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Desert Voices: Critical Thinking to Cultivate Well-Being31 - Colby Martin on Deconstructing, Shifting, Allyship & John PiperColby is a badass in the deconstruction world. His work on shifting in our faith has been invaluable to Holland and me. His friendship is a gift, and his voice is clear. Join in the conversation as we talk through not only DECONSTRUCTING our faith but WHAT NOW...reconstructing it. Colby shares from his work "The Shift," we ponder the similarities between John Piper and Trump and talk through what allyship looks like as he learns to use his cisgender, heterosexual, white male social location to advocate on behalf of the queer community and women.I...2021-04-271h 05Desert Voices: Critical Thinking to Cultivate Well-Being30 - Partnership & Shifting Faith - Part 2Holland and I continue the conversation with our partners. We are often asked if we shifted in our faith at the same rate or pace as our partners...spoiler alert, NO! Join us as we talk with our spouses, Sam and Chad, in these two episodes. We talk about how we have all shifted in our faith at different times, in different ways, and to different degrees. It is not easy, and also it is HOLY. Once you leave a paradigm where unity meant conformity and compliance, what does partnership look like if you don't believe the s...2021-04-1350 minDesert Voices: Critical Thinking to Cultivate Well-Being29 - Partnership & Shifting Faith - Part 1Holland and I are often asked if we shifted in our faith at the same rate or pace as our partners...spoiler alert, NO! Join the conversation with our spouses, Sam and Chad, in these two episodes. We talk about how we have all shifted in our faith at different times, in different ways, and to different degrees. It is not easy, and also it is HOLY. Once you leave a paradigm where unity meant conformity and compliance, what does partnership look like if you don't believe the same anymore? We don't offer answers... we offer our s...2021-04-1344 minDesert Voices: Critical Thinking to Cultivate Well-Being22 - Prophetic Imagination with Micah Bournes - Part 2One of our favorite resources - Walter Bruggeman - writes, “The imagination is defined as nothing less than ‘the magnificent cause of being.’ Clearly, human transformative activity depends upon a transformed imagination...What the prophetic tradition knows is that it could be different, and the difference can be enacted.”What is the difference you imagine? We imagine a world, a spirituality, that values collaborative power, equity, justice, reconciliation, embodiment, connection, and human flourishing for ALL humankind. It is possible...if only we can first imagine it. We are fu...2021-02-1046 minDesert Voices: Critical Thinking to Cultivate Well-Being21 - Prophetic Imagination with Micah Bournes - Part 1One of our favorite resources - Walter Bruggeman - writes, “The imagination is defined as nothing less than ‘the magnificent cause of being.’ Clearly, human transformative activity depends upon a transformed imagination...What the prophetic tradition knows is that it could be different, and the difference can be enacted.”What is the difference you imagine? We imagine a world, a spirituality, that values collaborative power, equity, justice, reconciliation, embodiment, connection, and human flourishing for ALL humankind. It is possible...if only we can first imagine it. We are fu...2021-02-091h 01