spiritual but not religious

Encountering Mystery

 

Guest: Professor Dale Allison, Princeton Theological Seminary, author of many books on the New Testament. The most recent book and topic of our conversation is Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age

 

 

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On Wednesday evening, October 11, I’ll be joined by local musician Mike Bussey for an evening called “Songs and Stories of Weird Wisdom.” Cross Mills Library in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

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Dale Allison Bio

 

Dale C. Allison, Jr. is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his MA and PhD from Duke University. His academic research and publications include the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Judaism, and the history of the interpretation and application of biblical texts. His book, Constructing Jesus, was selected as “Best Book Relating to the New Testament” for 2009–2010 by the Biblical Archaeology Society. His most recent books are The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemic, History and Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age. He served for several years as the main New Testament editor for de Gruyter’s International Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception and has been on the editorial boards of multiple academic journals. On a more popular level, he has written books on George Harrison, religious experience, and death and what might lie beyond.

 

https://www.ptsem.edu/people/dale-c-allison-jr

 

Host: James Hazelwood

 

James Hazelwood, author, bishop, and spiritual companion, is the author of Weird Wisdom for the Second Half of Life and Everyday Spirituality: Discover a Life of Hope, Peace, and Meaning. His website is www.jameshazelwood.net

 

Are you seeking answers to the deeper questions about life? Who am I? What’s my purpose in life? What can I hope for in the future? Many try to find answers to these questions in money, in influence and in pleasures offered by the world. Some young people also like to call themselves spiritual but not religious. In this podcast, Fr. Joseph Royan, C.Ss.R. challenges us to think differently and to find in Jesus, the deepest source of the meaning of our life - through a Faith that saves us from a meaningless life and sets us free for a life of love!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Fr. Joseph Royan, C.Ss.R. is a world-renowned preacher of the Word of God and popular youth minister. He has completed his licentiate in Moral Theology and is presently a professor of Moral Theology at St. Alphonsus College, Bangalore. He is also the Director of Redemptorist Publications India and editor of “Breaking the Word” - a quarterly magazine of Redemptorist Homilies.

This Mission Sermon originally premiered on 7th March 2021

Watch the entire devotional series from this week as Pastor Mike tells us why we CAN'T be just "spiritual but not religious." – Pastor Mike Novotny. To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort. If you would like to give a gift of support, please donate here: http://bit.ly/2K06lcJ You can also watch Time of Grace daily video devotionals by subscribing to get new videos each weekday: http://bit.ly/385Piz4

Watch the entire devotional series from this week as Pastor Mike tells us why we CAN'T be just "spiritual but not religious." – Pastor Mike Novotny. This week's devotional series by Pastor Mike is also featured on our Grace Talks Daily Devotional podcast To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort.

Spoiler: It's not okay for you to just believe in God and just pray to him without any structure or organized religion. And here's why. – Pastor Mike Novotny. To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort. If you would like to give a gift of support, please donate here: http://bit.ly/2K06lcJ You can also watch Time of Grace daily video devotionals by subscribing to get new videos each weekday: http://bit.ly/385Piz4

Spoiler: It's not okay for you to just believe in God and just pray to him without any structure or organized religion. And here's why. – Pastor Mike Novotny. This week's devotional series by Pastor Mike is also featured on our Grace Talks Daily Devotional podcast To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort.

Can you forgive the pastors who have hurt and disappointed you? Can you reconnect with a church again? – Pastor Mike Novotny. This week's devotional series by Pastor Mike is also featured on our Grace Talks Daily Devotional podcast To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort.

These are the two truths your church needs to tell you. – Pastor Mike Novotny. This week's devotional series by Pastor Mike is also featured on our Grace Talks Daily Devotional podcast To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort.

You can podcast a thousand different sermons, stream amazing worship music, and make online donations to a church. So why do you need to come to an actual church? – Pastor Mike Novotny. To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort. If you would like to give a gift of support, please donate here: http://bit.ly/2K06lcJ You can also watch Time of Grace daily video devotionals by subscribing to get new videos each weekday: http://bit.ly/385Piz4

You can podcast a thousand different sermons, stream amazing worship music, and make online donations to a church. So why do you need to come to an actual church? – Pastor Mike Novotny. This week's devotional series by Pastor Mike is also featured on our Grace Talks Daily Devotional podcast To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort.

Are you content to have a personal relationship with God and see no need for community? God insists otherwise, Pastor Mike says. – Pastor Mike Novotny. To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort. If you would like to give a gift of support, please donate here: http://bit.ly/2K06lcJ You can also watch Time of Grace daily video devotionals by subscribing to get new videos each weekday: http://bit.ly/385Piz4

Are you content to have a personal relationship with God and see no need for community? God insists otherwise, Pastor Mike says. This week's devotional series by Pastor Mike is also featured on our Grace Talks Daily Devotional podcast. To stay rooted in Jesus, subscribe to our daily email! https://timeofgrace.org/subscribe/ Time of Grace is a donor-supported effort.

Bill provides an autobiographical landscape of his early training and matriculation. Following his history, we begin exploring the limitations of the various therapeutic worldviews. We discuss how psychology and religion have been interwoven, specifically not the psychology of religion, but psychology and religion. Bill describes how the various psychological models illuminate religion. In particular, he references figures such as William James, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Jung, emphasizing how the psychological worldview of these figures influences their understanding of religion. Bill has a way of challenging any worldview and asking questions about how any particular worldview affects how and what one may “see” as a result. Bill calls his approach dialogical whereby individuals are invited to place all of these psychological technologies, and others, into conversation with each other. He desires to bring to light, what he calls, an Ethnopsychospiritualy a view that incorporates and understands that the personal and cultural wisdom in the various religious traditions is inseparable from each tradition. Looking at the models carefully differing between the projection models of psychospiritualities versus recognizing that there is cultural refraction on the light, although there is an objective light. Through the conversation, there is an undertone of attending to how the worldview we adopt can both expand and limit an individual’s perspective unless each of us is conscious of this fact. Bio:William B. Parsons is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. He has written and edited several books, including The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling (Oxford, 1999), Teaching Mysticism (Oxford, 2011), Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain (Routledge, 2001), Mourning Religion (Virginia, 2008), Freud in Dialogue with Augustine: Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and the Culture of Modern Spirituality (Virginia, 2013) as well as dozens of essays in multiple journals and books. He has served as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies (Rice University), as Director of the Humanities Research Center (Rice University), as Editor (the psychology of religion section) with Religious Studies Review and is Associate Editor of the International Series in the Psychology of Religion. He has been a Fellow at the Martin Marty Center of the University of Chicago and at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Hebrew University.Music provided by:http://www.modernnationsmusic.com Learn more about this project at: http://www.thesacredspeaks.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesacredspeaks/

How do you talk with people who are spiritual but not religious? How much contextualization is too much and what kind of responses should we expect? Join the conversation as Pastor Brad explores Paul's speech in Athens in Acts 17.