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Hosted by Soul Revival Church · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 209 episodes
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Thinking and doing church a little differently...
Soul Revival Church hosts The Shock Absorber, a religion show with 209 episodes published.
Most people experience church the way they experience a concert. Someone produces the event. You turn up, participate passively, evaluate the quality, go home. French sociologist Henri Lefebvre has a word for that kind o
What if the most countercultural thing a church could do was have a lounge? Joel, Stu and Tim are into theme four of Stu's PhD - alternative Christian shared spaces that embed belonging. Stu traces the intellectual journ
Jesus didn't call his disciples servants. He called them friends. And Stu thinks that matters more for how we do church than most ecclesiology conversations acknowledge. Joel, Stu and Tim are working through the emerging
People came to Soul Revival because of relationships. But relationships weren't enough to keep them. Something deeper had to happen. Joel, Stu and Tim continue working through the emerging themes from Stu's PhD, and this
Joel, Stu and Tim open with the cultural curiosity of the Enhanced Games, and what it reveals about why manufactured greatness never quite works, before turning to something more significant: Stu's PhD is reaching its fi
Every technology gives you something. Every technology takes something away. The problem is we're usually so focused on what we gain that we don't notice what we've lost until it's gone. Joel and Tim open with new creati
Seth Kaplan's article on the After Babel Substack reads like a secular argument for why youth ministry matters. Joel and Tim trace the arc from 1950s street culture to the latchkey generation to the screen-based void tha
Last episode was the intangibles. This is the tangibles. Joel, Stu and Tim open with the Met Gala, a $1 bill across Sarah Paulson's eyes, and whether millionaires protesting billionaires is tone deaf, before tracing the
Is efficiency a godly value? And if the Good Shepherd leaves 99 sheep to find the one, what does that say about how we should be running our churches? The guys open with King Charles's surprisingly funny speech to the U.
Tony Abbott wrote a history of Australia called, wait for it, Australia . Tim has been reading it, which sent him down a rabbit hole about celebratory versus critical history, cognitive dissonance, steel-manning both sid
Every Christian parent has felt the tension. Do you send your kids to a Christian school? They're plugged into kids church right? The faith formation is happening right? But is it? And whose job is it really? Joel, Stu a
Is banter just harmless fun — or is something deeper going on beneath the surface? Joel, Stu and Tim open with Easter reflections, including JoelChristian humour, banter and friendship, male friendship theology, tall pop
Most churches have spent the last sixty years trying to lower the cultural barriers to Christianity. Clean car parks. Professional music. Seeker-sensitive services. The logic made sense at the time. But has making church
Jim Rayburn, the father of modern youth ministry, said it was a sin to bore a kid with the gospel. Joel, Tim and Stu work through a sharp distinction from a new book on kids theology: distilling versus simplifying. Disti
Half of kids surveyed say their parents should be worried about their screen time. Jonathan Haidt thinks he missed something big in his own book. And Meta allegedly knew about the damage it was doing to children for year
Joel, Stu and Tim are relaunching the Shock Absorber Network, and this episode explains what it is, why it matters and how you can be part of it. Ministry was never meant to be done alone. But for a lot of church leaders
Everyone's chasing the algorithm. More clicks, better thumbnails, optimised titles, short-form funnels. So what does a Christian do with all of that? Joel and Tim start with football, Real Madrid vs Barcelona, identity,
Richard Dawkins likes Christmas carols. Tom Holland calls himself a Christian. Robert Greene thinks religion is great for transcending the banality of social media. Joel and Tim trace a thread from Bluey, through the cul
Most churches have got the small group and the Sunday service figured out. But there's a whole layer of community that's gone missing, and it might be why people keep saying "I don't feel like I belong here." Joel, Stu a
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The Shock Absorber is hosted by Soul Revival Church. The show is categorised under religion (spirituality) and has published 209 episodes.
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