The pagesofgodlightaudio’s Podcast
The pagesofgodlightaudio’s Podcast
Podcast Description
Hello and welcome to the Pages of GodLight Podcast. I’m your host, Christine Whitaker.
Have you ever seen how sunlight breaks through a patch of trees and creates a circle of brightness that seems almost otherworldly? Like a sacred space, so illuminated the world seems to glow? C.S. Lewis described these as patches of GodLight.
I have been a book lover ever since I learned to read, and when I pick up a book, over and over, I see glimmers of meaning within the pages that stop me in my tracks and make me pause and take in what I’ve come upon, just like those spots of brilliant light.
In this podcast, Pages of GodLight, my hope is in these conversations, as we meet authors and creators and talk through the pages of books, you too will stumble upon bright spots of words and carefully delivered messages that open you up to experiencing the light that is all around us and waiting to be found.
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The podcast centers on themes of spiritual exploration, literary analysis, and personal transformation. Episodes include discussions on children's adaptations of classic works like A Pilgrim's Progress, modern interpretations of Christian mysticism, and personal stories of overcoming adversity as highlighted in episodes with speakers like Naghmeh Abedini. Each episode aims to reveal the deeper messages within literature that inspire and encourage listeners.
Hello and welcome to the Pages of GodLight Podcast. I’m your host, Christine Whitaker.
Have you ever seen how sunlight breaks through a patch of trees and creates a circle of brightness that seems almost otherworldly? Like a sacred space, so illuminated the world seems to glow? C.S. Lewis described these as patches of GodLight.
I have been a book lover ever since I learned to read, and when I pick up a book, over and over, I see glimmers of meaning within the pages that stop me in my tracks and make me pause and take in what I’ve come upon, just like those spots of brilliant light.
In this podcast, Pages of GodLight, my hope is in these conversations, as we meet authors and creators and talk through the pages of books, you too will stumble upon bright spots of words and carefully delivered messages that open you up to experiencing the light that is all around us and waiting to be found.
Deconstruction: Trendy brand name for falling away from belief in God? Or a process essential to authentic faith?
Liberation or trauma? Prison break or exile?
It’s complicated. Just like you.
Christian history records a Great Reformation and a Great Awakening. But today’s “Great Deconstruction” will surely leave an equally profound impact.
In Out of the Embers, Bradley Jersak explores the necessity, perils, and possibilities of the Great Deconstruction―how it has the potential to either sabotage our communion with God or infuse it with the breath of life, the light and life of Christ himself.
In this collection of vulnerable memoirs, philosophical memos, and candid provocations, Jersak resists both the hand-wringing urge to corral stray sheep and the exultant desire to play the happy-clappy Ex-evangelical cheerleader. He employs the wisdom and expertise of the great deconstructionists―Christianity’s ancient influences (Moses, Plato, Paul, and the Patristics), “beloved frenemies” (from Voltaire to Nietzsche), and the masters of deconstruction (Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, and Weil)―to double down and deconstruct deconstruction itself.
Where is faith after deconstruction? The author’s heart is to engage and empathize with the bereft and disoriented, stoking the brittle ashes for live embers. In this quest for the resilient gospel of the martyrs, the marginal, and those outside the threshold…inexplicably, in this liminal space, life stirs. A Light shines through the ashes. We find, often for the first time, that living connection Jersak calls “presence in communion.”
There is a sea change occurring across the Western church and civilization. Whether we’re watching a radical course correction or a complete collapse remains to be seen, and how it pans out will likely depend on how we see what’s happening, who we are becoming, how we live in response―and, most important, where we find Christ situated in this storm.
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