This is one of the most simple podcasts I’ve put together, as I recorded my sermon from New Year’s Eve 2006 at the Church of God at Bethel in Fort Wayne, Indiana! There’s just a brief intro then the sermon, so no need for a timeline on this one.

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It’s been a long time coming, and I thank all of you who encourage me to get the podcasts out there. This podcast consists of some thoughts I’ve been having about the local church’s plan, or lack thereof, to help people become better followers of Jesus

Show Notes:

• 3:50 Google Apps for Your Domain
• 11:43 Battlestar Galactica and Mary McDonnell
• 13:15 Main Topic: The plan to help people become better followers of Jesus
• 35:49 Preaching at Church of God at Bethel in Fort Wayne, IN on New Year’s Eve 2006 (10 am service, 9926 Bethel Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46818)
• Another conversation podcast… next week! Scot McKnight, who blogs at Jesus Creed

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John O’Keefe of Ginkworld and I discuss various issues related to the emerging church, his move to the east coast, and Ginktionary.

Show Notes:

• :48 Baptists at our Barbecue
• 1:17 Talking Politics
• 9:11 No more participating on the anti-emerging church sites for me
• 13:53 A conversation with John O’Keefe
• Another conversation podcast… next week! Scot McKnight, who blogs at Jesus Creed

Conversation with Tony Jones

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So one of the least prolific, albeit the first, emerging church podcasts has decent visibility.

I have three more episodes nearly “in the can,” I just need to record intros. Tomorrow I’ll be putting up a conversation with John O’Keefe. Next week will be a discussion with Scot McKnight. I’ll follow that up either with a solo podcast (because I have some issues I’ve really been burning to talk about) or a conversation I had with Len Hjalmarson. The conversation with Len is definitely coming, I’m just trying to space out the podcasts by at least a week… because it’s my goal to make this podcast weekly, and I know that means I need to be ahead, because there will definitely be times when I don’t do a podcast for a few weeks at a time!

R. Scott Smith author of Truth and the New Kind of Christian, which I reviewed here, will be joining me for a convo focused mostly on the topic of his book. We’ve had a friendly exchange in the comments portion of my review (he’s let me know he’ll be responding again soon), and it’ll be great to be able to actually talk rather than just an exchange of writings.

I may end up bumping up Scott and I’s conversation to make it more fresh to the posting of my review.

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Of course, you can just link to http://www.alanhartung.com/ as well.

The RSS feed for the podcast is http://feeds.feedburner.com/perspective-podcast/ if you’d like to subscribe. You can also click on that link, and it’ll give you an html version of the feed with all of the episodes of A Different Perspective.

Tony and I discuss various issues related to Emergent and the emerging church in this podcast. A few topics covered: the difference between Emergent and the emerging church, responding or not responding to critics, moving forward, and spiritual formation.

Show Notes:

• :24 Crash Wins!
• 1:25 Maybe K.C. won’t be able to afford T.O.
• 2:30 Long overdue conversation series begins: Tony Jones
• Another conversation podcast… next week! John O’Keefe of Ginkworld

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Today I recorded an excellent conversation I had with Scot McKnight for a part of the discussion series I’ve been promising. I thought the software I was using (Audio Hijack Pro) would just record us when I had it set to “ichat” and it turns out… it only recorded Scot. Fortunately, I was mostly asking questions and he wasn’t using a headset so there’s the faint rumor of my voice… so I’ll be able to dub me back in and have a pretty good finished product when it’s all said and done. Probably actually better than what it would’ve been with the echo, but a lot more time to get the finished product to you all. The convo is definitely worth it. There’s a reason his blog has become so popular…. he says a lot of great, thought-provoking stuff.

