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Actuali

Christopher Kinley

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Welcome to Actuali! In this podcast we explore the arts of mindfulness, flow, and how to realize one's most authentic self, our Actual-i. From Deep Dives into Life's Greatest Mysteries, to Inspiring Conversations, to Poetics and Guided Meditations, Actuali is dedicated to revealing a clear way to view the world and our place in it. Join us live, streaming every Wednesday 7p EST: https://www.youtube.com/@actuali.podcast Together, we endeavor to change this world from the inside-out! Playing o ...
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Sri Sritha Thayi

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A podcast for the curious, ambitious, multidimensional bliss seekers. Join Sri Sritha Thayi, an Indian born New York based entrepreneur, on an ever evolving quest to uncover the illusions, stories and practices of leaders on their path of self-actualization.
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore crisis of meaning in our world today, and how to help usher in an awakening from it. In this episode we continue our coverage of the shocking, and growing bipartisan revolution of major Democratic figures leaving the party over censorship, lawfare, and endless wars, to form a c…
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We continue our series with Jon DePue (co-author of Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel) about how to interpret specific scripture passages and theological ideas in the new "liberated" way he outlines in the book. Today we talk about "faith" - what does Paul actually mean when he talks about faith? What does it mean for us to have faith?…
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We talked with podcaster, theology nerd, and former pastor Josh Patterson about leaving the pastorate, starting his (Re)thinking Faith podcast, working a "secular" job, and why he's looking forward to Theology Beer Camp (Oct 17-19 in Denver - join us and register using our code GRAVITYHOBBIT to get $50 off registration!). Joshua Patterson is the fo…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore the crisis of meaning in our world today and how to help usher in an awakening from it.In the spirit of bipartisanship and healing of divisions, we cover Tucker Carlson's conversation with former life-long Democrat, RFK Jr., on his recent withdraw from the presidential race and…
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We talked with podcaster and theology nerd Tripp Fuller about the history, mistakes, and legacy of the emerging church movement of the early 2000s, the state of the church and theology right now, and why he's excited about Theology Beer Camp this fall (Oct 17-19 in Denver). Tripp Fuller likes the LA Lakers, beer camps, Illia Delio, the Church, phil…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore crisis of meaning in our world today, and how to help usher in an awakening from it.In this episode we cover a couple talks by Daniel Schmatchenberger, a researcher and prominent thinker in the study of complex systems, systemic change, and civilization design. Daniel is known …
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Khristi Lauren Adams's faith was first shaped by her experiences as a Black girl--learning about Scripture from her grandmother, Mama Hattie; "playing church" with her seven cousins over summer vacation; and grieving the murder of her sixteen-year-old friend when she was just fifteen. In Womanish Theology: Discovering God Through the Lens of Black …
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Registered psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride joins us to talk about all things embodied. In her latest book Practices for Embodied Living: Experiencing the Wisdom of Your Body, McBride offers an experiential guide--centered on prompts, activities, and opportunities for reflection--to support readers who want to practice embo…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore crisis of meaning in our world today, and how to help usher in an awakening from it.In this episode make meaning of the Epstein scandal, and look at everything from how it Melinda Gates admission it was part of the reason for her divorce from Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. Furt…
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We talk with writer and artist Jenai Auman about the experience of being left out or pushed out of the church, and how to find spiritual rest and belonging in a God who loves, restores, and blesses the outcast and the marginalized. In her book Othered: Finding Belonging with the God Who Pursues the Hurt, Harmed, and Marginalized, Jenai draws on her…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore crisis of meaning in our world today, and how to help usher in an awakening from it.In this episode, we continue our dialogue with artist, photographer, and friend of the show, Gary Bergel. We cover more of the unexpected people coming to a love of Christ in our meta-modern age…
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Today we start a new regular series on the podcast, based on our conversation a couple months ago with Jon DePue about Liberating the Gospel from Mere Justification. The paradigm shift in Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel (the book Jon co-authored with Douglas Campbell) is such a big one for most of us that we thought it'd be helpful t…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore crisis of meaning in our culture, and how to help usher in an awakening from it.In this episode, we share in dialogue with artist, photographer, and friend of the show, Gary Bergel, and cover some of the unexpected people, such as former atheists and other great thinkers discus…
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After twenty years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, a global pandemic, protests against racial violence, and frequent shootings, more Americans than ever are living with the effects of trauma. Our conversation with Army veteran and Episcopal priest David Peters helps us see the good news that Jesus was born and died in a traumatized world, and his s…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore crisis of meaning in our culture, and how to help usher in an awakening from it.In light of the recent attempt on Donald Trump's life, we consider how to maintain goodwill and make meaning in these destabilized times.Links for clips in this episode:https://youtu.be/S2lI_5pydKg?…
