The Nick And Josh Podcast

Eboo Patel, as a new friend of the podcast, works to build mutual respect and pluralism among religiously diverse young people by empowering them to work together in service to others through the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. He holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University and serves as an online panelist for the “On Faith” blog, co-hosted by The Washington Post and Newsweek Magazine. He has written for The Chicago Tribune, The Journal of Muslim Law and Culture, and The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, and appeared on National Public Radio.

Another old episode with a new intro. Josh Case and I are in an airy outside venue to get the organic intro, pieced together from patches of awesomeness. A.J. Jacobs is an author that not only works for Esquire, but wrote the smash hit, A Year of Living Biblically. Here is A.J.'s site.

This week we have another stunning intro and a conversation with Kevin Roose who tried on a whole different personality for a semester of school."What would happen if a student at one of America’s most secular colleges spent a semester at Reverend Jerry Falwell’s “Bible Boot Camp” for young evangelicals?"http://www.kevinroose.com/http://thenickandjoshpodcast.com

Another awesome intro by Nick and Josh C. So this week Nick interviews Phyllis Tickle the Matron Saint of the Great Emergence. She is also the author of many books, most notably The Divine Hours and The Night Offices. She is also an incredible speaker and you may have caught her at some emergent gatherings.In the second part she gives an incredible illustration of society and how societal changes relate to our concepts of truth, religion, and understanding.

We have been working with this one for a while now. Sorry its short, but it was choppy due to some technical problems, instead of putting up the crappy parts, we saved the best for you guys.Josh Case and Nick are together for an intro that lasts almost as long as the podcast, sorry about that, but there is some classic stuff in it. Please make sure you are subscribed, and please rate us in iTunes.Anyway, here it is, and check out Bart Ehrman's new book, Jesus Interrupted.

This week I give a brief intro about going back to a weekly schedule, and who we will have on for next week's show. Then we get to the meat and potatoes and have a great phone interview with the honorable Bishop John Shelby Spong. He talks about his newest book Jesus for the Non-Religious - a book I would call a must read.Patrick Fore did our newest album art, check out his design at http://www.patrickforedesign.com/And as I mentioned there is a Mailing List on the top right corner of our website, that I would be delighted if you joined. There is also a free eBook available from our website.

This is the same exact episode we posted about a year ago, but it is no longer available online. So we are storing it here on our new server. Sorry if you have already heard it.Thanks to our friend Adam, the podcast now has an interview with Zach Lind. Zach is the drummer for the rock powerhouse Jimmy Eat World. If you don't know who this band is, we can't help you.

Josh Case interviews Barbara Brown Taylor and talks about her latest book, An Alter in the World. From her website:In her critically acclaimed memoir Leaving Church, Taylor wrote about leaving parish ministry to become a teacher, a decision that rearranged everything from her wardrobe to her faith. Now in her stunning follow-up, An Altar in the World, she reveals how she learned to encounter the God who does not live in church. Describing spiritual practices as basic as walking, carrying water, being with other people, and saying blessings, she calls conventional distinctions between the sacred and the secular into question. Delving into darker practices of getting lost, falling ill, feeling pain, and grieving loss, she challenges the notion that God does God’s best work in the light. Throughout this richly personal narrative, she suggests that no physical act is too earthbound to become a path to the divine. The world is full of altars, she says, for those willing to welcome the truth that comes to them in

The original interview with the Tall Skinny Kiwi has been edited and only the nuggets are used in this remix.

In this podcast Joshua Case talks with Alan Mann, author of A Permanent Becoming: A Contemporary Look at the Fruit of the Spirit.