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.

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Like Minded Deviants

The Evil Acts of God

June 29, 2021 • Dr. Lindy Backues, Justin Stewart-Fritz, Jon-Michael Odean • Season 1 • Episode 4

Evil is bigger than humanity - seeing as how there is a cosmic side to evil, how should we fit that into our theology? Here we take a broader look at the brokenness of creation and the problem this presents for those of us who wish to stand before a just God.

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