PODCAST · religion
Punk Theology
by Russ Shaw
The loud, encouragingly troublesome, rebellious, colorful artistry of what one really, actually believes. What if real, transformative faith is more like disruptive punk rock?In a world of people addicted to some piece of certainty on "faith-based" reason. Punk Theology exists to explore some hopeful, uncomfortable questions on growth, peace, well-being, recovering what's lost, understanding the plight of "the other", faith, fear and being alive.An examination of the misfit's awakening spirit. So... How do you define meaning, beauty and truth?One of the most positive things you could say about punk? It's not a lukewarm, Punk is alive.Conversations about the artistically odd, pop culture, entertainment, "the church" and current events.Punk is art without rules...
Episodes
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S04E15 Penetration
What if penetration really has many layered definitions? It takes us a while to get there but we delve into what it means to penetrate. Odds are this show is not what you are imagining in your dirty little minds :) Or maybe it is!
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S04E14 Tribe 4 The Tribeless?
The spiritual so-called spiritual deconstruction process, more often than not it can have many feeling tribeless. Is that what Punk Theology is? A tribe for the tribeless? And isn’t this idea of the tribe listening to other tribes or how we practice empathy? Can we outside our own safety zone and...
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S04E13 Define Deconstruct
There’s been a lot of talk lately as American and western Christian evangelicals begin the arduous, freeing yet painful process popularly known as spiritual deconstruction. Is it influenced by very public failures and Christian leadership? Or coming together and learning the deeper parts of each...
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S04E12 Jesus Magic
Are religious institutions trying to sell us something when they introduce us to their Jesus? Don’t it seem like many organizations have their own brand of who Jesus is? Was Jesus a magician or a mystic? Did he work to dazzle people with miracles to gain credibility? Or was/is he a controversial...
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S04E11 A Desire to be Rich
Is it the MAN vs. the savy Wall Street Bets Reddit page? The little guy coming up against the big hedge fund managers brings us to ask questions like... Is there a growing distrust of our financial institutions? Is the desire to be rich derived from a deeper need for security? And are wealthy...
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Privacy Or Secrecy
If Secrecy is the act of hiding information... Is privacy is about being unobserved or incognito? What's the difference? What does it mean to be able to have ones own experience of life without the eyes of anyone else seeing and knowing? And what impacts does Privacy and Secrecy have on our…
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S04E09 Near Death Experiences
Here in January 2021 as COVID-19 continues to take thousands of lives. It’s fair to say death is in our face, on our mind and part of our social consciousness. In this episode Kristen, Steve, Chuck and Russ Discuss the reality, shock and awe of being near death. As we share some of our own near...
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Tribal Powerkeg USA
A failed cou di ta or a symptom of our subconscious bias? Was it the worst thing to happen this week in a macro level or micro level? Is our country a tribal powder keg that’s been waiting to explode? At Punk Theology we don’t tend to talk about current events very much but last weeks was hard to...
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Disgust 2020 - 2021
It’s disgust a feeling? An emotion or a hindering character in our continued quest for well being and mental health? Or can disgust influence peace and well-being during such a tumultuous time?
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S4E6 Lil Sister Big Brother
In this 1st episode of 2021 we are joined by reoccurring guest Kristen. Kristen is a full-time therapist in Washington state and Derek’s sister. We discuss 2020, mental health, isolation and moving forward. PunkTheology.net
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S04E05 Building Influence Alone In 2020?
Steve is influenced by an author challenging him to get in touch with the younger yet older, deeper more tender parts of himself. Which raises the question, how are we influenced during a isolated or solitary time? In 2020 are we Mentally, physically spiritually alone? PunkTheology.net
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PTS04E04 Covid Christmas 2020
2020 tumultuous Christmas season. If life is 20% the stuff that happens to us and 80% what we do about the 20% then what do we do with this uncharted energy around 2020 Christmas season?
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S04E03 COVID Shutdown 2 in 2020 And our Mental Health
Punks share some thoughts on the second shut down of 2020 and it’s effects on our mental health, understanding of community and security moving forward. And why does it seem most religious institutions are choosing this time to bend or break the rules? The government shut down and encouragement…
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S04E02 Derek's Angel and Russ's Demon
We care not for politics or elections. So this show is mostly about Derek's Angel and Russ's Demon. No it s not a contest! New Patreon Kristen! Praise the Lord! Punktheology.net
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S04 Kicking off! Kids, Mushrooms and Emotions
Punk Theology kicks off season four and in a very punk rock kind of way! We don’t really change much of anything! No new plot twist, no solving the dissonance of season 3's cliffhanger. Everyone's doing that. Instead the four of us Chuck, Derek, Steve and Russ Get in to the emotional layers of…
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S03E30 Safe People
As we carry out the business of living many of us carry weight that when we share that weight it feels less burdensome. The weight, pressure and struggle of life can get really heavy if I, You or someone has no people in this life to talk to. How does one choose relationships with people one can…
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S03E29 Emotionally Exhausted in Summer 2020
In the summer of 2020. It seems, nothing is simple.. Everything takes more energy, relationships feel not as accessible, plans altered or cancelled, trust is questioned and patience are tested...
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S03E28 A Want To Button?
The Punks discuss the frustration of not knowing how to get loved ones to want to work on the relationship.
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S03E27 Scary Men
The Punks discuss how being male makes their emotions scary to other people. And how can that result in suffocated emotional expression? Punks elaborate... PunkTheology.net aP5Yd9WpgBRLBiWrxJu8
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S03E26 What is The Machine?
As we journey on this life. As we age as we experience things as we grow and or atrophy. What is the machine? Is it blocking us? Or do we have a relationship that’s dependent on it continuing to turn? Or do we want freedom from the machine? Punks try and unpack what the heck the machine even…
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S03E25 How U know U Woke?
