Outchurched

Here we go with Outchurched #5, clocking it at a whopping running time of 42 stupefying minutes, and 55 amazing seconds. :)

Future episodes will likely be a bit shorter, as this one is a bit long.

By John Danforth, former Senator from Missouri and Ambassador to the United Nations, In the Name of Politics: “BY a series of recent initiatives, Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians”

This bit of wonderment is in front of the Church of God in a little town called Zillah… (thanks Nathan Hull for permission to use your photo).

Greetings friends! Ryan and I recorded Outchurched #5 on Monday (the first show in which we openly disagreed, called each other inappropriate names, and tore each other’s hair out), but due to technical issues (corrupted audio! :( ) we had to deep-six it. We’re expecting to re-record it tonight (we had to […]

Slacktivist is talking about a Larry King interview with Rick Warren:

let me pick on Rick Warren for a moment, or at least on something he said the other night. While responding to a question about “spiritual hunger” in America, he said:

“There are really two stories going on in our culture right now. There is […]

Apparently,

even Google has trouble undestanding the name of our site. Ironically, it is coming up with an opposing term- the unchurched are those who’ve never been part of a church, while the outchurched are those who used to go to a church, but no longer.

Not too long ago, I read a book called The Cluetrain Manifesto. In short it is a desription of the new, highly interconnected business world, wherein companies must learn to listen better and to speak more authenically. The mantra of the book seems to be:

Markets are conversations.

Now, from The Cluetrain for Churches:

The following is quoted […]

PCLiberal sent me an interesting link to a Podcast Lawy and Policy Forum blog post called Get Right with Godcasting. There are assertions that Godcasting (doing a podcast on a “religious” topic) is podcasting’s first “killer app.” It’s an interesting thought, however I’ll point out that “dick and fart jokes” are probably podcasting’s […]

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Here it is, three days late, resurrected from technical difficulties… the arisen Outchurched, Episode 4. Running time: 23 exciting minutes, and 38 exhilirating seconds.

In this podcast we discuss/reference (in “Dan is lazy and doing it from memory” order):

Dave Slusher’s Audio Essay: Why I Don’t Believe in God. The Dave McDowell auto accident audio blog/podcast. 1 Corinthians […]