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Matt and Ben respond to a listener question about finding a place in the body of Christ after clergy sexual abuse. Connect with Gravity Commons: Leave us a message or ask a question about this or any other episode and we'll answer it on a future episode. Join the Gravity Community to interact with other listeners, and get our list of curated links …
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore crisis of meaning in our culture, and how to help usher in an awakening from it.This episode we are joined by Juliana Garces. Juliana is a poet, visionary artist, and plant medicine advocate who specializes in lucid dreaming, astral projection, as well as well as the creation o…
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In the face of the rising threat of Christian Nationalism to both church and democracy, Beau Underwood joins us to talk about how some of the hidden undercurrents are present not just among evangelical Christians, but in the mainline church, which is the theme of the book he co-wrote with Brian Kaylor, Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants He…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how we may help usher in an awakening from it. Clips for this episode:https://youtu.be/XxbqJUxY49A?si=qGezHGODndeJibi1From deep dives into life's greatest mysteries to inspiring conversations, curent events, guided Wim Hof beathing …
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We're starting a Book Club, and you're invited! We talk about why we wanted to do this, how you can be involved, and the first book we'll discuss: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, by journalist Tim Alberta. The Book Club will be a weekly discussion on Fridays at 12pm ET starting August 2, 2024 (re…
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Though evangelicals emphasize fidelity to the gospel above all else, many have fallen in step with "a different gospel" of Christian nationalism. Analyzing Scripture, church history, and current events in the United States and Russia, Joel Looper offers evangelicals a theological rationale for resisting Christian nationalism. Joel Looper teaches at…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how we may help usher in an awakening from it. Links for this episode: Jordan Hall on James Kourtides channel:https://youtu.be/aaOnBhKt1tM?si=cWe70HE7FgSaNAusAlexander Solzhenitsyn's essay 'Live Not by Lies':https://www.solzhenitsyn…
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There is no such thing as substitutionary death sacrifice in the Torah, which changes everything we thought we knew about Jesus's death. The consistent message throughout the entire NT is not that Jesus died instead of us, rather, Jesus dies ahead of us so that we can unite with him and be conformed the image of his death. It's not about substituti…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how we may help usher in an awakening from it. Videos covered in this episode:https://youtu.be/q3i-8JEWSk8?si=xHh2Re0MmJFb0Y-ghttps://youtu.be/UD9IOllUR4k?si=OTUKPmJgbyUFRHv7https://youtu.be/rjFIn7hC14Q?si=_apAIhEDwCB7Beqihttps://yo…
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Welcome to Actuali podcast's Meaning-Making 101 series where we explore the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how we may help usher in an awakening from it. Clips in this episode:Paul king's north how to resist the machinehttps://youtu.be/faaTLrTKwOE?si=FsmF48_2YdRiJIDHRegarding covid lockdown and mass hysteriaNIH official finally admits ta…
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What if obedience is not the goal of Christian parenting? What if it's our job as parents to instead help our kids get to know God and discover that God can be trusted? In her book Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From, pastor and parent Meredith Miller helps families nurture the kind of faith that can flex and grow, be broken…
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Men today are starved for sexual formation. They've been failed by parents, churches, and culture alike, leading to widespread shame, confusion, and brokenness in the area of sexuality. We talked with therapist Sam Jolman about helping men reconnect their God-given sexuality with innocence, awe, and joy, and shows readers how to celebrate--instead …
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Lee C. Camp joins us (again!) for a wide-ranging conversation about human flourishing, habits, ethics, politics, philosophy, and faith. This is Lee's second time on the podcast - we talked with him in 2020 about his book Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manifesto for Christians. Lee C. Camp is an award-winning teacher and Professor of Theolog…
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Welcome back everyone! We are excited to announce that Season 2 of Meaning-Making 101 begins next week 7p EST!Enjoy this short episode where we just share a quick hello to discuss the direction of the cast (towards the end), enjoy some random chit chat discussing the ramifications of a chance meeting between Will Smith and Chris Rock during an alie…
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In a world experiencing turbulent change, we need people who are resilient, kind, open, generous, and brave. How do we become those kinds of people? In Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, popular podcaster Elizabeth Oldfield uses the seven deadly sins as a framework to explore this question. Elizabeth Oldfield hosts The Sacred, a p…
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We talk with spiritual director Terra McDaniel about how to rediscover the lost practice of lament, so we can heal and hope again. Most people don't know how to process personal or communal mourning and instead struggle to honor our tears, vulnerability, and the full weight of these disillusioning times. But tending our grief is exactly what we nee…
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Matt posted something on Facebook recently about people who attempt to "police" those going through deconstruction, who seem to: equate deconstruction with de-conversion, say people deconstruct so they can sin, say people deconstruct to 'be cool or hip or trendy or for street cred', criticize 'giving up' on the local church, and blame deconstructio…
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In their new book Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel, Douglas Campbell and Jon Depue address a growing frustration among many Christians of how to understand what seems to be contradictory messages from Paul about the Gospel. On one hand, Paul usually talks about a participatory, transformational good news full of freedom, resurrection,…
