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2025-04-1820 min
Missio School of TheologyJesus Centered TheologyAt Missio Dei, we believe Jesus is the center of everything. This conviction shapes who we are and how we live as a community. We call this insistence on the centrality of Jesus, our Jesus centered theology. Here's the thing though, practicing a Jesus centered theology isn't always easy or even simple. Especially in a world where so much can divide us. In this class, we’ll explore what it means to be a people centered on Jesus. Together, we’ll examine how focusing on him unites us beyond our differences and theological distinctives. Instead of div...
2025-03-0250 min
Missio Dei Community - SLCExtending Our Table - Jesus CenteredAt Missio Dei, we believe God is always calling us to something new while rooting us in His mission of renewal. This year, we sense an invitation to extend our table—to practice radical belonging, break down barriers, and witness to the hospitality of Jesus. But in a divided world, how do we gather and stay together? Join us as we explore what it means to build a community centered on Christ, not uniformity.
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Missio Dei Community - SLCThe Missio Dei - CreateHumans are created in the imago dei, which is not simply a state of being, but a vocation. Being an image-bearer is a calling to create and cultivate in ways that resemble God and benefit others. We participate in making real Jesus’s kingdom when our everyday actions are inspired by a kingdom's imagination. When we create families, art, ministries, and safe workplaces that reflect Jesus and his kingdom, we are joining with God in extending the kingdom on earth.
2024-10-0725 min
Missio Dei Community - SLCThe Missio Dei - ExploreIn our current series, we’ve been talking about our practices as a church: gathering, welcoming, and inviting. Today, we focus on the practice of exploring – paying attention to where God is already at work around us, remaining curious and open to surprise. Paul’s journey teaches us that when we slow down, embrace uncertainty, and stay curious, God can lead us to new and beautiful encounters, just like His surprising meeting with Lydia by the river. We’re invited to trust, pay attention, and take risks, following God wherever He leads.
2024-09-2930 min
Missio Dei Community - SLCThe Missio Dei - Welcome & InviteIn this teaching of The Missio Dei series, we explore the ancient and essential practices of welcoming and inviting, rooted in biblical hospitality. Jesus modeled a radical hospitality that crossed boundaries, inviting the unexpected into His presence. Drawing from stories in Luke 4 and Matthew 25, we see that in welcoming others, we are not just offering kindness but encountering Christ Himself. As we reflect on what it means to create space for people who think, live, and believe differently, we are reminded that God invites us all to the table—and in doing so, we become both the welcomed and the...
2024-09-2233 min
Missio Dei Community - SLCThe Missio Dei - GatherIn this teaching of the Missio Dei series, we explore the practice of gathering as a central act of faith. Building on last week’s message from Jordan Moss, we dive into how gathering tells a story of who we are, where we come from, and what God is doing in our midst. Whether around a table or in worship, gathering allows us to celebrate, remember, and proclaim God’s work. It's where we practice belonging, experience the presence of Jesus, and are shaped for mission in the world. Join us as we reflect on the deeper significance of gather...
2024-09-1629 min
Missio Dei Community - SLCThe Missio Dei - PresenceIn this series, we revisit our community’s vision and identity, exploring how the presence of God shapes who we are and how we live. Drawing from the Gospel of John, Jordan discusses how our life with God begins in belovedness and intimacy, and how that foundation calls us to embody Jesus’ presence in the world. As loneliness and disconnection grow, Jordan reflect's on what it means to be fully present with God and others, creating spaces of connection, renewal, and belonging. Join us as we unpack how we can be a people who mirror God’s love and presen...
2024-09-1135 minMissio School of TheologyAtonement ClassThis recording was taken from a live & in-person class at Missio. We cut many of the questions that were asked throughout class because the microphone did not record them well.
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Missio Dei Community - SLCI am Not - PanelFinal installment in our series I am Not, featuring a curated conversation with members of the Missio community!
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Missio Dei Community - SLCProdigal - Gospel StoriesIn this service we heard gospel stories from the community. These are stories of personal encounter, transformation, growth, and development. The kind of stories that help us understand our own stories. The kind of stories that inspire, encourage, and even challenge us. The kinds of stories that point us to the gospel and remind us it really is good news.
