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Podcast: Religion on the Mind
Episode: GGCH: Post-Christian Churches, the New Sober, and Debriefing the Emerged Podcast (#259)
Description: After kicking things off with our usual game of "Bar, Bank, Church or Dispensary?” and “Ways we are becoming our dads” segments, we talked about Josh and Tony's work on the recently concluded Emerged podcast, an ambitious 10-episode series examining the Emerging Church movement. We debated the semantics and cultural implications of the "California sober" lifestyle and whether it really counts as “sober,” getting into the healthcare differences between so-called “abstinence” and “harm reduction” approaches to substance use.Tony told us about his speaking engagements at two "post-Christian spiritual communities" in Gra...