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It can happen to anyone. We can plan our lives so carefully some times and then the unthinkable happens. A teaser from an upcoming episode of "The Genius Podcast: Sciencing Our Human Potential." Join us! Dr. Jackson will be a featured guest in Episode 17 Called "Death, Life, Sleep and Dreams" to be released on Tuesday, May 14 on Youtube.com Spotify and all major podcast platforms. Interviewed by coach Dove Wilson of Great Sleep and Other Superpowers at www.Grimardwilson.com and www.greatsleep.life --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/diane-g-wilson/message
This week, Paul, Jeremy and April are joined by John Pavlovitz. John is a writer, pastor, and activist from North Carolina committed to equality, diversity, and justice while actively working for a more compassionate planet. He is the author of If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk, A Bigger Table, Hope and Other Superpowers, Low, Rise, and Stuff That Needs to Be Said. https://johnpavlovitz.com/ In this episode, we discuss Christian Nationalism and the upcoming election. We also each share our Hate Comment of the Week. Check out our new Merch ISH or join our ISH Community: www.evangelicalish.com Follow the Evangelicalish team on Tiktok, IG, FB & Twitter: @evangelicalish, @pastorpaul_tiktok, @pastorfromok, @aprilajoy Or email us: evangelicalish@gmail.com
After various different denominations and endless infighting between people who all claim to be true followers of Jesus it begs the question, "What is a 'real' Christian anyway?" During this roundtable discussion we welcome several prominent (yet controversial) Christian content creators who have all been accused of being "fake" Christians to discuss what it means to be a Christian and how all believers can be united in Christ when faced with so much division. ABOUT THIS EPISODE'S GUESTS: John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, storyteller, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. Over the past six years his blog, Stuff That Needs To Be Said, has reached a diverse worldwide audience, recently passing the 100 million views mark. A 25-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside of faith communities. His bestselling books include A Bigger Table, Hope and Other Superpowers, and If God is Love, Don't Be a Jerk which arrived this past September. Follow him at: johnpavlovitz.com @johnpavlovitz on Twitter/IG/FB empatheticpeople.com Malynda Hale is a Singer/Songwriter/Activist and Host of #WeNeedToTalk Podcast. You can find more from her at her website: http://www.malyndahale.com and can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @malyndahale or on Facebook and TikTok @malyndahaleofficial. Pastor Paul Swearengin is known for asking questions of the church and culture that others are thinking but may not be free to express. He has a heart for people to know their true value and purpose. After being trained and ordained for ministry by the Vineyard Association of Churches, Paul founded and led for more than ten years an evangelical church in Fresno, California. He made a choice to leave his position of leadership in the church to become a creator, author, podcaster and spiritual well-being coach. As “Pastor Paul” on social media, Paul inspires and supports those who are questioning their faith and political views in an era of spiritual and social upheaval. He offers thought-provoking content, community discussion groups, and one-on-one coaching for people who are seeking spiritual health and emotional well-being. More from Pastor Paul at: www.Pastor-Paul.com https://linktr.ee/PastorPaul_TikTok Eddie Crume is host of the Brute Facts Podcast which focuses on Philosophy of religion, Humor and Interviews with people of various different faiths. Find more from Eddie at: https://www.brutefacts.com/ https://linktr.ee/Brute_Facts_Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dear-christians/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dear-christians/support
Are you committed to equality, diversity, and justice? Tune in as Ken D Foster interviews author & blogger John Palovitz as we talk about how faith in a supernatural being should make you a better human being. John Pavlovitz is a pastor, writer, and activist. He's spent nearly three decades teaching, studying, dissecting, deconstructing, and reconstructing the Christian faith. Committed to equality, diversity, and justice, John aims to teach a single, elemental truth: Faith in a supernatural being should make you a better human being. His blog, Stuff That Needs to Be Said, recently surpassed one hundred million views, and his previous books include A Bigger Table, Hope and Other Superpowers, and Low Link: https://lnkd.in/gXQfR-a9 Visit our website: voicesofcourage.us Or Subscribe to our youtube channel: http://tiny.cc/vocyoutube #VOC #voicesofcourage #KenDFoster #JohnPalovitz #podcast
