Season 1, Episode 10 – Callid Keefe-Perry on Theopoetics
Posted by bruce on April 2, 2010 · 3 Comments
Join Carol Howard Merritt and Bruce Reyes-Chow as they welcome Callid Keefe-Perry to discuss theopoetics, improv and the Religious Society of Friends. Also joining the GCR team is Rocky Supinger, who shares about an experiment of his involving “journalism as evangelism.”
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Some highlights from this episode:
1:08: Rocky Supinger recounts an experiment of his in which he tried to use journalism as a form of evangelism as opposed to “evangelism as sales.”
8:46: Bruce introduces the theme of the episode and Callid Keefe-Perry to talk about theopoetics
9:45: Part 1 of Bruce’s conversation with Callid Keefe-Perry: “Who is Callid?”, “What is theopoetics?”, Critique of Callid by Ken Silva
22:32: Carol and Bruce reflect on Part 1
39:53: Part 2 of Bruce’s conversation with Callid Keefe-Perry: improv, art, and the act of creation; tradition vs. heritage; the Religious Society of Friends; “the willingness to squint;” creative thinking
50:16: Carol and Bruce reflect on Part 2
1:14:06: Promo of next weeks episode with Serene Jones to speak about her book Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World
Items mentioned in this episode:
Unbinding the Gospel: Real Life Evangelism
“Theopoetics: Process and Perspective” by Callid Keefe-Perry
Ken Silva on Callid Keefe-Perry and Theology After Google
Theopoetics(dot)net
Landon Whitsitt’s open source book blog
Carol Howard Merritt’s Huffington Post Blog
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Interesting topic and show. Callid's comments about using the discernment practice of the Friends to determine if his and his wife's decisions about marriage, moving, having a child, etc. were intriguing. Would like to know more about how members of the Quaker churches use this technique.
Janet, just saw this and in the event you might still be interested, thought you might like this:
http://theimageoffish.com/2010/06/01/communal-dis…