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In this episode, Jessica Hooten Wilson and I go deep in her ten year project of reckoning with Flannery O’Connor’s unpublished and unfinished 3rd novel Why Do the Heathen Rage? Jessica shares insights into Flannery’s writing process, themes in her fiction, her perspectives on race and social justice. She talks about reading O’Connor with charity and how that can provide new insights. We get into limitations because of Flannery’s illness that contributed to the depth and particularity of her writing. We also talk grace, sanctity and the connection between body and soul. So join us as we dig deep into the works of Flannery O’Connor.

Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University and formerly Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas. She is the author of several books, most recently Reading for the Love of God. Her book Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov received a 2018 Christianity Today book of the year in arts and culture award and The Scandal of Holiness received a 2022 Award of Merit. In 2019 she received the Hiett Prize for Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Other awards include a Fulbright Fellowship to Prague, an NEH to study Dante in Florence, a Biola University sabbatical fellowship funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and the 2017 Emerging Public Intellectual Award. She is a Senior Fellow at The Trinity Forum.

Jessica's Book:
Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?

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In this episode, Terry Crist and I have a great conversation and tell a lot of stories of engaging others in a way that brings dignity, relationship, curiosity, and hope. How can we love our enemies? How can we follow the better way of Jesus that brings hope? How can we in our fractured world have conversations of truth full of grace, seasoned with compassion? How do we pursue the way of peacemaking? How do we build bridges, not barriers? How do we have curious conversations with people? We learn that our gospel is embodied and proclaimed. We learn that listening is an act of love. Join us as we discover how to listen well, engage others who are more alike us than we realize, and point us all to the way of Jesus that brings hope, reconciliation, and peace.

Terry Crist is the co-lead pastor of City of Grace in Phoenix alongside his wife, Judith. He has a TH.M. and a D.Min. and has a business certificate in nonprofit management from Harvard Business School. Terry is also passionate about community transformation and promotes adoption and foster care through his work in state government. An avid outdoorsman and gifted communicator, he has adventured and preached the gospel in 65 nations. Terry and Judith have three married sons and three grandchildren. They live in Phoenix, Arizona.

Terry's Book:
Loving Samaritans

Terry's Recommendations:
Jesus the Bridegroom by Brant Pitre
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre

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In this episode, Blaine Eldredge and I look at the Bible in a new light, so we can see the stories come alive and we can fall in love with them once again. Blaine is a fantastic storyteller and he helps us see how we can follow Jesus in a time of decline, what we can learn from history for our time and place, and how we can eliminate the familiarity with which we read the Bible. Join us as we discover the fascinating insights the story of the Bible brings to our lives today.

Blaine is a teacher and writer from Peyton, Colorado. For the past decade, he has built platforms to help the Church thrive in late modernity. Blaine loves to read, write and talk about culture, history and theology. He really loves to contemplate the Gospel of Jesus and make resources to convey its astonishing beauty. He’s part of Kindred Church in Colorado Springs and holds a Masters Degree in Language from the University of British Columbia. He spends his free time bowhunting, chopping wood, and at poetry readings.

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www.blaineeldredge.com

Blaine's Book:
The Paradise King

Blaine's Recommendations:
The Priority of Christ by Robert Barron
Supernatural by Michael Heiser
Men and Women are from Eden by Mary Healy
The Lord of Spirits podcast

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It’s the best of 2023! We are going to count down the most listened to episodes of the past year and I am going to countdown my favorite books of the year. 

But before we dive in, I just have to say thank you – thank you to you, the listener. I have so enjoyed making this podcast and having the conversations I’m having, but without you there wouldn’t be a podcast. So keep listening. Keep spreading the word. Tell your friends, your family, even your enemies to listen to Shifting Culture.

You can find a list of my favorite books of the year here:
Favorite Books of 2023

Top 10 episodes of 2023:

Ep. 136 Alan Hirsch & Rob Kelly - Metanoia: How God Radically Transforms People, Churches, and Organizations From the Inside Out

Ep. 124 James Martin, SJ - The Promise of Jesus's Greatest Miracle

Ep. 135 Scot McKnight - The Pivotal Priorities, Practices, and Powers to Transform Into a Tov Culture

Ep. 97 Pete Greig - Shadows and Light

Ep. 95 Beth Paz - A God who Identifies With Us in our Grief and Suffering

Ep. 104 Hugh Halter - Family on Mission

Ep. 122 Karen Swallow Prior - The Evangelical Imagination that has Shaped a Culture in Crisis

Ep. 130 Michael Frost Returns - Mission is the Shape of Water

Ep. 113 Andrew Root Returns - When Church Stops Working

Ep. 128 Andrew Root - The Church in an Age of Secular Mysticisms

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In this episode, Dave & Jeff evaluate whether we need to reconsider our approach to church and its purpose in our lives. 

Is church merely a consumer experience, or should it be a place where both individual growth and the church's calling are equally valued? 

Join the hosts as they explore these questions and encourage a more profound understanding of the role of church in one's spiritual journey.

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Turns out summoning your friend via witches curse binds them to you for longer than you initially intended. Temporarily stuck as we wait for the local wizard to come by and uncurse us we decided to rough out my Red Riding Hood John Wick movie pitch I have been kicking around.

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Join Rabbi Tzvi as he discusses Jethro/Yisro and his relationship with Moses. And the lesson of taking advice from everyone.

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A fisherman travels through time to see a future he'll never forget.