Then I also had a convo with John O’Keefe of Ginkworld. We also had a great conversation, but another technical gaffe using skype. This time I made sure both of us were recorded. This is more of a hardware problem, and it is only a minor annoyance. Using the internal mic works fine for me when I’m just recording myself using other software, but evidently Audio Hijack Pro paired with Skype kicks up the hard drive… and the internal mic picks it up as an annoying buzz… I have a couple more convos lined up this week (yep, I’m getting ahead on podcasts for a change), and I’m hoping to be getting another mic to use. Then all the tech problems will be solved…

I’ve responded both on the Slice site and on the blog here through the comments, but I felt that a response in my own voice was appropriate. Please listen to the whole thing. I’m a little harsh in the first minute because of my reaction to some of the Slice commenters, but it is an honest telling of how I feel. Please take the time to listen to the podcast if you’re interested in this issue at all.

Thanks!

http://www.alanhartung.com/podcasts/a-different-perspective-15.mp3

This one’s straight to the point, so I didn’t add the time points.

Show notes:

* The Seattle Seahawks will win the Super Bowl! You heard it here first.
* Special thanks to Jordon Cooper for interviewing me: http://www.jordoncooper.com/2006/01/smart-friends-interview-alan-hartung.html
* Spiritual-Formation.com birthed out of a desire to live out the Gospel of the Kingdom
* Next podcast: A podcast discussion with Tony Jones… or someone else if our schedules keep conflicting!

http://www.alanhartung.com/2005/12/website-changes/ http://www.alanhartung.com/2005/12/website-changes/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2005 09:59:11 +0000 Alan http://www.alanhartung.com/blog/index.php/2005/12/11/website-changes/ So regular visitors to the site should notice some major changes. I’ve switched from b2evolution to WordPress. The reason for the switch is relatively simple. While b2evo has an incredible developer community, WordPress’s community is all that and more. The main feature that sets b2evo apart is the ability to run multiple blogs off of one install, and I didn’t need that feature.

I also wanted to get more familiar with WordPress, as I am reccomending it more and more to hosting clients. Which means they’ll probably be asking questions, and I want to have more experience working with this excellent software.

Sorry to be a pest, but please make the following changes (I do have redirects set up, but some day I’ll take them down…):

The main url has changed from http://www.alanhartung.com/blog/ to just the root: http://www.alanhartung.com/. If you link to this site, or have it bookmarked, could you change that?

If you directly link to the podcast category, that URL is now: http://www.alanhartung.com/blog/index.php/category/podcasts/. This one’s the most important to change, as the redirect isn’t ideal (the old address was index.php?cat=16 and the redirect just looks at “index.php”).

Other major changes, if you’re reading this in an RSS reader, I’m now using feedburner, and the old RSS feeds just redirect to feedburner for now. So if you could update your feed readers with these new feeds, that would be swell:

Main RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ADifferentPerspective
Comments RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ADifferentPerspectiveComments
Podcast RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/perspective-podcast

Amazingly, I was able to configure WordPress so all the URL’s from old posts are the same! So no worries if you’ve linked to posts of mine, the links still work just fine.

Just as I promised, here’s the podcast about the benefits of emerging churches within the established church.

I’ve added time points to the show notes, so if you aren’t interested in the quick hits, you can skip to the blogging special… or maybe you don’t want the blogging special and want to go straight to the main topic after the quick hits. So, if you feel the podcast is too long… don’t shut it off, skip to the parts you want!

Show notes:

• Google Analytics
• Emergent No, Emergent Yes, Emergent What? www.emergentno.com
• 5:39 Blogging Special: Tips and tricks for bloggers. General advice on publicizing and maintaining a blog.
  • Free blog services are limited
  • Own your name! – Seriously, it’s eight bucks a year…
  • del.icio.us
  • flickr
  • WordPress – Available auto-installable and free with every SoCal Websites hosting account
  • Amazon, CafePress, Google Adsense
  • Feedburner for better tracking of RSS feeds
  • Email me about the special heard on the show at alan at socal websites . com (no spaces in the actual email address)
• 27:37 Main Topic: Established Emerging Churches
• Next podcast: The start of many interviews, as I look to bring other perspectives into A Different Perspective
• Sponsor a podcast! For more information on how to sponsor A Different Perspective, please fill out the contact form

The Emerging Church Series – Vested in the Establishment
Radical Church Structure
War on the Sermon
The Emerging Church Under the Radar
Colossians 1 and an Incarnational Theology
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Faith and Politics
Spencer Burke Interview
The Nature of the Church
Special New Year’s Day Podcast
A New Primer on Postmodernism

Blog Feed (due to an upgrade, the blog feed is not currently supporting the enclosure tag in RSS; I’m working on getting that fixed, and it should be up again soon)

Podcast Feed

A Different Perspective is sponsored by SoCal Websites.

