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Beach Talk #64 - 2021 Retro: Reflections on a Year Gone By

Podcast Show Notes

Five top items for 2021 – Ken

NUMBER 1: NEWS Events – Conviction – Derek Chauvin – April 2021

  • George Floyd –
  • Darcy
  • Center for Racial Reconciliation –

In the running – 

  1. Simon Biles – Olympics 2021 – Mental Health
  2. Beth Moore – leaving the SBC
  3. George Floyd Square
  4. The collapse of Surfside Condominium in FL – JUN 2021
  5. Texas Abortion Ban – Culture Wars

 

NUMBER 2: Books. Timothy Eagan – Pilgrimmage to Eternity

In the running – 

  • Colson Whitehead – Underground Railroad
  • Brian McLaren – Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It
  • Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens – a Brief History of Humankind
  • Erik Larson – Devil in White City
  • Wholehearted Faith – Rachel Held Evans
  • Randall Balmer – Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right
  • Andy Wells – Tried to be Straight
  • Beth Allison Barr – The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
  • Anthea Butler – White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
  • Charles King – Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
  • Ken Follett – The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge Book 4)

 

NUMBER 3: FILMS/Podcasts/Documentary/Series – RISE AND FALL of MARS HILL –

  • hubris of Evangelicalism
  • Christianity Today
  • Mark Driscoll… Unaccountable leaders; meg-church
  • Jesus and John Wayne…
  • Josh Harris – Purity Culture
     

In the running – 

  • Southlake – Culture Wars – CRT debate
  • Spencer – Lady Diana
  • West Side Story – Steven Sondheim
  • Respect – Aretha Franklin – Jennifer Hudson
  • Judas and the Black Messiah – Fred Hampton – late 60s, Black Panther era
  • The Black Church Docu-series on NPR
  • Don’t Look Up – NETFLIX Leo DiCaprio
  • Impeachment: American Crime Story – Monica Lewinsky
  • Pray Away – Netflix – Reparative therapy
  • Ken Burns Mohammed Ali

 

NUMBER 4: Table Talk – Disruptive Peacemakers

  • Podcast series Seeing White –
  • Small Group – group members – Disruptive Peacemakers

 

NUMBER 5: BWM PODCASTS – Brian McLaren – deconstruct/reconstruct

In the running – 

  • Yancey/Balmer – SEPT 2021

  • Kristin Kobes Dumez

  • Brad Onishi

  • Diana Butler Bass

  • Nathaniel Manderson

  • Two Kens Series…

  • David Giushee

Poem

Each night a child is born is a holy night

 
by Sophia Lyon Fahs
 
For so the children come
And so they have been coming.
Always in the same way they come
Born of the seed of man and woman.
No angels herald their beginnings,
no prophets predict their future courses.
No wise men see a star to show
where to find the babe
that will save humankind.
Yet each night a child is born is a holy night,
Fathers and mothers —
Sitting beside their children’s cribs
Feel glory in the sight of a new life beginning.
They ask, “Where and how will this new life end?
Or will it ever end?”
Each night a child is born is a holy night —
A time for singing,
A time for wondering,
A time for worshiping.
 
 Thank you, Mari!

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