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Improv Exchange PodcastEpisode #163: Corey BernhardKeyboardist, producer, composer and house musician for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s band, Corey Bernhard will release his sophomore solo full-length album exploring themes of faith, God, love, and loss, A Blessed Leap into Eternity via Birdbrain Records on January 24, 2025. The seven original songs on the album are a sprawling, experimental, folk jazz suite rooted in Bernhard’s love of jazz, hip-hop, improvisation, and indie rock and he worked closely with engineer Michael Cumming (Sun Ra Arkestra, Odean Pope, Lotus, Orion Sun) in the engineer’s Kensington studio, Treacle Mine. “Michael and I were constantly experimenting with differen...2024-12-0247 min
Like Minded DeviantsA Language for Growth: Attempting to Name the MysticalIn previous episodes we have suggested the importance to push beyond deconstruction into a process of reconstruction. We believe such a move to not only be possible, but helpful. What does such a move look like? How can we talk about it, what sort of language best helps us to identify such a disruptive yet exciting process?Join us in this episode as we focus on the sort of speech that can help us better understand the process of deconstruction and reconstruction, outlining the helpful "messiness" that characterizes the non-binary speech we recommend for helping us understand the...2022-08-2555 minLike Minded DeviantsEvangelicalism Part 5: Moving to Reconstruct through Streams of MysticismOver the course of this season, we have been making a case for deconstruction of the traditional Evangelical faith system. We have been saying that healthy moves and progress are often found as one throws off the legalism and the surveillance mentality found in much of American Evangelical faith systems. Maturity can result in the loss of a person's cherished Evangelical faith system, landing the journeyer in a place of skepticism, doubt, and secularism. As we have said, this can be a move toward health and growth. However, there is still room to move on through secularism/skepticism toward...2022-06-2257 minLike Minded DeviantsEvangelicalism Part 4: Deconstruction Continued; Moving from Fundamentalist to Secularist, Arriving at the MysticalDeconstruction is a word that one finds floating around in Christian circles quite a bit lately. For some, the term promises liberating possibilities, an open door allowing fresh air into a context that has long felt stifled. For others, the deconstruction process is dangerous, something that provokes deep anxiety, a move that threatens an unnecessary (and perhaps heretical) dismantling of valuable, historic non-negotiables at the heart of the Christian faith.With that in mind, in this episode, we invite YOU along for a closer look at the deconstruction process. We explore some of its con...2022-05-171h 01Like Minded DeviantsEvangelicalism Part 3: DeconstructionGet ready for part 3 of our Evangelicalism series where JM, JSF, and Dr. Lindy Backues discuss deconstruction in light of our context in Evangelical America today. This conversation ranges from discussing why deconstruction can sometimes be healthy to a deep dive into the phenomenon itself in with helpful language to make sense of its natural place within a faith journey. As always we want these to be informed by YOU, so let us know what you think, send us your thoughts, and we may even try a few! Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmd2022-05-0256 minLike Minded DeviantsEvangelicalism Part 2: What's up with "Christianese"? The language of Evangelicalism in America; why it matters and the baggage it brings.Join us for our first Friday release for the second episode in the "Evangelicalism" module, where Lindy, JSF, and JM dive deep into a conversation on "Christianese" in America today (yes we know--very "meta'). It is commonplace knowledge that how we as humans talk and the language we use affects how we see the world around us. In short, the language we use helps shape the way we experience life. An offshoot of this is – especially for those of us from the Evangelical world – the language we use easily ends up walling us off from real l...2022-03-1852 minLike Minded DeviantsEvangelicalism Part 1: Examine the Lens. What is it? Where's your starting point?Welcome back for season 2 of the Like-Minded Deviants Podcast! We begin season 2 with the first in our multi-episode module on Evangelism. In this episode, we take a biographical and personal look at what has come to be called Evangelicalism in the West--predominantly the cultural phenomena in the United States. Where did it come from? What was it in response to? What did it do? How has it changed? JM and JSF give us some insight into their own family histories as they have woven in and out of the history of Evangelicalism over the last sever...2022-03-0151 minLike Minded DeviantsSeason 2 preview! New Episodes Soon.Join us for our Preview for season 2 of Like-Minded Deviants as we loop you in for a few program updates, and release schedule as we get set for season 2! We are so excited to be back and look forward to our first module releasing in the near future!We have been so excited by the response to our podcast and we want these to be informed by YOU, so let us know what you think, send us your thoughts, we may even try a few! Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmdFace...2022-02-1506 minLike Minded DeviantsThe Answer: The Church...Christian Community as a Counter Force?Throughout this season we have arrived at the idea that the Church is not in itself the Reign of God, but the Reign of God is both its starting point and its goal. So that leads us to the question, how does the Church (as God’s idea) address the ‘crackedness’ of the cosmos (the problem of evil we explored at the beginning of the season)? How does it ‘dramatize’ and manifest grace, love, justice, and the dream of God? Join us this week in our final content episode of the season (paired with a Bar-Talk episode) as we examin...2021-10-0648 minLike Minded DeviantsBONUS EPISODE! BAR Talk: The conversation after class and on-tap. Reflecting on the season... and what comes next!Join us for our last episode of the first season – appropriately themed Bar-Talk episode as we reflect on the season as a whole, its impact on us, and what we have in store for season 2. In these episodes we connect for a lower key/more relaxed conversation, what we like to call, the conversation after the class! So feel free to grab a drink and join us!As a bonus episode, we want these to be informed by YOU, so let us know what you think while we have some fun and take a few liberties wi...2021-10-061h 07Like Minded DeviantsBookshelf Episode! Macro-Economics Part 1: What Is It?Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Macro-Economics. Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmdFacebook: facebook.com/LMDPodWeb: lmdpod.buzzsprout.comEmail: lmdpod@gmail.com*Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of the "Bookshelf" to theory and "Tool Box" as praxis. 2021-09-1422 minLike Minded DeviantsToolbox Episode! Macro-Economics Part 2: A Theological Critique and the Environmental CrisisJoin us for the second part, and main conversation in our "Toolbox"* episode, where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Macro-Economics, our Metaphors, the environmental crisis, Globalization, Internationalization, and The Pathetic God.Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmdFacebook: facebook.com/LMDPodWeb: lmdpod.buzzsprout.comEmail: lmdpod@gmail.com*Note: Each Toolbox episode pairs with a shorter "Toolbox" mini-episode, on for a short lecture unpacking or describing the particular topic of each "Bookshelf" episode. Think of the "Bookshelf" to Theory and "Tool Box" as praxis.2021-09-1452 minLike Minded DeviantsBookshelf Episode! Socialism Part 1: What is it?Join us for a new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Socialism.Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmdFacebook: facebook.com/LMDPodWeb: lmdpod.buzzsprout.comEmail: lmdpod@gmail.com*Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of the "Bookshelf" to theory and "Tool Box" as praxis. 2021-09-0721 minLike Minded DeviantsToolbox Episode! Socialism Part 2: A Theological CritiqueJoin us for the second episode of our new "Toolbox"* where we delve into a theological engagement and critique of Socialism and The Pathetic God.Bob Goudzwaard, Capitalism and Progress: A Diagnosis of Western Society. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1979 (ISBN: 978-0853647706).David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).Readings:‘Socialism and the Planned Economy’, Hay, Chapter 5‘Treasures on Earth...2021-09-0748 minLike Minded DeviantsToolbox Episode! Capitalism Part 2: A Theological CritiqueJoin us for the first of our new "Toolbox"* For a theological engagement and critique of Capitalism and The Pathetic God.Ellul, Jacques, Money and Power. Second Edition, Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1984 (ISBN: 978-0877849162).David P. Gushee & Glenn H. Stassen, Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Second Edition, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2016 (ISBN: 978-0-8028-7421-4).Donald A. Hay, Economics Today: A Christian Critique. Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2004 (ISBN: 978-157383284).Readings:‘The Capitalist Market Economy’, Hay, Chapter 4‘Treasures on Earth: Economic Ethics in the Kingdom Way’, Gushee & Stassen, Chapter 18‘Money’, Ellul, Chapte...2021-08-3150 minLike Minded DeviantsBookshelf Episode! Capitalism Part 1: What Is It?Join us for the first of our new "Bookshelf" mini-episode for a quick and dirty "Lindy-Notes" lecture on Capitalism. Contact Us!Twitter: @PodLmdFacebook: facebook.com/LMDPodWeb: lmdpod.buzzsprout.comEmail: lmdpod@gmail.com*Note: Each Bookshelf episode pairs with a longer "Toolbox" episode, engaging each topic through a theologically critical lens. Think of the "Bookshelf" to Theory and "Tool Box" as praxis. 2021-08-3118 min