Episode 9 - Words for White Christians

Some words of encouragement and counsel for white Christians in the west.

Show Notes

Planting Multiethnic Transcultural Churches by Reid S. Monaghan

http://www.acts29.com/planting-multiethnic-transcultural-churches/

Resources for Multiethnic and Transcultural Leadership

Note: Each of these works and authors brings a particular perspective, terminology and approach to ministry. Read them for their unique perspective and help as you humbly learn and hope for ministry in a new way.

• Divided by Faith, by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith

• United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race, by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey, Karen Chai Kim

• The High Definition Leader: Building Multiethnic Churches in a Multiethnic World, by Derwin Gray

• Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are, by Leonce Crump

• Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church, by Mark DeYmaz

Episode 8 - Talking with Wireless Mike

Reid and Jesse interview Dr. R. Michael Buehrer for his thoughts on technology and faith

Show Notes

RUTs and BUTs

Taking the pee out of physics: how boys are getting a leg-up:https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/taking-pee-out-physics-how-boys-are-getting-a-leg

Luther - A Spiritual Biography by By Herman Selderhuis, https://www.crossway.org/books/martin-luther-hcj/

Technology and Christian - An Interview with Dr. Michael Buehrer

Dr. R. Michael Buehrer, Director of Wireless @ Virginia Tech, Personal web site http://www.buehrer.ece.vt.edu

Recent A.I. Discussions

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16405174/ceo-sundar-pichai-interview-google-ai-artificial-intelligence-interface

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/technology/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence-ai.html

Eternal Life through Tech? 

https://qz.com/1123164/seeking-eternal-life-silicon-valley-is-solving-for-death/ 

The Chinese Room Problem - John Searle’s analogy about syntax vs knowing properly explained https://youtu.be/D0MD4sRHj1M

John Searle on Consciousness, https://youtu.be/j_OPQgPIdKg

David Chalmers, http://consc.net

Ray Kurzweil, http://www.kurzweilai.net

Some DUALISM resources - http://www.newdualism.org/websites.htm

• Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song

• The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus.

• Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org.

Episode 7 - Between Rock Candy and a Hard Place - Engaging Halloween

Reid and Jesse briefly discuss the history of Halloween and give some five fingered guidance for engaging the holiday today.

Show Notes

In or Out

Mischief Night - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Night It’s a Jersey thing

Halloween Stats

Man, that's a lot of money spent!
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/wait-americans-spend-how-much-on-halloween/381631/

Review-ish

Halloween - From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers, Oxford press, 2002. https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Pagan-Ritual-Party-Night/dp/0195168968
Last call: The rise and fall of prohibition by Daniel Okrent, Scribner, 2010. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Call-Rise-Fall-Prohibition/dp/0743277023/
The Brazyn Life Morph collapsible foam roller on Shark Tank!
http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/episode-guide/season-09/6-episode-6

Episode 6 - To Kneel or not to Kneel?

A discussion of NFL protests and our engagement together

To Kneel or Not to Kneel

What you might be missing in the kneeling debate by Ed Uzynski
https://athletesinaction.org/underreview/what-you-might-be-missing-in-the-kneeling-debate

Reviewish

Book - Good and Bad Thinking about Politics and Religion
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Think-about-Religion-Politics/dp/0802863647

The Brazyn Life Morph Collapsible Foam Roller
http://www.brazyn.com

THANKs and GRATITUDEs

Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song. The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus.

Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org.  We are a dialogue taking place in the borderlands between the church and culture and we hope to see you there.

Episode 5 - Show some LOVE

Reid Monaghan discusses some of the whys and ways of showing appreciation to pastors.

REVIEWISH

Check out the creative non-fiction works of history by Candice Millard
http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2016/10/19/the-works-of-candice-millard

Show some LOVE

Coram Deo Wednesday Conversation Podcast Episode - a good round table discussion
http://cdomaha.com/wed-convo/2017/10/11/how-to-care-for-your-pastor

“Shaping Cultures for Ministerial Health in a Church Plant” Reid's Acts 29 article for helping shape cultures that care for the health of ministers within church planting contexts
http://www.acts29.com/shaping-a-culture-of-ministerial-health/

THANKs and GRATITUDEs

Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song. The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus.

Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org.  We are a dialogue taking place in the borderlands between the church and culture and we hope to see you there.

Episode 4 - Technology and a Human Future

Robot Overlords, AI and a vision for our future together as human beings is the topic of discussion today.

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Show Notes

Welcome

The Bonhoeffer Haus, http://www.bonhoefferhaus.com/

RUTs and BUTs

Ridiculous

Mushrooms, AI and wisdom, https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/28/16054834/mushroom-identifying-app-machine-vision-ai-dangerous

Beautiful

Human craftsmanship, Liam Hoffman Blacksmith Axes https://www.hoffmanblacksmithing.com 

"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -Elbert Hubbard

Technology and a Human Future

Ask not what your robots can do for you...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/radio-atlantic-ask-not-what-your-robots-can-do-for-you/535929/

Companies embedding chips in their employees
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chipping-people-you-ready-shelly-palmer

New Terminator Film https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/28/james-cameron-terminator-sequel-july-2019/

Synthetic muscle breakthrough could lead to 'lifelike' robots
https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/21/synthetic-muscle-soft-robot-breakthrough/

100 other robot assists and technologists suggest ban of the use of so-called killer robots. Lethal, autonomous, weapons of war.

https://futureoflife.org/2017/08/20/killer-robots-worlds-top-ai-robotics-companies-urge-united-nations-ban-lethal-autonomous-weapons  

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/08/21/elon-musk-is-right-we-should-all-be-worried-about-killer-robots/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/20/elon-musk-killer-robots-experts-outright-ban-lethal-autonomous-weapons-war

Hans Moravec and Mind Children
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674576186

Jonathan Coulton
The funny, dystopic music of Jonathan Coulton https://www.jonathancoulton.com (most of the songs the lyrics are clean, but a few have an edge to em)

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime

Episode 3 - Are you going political?

Jesse Furey and Reid S. Monaghan kick around around our polarized political climate and the posture of followers of Jesus seeking faithful engagement in our day.

Show Notes

GOING POLITICAL?

Breaking Faith, The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something worse by Peter Beinart. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/breaking-faith/517785/

RELEVANT SCRIPTURE

• Love of Enemies - Matthew 5

• Follow the Lord of justice Psalm 10:16, 17

• Know you’re citizenship Philippians 3:18-20

REVIEWISH 

Building a family device charging station. All info and products for the one Reid put together can be found on his blog here. http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2017/9/16/plugged-and-unplugged-life-at-home

Episode 2 - The Nature of our Nature

Reid and Jesse discuss the beauty and brokenness of the creation and how Jesus taught us about seeing both. We also discuss Bai again and whether eSports being in the Olympics is cool. To wrap up we take a little trip together to church.

Show Notes

The following links on on subjects featured on today's show:

Cool or Not Cool

• Bai em if you must - Coconut Pineapple Fusion

• Fantasy Football Guide - One of many guides

• The English Premier League - The greatest sport

• Esports and the Olympics - Sport or no?

The Nature of our Nature

• Teleology - A quick intro

• Dysteleology - the flip side

• What we can't Not Know, A Guide by J. Budziszewski

• Asteroid Fly by - near miss, friends

• Psalm 19 - The Heavens declare

• Mark 4:35-41 - Jesus calms the storms

• Matthew 8 - Healing of the Centurion's Servant

Harvey Relief Links

• Red Cross - Harvey Relief

• Send Relief - Harvey Disaster Relief

• Clear Creek Relief - A local church we know well and trust

Take em to Church

• Choosing Church by Marilyn McEntyre

Episode 1 - Gospel Underground Introduction

Reid Monaghan and Jesse Furey give a quick introduction to themselves, the Gospel Underground podcast and some segments that will feature in future episodes.