In this episode, Graeme, Jonathan, and Joey discuss the cultural obsession with power and attempt to rebalance the conversation, pointing to Jesus as the example of what to do with the power you have.

Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals expressing and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of any affiliated organisations or ministries.

In this episode, Joey and Graeme discuss the importance of theological reflection in moments of crisis. They cover how to think well during critical incidents, what is critical thinking and theological reflection, the importance of crisis, why COVID was a crisis for the church, getting deeper and not more pragmatic, the issues the church is forced to wrestle with, being okay with uncomfortable questions, education that enables critical thinking, Joey's Sunday morning reflections, the WHY that theological reflection rediscovers, and where to begin with theological reflection.

Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals expressing and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of any affiliated organisations or ministries.

In this conversation, the guys talk about Graeme trip to the US as a delivered a paper at the Media Ecology Conference.

00:00 Introduction
02:30 Graeme at the Media Ecology Conference
07:58 Graeme's Experience of AMERICA
14:30 Is AI and Tech Bad?
24:40 Why a Theological-Anthropology Matters
34:50 How do we Know Who we are?
38:30 Having a Relationship with AI
45:30 Will AI make critical thinking extinct?
51:30 An Important Story

Lunch on The Way is a podcast that deeply discusses Christianity, Church, Culture, and Jesus.
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Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals expressing and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of any affiliated organisations or ministries.

Lunch on The Way is a podcast that deeply discusses Christianity, Church, Culture, and Jesus.
Available on ALL podcast platforms https://lunchontheway.buzzsprout.com/share

In this episode the guys bring back Sam Burrows to talk more about the meta-crisis with our youth (03:02), with education (11:50), wha the meta-crisis is (14:12), a way of answering it (17:00), who Ayaan Hirsi Ali is (21:22), the death of post-modernism (24:57), a desire for nostalgia (28:33), what Christian disruption is (34:55), how this is different to post-modernism (40:15), and Sam's new podcast.

Makerspace Podcast

iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/makerspace/id1753646625

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1DklD6kT4wEWUaF64y8pRh?si=f06b99d087ea4941&nd=1&dlsi=2600c2c0b6f6457f&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2TiFKx1aAeZw5Pr47bWxzq2eWJMd5rmTy2vv3zWrqbbncsifcUrrSABPI_aem_2lLfKKYKYQ9HyKanMSxEFg

Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals expressing and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of any affiliated organisations or ministries.

In this conversation, Jonathan, Graeme, and Joey discuss the good, bad, and intriguing metaphors that shape our understanding of the world, church, and our humanity. They discuss how metaphors create realities (03:30), what a metaphor is (06:10), the problematic metaphors were us as Christians (09:30), how metaphors reveal what we desire (19:30), how metaphors guide the church but should be clearly known (24:30), how Genesis 3 and the Garden is the greatest metaphor (28:45), why the Bible doesn't allow us to use just any metaphor (32:02), how biblical metaphor shape us (36:40), important New Testament metaphors (43:49), what happens when biblical metaphors are taken out of context (49:10), metaphors for ministry (51:19), and advice for Christians from this conversation (52:30).

Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals expressing and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of any affiliated organisations or ministries.

In this conversation, Graeme and Joey sit down with Dr. Clare Knowles who is a translation coordinator at Bible Society NZ. We discuss what Bible Society NZ is (12:42), the work Clare is currently doing with the Tokelauan Bible (14:18), cultural contextualisation and the Bible (22:50), the relationship between translation and interpretation (33:23), the ambitious sign-language project (43:18), the best/worst Bible translations (48:50), and AI and Bible translating (53:45).

Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals expressing and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of any affiliated organisations or ministries.

Lunch on The Way is a podcast that deeply discusses Christianity, Church, Culture, and Jesus.
Available on ALL podcast platforms https://lunchontheway.buzzsprout.com/share

In this conversation, Jonathan and Joey weave between two main topics but begin with discussion discarding dualism (03:30), how liturgy straightens the soul like a piece of bent wood (06:53), whether we can really change through habit forming or if we need the Spirit to do that deep work (12:10), Joey and Jonathan's experiences will evangelism (21:20), how to actually invite someone to follow Jesus (30:45), how people need evangelistic structures like Alpha (35:35), why stepping out and into reliance on God is so important (46:30), they theologians need to be more than just thinkers but prayers (48:04), how people are desiring to be a part of evangelism again (50:40), and how a hunger for Jesus is all that matters in life (55:55).

Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals expressing and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of any affiliated organisations or ministries.

In this conversation, Graeme and Joey discuss Carey Nieuwhof's latest Auckland, NZ church leadership and trends discussion but add their own thoughts to his "shifts" and "moves." They discuss how NZ church is 10yrs ahead of North America (3:08), online church possibly reaching unchurched people (10:38), people seeing us more than God (33:13), dissatisfaction with mirroring culture (36:05), the rise in authenticity (41:27), how content is not church (45:23), seeing people as more than a binary (49:16), over-editing the Sunday Service (51:00), non-toxic church culture (52:05), and much more.

Podcast hosts are Greame Flett, Jonathan Hoskin, and Joey Millington.

The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals expressing and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of any affiliated organisations or ministries.