was about walking away from one congregation. We had not yet found a new one yet. Now, years later, the church I've since joined is planning to start a podcast. Some of our sessions have been planning, others recording. I'll share links to Harmony Springs Gives Voice when podcasts are posted, probably on TalkBacks like this one. I've also recently joined a panel discussion on the podcast This Week In Gay with religious freedom/liberty among the topics. I'll share that the same way at the appropriate time.
For now, I did need to define "church" if I wanted to talk about walking away from one, either permanently or on the way to something better.
http://www.inappropriateconversations.org/e/walk-the-earth-2/
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
TalkBack: Walk The Earth 1
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
When a new member of a church pledges to join a congregation, the public statement is often about supporting the church with prayers, presence, gifts, and service. At the point of deciding to leave a particular church, though, that pledge gets called into question. For some, leaving a congregation can reflect an abandonment of everything, all of that plus belief itself. For my family, though, the tension was more about whether the commitment was to a particular local church or something different, something more.
This episode, #wte 001, started the series of questions in a spinoff podcast of Inappropriate Conversations
simply called Walk The Earth.
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Walk The Earth 58
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Wednesday Feb 12, 2020
Whether a mission statement is necessary, and what role does it play in the mission itself?
July 2010 on Inappropriate Conversations
A conversation from before Inappropriate Conversations existed
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Walk The Earth 57
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Whether spirituality has become a private matter because churches are using spirituality to attack and exclude?
Saturday Aug 03, 2019
Walk The Earth 56
Saturday Aug 03, 2019
Saturday Aug 03, 2019
Whether "ghosting" is an appropriate alternative to an exit interview when severing ties?
Pride48 2019 NOLA Schedule