Flipped Table Theology

Christie, Holly, Rue and Shurita gathered today to deconstruct the topic of peace.
Christie recommended a new movie on Netflix called Rustin.
Holly shared a favorite children's book (gifted to her children by Shurita, of course), Peas on Earth by Todd H. Doodler.
Our team also recommends this anthem, Find Your People by Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors (on YouTube and Spotify).

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. We are moving our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group to a group on BAND to give people a way to connect outside of mainline social media platforms. Connect this discussion group for a place to create connections and conversations.
The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

Trigger Warning: This conversation talks about family relationships in the context of family gatherings. For some, this conversation could be really triggering.
Our whole team gathered for this conversation and shared from both personal experience and Holly shared an earthy analogies :)

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. We are moving our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group to a group on BAND to give people a way to connect outside of mainline social media platforms. Connect this discussion group for a place to create connections and conversations.
The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

Backstory: The FTT team was scheduled to be at an event today to film the podcast live as one of the presenters. Our team showed up to the event early (everyone except for Shurita who was at an all day work retreat) in order to watch the first speaker. The entire event was supposed to be centered around the topic of deconstruction, but this first speaker shared from a very toxic, authoritative place that created a very unsafe, triggering environment. We listened for awhile before we collectively chose to leave.
We coordinated with the event hosts who were equally disappointed as this speaker was invited to share last minute by the event leader due to a schedule change.
We backed out of the event and left to record an impromptu FTT podcast on the theology of protest.
This podcast may have triggers as we talk about evangelical spaces and leaders who abuse power and authority on the platform.
We hope this incredibly raw podcast that came as a response to our own triggered and activated experience today will be affirming for those who are wrestling with staying in toxic spaces, and affirming for those who have chosen to leave as a form of protest.

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. We are moving our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group to a group on BAND to give people a way to connect outside of mainline social media platforms. Connect this discussion group for a place to create connections and conversations.
The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

The conversation this week is a continuation from last week!
We shared a lot of resources in this episode! The quotes, books, and songs are listed below :) (in the order they are shared).
1. Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
2. "When my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor... Jesus never commanded me to love my religion." - Barbara Brown Taylor (quote)
3. When Religion Becomes Evil: 5 Warning Signs, by Charles Kimball
4. Misreading Scripture Through Western Eyes, by E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien
5. Love Beyond Belief, by Thandeka
6. "Will come of age with our young nation
We'll bleed and fight for you
We'll make it right for you
If we lay a strong enough foundation
We'll pass it on to you, we'll give the world to you
And you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday"
-"Dear Theodosia" by Hamilton
7. "You with power, lend an ear
You with power, lend a hand
What a lovely house you've built
What a shame it's made of sand"
-"Faith" by Semler
Part 3 next week :)

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. We are moving our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group to a group on BAND to give people a way to connect outside of mainline social media platforms. Connect this discussion group for a place to create connections and conversations.
The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.

As we enter into the month of December, we are starting a series on "Deconstructing Advent." This month is on Deconstructing Hope. Our full team is finally back together, talking through this holiday-conversation. Several quotes were shared today:
Rue shared a quote from President Barrack Obama's inauguration speech: “Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”
Holly shared the famous poem line from Emily Dickinson, "Hope is a thing with feathers."
Phil shared a couple quotes on lament by Cole Arthur Riley form their book, "This Here Flesh", and a quote from Walter Brueggemann & Clover Rueter Beal.
As well as a quote by Cornel West, "The country is in deep trouble. We’ve forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. This is true at the personal level. But there’s also a political version, which has to do with what you see when you get up in the morning and look in the mirror and ask yourself whether you are simply wasting your time on the planet or spending it in an enriching manner. We need a moral prophetic minority of all colors who muster the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, and the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, hoping to land on something. That’s the history of black folks in the past and present, and of those of us who value history and struggle. Our courage rests on a deep democratic vision of a better world that lures us and a blood-drenched hope that sustains us. This hope is not the same as optimism. Optimism adopts the role of the spectator who surveys the evidence in order to infer that things are going to get better. Yet we know that the evidence does not look good. The dominant tendencies of our day are unregulated global capitalism, racial balkanization, social breakdown, and individual depression. Hope enacts the stance of the participant who actively struggles against the e

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your deconstructing because "no one deserves to deconstruct alone" as we mentioned during week 17. We are moving our Flipped Table Theology Facebook group to a group on BAND to give people a way to connect outside of mainline social media platforms. Connect this discussion group for a place to create connections and conversations.
The Flipped Table Theology Podcast is a production of The Flipped Table Collective. You can explore all of the resources, classes, events, and trainings that the Flipped Table Collective has to offer at www.flippedtablecollective.com.