Outlaw Preachers

Outlaw Preachers 1: Grace Bombs and Shotgun Evangelism

with Khad Young, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Brian Yarbrough, Nar Martinez, Connie Waters, Angela Harms, and Vince Anderson

Wherein we discuss ending Christian euphemisms, Biblical idolators, the Bible as the fourth person of the trinity, dropping the grace bomb, Anchor Church versus shotgun evangelism, and the Radical Love Project versus adventures in missing the point.

All to the tune of the bonus track from Ship of Beggars by the Dead City Shakers. (iTunes link) (Amazon MP3)

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Running time: 47:07

See also:

• Precast: Nadia Bolz-Weber
• Precast: Connie Waters
• Precast: Pastor Nar

Outlaw Preachers Precast: Susan Isaacs

This is the sixth and final Outlaw Preachers “precast.” No more precasts now. On to the real deal. Subscribe to the podcast today.

I am Khad Young, Outlaw Preacher at Metamorphosis in Los Angeles.

When I arrived in California about a month ago, the first person I stopped to see was my friend, Susan Isaacs. She is the author of “Angry Conversations with God” and currently on the Million Miles tour with Donald Miller. She is an actress, comedian, and Lutheran who did a little couples counseling with God.

We talked about spiritual gold diggers and buying and selling Jesus. Listen to the story of a seventy year-old outlaw.

We agree that we go to church to find the one unchanging thing when everything else around us is changing.

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Running time: 23:49

Resources:

• “Angry Conversations with God” by Susan Isaacs
• “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” by Donald Miller
• “The Jesus I Never Knew” by Philip Yancey
• “Luke for Everyone” by N. T. Wright

Outlaw Preachers Precast: Nadia Bolz-Weber

This is the fifth of the Outlaw Preachers “precasts.”

As I journeyed across the country from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to start the Los Angeles branch of Metamorphosis I met with some very gracious outlaw preachers. These conversations are a sort of sneak preview of the podcast.

Outlaw Preachers will be a roundtable discussion style podcast featuring an eclectic mix of outlaw preachers in conversation about theology, philosophy, ministry, and all things outlaw.

My beautifully foolish conversation with Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber (@sarcasticluther on Twitter) starts with a sermon she preached at House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver called “Being an Outlaw Preacher.” She relates that she tried to be a Unitarian and ended up marrying a unicorn. I am reminded just how long of a (cultural) commute it is to the Borg. And we take a second look at the Biblical story of Jesus and George Bush at the well.

We fail miserably if ever we read into a text that we are doing things right.

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Running time: 23:09

Outlaw Preachers Precast: Tim Breyfogle

This is the fourth of the Outlaw Preachers “precasts.”

As I journeyed across the country from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to start the Los Angeles branch of Metamorphosis I met with some very gracious outlaw preachers. These conversations are a sort of sneak preview of the podcast.

Outlaw Preachers will be a roundtable discussion style podcast featuring an eclectic mix of outlaw preachers in conversation about theology, philosophy, ministry, and all things outlaw.

Hanging out with Tim Breyfogle feels like hanging out with a longtime friend — and he is fast becoming one. I’m sure you can hear it in our conversation as we discuss the origins of Agenda of Grace Ministries that he runs in Dallas. I am the gluttonous vegan who rebukes Tim’s parenting skills while we both evade a beat down from the grace police, blame everything on Jay, and turn the funny up to eleven.

You can find Tim writing on his blog, Fallen and Forgiven, and on Twitter.

We agree that God’s grace is bigger than our theology, even if we don’t agree on anything else.

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Running time: 38:07

Resources:

• Saved! (2004)
• God Hates Goths
• The Internet Is Like Whiskey
• “Guns don’t kill people. I kill people — with guns.” (YouTube)
• Titus 3:4-9
• Galatians 5:15

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Outlaw Preachers Precast: Connie Waters

This is the third of the Outlaw Preachers “precasts.”

As I journeyed across the country from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to start the Los Angeles branch of Metamorphosis I met with some very gracious outlaw preachers. These conversations are a sort of sneak preview of the podcast.

Outlaw Preachers will be a roundtable discussion style podcast featuring an eclectic mix of outlaw preachers in conversation about theology, philosophy, ministry, and all things outlaw.

Coming to you not–so–live from the Outlaw Suite in magnificent Memphis, Connie Waters, Family and Faith Formation Minister at Highland Heights United Methodist Church, encourages us to explore outside the four walls of the church. We talked about not being Wonderbread Christians but Easter People. It is a kick in the pants for your soul.

You can find Connie writing on her blog, Art in the Creator’s Image, and on Twitter.

We stayed in the garage long enough to become cars and promptly drove out of it.

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Resources:

• Ephesians 4:4-16
• 1 Corinthians 12:12-26
• Tony Jones
• Phyllis Tickle
• Luke 13:34

Outlaw Preachers Precast: Tim Kurek and Matthew Paul Turner

This is the second of the Outlaw Preachers “precasts.”

As I journeyed across the country from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to start the Los Angeles branch of Metamorphosis I met with some very gracious outlaw preachers. These conversations are a sort of sneak preview of the podcast.

Outlaw Preachers will be a roundtable discussion style podcast featuring an eclectic mix of outlaw preachers in conversation about theology, philosophy, ministry, and all things outlaw.

I caught up with outlaw writer Timothy Kurek in Nashville and had the pleasant “Godincidence” of also running into Matthew Paul Turner (also on Twitter), author of “Churched: One Kid’s Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess.” We talked about not tearing people down before building them up and insecurity salvation. Matthew wanted to be the Michael Jackson of Christian music and Barbie finds out how hot hell is.

We don’t think grace makes enemies.

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Resources:

• “Churched: One Kid’s Journey Toward God Despite a Holy Mess” by Matthew Paul Turner
• “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality” by Donald Miller
• Grace and Atheism

Outlaw Preachers Precast: Pastor Nar

This is the first of the Outlaw Preachers “precasts.”

As I journeyed across the country from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to start the Los Angeles branch of Metamorphosis I met with some very gracious outlaw preachers. These conversations are a sort of sneak preview of the podcast.

Outlaw Preachers will be a roundtable discussion style podcast featuring an eclectic mix of outlaw preachers in conversation about theology, philosophy, ministry, and all things outlaw.

While we were both stopped in the Nashville area, I was blessed to have lunch with Pastor Nar. You can find him on Twitter and Facebook. We talked about spiritual mutts and glimpses of grace.

Pardon the noise. Future audio quality will only improve and the waitresses are not rolling silverware longer than the first five minutes or so.

We glimpsed grace that day.

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Resources:

• Adam Walker Cleveland
• 1 John 2:7-14
• Donald Miller on the “danger” of grace
• C. S. Lewis on “The New Men”
• Ephesians 4:5-6

See also:

• Losing My Religion podcast
• Apprentices of Jesus