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.
Episodes
28 episodes
A Language for Growth: Attempting to Name the Mystical
In previous episodes we have suggested the importance to push beyond deconstruction into a process of reconstruction. We believe such a move to not only be possible, but helpful. What does such a move look like? How can we tal...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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55:49
Evangelicalism Part 5: Moving to Reconstruct through Streams of Mysticism
Over the course of this season, we have been making a case for deconstruction of the traditional Evangelical faith system. We have been saying that healthy moves and progress are often found as one throws off the legalism and the surveillance m...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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57:22
Evangelicalism Part 4: Deconstruction Continued; Moving from Fundamentalist to Secularist, Arriving at the Mystical
Deconstruction is a word that one finds floating around in Christian circles quite a bit lately. For some, the term promises liberating possibilities, an open door allowing fresh air into a context that has long felt stifled. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:01:12
Evangelicalism Part 3: Deconstruction
Get ready for part 3 of our Evangelicalism series where JM, JSF, and Dr. Lindy Backues discuss deconstruction in light of our context in Evangelical America today. This conversation ranges from discussing why deconstruction can sometimes ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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56:08
Evangelicalism Part 2: What's up with "Christianese"? The language of Evangelicalism in America; why it matters and the baggage it brings.
Join us for our first Friday release for the second episode in the "Evangelicalism" module, where Lindy, JSF, and JM dive deep into a conversation on "Christianese" in America today (yes we know--very "meta'). It is commonplace knowledg...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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52:32
Evangelicalism Part 1: Examine the Lens. What is it? Where's your starting point?
Welcome back for season 2 of the Like-Minded Deviants Podcast! We begin season 2 with the first in our multi-episode module on Evangelism. In this episode, we take a biographical and personal look at what has come to be called Evangelic...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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51:59
Season 2 preview! New Episodes Soon.
Join us for our Preview for season 2 of Like-Minded Deviants as we loop you in for a few program updates, and release schedule as we get set for season 2! We are so excited to be back and look forward to our first module rel...
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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6:16
BONUS EPISODE! BAR Talk: The conversation after class and on-tap. Reflecting on the season... and what comes next!
Join us for our last episode of the first season – appropriately themed Bar-Talk episode as we reflect on the season as a whole, its impact on us, and what we have in store for season 2. In these episodes we connect for a lower key/more relaxed...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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1:07:34
The Answer: The Church...Christian Community as a Counter Force?
Throughout this season we have arrived at the idea that the Church is not in itself the Reign of God, but the Reign of God is both its starting point and its goal. So that leads us to the question, how does the Church (as God’s idea) address th...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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48:09
Toolbox Episode! Macro-Economics Part 2: A Theological Critique and the Environmental Crisis
Join us for the second part, and main conversation in our "Toolbox"* episode, where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Macro-Economics, our Metaphors, the environmental crisis, Globalization, Internationalization, and The Pa...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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52:39
Bookshelf Episode! Macro-Economics Part 1: What Is It?
Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Macro-Economics. Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmdFacebook: facebook.com/LMDPodWeb: lmdpod.buzzsprout.comEmail: lmdpod@gmail.com
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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22:27
Toolbox Episode! Socialism Part 2: A Theological Critique
Join us for the second episode of our new "Toolbox"* where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Socialism and The Pathetic God.Bob Goudzwaard, Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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48:52
Bookshelf Episode! Socialism Part 1: What is it?
Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Socialism.Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmdFacebook: facebook.com/LMDPodWeb: lmdpod.buzzsprout.comEmail: lmdpod@gmail.com
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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21:12
Toolbox Episode! Capitalism Part 2: A Theological Critique
Join us for the first of our new "Toolbox"* For a theological engagement and critique of Capitalism and The Pathetic God.Ellul, Jacques, Money and Power. Second Edition, Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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50:09
Bookshelf Episode! Capitalism Part 1: What Is It?
Join us for the first of our new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Capitalism. Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmdFacebook: facebook.com/LMDPodWeb: lmdpod.buzzsprout.comEmail: lmdpod@gmail.c...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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18:56
Principles for Economic Life: Stewardship
In the Church today there is confusion as to how storied, biblical truth might be translated into principles, themes, and motifs that later can be applied to the world that surrounds us. Like finding a common note in a song, or a common i...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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53:03
The Kingdom of God
What is the goal of all of this? Where was Jesus headed? If we are to offer grace as God offered grace, if we are to love in a way that aligns with the Cross, if we are to be just in a way that frees the chains of the poor, how does...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:00:54
Justice Part 2: Tangible Justice!
Justice is a concept, a concept that can be very theoretical and abstract. But, we must ask ourselves, what does justice look like?Justice - like everything else we examine - must look like Jesus! Jesus ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:04:14
Justice Part 1: What Is It?
The word justice appears in a lot of places in the biblical record. As a community seeking to follow the pattern of Jesus – a community attempting to live in a way that is Christomporphic, that is ‘in the shape of Jesus’ – we must put the...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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50:32
Love?! What Does That Even Look Like?!
So many of our popular songs, hit movies, favorite poems, social media spin around us the notion of love. We all teach about love, sing about love, long for love, shoot--we even cry out for love! That being so, surely we must know what lo...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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51:58
Grace: Response Ethics to the Divine Act
Episode 8 – Response Ethics to the Divine Act (Grace)In this episode we begin to address the problems (of evil) that we looked at in previous episodes. If we take our previous conversations seriously, we will notice we are a bit st...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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48:58
BONUS EPISODE! BAR Talk: The conversation after class and on-tap!
Join us for our first (of many) Bonus Episodes. This time we connect for lower key/more relaxed conversation, what we like to call, the conversation after the class--and this time in a much-enjoyed bar talk! So please, go grab a drink and join ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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56:26
Epicurean Redux!
Epicurean Redux: The Pathetic God?! We take a renewed look at the Epicurean dilemma: what needs to give? Is God loving but not powerful? Is God powerful but not loving? Neither loving or powerful? Is there anoth...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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43:05