Another podcast! It’s true, another episode is out… Vested in the Establishment

Show notes:

• “A Different Kind of God” chapter available for download – please post your critiques at this post
• Weeds on Showtime has become my number one search term! Check out the Weeds post here
• Sponsor a podcast! For more information on how to sponsor A Different Perspective, please fill out the contact form
• Vested in the System – The main topic. Why it’s difficult, if not impossible, for a church to “emerge” if the pastor is vested in the establishment.
• Next podcast: The benefits of working within the estasblishment… there are some!

Radical Church Structure
War on the Sermon
The Emerging Church Under the Radar
Colossians 1 and an Incarnational Theology
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Faith and Politics
Spencer Burke Interview
The Nature of the Church
Special New Year’s Day Podcast
A New Primer on Postmodernism

Blog Feed (due to an upgrade, the blog feed is not currently supporting the enclosure tag in RSS; I’m working on getting that fixed, and it should be up again soon)

Podcast Feed

A Different Perspective is sponsored by SoCal Websites.

I like it. Actually, I haven’t had much time to give it a thorough going through, but my podcast is already there, so I’m happy I don’t have to submit it to get it into the system.

Several of you have giving me repeated reminders that I haven’t actually done a podcast in awhile… and I appreciate it. I really do. I’ve had a lot going on and a million other excuses, but the fact that people are asking me for more means a lot. It means, one, people are listening. Two, at least some that listen like it.

So, I’m going to try to bang one out this afternoon. I’ve been keeping notes on several topics. I’m probably going to start making the podcasts about 20-30 instead of 30-45. This will also help in getting them out more regularly…

A better way to look at emerging churchers (and this obviously won’t work for every one) would be to couch our beliefs in terms of freedom versus oppression. Our concern for social justice issues stems not from a political mindset but from a recognition of oppression. The reason Darfur is a prominent subject among many emerging church bloggers is the oppression going on.

And if some of us are not pro-Bush, the issue may have less to do with typical right versus left issues and more to do with a belief that Bush’s regime oppresses voices which run counter to the Bush agenda. It may be that while we believe democracy is the best form of government, we do not believe any form of government should be forced upon a nation. It is a form of oppression to force even a good thing on persons who do not want it or ask for it (or willing to fight for it themselves).

And what about Scripture? Aren’t we in the emerging church just a bunch of wanna be liberal theologians? I think what gets to most of us about the “conservative” scholars isn’t so much the content of what they believe as the way they force their interpretations on others. It is another form of oppression, and we seek for freedom from the tyranny of conservative scholars (not all included, but the group as a whole tend towards a form of absolutism that silences competing voices).

Because of unhealthy and prudish views on sex, we’ve become more open to questions about sexuality. It’s not that we want the “liberal” answer, but that we are looking for answers to be had without the force of guilt and social stigma declaring what is right and wrong with our sexuality.

Of course, most conservatives think any one is a liberal who does not line up with their conservatism. But at least for me, when I’m labeled a liberal… I’m just going to try to explain that it isn’t a liberal agenda driving my thoughts, it’s an agenda of freedom from oppression. If Christ’s yoke is easy and his burden is light, then perhaps that Christ’s agenda as well.

iTunes 4.9 came out, and it spurred me into action. At least partial action.

I’m still working on the Human Sexuality podcast. It’s been a bit more complex then I expected.

But, a friend told me I was third under Christianity in the new iTunes podcast directory… so I thought I better get something up. Seeing how some well-intentioned (and appreciated) person submitted me to the iTunes directory. But they used the wrong feed… the one with just podcasts should have been submitted to iTunes. So while I get that corrected, nothing is showing up under my excellent placement.

