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Pete Enns return to discuss the Tim Keller piece in the New York Times. What makes someone a Christian?  Liturgical community vs. Biblicistic community? What is the offensiveness of the Gospel? And Can Pete Enns know how to ask questions?

Doug King of Presence joins the show to introduce Spiral Dynamics. For more on Spiral Dynamics from Doug click here.

Jonathan and Luke discuss Australian accents, reconstruction, community, theology of singing, and the refugee crisis.

A sermon that Richard Beck and Luke preached together on gratitude, prison and singing.

In the second part of the refugee crisis conversation we hear from Joel Houston  and  Ramjaane Niyoyita.  Joel Houston, of Hillsong United and Hillsong New York, discusses his experience with the Syrian refugee crisis and the Christian call to respond. Ramjaane Niyoyita, a Rwandan born as a refugee in the Congo now living in Austin, TX, discusses his experience as a Refugee, the importance of humor in tragedy and having to listen to Luke preach every week.

In the first of two discussions on the refugee crisis, Burmese refugee Ruhta* and Dr. Jessica Goudeau join the show to discuss the plight of refugees, leaving home, fear and Jessica's piece on Trump's rhetoric's effects on refugees in the Washington Post. *Ruhta- fake name for her family's safety. 

We discuss the transformation process of faith of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction with pastor and author Brian Zahnd and filmmaker Paul Nevison. For more on Brian Zahnd's reconstruction check out his book Water to Wine. For more on Paul, listen to him giggle in the back of the Richard Rohr and Rob Bell podcasts.

Jonathan Storment returns to talk Trump, the election, Hillbillies, Enneagram, why Søren Kierkegaard would be a terrible church member, the flaw of the New Perspective on Paul and Original Sin.

Dr. Stephen Backhouse and Dr. Richard Beck join the show to discuss Soren Kierkegaard,  existentialism, philosophy, Church & State, and Stephen's new book Kierkegaard: A Single Life. For more on the Deborah Club. For more on Tripp Fuller’s Theology Root Beer Camp.

Melissa Greene and Josh Graves join the show to talk Enneagram, how a preacher's type affects their sermons, the rumor that all Church of Christ people can sing,  and here's the amazing song that Luke tried unsuccessfully to get Melissa to sing. For more on the Deborah Club. For more on Tripp Fuller's Theology Root Beer Camp.