FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Tag: christianity
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Christ is Kin: Reflections on a Sunday in evangelical America
This past Sunday, my partner Rosie and I attended a service at a conservative evangelical congregation just outside Asheville. We went at the invitation of friends who had recently converted…
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Between the Cross and the Bodhi Tree
The audio is available above, but it is poor quality. Thanks to Joe Lightfoot for hosting us! It was a real joy to meet Michel Bauwens in person for the first time at this…
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Islam and the West: Dialoging with Jared Morningstar
In my recent conversation with Jacob Kishere as part of his “Christianity beyond itself” series, we attempted to navigate the ways the “Christ impulse” can so easily get hijacked by culture-war crusader…
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Christ and Caesar: Christian Nationalism in the News
I wish I didn’t care that Nick Fuentes’ star continues to rise. I wish it didn’t matter. But I fear Christian nationalist Joel Webbon may be right when he says…
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The Word in Every Tongue: From Crusade to Conversation in the Movement of Christianity Beyond Itself
I sat down with Jacob Kishere for another conversation as part of his Christianity Beyond Itself series. Our first conversation was over a year ago: you can listen to it at this link.…
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Nick Fuentes and the Hollow Soul of America: Is there an America After the Idols?
Trump seems to be losing control over the MAGA movement he created. His surrogates remain confused, comparing Zoran Mamdani’s success mobilizing young New Yorkers to the rise of the Hitler Youth.…
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Remembering the Repressed with Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner
Judi: Hello, everybody. It’s my great pleasure to introduce Matt Segall. Matt is a PhD, a transdisciplinary researcher, philosopher, and teacher applying process-relational thought across the natural and social sciences. He…
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Facing the Face Within: Christopoetics in an Unfinished World in Process
Below is a draft of a chapter for a book on radical and process theologies. My contribution is based on a conversation I had with Peter Rollins earlier this year:…
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Sancta Maria Magdalena
Last Tuesday, on Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day, I walked as a pilgrim with about a dozen others from Lewes train station to St. Peter’s Church in Firle along part of…
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Participating in the Liturgy at Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco
This morning my friend Edward and I attended the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great at Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco, part of the Orthodox Church in America.…
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God Beyond and Within (Dialogue with Roman Campolo)
Below is a ChatGPT summary of my conversation with Roman (which I’ve reviewed for accuracy). You can find the exact transcript on Substack. Roman began by sharing his thoughts on…
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Christianity Beyond Itself (Dialogue with Jacob Kishere)
Transcript by ChatGPT: Host (Jacob Kishere): All right, welcome to Sense Space. Really, really happy to be joined today by Matthew Segall. Matthew has been connecting with a number of my…
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Notes on Carl Jung’s Problem of the Fourth (with help from Rudolf Steiner)
In part five of his essay “A Psychological Approach to the Trinity,” titled “The Problem of the Fourth,” Carl Gustav Jung turns to Christian, Gnostic, and Hermetic religious symbolism for clues…
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What is Metamodern Christianity?
Yesterday, I listened to this wonderful dialogue between Brendan Graham Dempsey and John Vervaeke: They discuss Brendan’s proposal of a “metamodern” Christianity and explore the potential to reclaim faith in Christ…
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Part 2 on Jung’s ‘Answer to Job’ (dialogue with Tim Jackson)
Some key themes that emerge in our dialogue: Jung begins the book with an emotional, active imagination style condemnation of Yahweh’s behavior in the Book of Job. In the second half,…
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On Jung’s “Answer to Job” (dialogue with Timothy Jackson)
This recording is our first of at least two dialogues on a book I’ll never be done reading. Below is my own brief summary after re-reading roughly the first half…
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Open and Relational Christianity
Jonathan Foster invited me on his podcast today. Below is a rough transcript of our conversation. … Jonathan Foster Listeners of podcasts and watchers of YouTube’s people out in the internet. Thanks…
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HomeBrewed Christianity podcast with Tripp Fuller
Had a great time discussing Whitehead’s cosmology with Tripp. Check it out here: https://trippfuller.com/2021/09/13/matthew-segall-cosmology-consciousness-and-whiteheads-god/ We discussed topics including: the allure of Whitehead’s vision of mind in nature (knowledge as ‘an…
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Religion, Ecology, Race, and Cultural Evolution
“Today we cannot ignore that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach and should integrate justice in discussions on the environment to hear both the cry of the…