So I decided to do a quick podcast which is generally… an overview of the Human Sexuality podcast coming next and also a brief overview of the show and why it exists.

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Oh, and the podcast only feed is: http://www.alanhartung.com/podcasts/rss.xml
Previous podcasts:

War on the Sermon
The Emerging Church Under the Radar
Colossians 1 and an Incarnational Theology
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Faith and Politics
Spencer Burke Interview
The Nature of the Church
Special New Year’s Day Podcast
A New Primer on Postmodernism

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Podcast Only Feed

A Different Perspective is sponsored by SoCal Websites.

In my opinion, sexuality is at the top of the list of hot button issues facing the Church. Unfortunately, my podcast will not offer any definitive answers for any one (at least I’d be surprised if it did). This is not an issue to be solved, as I do not feel we will be able to find a unifying view of human sexuality. However, the conversation about sex needs to include some perspectives I’m going to try to cover.

Number 1: The nature of sex

More specifically, I’m going to take a closer look at the spirituality of sex as well as the physicality.

Number 2: The emotions of sex

Out here in southern cal, there are a wide variety of attitudes towards sex. It’s allowed me to question some of the age-old arguments on sexual development from a conservative viewpoint. At the same time, I don’t come to the same answers as many of my friends and associates here in Los Angeles. The emotions of sex often play out differently depending on the context of the act.

Number 3: The purpose of sex

While talked about a lot, I think I can offer a different perspective on this aspect of human sexuality as well.

Number 4: Sex in the Bible

I’ve got a feeling this part isn’t going to be a big friend-maker for me…

I’m going to try, to the best of my ability, to take head on both conservative and liberal views of Scripture and sex. I think there’s a deeper point we often miss by placing the sexual relationship in a paradigm which is governed mainly by rules. But my freeing approach doesn’t result in the freedom many would like in regards to sex…

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Well, I wanted to throw out a basic outline for ya. I would love feedback and thoughts as I prepare to record this next podcast. Talk to me, tell me something.

The much-anticpated, much delayed… Radical Church Structure

This podcast has been recorded once… then the program crashed. Then a crazy month kept me from doing anything at all in April…

Just a reminder… podcasts are a lot like TiVo. If you don’t like a section, you can just forward to the next. The main topic doesn’t hit until about fifteen minutes in I think, but I haven’t actually looked at the timeline for this episode.

Original Show notes:

• Pope John Paul II Passed Away
• Thoughts on Terri Schiavo
• RR-BB.COM message boards discussLighthouse Trails Research Project
• Million Dollar Baby – Trapped – Shaun of the Dead

Show notes:

• Pope Benedict should have been Pope Alicious
• Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith review at end of podcast
• Gospel of the Kingdom post has gotten a lot of attention
• Check out Conversatio Fide – a podcast by Aaron Klinefelter and Alan Creech
• Moving out of Venice? Could it be?
• Main Topic: Radical Church Structure
• Sports team or family?
• Next Podcast: Human Sexuality

Previous podcasts:

War on the Sermon
The Emerging Church Under the Radar
Colossians 1 and an Incarnational Theology
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Faith and Politics
Spencer Burke Interview
The Nature of the Church
Special New Year’s Day Podcast
A New Primer on Postmodernism

Podcast and Blog Feed

Podcast Only Feed

A Different Perspective is sponsored by SoCal Websites.

I may just record it again. Especially since I fell for Adam Cleaveland’s April Fool’s joke…

I reference the chance it was a joke in the podcast, and it is only a brief mention any way. But with the other problems, I may just redo the whole stinking thing. I apologize for the delay.

Podcast will have to be next week, as I doubt I’ll be recording in San Felipe. Of course, it could be the first A Different Perspective international podcast! Something to think about while I’m relaxing at my friend’s parents house in good ole Mexico.

So…

The next podcast topic will be “Radical Church Structure,” and since this isn’t a political office we’re voting for, the “Human Sexuality” camp won’t be left in the dirt. I’ll do that one as the podcast after Radical…

Thanks for deciding what you want to hear on A Different Perspective!