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BANNED QUESTIONS interview with Becky Garrison I talked recently with Becky Garrison, religious satirist, recent author of JESUS DIES FOR THIS? and contributor to the BANNED QUESTIONS series. We hit on several issues that mainline churches are wrestling with around sex, sexuality and social justice. Becky shared her views about Sojourners Magazine’s decision not to run an ad in a recent issue [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My radio interview about alternative media (Marh 9, 2011) This is from a radio show I was invited to be a part of on KCSJ 590 AM in Pueblo Colorado with Randy Thurston called “Pueblo Now.” The topic was alternative media voices and why they are important for consumers and to encourage a vital community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Banned Question #2: Aren’t Women Treataed Poorly in the Bible? @font-face { font-family: “Cambria”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } We look at another question presented in the forthcoming book, BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE: Aren’t women treated poorly throughout the bible? Why would any intelligent modern woman today even [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Banned Questions About the Bible - Question 1 This podcast explores the first question presented in the forthcoming book, BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE: Can I be a Christian if I don’t believe the Bible is perfect, handed down directly from God to humanity without error? To receive a 40% discount on pre-orders of both upcoming Banned Questions books, visit www.chalicepress.com, keyword search “Banned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Privilege, Power, Politicas and Peace: My keynote in Vegas The following is an edited-down version of the keynote lecture I gave to the Young Adults Disciples gathering in Las Vegas in October, 2010. The message discusses privilege, what it means to be white, the nature of violence, and how we can creatively respond to systems of oppression and injustice without responding in kind with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DO OVER - Christian’s Milagro Sermon 9-5-10 Here’s my message, “DO OVER” offered at Milagro Christian Church in Pueblo, Colorado on Sunday, September 5th, 2010. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We’re all Social Justice Christians An audio-only version of my video responding to recent criticism of so-called Social Justice Christians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My thoughts on the LOST TV finale For those who don’t follow my videos on my Youtube channel, here is an audio-only of my analysis of the LOST series finale, as it relates particularly to the chapters outlined in my book, LOST: A Search for Meaning. Incidentally, Chalice Press is running a post-series special on my LOST book, offering six copies for $35 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Authentic Worship (sermon) I know, this isn’t me even though it’s my podcast once again, but it was a great day for our church. Wanted to share. On Sunday, April 25th, 2010, Jose Morales Jr. our denomination’s Transitional Regional Minister, offered the message at Milagro Christian Church in Pueblo, Colorado. The title of his sermon is “Authentic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An emerging voice in the Christian Movement A friend of mine, Jarrod McKenna is a self-described Peace Activist and is one of a handful of voices today that is helping to present a radically new perspective - at least compared with modern culture - on how to live out the values of the Christian faith. Jarrod is a contributor to two of my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milagro’s Easter Service, April 2010 We usually record and podcast the sermons at Milagro Christian Church, the church my wife, Amy, and I started in our home six years ago. But since it was Easter and we had such a great time, we thought we’d share the whole service. If you want to know more about Milagro, visit www.milagrocc.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time, Death and the Brain My latest podcast, which looks at why time seems to pass more quickly as we get older, and why our brains may be to blame. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two short pieces For this podcast, I read two columns I recently published in PULP. The first one, called “Admitting Powerlessness,” recalls a recent experience when my wife and kids were in a serious wreck while I was out of town. The second, called “Is Christianity in the Closet?” is a discussion of why so many who embrace the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My talk with Ryan (Born Tiffany) part 2: BE A MAN series This is the second installment in a two-part interview I conducted with Ryan, who was born as Tiffany, about what it means to be a man. This is part of my ongoing research for a book I am currently writing called BE A MAN: A quest for the spirit of the postmodern male. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My talk with Ryan (born Tiffany), Pt. 1 of 2: BE A MAN series This is the first podcast in an ongoing series for a book I’m researching, called BE A MAN: A quest for the spirit of the postmodern male. The following is part one in a two-part interview I did with Ryan, who was born as Tiffany, about what he believes it means to be a man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revolution (S’aint NEW Spoken Word) I wrote this spoken word piece called “Revolution” when keynoting a high school youth camp last summer and it’s stuck with me since then. So I finally decided to do some solo spoken word work (S’aint is my solo moniker) and figured I’d play with this one. I recorded this at home with my hand-held recorder [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collapse (Spoken Word) Here’s another cut, done here as a solo bit, but also performed in another version on my site from my spoken word and freestyle jazz album, “An Improvised Faith” by S’aint Trio. It’s called “Collapse.” You can check out the whole album by clicking the CD Baby link on my website at www.christianpiatt.com, or you can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collapse (Spoken Word) Here’s another cut from my spoken word and freestyle jazz album, “An Improvised Faith” by S’aint Trio. It’s called “Collapse.” You can check out the whole album by clicking the CD Baby link on my website at www.christianpiatt.com, or you can find it on iTunes. Dig. