What In God's Name

Abigail Andre practices environmental law and teaches at Vermont Law School. Susan Hoffman-Fishman is a visual artist focusing on water and the climate crisis. They join us for the second of our signature series Climate Dialogues.

Tori Goebel of Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, and Lila Kohrman-Glaser of 350nh, join the show. Listen to these two young leaders talk about their work on the climate crisis, about their motivation to be involved in the work they do, and about the challenges they face. Through dialogue and appreciative listening, we help open new perspectives on our shared common life. The Climate Dialogues...

Ways of proceeding can be the change we want. In other words, the journey can be the destination. The question can be the answer.  Join Chris and Shayna to consider how "conversation-ology" and interdisciplinarity disrupt reductive, corrosive, public discourse 

When we talk about spiritual and mental health, we tend to leave out the possibility that deviance is healthy, if the society is sick.

Is there such a thing as moral progress? Is evil perennial? Is violence eradicable? Is there such a thing as a "just" war? Creative Commons License Kevin MacLeod--"Private Eye"

Is there a spiritual and mental health crisis in the United States? Hint: yes. And it's not just private. It affects our shared common life.

Who do you trust? How do you seek information to disconfirm your biases, to test your worldview? How do you balance individual liberty with communal responsibility? Another in our series on the mental and spiritual health of our society in pandemic time.

In the improvisational mode that comes when a playful, childlike spirit is present, we riff on an article on pandemic trauma that appeared recently in the National Examiner.

 Leslie Rawlings in conversation about mental health and trauma, part of our mini-series on the mental/spiritual health of our society as we tell a deeper story about our shared common life. Music under Creative Commons License: Private Eye by Kevin MacLeod Strike One by Terry Devine King Can We Be Friends by Lobo Loco 

Leslie Rawlings in conversation about mental health and trauma, part of our mini-series on the mental/spiritual health of our society as we tell a deeper story about our shared common life. Music under Creative Commons License: Private Eye by Kevin MacLeod Strike One by Terry Devine King Can We Be Friends by Lobo Loco

We begin a mini-series on our society's mental and spiritual health, using the lens of trauma and trauma response, from Shayna's experience as a leader of critical incident debriefings with first responders.

Shayna returns and shares the wisdom of her encounter with the awesome wildness at the heart of creation. 

Shayna is on her way back from Antarctica. Top Show Replay from 2021: beloved community and hope, as an act of rebellion against loneliness and disconnected, selfish individualism.

Shayna is in Antarctica. We invite you to reflect on the apotheosis of the individual: today's golden calf in America. And why this is a false god that cannot satisfy.

WIGN talks with Jeff MacDonald about churches in pandemic time, and the needed disruption to our usual ways of framing conversations about our shared common life.

Longing for the light of the nations. Called to prepare room for a different way of being, together. Music by Lobo Loco; Kevin MacLeod

What if the end of the world was "lights on," not "lights out"?

Shayna and Chris revisit the Doctrine of Discovery as the seed of varieties of oppression. Where do we go from here?

We are ALL held in a grace beyond imagining. Therefore, we give thanks without complacency, and without condemnation. The pain of the world covers a wide territory, and goes deep.

Live into the stories that tell you truly, who YOU are and who WE are, together. Naming the specific stories that recast the narrative of our shared common life.

The old is dying away. The ancient songs, the old stories: they await a new voice.

Squid Game, Petronuses, and the armor of God all make an appearance in our continuing theological consideration of our common public life together. Join us! We like to hear from you: whatingods@ribeye-media.com whatingods.com

The "revaluation of values" is a Nietzschean phrase that the German philosopher used in his critique of Christianity. We apply that phrase in this show to mean: the market, in its current outsized place in our culture, and which functions as an impersonal deity, scrambles traditional ways of assigning value and meaning. The Market, as a demanding god, revalues human values. And, sorry to say, it's...

Why are depression and anxiety framed as problems that individuals have, rather than as manifestations or symptoms of a sick society? How does Covid Flux Syndrome illuminate the liminal space in which human lives unfold? What are the stories and practices from spiritual wisdom, that help locate ourselves and our society, within that liminal space?

10 Questions. Agree or Disagree. And if any of our questions rings a bell for you, something you want to respond to, and maybe even join us on the show to discuss: send us an email at whatingods@ribeye-media.com. Even if you are not finding this show until months (years?) after it drops, the conversation will never be old. We want to hear from you. Kindly put "10 Questions" in the subject line.