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The fact that "good evangelical Christians are Republican" seems obvious means the propaganda is working. Professor and author Scott Coley helps us understand how evangelicalism became fused with right-wing politics and now presses evangelical theology into the service of authoritarian politics, which he outlines in his new book Ministers of Propag…
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A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread misrepresentation, Rabbi Shai Held, in his book Judaism Is about Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life, recovers the heart of the Jewish tradi…
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In her book Forgiveness After Trauma: A Path to Find Healing and Empowerment, Christian minister and scholar Susannah Griffith explores what the Bible says--and doesn't say--about the biblical call to forgive. She helps readers understand a "trauma-informed forgiveness" that is healing and restorative, framing forgiveness within broader concerns ar…
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American history has profoundly shaped, and been shaped by, Christianity. In her book Turning Points in American Church History: How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith, Dr. Elesha Coffman tells the story of Christianity in the United States by focusing on 13 key events over four centuries of history. Elesha helps us understand our faith and…
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The Beatitudes are some of the most-quoted and least-understood words of Jesus. Pastor and author Ryan Post helps us hear the Beatitudes anew as good news to form us into Christlikeness. Ryan Post is the lead pastor of Village Church in Burbank, CA and the author of Healthy Prayer: Integrating Structure, Silence, and Spontaneity and the book we tal…
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Many Christians and churches are rediscovering that God cares deeply about justice, but opinions abound as to what an approach to biblical justice might look like in contemporary society. We talk with biblical scholar Michael Rhodes about justice-oriented discipleship that is critical for the formation of God's people, which is the theme of his new…
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Children are marginalized in our churches, dismissed into Sunday school or silenced for lengthy sermons aimed at adults. Ryan Stollar has spent his career advocating for the rights of children, and in his book The Kingdom of Children: A Liberation Theology, he proposes a liberation theology of the child, whereby we can avoid stunting their spiritua…
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Welcome to Meaning-Making 101!In this episode we consider the conclusion of Professor John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1aZfZwWJ&si=qjTshSXPpGjWkQE7 Join us as we explore the wisdom of our deep past to understand the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how we…
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Pastor, podcaster, and public theologian Trey Ferguson knows that faith can get messy. In his book Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly, he encourages us to re-engage our imaginations and construct theologies that speak to our current contexts. Our conversation covers topics like how we read the Bible, our inherited trad…
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We talked with biblical scholar Pete Enns about how the Bible actually works, what to do when your faith takes turns you never saw coming, and lots more. This is kind of a mashup conclusion for our past series on the Bible and our series on deconstruction. Pete Enns is the Abram S. Clemens Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University, and th…
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As a Black autistic pastor and disability scholar, Lamar Hardwick lives at the intersection of disability, race, and religion. He wrote How Ableism Fuels Racism: Dismantling the Hierarchy of Bodies in the Church to help Christian communities engage in critical conversations about race by addressing issues of ableism. Lamar Hardwick is the lead past…
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Welcome to Meaning-Making 101!In this series we follow the work of Professor John Vervaeke through his Awakening from the Meaning Crisis series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1aZfZwWJ&si=qjTshSXPpGjWkQE7 Join us as we explore the wisdom of our deep past to understand the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how w…
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There are lots of misconceptions about "deconstruction" (i.e. it's the "easy way out" or a way to avoid accountability). But Angela Herrington, in her new book Deconstructing Your Faith Without Losing Yourself, defines it as healing from religious trauma by releasing harmful beliefs, and accompanies people on that journey in her work. Angela Herrin…
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Many First Nations tribes communicate with the cultural and linguistic thought patterns found in their original tongues. Terry Wildman joins us to talk about The First Nations Version (FNV), his indigenous translation of the New Testament, which recounts the Creator’s Story—the Christian Scriptures—following the tradition of Native storytellers’ or…
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Welcome to Meaning-Making 101! In this series we follow the work of Professor John Vervaeke through his Awakening from the Meaning Crisis series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1aZfZwWJ&si=qjTshSXPpGjWkQE7 Join us as we explore the wisdom of our deep past to understand the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how …
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Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two decades outside of it. In his book Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation, Ward tells the engaging story of his upbringing in, and eventual break from, an influential evangelical church in the 1980s and 1990s. Ward sheds ligh…
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Welcome to Meaning-Making 101!In this series we follow the work of Professor John Vervaeke through his Awakening from the Meaning Crisis series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1aZfZwWJ&si=qjTshSXPpGjWkQE7 Join us as we explore the wisdom of our deep past to understand the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how w…
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