Like Minded Deviants
Like-Minded Deviants with Dr. Lindy Backues, Jon-Michael Odean, and Justin Stewart-Fritz is a podcast that seeks to deviate from the norm. As two of Lindy’s former graduate students, Justin and Jon-Michael bring an extended friendship with him cultivated over years, enriched by their present ministries, life as educators, a good dose of grassroots practitioning, and deep respect as close friends and colleagues. Each week these three come prepared to engage in a provocative conversation. A conversation that intentionally and sometimes irreverently unpacks events and ideas plucked from newspapers and headlines, unashamedly channeling these conversations through a theologically jarring lens.
Like Minded Deviants
Epicurean Paradox: Evil Exists!
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Dr. Lindy Backues, Justin Stewart-Fritz, Jon-Michael Odean
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Season 1
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Episode 3
We’ve got a problem that is bigger than evil. We look around and evil exists - but what do we do with God in the face of evil? This episode dives rather deeply into this dilemma that has haunted thinkers for millennia. If there is evil, how can a loving God stand by? If there is evil, how can a powerful God be loving?
Texts:
- David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).
- Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).
- Stephen Charles Mott, Biblical Ethics and Social Change. Second Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (ISBN: 978-0199739370).
- Walter Wink, The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium. New York: Doubleday, 1999 (ISBN: 9780385487528).
Readings:
‘Biblical Faith and the Reality of Social Evil’, Mott, Chapter 1
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