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Missio Dei Community - SLCWith the Grain of the Universe - Resurrected IdentityJohn 20:19-29 with guest Seth Richardson
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2021-12-141h 042021-12-1337 min2021-12-0531 minMissio School of TheologyHow To Read The Bible: Apocalypse with Dr. Brennan BreedIn our newest, How To Read the Bible class we are joined by Old Testament Scholar Dr. Brennan Breed. Dr. Breed helps us understand the nature of apocalyptic literature throughout the Bible. As we gain an understanding for this peculiar genre we're able to grasp, in a new and deeper way, what the apocalyptic literature of the Bible is saying to us today.
2021-10-191h 07Missio School of TheologyHow To Read The Bible with Dr. Michael GormanIn this class, we were joined by Dr. Michael Gorman (professor/scholar/author) who answered some of our biggest questions about the book of Revelation.
2021-07-2158 minMissio School of TheologyHow To Read Your Bible: Conquest NarrativesIn this class we explore how to study and read the conquest narratives of Bible through the person and work of Jesus. We believe the entire people is about Jesus even the most difficult to read parts. As we learn how to see the Bible through Jesus, everything changes. But, how do we read and make sense of the war, violence, and racialized conflict of the conquest narratives?
2021-06-2155 minMissio School of TheologyHow To Read The Bible: Christ-Centered HermeneuticsHow do we read there Bible? How do we make sense of the strange and difficult passages about God that seem to so contradict the person of Jesus? We believe the entire Bible is about Jesus, even the horrid and offensive parts are intended to lead us towards Jesus. As we learn how to see the Bible through Jesus, everything changes.
2021-05-161h 25Missio School of TheologyStory of Everything: ProphetsHow do we read the Bible? What unifies the 66 books that are full of different genres, themes, and seemingly ideas? The Story of Everything is a Missio SLC class exploring the Story of The Bible.
2021-05-1545 minMissio School of TheologyStory of Everything: Conquest to KingsHow do we read the Bible? What unifies the 66 books that are full of different genres, themes, and seemingly ideas? The Story of Everything is a Missio SLC class exploring the Story of The Bible.
2021-05-1442 minMissio School of TheologyStory of Everything: TorahHow do we read the Bible? What unifies the 66 books that are full of different genres, themes, and seemingly ideas? The Story of Everything is a Missio SLC class exploring the Story of The Bible.
2021-05-1454 minMissio School of TheologyStory of Everything: Genesis 6-12How do we read the Bible? What unifies the 66 books that are full of different genres, themes, and seemingly ideas? The Story of Everything is a Missio SLC class exploring the Story of The Bible.
2021-05-1345 minMissio School of TheologyStory of Everything: Genesis 3-5How do we read the Bible? What unifies the 66 books that are full of different genres, themes, and seemingly ideas? The Story of Everything is a Missio SLC class exploring the Story of The Bible.
2021-05-1353 minMissio School of TheologyStory of Everything: Genesis 1 & 2How do we read the Bible? What unifies the 66 books that are full of different genres, themes, and seemingly ideas? The Story of Everything is a Missio SLC class exploring the Story of The Bible.
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The Peoples TheologyBonhoeffer's Black Jesus pt. 2 with Reggie WilliamsWhat Jesus do we worship? And how does our picture of Jesus shape the faith we live? In this episode, we continue our conversation with Dr. Reggie Williams, but now exploring "white Jesus" and the ways in which we have inherited a broken and diseased theology that rewrites and controls the scripts we live into.
2020-08-2000 minThe Peoples TheologyBonhoeffer's Black Jesus pt. 1 with Reggie WilliamsIf you’re new to the podcast, or forgot what we do, in each episode we explore culture and theology like they matter, because they do. Maybe that sound strange, but often it the way we learn and talk about our faith can feel abstract, like ideas that are “good to know” but hard to apply. Which leaves a lot of us feeling like our faith is empty when we need it the most.
In this episode we begin a conversation with Dr. Reggie Williams, social ethicist and author of Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus. I first had an opportunity to engage with D...
2020-08-0600 minThe Peoples TheologySeason 3 - Coming SoonBrand new episodes of The Peoples Theology are coming soon!
2020-08-0300 minThe Peoples TheologyCounting BackwardsThe People’s Theology is a show exploring theology and culture. In each episode, we explore a question, theme, or topic in dialogue with our faith. Today that question is, “how do we count?” Maybe that sounds weird, but we all have a way of “counting” especially when it comes to success. We believe, as Chris Hughes noted, that the hustle is holy and that hard work should lead to more and higher. That’s the underwriting narrative of the American story; Zuckerberg and Facebook, Apple and even Enron. And like with those examples, sometimes we love it the result and sometime...