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milagro’s Giveaway Story Milagro Christian Church is committed to giving ourselves away in love to the community. But instead of telling people, we’d rather show them. We’ve had so many questions about our monthly giveaways that we decided to record one as a podcast story, so people can get a better idea of what goes on for themselves. It’s our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Four-Letter Word (Sermon) A message about the most dangerous four-letter word in the English language. This is a sermon I offered at Milagro Christian Church in Pueblo Colorado and at Lee’s Summit Christian Church in Missouri, both in August. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTF Chat Part 3 - Faith, Politics and Race This is the final episode of a three-part conversation between me an Brandon, Gilvin, my co-creator and co-editor of the WTF? (Where’s the Faith?) book series, coming in February from Chalice Press. We talk about SPLIT TICKET, the second book in the series coming in fall, 2010, about faith and politics. We also talk about the third [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTF Chat 2 - Faith and Sex Part two (of three) of my chat with my co-creator and co-editor of the WTF? (Where’s the Faith?) young adult books series. The focus in this episode is on the first book in the series, coming out in February, 2010 (Chalice Press) called Oh God, Oh God, OH GOD about faith, sex, sexuality and embodiment [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website WTF Chat, Part 1 I spent some time recently in Kansas City with Brandon Gilvin, my co-editor and co-creator of the WTF? (Where’s the Faith?) book series with Chalice Press.The series focuses on issues of faith and “real life” that young adults contend with in today’s world. In this first of three parts, we talked about some cultural markers that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Live Concert in Lee’s Summit, MO I traveled recently to a church in Lee’s Summit, Missouri to help lead a fall kickoff festival for Lee’s Summit Christian Church (DOC). After leading workshops, meeting with leadership and preaching, I got a chance to offer a concert Sunday night to close out the weekend. This podcast is an abbreviated version of that concert - [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Porn Nation This podcast is taken from a chapter I wrote for a forthcoming book by Chalice Press called Oh God, Oh God, OH GOD! which deals with a wide range of topics on faith and sexuality. The book is due out February, 2010, and is the first volume in the new WTF? (Where’s the Faith?) book [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bridging the Gap This is an adaptation of one of my wife, Amy’s recent messages about social justice and where people who claim a faith belong. Definitely worth sharing beyond our church walls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Canaan’s Wall: from my CD You can find the whole CD on my website, or you can search my name in iTunes, Amazon or other MP3 download sites. But for now, here’s a free sample. This is probably a favorite of mine right now. I wrote this about a year ago, and it continues to grow on me. Enjoy. Christian Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All or not at all part 2 Second half of my two-part interview with Josh Einsohn, Hollywood casting director and social activist. Josh founded www.AllOrNotAtAll.org in response to the passage of Proposition 8 in California. We talk about life in tinseltown, how his faith informed his worldview, and growing up a gay Jewish kid in the Texas Bible Belt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All or not at all part 1 Part one of my discussion with Josh Einsohn, Hollywood casting director and founder of www.AllOrNotAtAll.org, a civil rights orgnaization created in response toe the passage of California’s proposition 8. We talk about becoming a social activist, how his faith affected his worldview, and what it was like growing up a gay Jewish kid in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Fat Jesus Head podcast, Part 3 Part three of the discussion between me and my wife, Rev. Amy Piatt, about the insanity and joy of starting a new church, balancing a call to ministry with a regular life, and a wild kid named Bob. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big, Fat Jesus Head, Part 2 Part two of my wife, Amy, and me talking about the insanity of starting a new church, how we learned what not to do from previous experience, and just what it means to be a big, fat Jesus head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big, Fat Jesus Head, Part 2 Part two of my wife, Amy, and me talking about the insanity of starting a new church, how we learned what not to do from previous experience, and just what it means to be a big, fat Jesus head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big, Fat Jesus Head, Part 1 My wife, Amy, and I talk about the insanity of starting a new church, how we learned what not to do from previous experience, and just what it means to be a big, fat Jesus head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big, Fat Jesus Head, Part 1 My wife, Amy, and I talk about the insanity of starting a new church, how we learned what not to do from previous experience, and just what it means to be a big, fat Jesus head. