Theology:21CE
Would you like to hear things you’ve thought about but thought no one else could support? Have a safe place to talk about God or to question God? …to share your divergent understanding about God? ...to hear new stories about God? This podcast and its accompanying Blog are the places you can do that. Give it a try. What’s the worst that can happen? (ok, I can think of several things.) I’m a recently retired (from the United Methodist Church) gay pastor living in Southern California. My experience is that when I have encountered that which is sacred, I have awakened, which also means I’m asleep a lot. I have found that when I live out my theology in my daily life that life works out for me. I’ll share my awake moments and what I’m discovering. Living awake assures us that every experience is a gift to be cherished, the painful ones as much as the pleasurable ones. My blog site is searching-for-god.com
Episodes
26 episodes
Embracing Our Responsibility: Animal Welfare and the Spirit of Stewardship with Beth Cooper
Have you ever considered the profound responsibility we hold towards the animal kingdom? It's a question that carries weighty moral implications, and together with Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper, an animal advocate and health specialist, we tackle th...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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35:05
Exploring the Power of Holistic Healing with Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper
Are you ready to journey through a healing sanctuary? In this first of three interviews by Reverend Tom Ziegert, Reverend Dr. Beth Cooper, a Christian elder and holistic health practitioner, takes us along her personal path of physical and ment...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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21:12
The Judas Path
This episode explores the current "relative truth" politic and its connection to Christian faith.
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20:21
Night Watch for New Year's Eve / New Year's Day Observance
This episode of Theology:21ce brings the Night Watch Observance to you. It is a New Year’s Eve version of John Wesley’s Covenant Service. The heart of this service is the Covenant Prayer. It requires persons to commit themselves to God. Thi...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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14:49
Faith & Investing
In this episode I talk about why investing is an activity of faithfulness.
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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15:41
GOD
In this episode I talk about the history and future of God and our evolving understanding of our relationship of God.
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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14:41
A Thanksgiving To Celebrate
In this episode I talk about celebrating Thanksgiving in honor of God's abundance and grace in a way suitable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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12:12
The Kingdom of God
In this episode, I talk with my guest, Rev. Lynn Munson-Francis about the Kingdom of God and what it means in our lives.
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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33:44
I Am Who I Am...
In this fourth episode of my third season, I talk about the importance of being true to ourselves, living authentically, and embracing who God made us to be.
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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15:14
When the World Ended
In this episode I discuss the misapprehension that the world will end in some "Rapture" or Armageddon described in the Book of Revelation. The world already ended. We live in a new world brought about by the dissolution of the Old Covenant (con...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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10:46
The Beginning of the End of Liberalism - First Shot by Christian Nationalism
Hegel's Dialectic offers the diagram of how the end will come. Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis. The old Age of Liberalism battles its antithesis, Christian Nationalism. Both will be the diametrics that form the synthesis of a new age.
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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9:35
All Dogs Go To Heaven
In this episode Reverend Gilbert Stones, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Los Osos, California, talks about both animals and humans being souls, the dilemma of accepting this understanding, and how humans then have to reevaluate our...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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29:23
Domestic Violence Awareness
This episode honors National Domestic Violence Awareness month with guest, Alicia Diane Rhoden, who discusses with us her experiences as a victim of domestic violence, her journey to extricate herself from victimization by her husband and churc...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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30:43
Sin & Evil - Maybe What They Told You Was Wrong
Originally the Bible was written in Greek. It was then translated into Hebrew for the Old Testament and into Latin for the New Testament. The Greek used was actually an international Greek different than Classical Greek. I call this vendor Gree...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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11:48
My Solitude
For some, solitude is akin to loneliness. This podcast discusses the elements necessary to find comfort in solitude and overcome bouts of loneliness. Reference is made to Georges Moustaki's song, "Ma Solitude." The hear the song go to:
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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9:15
Principles of Sexual Ethics, A New Day
This episode attempts to lay down principles upon which we can develop our ethic of sexuality and sexual encounters.
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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12:15
Forgiveness, The Path (Revised)
This revised episode discusses steps involved in forgiveness as a process, or path. I recognize that forgiveness can be a singular or series of events. But, I suggest that it can be a process for the bigger crimes against one another. Those ste...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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16:11
To Bless Instead of Forgive?
This episode uses the reference from Romans chapter 12 verses 9 thru 21 to talk about blessing our persecutors.
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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9:24
But, Jesus Did Say Something About Queers!
This episode talks a little about the Bible as sacred stories, a little about sex outside of marriage, and some more about Eunuch as an ancient colloquialism for gay or lesbian, the importance of our stories, and that all good eunuchs go to Hea...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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25:19
Places I've Come Across God, Episode 3 - Cimarron, NM 1998
There are times where all we need is a little encouragement from God. It is my experience that God gives such encouragement. God gives us signs, sometimes. It is for us to recognize them, come to grips with them and interpret them. This episode...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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14:18
Is the Bible The Word of God?
If you listened to my first podcast in my series, “Places I’ve Come Across God,” you will know why I have had a certain wariness about the way the Bible is used and who it’s used for and against. You will not be surprised then, that I take exce...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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13:52