Flipped Table Theology

Second to the last final show of this year!
We are doing a 2-part conversation on Advent- this first part, our team shares what advent means to them.
A few links:All Creation Waits (Advent Book) by Gayle Boss
The song that Holly quoted is from Ben Rector, called Wreck.

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.

Hello! We've recently had many new voices around here listening and engaging in your own Flipped Table Conversations, so welcome!
Our conversation this week features Ashley Quinn, Sabbatical Pastor of National Avenue Christian Church.
A consistent conversation this week revolves around the Springfield Public School Board Meeting (June 2023). You can read more about this here.

In the conversation, Holly brings up a book (although she reads the author's name wrong...) called, Take This Bread by Sarah Miles
We could have gone on a LOT longer, so stay tuned for part 2 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.

You can check out The Well 636 Here

Connect with Danny!

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.

This conversation about Christian Nationalism was recorded as a live episode at National Avenue Christian Church in Springfield, MO.
The resources that were mentioned at the end of the discussion were:
Heather Cox Richardson's Substack
Disciples of Christ Resolution on Christian Nationalism
Reconstructing the Gospel Book
Jesus and John Wayne

American Idolatry

The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory

Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation

Bad Religion: How we became a nation of Heretics.

Jim Wallis's Soul of a Nation podcast

J.E.S.U.S.A documentary

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.