John Pavlovitz – If God Is Love, Don't Be a JerkAired Wednesday, January 26, 2022 at 5:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM ESTFor many people, their former religious doctrines have begun to feel like an old pair of tight pants—you can hop, shimmy, and try to cram yourself in, but you can't deny that they no longer fit. Healthy spirituality shouldn't be kept in a space too small or narrow. It's natural for it to grow and evolve along with us. That journey can be initially terrifying but ultimately liberating. My guest this week on Destination Unlimited, John Pavlovitz, says it's time to “Unbox God, reexamine your faith and love your damn neighbor!” John Pavlovitz is a pastor, writer, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. He's spent nearly three decades teaching, studying, dissecting, deconstructing, and reconstructing the Christian faith. Committed to equality, diversity, and justice, John aims to teach a single, elemental truth: “Faith in a supernatural being should make you a better human being”. His blog, “Stuff That Needs to Be Said”, recently surpassed one hundred million views, and his previous books include A Bigger Table, Hope and Other Superpowers and Low. His website is https://johnpavlovitz.com/, and he joins me this week to share his latest book, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk.Visit the Destination Unlimited show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/destination-unlimited/Connect with Victor Fuhrman at http://victorthevoice.com/#JohnPavlovitz #VictorFuhrman #DestinationUnlimitedSubscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/
On the final episode of #WeNeedToTalk-Faith & Politics, Malynda chats with her friend Author and Pastor John Pavlovitz. They discuss the current voice of Christianity, the lack of progressive Faith figures, how we can reclaim Christianity, and his new book If God is Love, Don't be a Jerk. John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. A 25-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. When not actively working for a more compassionate planet, John enjoys spending time with his family, exercising, cooking, and having time in nature. He is the author of A Bigger Table, Hope and Other Superpowers, Low, and Stuff That Needs to Be Said.
Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Writer, Pastor, and Activist, John Pavlovitz, exploring his new book, If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk_____LINKShttps://johnpavlovitz.comIf God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk_____John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. A 25-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. When not actively working for a more compassionate planet, John enjoys spending time with his family, exercising, cooking, and having time in nature. He is the author of A Bigger Table, Hope and Other Superpowers, Low, and Stuff That Needs to Be Said.Thou shalt not be horrible. Imagine for a moment what the world might look like if we as people of faith, morality, and conscience aspired to this mantra. What if we were fully burdened to create a world that was more loving and equitable than when we arrived? What if we invited one another to share in wide-open, fearless, spiritual communities truly marked by compassion and interdependence?In If God Is Love, Don't Be a Jerk, John Pavlovitz examines the bedrock ideas of our religion: the existence of hell, the utility of prayer, the way we treat LGBTQ people, the value of anger, and other doctrines to help all of us take a good, honest look at how the beliefs we hold can shape our relationships with God and our fellow humans—and to make sure that love has the last, loudest word._____In Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer is a production of the George Bailey Morality in Public Life Fellowship. It is hosted by Frank Schaeffer, author of Fall In Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy.Learn more at https://www.lovechildrenplanet.comFollow Frank on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.https://www.facebook.com/frank.schaeffer.16https://twitter.com/Frank_Schaefferhttps://www.youtube.com/c/FrankSchaefferYouTubeIn Conversation… with Frank Schaeffer PodcastApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-conversation-with-frank-schaeffer/id1570357787 _____The Porch Courses Sponsored by the new Porch Course, Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy.Support the show
John Pavlovitz is a pastor, author, blogger, and truth-teller from Wake Forest, North Carolina.His blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience. A 20-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. He has three books – A Bigger Table, Hope and Other Superpowers, and Low: An Honest Advent Devotional.