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hair: Jazz & Spoken Word piece I’ve recently released two CDs on CD Baby, iTunes, etc. One is my acoustic singer/songwriter stuff, and the other is a spoken word and jazz improv project, called S’aint Trio. Though you can pull samples from CD Baby, iTunes and Amazon MP3, they’re only 30 seconds long, so I thought I’d post a full track, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hair: Jazz & Spoken Word piece I’ve recently released two CDs on CD Baby, iTunes, etc. One is my acoustic singer/songwriter stuff, and the other is a spoken word and jazz improv project, called S’aint Trio. Though you can pull samples from CD Baby, iTunes and Amazon MP3, they’re only 30 seconds long, so I thought I’d post a full track, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hair: Jazz & Spoken Word piece I’ve recently released two CDs on CD Baby, iTunes, etc. One is my acoustic singer/songwriter stuff, and the other is a spoken word and jazz improv project, called S’aint Trio. Though you can pull samples from CD Baby, iTunes and Amazon MP3, they’re only 30 seconds long, so I thought I’d post a full track, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Faith Story - from my book, Amy and I wrote a book, titled MySpace to Sacred Space: God for a New Generation, about young adult spirituality. One of the main points of the book is that we need connection to one another through our stories, so i figured it made sense to tell my own. This podcast is an excerpt of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Faith Story - from my book, Amy and I wrote a book, titled MySpace to Sacred Space: God for a New Generation, about young adult spirituality. One of the main points of the book is that we need connection to one another through our stories, so i figured it made sense to tell my own. This podcast is an excerpt of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GOALIE Audio Chapter 5: Violent Creation This chapter is about the birth of my oldest son, Mattias, which did not go the way we had planned.  Going through a relatively traumatic birth experience is not only enough to make one think twice about having more kids; it’s also enough to put any guy off vaginas for a good, long while. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GOALIE Audio Chapter 5: Violent Creation This chapter is about the birth of my oldest son, Mattias, which did not go the way we had planned.  Going through a relatively traumatic birth experience is not only enough to make one think twice about having more kids; it’s also enough to put any guy off vaginas for a good, long while. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulling the Goalie Chapter 4 This latest chapter is about raising a son who has abilities I can hardly understand, let alone match. How do we raise children who are smarter than we are? How do we earn respect without leaning on being bigger, louder or stronger? Hell if I know, but listen anyway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulling the Goalie Chapter 4 This latest chapter is about raising a son who has abilities I can hardly understand, let alone match. How do we raise children who are smarter than we are? How do we earn respect without leaning on being bigger, louder or stronger? Hell if I know, but listen anyway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulling the Goalie audio chapter three My reading of the third chapter in my book, PULLING THE GOALIE: MY LESSON IN HOW BABIES ARE MADE…AGAIN. In this chapter, titled “What Could Go Wrong?” I list the top ten neuroses that I obsess about when considering having a second child. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulling the Goalie audio chapter three My reading of the third chapter in my book, PULLING THE GOALIE: MY LESSON IN HOW BABIES ARE MADE…AGAIN. In this chapter, titled “What Could Go Wrong?” I list the top ten neuroses that I obsess about when considering having a second child. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulling the Goalie audio chapter two This is an audio version of the second chapter of my recently completed book, PULLING THE GOALIE: My Lesson in How Babies are Made…Again. As noted in chapter one, there’s some adult content, so if you’re easily injured, offended, experience seizures or other unpleasant reactions when exposed to four-letter words, listen at your own risk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulling the Goalie audio chapter two This is an audio version of the second chapter of my recently completed book, PULLING THE GOALIE: My Lesson in How Babies are Made…Again. As noted in chapter one, there’s some adult content, so if you’re easily injured, offended, experience seizures or other unpleasant reactions when exposed to four-letter words, listen at your own risk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulling the Goalie audio chapter one An audio reading of chapter one from my newest book project, titled “Pulling the Goalie: My Lesson in How Babies are Made…Again.” The book is about the journey my wife and I took in deciding to have a second child. There is plenty of humor, irreverence, and some adult content, so don’t say I didn’t warn [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pulling the Goalie audio chapter one An audio reading of chapter one from my newest book project, titled “Pulling the Goalie: My Lesson in How Babies are Made…Again.” The book is about the journey my wife and I took in deciding to have a second child. There is plenty of humor, irreverence, and some adult content, so don’t say I didn’t warn [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website