Rafe Kelley | Training Our Bodies to Pursue the Highest Good

Deep Talks: Exploring Theology and Meaning Making

Rafe Kelley, founder of Evolve Move Play, discusses the transformative benefits of physical fitness and embodied spiritual disciplines. He shares about his unique upbringing in the counterculture and how it has shaped his current interest in ancient Christian ideas and the intersection of myth and science. Rafe's work explores the value of physical discipline in character transformation.
He's been featured on Paul VanderKlay, John Vervaeke, Jordan B. Peterson, Jonathan Pageau, and many other podcasts.

Find out more about Rafe Kelley at:
https://www.evolvemoveplay.com/rafe-kelley/

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:27 - Rafe's unique upbringing
17:01 - Wrestling with our pictures of Christ
21:40 - Modern Gnosticism & the Proper Valuing of our Bodies
33:52 - Physical Participation in Pentecostal & Charismatic Christianity
39:20 - Navigating Sexual Ethics in Counterculture & Religious Communities
44:37 - Original Sin, Religious Myth, and our Evolutionary "Hardware"
54:26 - Finding a Shared Pursuit in a Religiously Pluralistic Society
59:44 - Christianity, Group Selection, and Empire
01:12:31 - Pagan Resurgence plays on the Sex & Violence Hardware
01:21:58 - Rafe Kelley reflects on @JordanBPeterson ARC project
01:29:30 - Sin is Pursuing a Mistaken Good
01:35:29 - Becoming Christ-like without Orthodox Beliefs?
01:46:50 - Young Men Yearn for Courageous Practices