2020-01-3000 minThe Peoples TheologyA Conversation with Luke GoodrichSeason 3 of The Peoples Theology is coming. Here, as a bonus is an interview with author and lawyer Luke Goodrich about his new book, Free to Believe.
2020-01-0300 minThe Peoples TheologyGood TroubleIf you’ve been listening to the people’s theology recently, you are familiar (probably exhaustingly so) with the themes and questions we’re wrestling with: Mainly, why is the world the way that it is and, what do we do about it?
In the last few episodes we’ve interviewed and explored the lives of different people who have been startled, grieved, frustrated by these questions and thus committed to answering them. These folks come from different places and experiences but their stories share something. Each person went through a similar kind of journey to get to where they are.
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2019-02-2800 minThe Peoples TheologyBeloved CommunityOur history is full of saints and radicals who have asked the question, “is this how it has to be” and then revealed to us that it doesn’t. If the only image of the “Church” we have is the modern American white evangelical community than, well, we should all go home and give up. I’m not interested in that. But that isn’t the only image nor is it even the primary image of the church. Our history is full of communities of dissent that have revealed, if even for just a moment, the Kingdom of Jesus because they had no ot
2019-02-0100 minThe Peoples TheologyThere is No Hurry HereWhat do we do about our world? How do we change it for the better? In our final episode of 2018, we look at one of our primary tools of defiance and protest. Something we desperately need, especially at this time of year.
2018-12-2700 minThe Peoples TheologyFrom Bolivia with HopeIn this season of The Peoples Theology we’ve been asking two questions: why is the world the way that it is? And what can we do about it? But the truth is, we haven’t really been asking the first question instead we’ve asked “why is the West the way that it is?” We have a habit of prioritizing and privileging our experience but it comes at the cost of missing and ignoring the stories and experiences of the global Church. And we don’t want to miss that because if we start paying attention we might just being to see...
2018-11-3000 minThe Peoples TheologyOrdinary PowerIn this episode of The Peoples Theology we interview Dan Stanford author of the book, Losing the Cape, and ask what kind of person does it take to impact the world? Do we need to be powerful, wealthy, charismatic? Do we need to fit a certain mold or be a certain type of person? Because if you look around at the leaders and celebrities of our culture there is really only one model.
Or is there another option? In our interview with Dan we talk about the difference between the kind of people our world celebrates and the kind of...
2018-10-2600 minThe Peoples TheologyThe Good & Beautiful w/ Charles KiserOn this episode of The Peoples Theology, we continue exploring the role of the church in engaging our cultural moment. In this episode, we have a conversation with Charles Kiser about living out the good and beautiful life of Jesus as the Church.
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2018-09-2700 minThe Peoples TheologyTending Presence w/ David FitchThe Peoples Theology is back after our long summer break. In the first part of season two we looked at the question, why is the world the way that it is? In the second part of our season we want to focus on the question, what do we do about it? How do we engage our world? How do we make it better? To help us answer that question we interviewed author, professor, and pastor David Fitch. Fitch is interested in how the church, which is so often compromised by culture, can become a community that serves and loves the...
2018-08-3100 min2018-08-1500 minThe Peoples TheologyWhat is WaterDavid Foster Wallace, in his now very famous commencement speech, tells a story about two fish and in it, he asks a question, "what is water?" Meaning, what are the pieces of our world we don't recognize but are fundamental to its existence. In this episode we try and answer that question, what is water. *podcast includes two expletives.
2018-04-2400 minThe Peoples TheologyThe History of NowIn this episode, we continue exploring the feelings of our current cultural moment but to best understand our feelings we need to understand how we got here. We need a history of the now.
2018-04-0400 minThe Peoples TheologyFear & LoathingHow do we explain and make sense of our world today? Author Pankaj Mishra says we live in, an "age of rage" but the real question is why.
2018-03-0600 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 14 – Witness & WeinsteinIn our final episode of 2017, we have a conversation about sexual assault and the role of friends, family, and the church with Pastor Heather Thomas. Historically, the Church hasn't been a place that cultivated conversations about sexual assault and abuse. In fact, the institution of the church has often been complicit. The question on the table then, is what can we do differently? How do we become a people that advocates for victims, creates safe places, and always offers mercy?