John Pavlovitz is a pastor, author, blogger, and truth-teller from Wake Forest, North Carolina.His blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience. A 20-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. He has three books – A Bigger Table, Hope and Other Superpowers, and Low: An Honest Advent Devotional.
Lighting the Chalice: Sermons from the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County
Guest speaker: John Pavlovitz Individually and as a nation we are experiencing a shaking. We now have the opportunity to be peace givers and not fear bringers, and to learn, as did the followers of Jesus, how to endure the turbulence and how, at times, to become the turbulence. How can we leverage our lives to bring peace to those who are shaking? John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. His blog, “Stuff That Needs To Be Said,” reaches a diverse worldwide audience. A 20-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. In 2017, he released his first book, A Bigger Table. His newest book is Hope and Other Superpowers.
In the past two years, John Pavlovitz’s blog, Stuff That Needs To Be Said, has reached a diverse audience of millions of people across the world with his outspoken distaste for a number of President Trump’s policies and confrontation of the larger national vitriol about immigrants, guns, and many other hot button issues. His popularity is not surprising, given that his core message is one that so many of us are yearning to hear: that hope is still possible, and that kindness, inclusion, and compassion are the way forward. A former megachurch pastor, Pavlovitz now preaches a much less-traditional Christian message dedicated to radical hospitality, mutual respect, and diversity of doctrine that has earned him the nicknames “The Pastor of the Resistance” and “The Atheists’ Favorite Pastor.” He wants to help those of us who feel hopeless recognize ways in which we can change things for the better. “Hope isn’t found in a celebrity, religious leader, or politician,” says Pavlovitz. “It’s found in the mirror.” Pavlovitz fervently believes that people can change things with a little guidance. “We all have a small world that we can save,” Pavlovitz explains “Compassion, or giving a damn, is one of the most powerful weapons we have in difficult times.” In a rousing and inspiring interview, Pavlovitz, author of the new book, Hope and Other SuperPowers:A Life-Affirming, Love-Defending, Butt-Kicking, World-Saving Manifesto (Simon and Schuster, November 2018), can discuss: • How to find hope in the face of the discord and anger we see on social media news feeds every day • Recognizing that personal pain can mobilize us to activism • Specific places to start and steps to take in the face of the vast and overwhelming problems in the world • How to balance fighting injustice in the world with caring for oneself • One thing each one of us can do right now to be the kind of person the world needs • And much more! John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist. In the past five years his blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience of millions of people, and he is widely regarded as a leading voice in progressive faith in America. A 22-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. In 2017 he released his first book, A Bigger Table. His second book, Hope and Other Superpowers, arrived in November of 2018. For more information visit www.johnpavlovitz.com. Or you can find John on Twitter @johnpavlovitz, Facebook @johnpavlovitzofficial, and instagram @johnpavlovitz. Hope and Other Superpowers is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound, and wherever books are sold --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deathdialogues/message
Synopsis Benton and Elane talk with our favorite rabble rouser, noted blogger and speaker John Pavlovitz, about his latest book Hope and Other Superpowers, wonder, civility, kids, and John's coffee virginity. This Morning's Cocktails Prosecco with pomegranate syrup (us), diet Coke (John Pavlovitz) Music Credits Music by Benton Stokes Our theme music: “Moving On (Feels Pretty Good)”. Words & music by Benton Stokes. Available on Grace & Gravity (CD on BentonStokes.com; digitally on Amazon and iTunes) Copyright 2018 Songs From the Basement (BMI). All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Support Cocktail Theology on Patreon.
