Podcast appearances and mentions of james penner

2024-05-26 We live in an undercurrent of aloneness, not enough-ness, and anxiousness both in our culture and the present paradigm of church. And yet the church was never supposed to be an event, building, or an institution. It was meant to be a family with a DNA of secure attachment. Interesting! When kids are seen, soothed, safe and secure they flourish but we can't give that to them unless we ourselves are flourishing. So how do WE flourish in a cultural undercurrent of aloneness, not enough-ness and anxiousness? Join us this Sunday with our special guest speaker, sociologist James Penner, to find out.

Sociologist James Penner will be speaking about creating an emotionally healing culture - either in one's own soul, or in the community of faith. The “Hemorrhaging Faith” research says that emotional healing is key to church health. What are the environments in which this healing takes place?

Listen as James Penner speaks about one of the reasons young adults are leaving the church. Their “Hemorrhaging Faith” research says that emotional healing is key to people deciding to leave or stay. Their sermon is titled, “Emotional healing is part of the gospel package.”

I don't remember a time when I didn't follow Jesus. I've always spent time praying and talking to God. When I was 3 years old, I remember eating macaroni and cheese and thinking that I wanted to be closer to God. I decided to ask God into my life. Sometimes it is hard to follow Jesus, like when I get into trouble, or throw a fit. In those moments, I sometimes felt like God couldn't forgive me. But now I know that He does. God is also helping me get over my fear of speaking or being embarrassed when I do. I want to be baptized so that I can be closer with Jesus, and so I can be a witness for God wherever I go. This is my next step of faith.

On this Easter weekend, I wanted to share with you one of several comversations I had with one of the most popular of the TV evangelists of his day: Rev. Robert Schullt, creator of The Hour of Power, the leader of a congregation that worshiped in the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California. In 1992, we met for an interview about a new book about his life. It was called "Goliath," written by his son-in-law James Penner.

Sermons from James Penner on January 12, 2020

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Sermons from James Penner on October 7, 2018

Sermons from Bruce Enns and James Penner on June 24, 2018

Sermons from Bruce Enns and James Penner on June 17, 2018

Sermons from James Penner on May 27, 2018

Sermons from Bruce Enns and James Penner on March 18, 2018

Sermons from James Penner on February 11, 2018

Sermons from James Penner on October 29, 2017

So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein (University of Minnesota Press) How and why, in a time of homophobia and closeted sexuality, did two openly gay writers become mass-market celebrities? Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Truman Capote (1924–1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and exclusively gay, built their outsize reputations on works that directly featured homosexuality and a queer aesthetic. How did these writers become mass-market celebrities while other gay public figures were closeted or censored? And what did their fame mean for queer writers and readers, and for the culture in general? Jeff Solomon explores these questions in So Famous and So Gay. Celebrating lesbian partnership, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was published in 1933 and rocketed Stein, the Jewish lesbian intellectual avant-garde American expatriate, to international stardom and a mass-market readership. Fifteen years later, when Capote published Other Voices, Other Rooms, a novel of explicit homosexual sex and love, his fame itself became famous. Through original archival research, Solomon traces the construction and impact of the writers’ public personae from a gay-affirmative perspective. He historically situates author photos, celebrity gossip, and other ephemera to explain how Stein and Capote expressed homosexuality and negotiated homophobia through the fleeting depiction of what could not be directly written—maneuvers that other gay writers such as Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and James Baldwin could not manage at the time. Finally So Famous and So Gay reveals what Capote’s and Stein’s debuts, Other Voices, Other Rooms and Three Lives, held for queer readers in terms of gay identity and psychology—and for gay authors who wrote in their wake. Praise for So Famous and So Gay "In So Famous and So Gay, Jeff Solomon amasses a treasure trove archive—literature, reviews, biographies, photographs, interviews—from which he examines the gayness, strangeness, and celebrity that combusted to create the queer precocity of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein. At once critically expansive and insightful, this book is also a good story. Like Stein and Capote, Solomon is an engaging stylist in his own right. Read to learn, read to enjoy (imagine that!)." —Ken Corbett, author of A Murder Over a Girl"Every bit as ‘fabulous’ as the subtitle promises, So Famous and So Gay focuses on two writers—Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein—whose strategies for politicizing questions of sexual identity included the manufacture of public personae as queerly flamboyant ‘geniuses’ and the exploitation of their author photos. Brilliantly exposing of the commodification of authorial identity, Solomon also offers a welcome corrective to strands of queer theory that neglect the specificities of same-sex desire."—Joseph Allen Boone, University of Southern California"Jeff Solomon’s So Famous and So Gay effectively reinvigorates the single author genre by stretching its scope and preconceived boundaries. Solomon’s magisterial command of twentieth century American literary culture and his provocative use of author photos make this particular two-author study an engaging work of scholarship." —James Penner, author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture Jeff Solomon is assistant professor of English and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Wake Forest University.

A significant number of young adults and teens are leaving the church. Guest speaker, James Penner, address the reasons behind it and what we can do to engage the younger generations.

Jesus has a heart for intergenerational community in his church. Yet many churches are filled with fence sitters or those who are disengaging completely from their faith community. Through unprecedented research and study, James Penner will paint a picture of why people are fence sitting and the critical changes that we can make to move people from the fence to full engagement.

It's a rare thing that I feel compelled to do a podcast around the subject of my dear paternal star guide, good ol' TL. I love and miss him a lot but can't spend too much time being too close in terms of my own work. Of course there are exceptions and this was one of them. James Penner wrote the most amazing book, Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years - Early Writings on LSD and Psilocybin with Richard Alpert, Huston Smith and Ralph Metzner. James stopped by the kitchen table to dissect not just the book but the entire history and context which is what makes the work TL and RD did at Harvard so monumental. Really, if you don't know much about the Harvard era one thing to know is that it was one of the key ingredients in the start of the 1960's. James is funny, smart and so well researched. This was a pleasure do and a worthy exception to the TL podcast rule! INTRO RANT: moving through our collective relationship with the inauguration James Penner is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Southern California, James divides his time between San Juan and Los Angeles.

In this week’s episode, James Penner speaks with Joanna about: rediscovering Tim Leary’s early writings; Leary, an interdisciplinary and provocative thinker; creativity and psychedelics; “learn to trust your nervous system”; growing interest in psychedelics across generations; the changing relationship between Richard Alpert/Ram Dass and Tim Leary; re-evaluating the foundational period of the psychedelic era; a […] The post The Harvard Years appeared first on Future Primitive Podcasts.