2017-12-0500 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 13 - Holy War pt. 2How do we make sense of the violence in the Old Testament and the person of Jesus in the New? In part 2 of our conversation about holy war we look at the "drastic marching" orders Israel recievs.
2017-11-1400 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 12 - Holy War pt 1How do we reconcile the goodness of Jesus and the violence of the Old Testament that is seemingly attributed to God? In this episode we begin a 2 part series exploring Holy War with pastor and author Josh Butler
2017-10-1100 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 11 - TechnotheologyIt's been said that AI is the single greatest threat to theology since Darwin. Is that true? Does it really threaten so much of what we believe and hold dear? How should we think about AI?
2017-09-2800 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 10 - DislocatedRight now in SLC, UT state officials are conducting a large scale operation to close and open new homeless shelters and relocate the homeless population to new areas around the state. Regardless of what you think about the state's plan and its success and failures, it reminds us of the difficult situation our homeless neighbors live in every day. In Episode 10 of The Peoples Theology we interview Fred Liggin president of 3e Restoration a nonprofit that works to equip, empower, and encourage churches to equip, empower, and encourage homeless and displaced neighbors.
2017-09-1200 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 9 - Building BabelWe live in tension. We wake up and breathe the air tension every day and the question most of us will ask is, “what do we do in the tension?” Can we fix it? Make it better? Resolve it? These are questions we’ve been asking for all of human history. Questions that have driven our most significant culture projects. Our institutions, governments, and inventions begins with the recognition that, “all is not right” in the world but while at the same time innately believing that it can be better. But what happens when we overestimate our ability to fix the tensio
2017-07-1100 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 8 - Stranger DaysWe live in strange days. It's not hard to see because the reality can be felt in nearly every domain of life and culture, but it can be hard to name why things seem so strange. For many of us we feel it in our political climate, for others we see it in our churches and religious environments, and for others the feeling pervades our neighborhoods and workplaces. Regardless of where it comes from, we are all trying to figure out why the world is as it is and more importantly, what we should do about it.
2017-05-0900 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 7 - Of Heroes and MenToday in the podcast we explore three questions that, whether we realize it or not, tend to shape the way we see and understand the world and our role within it. At first glance, you might be thinking these three questions are politically motivated but they aren't. These questions are bigger than that. Yes, they influence our politics but they also influence the way we think things get done in this world.
2017-04-1900 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 6 - Weird Uncles & Cool StoriesMost of us, if we’re honest, have a weird relationship with the bible. The Chief question underneath all of it, is can it be trusted? Does it have some kind of authority and if so, where does it come from? What does it mean? What do I do with it?
2017-03-2300 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 5.2 - Bonus ContentThe last two episodes have revolves around a conversation about hell with author and pastor Josh Butler. We were hoping to make it to three episodes with him but realized, we just don't have enough content. So, instead of trying to stretch it we are releasing it as a bonus content. A short 10 minute conclusion to our conversation with Josh.
2017-03-1500 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 5 - Get The Hell OutHow do we deal with the tension between the goodness of God and the presence of hell in the Biblical narrative? For so many of us, this is one of our biggest obstacles to trusting the God of the Bible. And honestly, it makes sense but maybe, we've been missing something really important about God and the story of hell.
2017-03-0700 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 4 - Hell BoundWhen we talk about God there are certain questions that, for many of us, come to mind. One of the most important questions is, is God good? It's an important question, and it exist and presses in on us for a lot of really good reasons. History bares witness to horrendous events attributed to God and that does't even include the difficult events we have to wrestle through in the Bible. Above all of this, the issue that calls God's goodness into question the quickest, is often, the question of hell. How can a good God send billions of people...
2017-02-2200 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 3 - Hail The Guiding StarAbility is the power to make something of the world, the power to steward God’s gifts, and seek the flourishing of the world around you. Ability may be power to image God and fulfill the culture mandate, but actually fulfilling the culture mandate is a responsibility. But, what happens when ability and responsibility are separated, one overcoming the other?
2017-02-0700 minThe Peoples TheologyEpisode 2 - Chaos StoriesOn this episode of The Peoples Theology, we continue exploring Genesis' creation narratives with Dr. Tim Mackie. In order to understand Genesis, we need to understand it's context. Which means unpacking the beliefs and worldview of the cultures surrounding Israel. When we do this, we find that the Genesis has something radical to say in light of it's context. But, this message isn't for only for ancient people, it transcends culture and speaks to us today.
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