Hope is still possible, even when the pain of the world feels like too much. What if kindness, empathy, and compassion are the way forward? Join host Kayla Craig and co-hosts Lindsy Wallace, Alissa Molina, and Gina Ciliberto with special guest John Pavlovitz. John is a writer, pastor, and activist. In the past five years, John's blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience of millions of people. In 2017 he released his first book, A Bigger Table. His second book, Hope and Other Superpowers, arrived in November of 2018.In this episode, we:Unpack what “hope” and “resistance” means and how we live them in today’s worldExplore the role that community plays in hopeAsk how we move beyond soundbites into embodied hopeReconcile the temptations of apathy against savorism Identify steps each of us can take right now to be the kind of person the world needsJoin us as we explore hope as resistance, pulling those threads to see how it looks like in our actual lives. May we be galvanized, encouraged, and compelled by this conversation on pressing into pain and choosing a way of hope, even when the world feels pretty hopeless.Recommended reading & resources:Hope and Other Superpowers by John PavlovitzJohn PavlovitzNews, Notes, and Links:Support more conversations like this on Upside Down Podcast! Please visit us, where you can pledge a few dollars of monthly support to help us pay our bills and keep the conversations going.Learn more at Upside Down Podcast.We’re on Instagram, too.Join the Upside Down Tribe on Facebook!Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/upsidedownpodcast)
Lighting the Chalice: Sermons from the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County
READING: excerpt from Hope and Other Superpowers by John Pavlovitz "We all love to see superheroes being born in pages or on-screen. There’s something magical about those beginnings that moves us. . . . It’s thrilling to watch human beings mutating from nondescript, regular schlubs like you and me into the monumental stuff of legend, to see them struggle to comprehend the gravity of the moment, to recognize the responsibility of access to such great power—and ultimately to run, swing, or fly headlong into their destiny. Over and over again we line up to breathe in these mythologies, because we love the idea of being thrust into stratospheric glory instead of being stuck here on the ground with the rest of the mere mortals and gawking bystanders..." The American Trappist monk Thomas Merton said that “there is in all things . . . a hidden wholeness.” The Gospel of Thomas, one of the gospels that did not make it into the official Bible, teaches that “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
Author and blogger John Pavlovitz joins Rev David for a live audience Q and A session as part of the Living Prophet Series at New Thought Center for Spiritual Living - www.newthoughtcsl.orgJohn Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. In the past four years his blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience. A 20-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. In 2017 he released his first book, A Bigger Table. His new book, Hope and Other Superpowers, arrived on November 6th.Support the show (https://secure.squarespace.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5c4eb3e5b8a04550fea577bf)
Bill welcomes author and pastor John Pavlovitz to the show. John is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. In the past four years his blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience. A 20-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. In 2017 he released his first book, A Bigger Table. His new book, Hope and Other Superpowers, was published this month. Don't miss it!
John Pavlovitz is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. In the past four years his blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience. A 20-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. In 2017 he released his first book, A Bigger Table. His new book, Hope and Other Superpowers, arrives on November 6th.
Aired Wednesday, 25 April 2018, 2:00 PM ESTBuilding A Bigger Table For An All-Inclusive Church with John PavlovitzNo one likes to eat alone; to approach a table filled with people, only to be told that despite the open chairs there isn’t room for you. The rejection stings. Yet, this is exactly what Christian churches have been saying to far too many people for far too long.Can churches, and their members, learn to welcome and accept LGBT inclusion, gender equality, racial tensions, global concerns, and theological shifts? Can they extend unconditional welcome and acceptance in a world increasingly marked by bigotry, fear, and exclusion?John Pavlovitz, author of A Bigger Table says the answer is, Yes!Join Sylvia and her guest, John Pavlovitz, as they discuss what happens when churches practice radical hospitality, total authenticity, messy diversity, and create agenda-free communities.About the Guest: John PavlovitzJohn Pavlovitz is a pastor, writer, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. In the past four years his blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience. A 20-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice – both inside and outside of faith communities.John Pavoivitz is the author of A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Communities and his new book titled Hope and Other Superpowers which releases on November 6th. John is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, ChurchLeaders.com, and The Good Men Project.To learn more about John Pavlovitz visit: www.JohnPavlovitz.comTo Contact Sylvia HendersonVisit: www.IntuitiveTransformations.netEmail: sylvia@IntuitiveTransformations.netTwitter: @NaturalNtuitiveLike Me On Facebook at: www.facebook.com/IntuitiveTransform