Steve, Derek and Russ bring you another installment of Woke Academy LOL! How do you know when your woke? How do you know other people aren’t woke? Is it a matter of consciousness vs unconsciousness? Or is it, I know something you don’t? Whether it’s the good news, an important stance on social...
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S03E24 Vagina Envy
3 dudes, Yeah these 3 men, Steve the Boomer, Derek the millennial and Russ the Gen Xer discuss their envy for vaginas?! Yes? No? Kinda? What does Vagina envy mean and how do we put language to something many men think about but never dare talk about.
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S03E23 Everyday Modern Mystics interview of Russ Shaw by Rev Wendy Wolf 2 of 2
Everyday Modern Mystics interview of Russ Shaw by past guest Rev. Wendy Wolf. She phones up PT host Russ Shaw on a zoom call for Every Day Modern Mystics Playground, her Facebook group. You can also find some more of Wendy’s work of Everyday Consciousness real in our own soul reality in our...
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S03E22 Choose You Own Reality
We’ve all heard a virtual reality but the question beckons in summer of 2020... How good are we at making up our own realities? How do we know the difference? Do we live in a day and age of choose your reality? Is there a reality buffet for just about any crazy or rational set of ideas one can…
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CHAZ aka CHOP RIP!? And Every Day Mystic Wendy interviews Russ Shaw
S03E21 CHAZ AKA CHOP DONE? And the Modern Mystic interview of Russ Shaw by past guest Rev. Wendy Wolf. She phones up PT host Russ Shaw on a zoom call for Every Day Modern Mystics Playground, her Facebook group. You can also find some of Wendy’s work at ModernMystic.us and lightovercomesdarkness.com
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S03E20 Married Man Female Friend?
Punks discuss the sometimes sticky, tricky eyebrow raising feelings of a married man being friends with a human female adult person. And... CHAZ AND CHOP UPDATE June 2020.
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S03E19 SPORTS 2 Take Me To Church!
The critically acclaimed conversation about sports being both meaningless and meaningful not only continues but tends to have a different kind of energy during these times. So Chuck, Derek, Steve and Russ ask how we gonna play/watch Sports post in 2020 Covid 19 season? Again the question...
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S03E18 Injustice and Social Unrest Powerlessness 3
The feeling of powerlessness continues with this episode of powerlessness three. More evidence of uncertain times as injustice leads to social unrest. Derek and I respond to the feelings of powerlessness that can come when authorities, tasked to serve and protect continue to abuse their power…
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S03E17 Survival Panic Too!
You, Your living through a global Effin pandemic! Nice work so far! TBT Our adrenal glands, hormonal system, cardiovascular system, and brain are constantly in a state of preparedness for survival. Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However what about when a person regularly feels...
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S03E16 Survival Panic!
A boomer, millennial and a gen-Xer discuss the art of continuing to live, exist or thrive during Covid-19's take over of spring and possibly summer of 2020. Another Punk Theology Zoom Episode!
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S03E15 Spring 2020 TRIGGERED AF
How are we being triggered by living in the city where the first novel Corona 19 virus outbreak was reported in the United States? Steve, Derek, Russ and Chuck stops by to talk about how us Americans are processing the cognitive dissonance around uncertainty and risk-taking in the age of…
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S03E14 Dean G's Story Meth and Resurrection
Dean shares escaping the clutches of one of the most stubborn, deadly and inevitably body and soul deteriorating addictions known to man. One of Russell’s oldest friends stops by the Punk Theology Podcast to boldly and courageously share his story of addiction, recklessness, coming to the end of...
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S07E13 Powerless 2 CoedCovid
A Global shaking of the Snow Globe! What do you men Toilet Paper doesn't just show up at the store automatically?!?! Punks talk about the consciousness in and of the logistics of how a society functions during the *light* apocalypse we’re all experiencing. And how do relationships bend, strain…
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S03E12 Global and Personal Powerlessness
Recorded a few blocks away from the hospital where the first Novel Coronavirus Outbreak was reported in the United States. Steve, Derek and Russ talk about the effects this light apocalypse is having on our anxiety sense of safety and peace of mind, both personally and globally. Recorded 3/12/2020
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S03E11 Chuck's in Checks in!
Long time favorite PT member from season 1 and 2 checks in. Speak candidly about struggling with dissociative identity disorder, previously called multiple personality disorder. A complex psychological condition that is likely caused by many factors, including severe trauma during early childhood.
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S03E10 Dreams of Beauty and Truth
This podcast has no description and needs no introduction. FYI The Punk Theology Podcast is a loud, encouragingly troublesome, rebellious, colorful artistry of what one really, actually believes.
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S03E09 Dopamine Fasting
Silicon Valley giving birth to a curious moral trend? What is dopamine fasting? And how is it different than religious ideas of sin and repentance? Derek Steve and I talk about the interesting trend of dopamine fasting on Punk Theology
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S03E08 Death Positive 2020
What if in this hopeful new year 2020 we could be more positive about the fact that people die. The western world tends to have a stigma towards death and dying. The facts are that death is as natural as childbirth.
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S03E07 Giving Up
Today on the podcast, is there a healthy kind of giving up? Got a New Year’s resolution? That word tends to trigger me because it’s from the realm of law. that word, it’s a legal term and isn’t it interesting how we try and attach legal language to subjective and objective human lives or stories.
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S06E06 The Good News & "The Shack" Author Wm. Paul Young
Some Punk Psychology, Philosophy and yes Theology with The Shack author Wm. Paul Young we discuss the complexities of pain, joy, fear, trust and growing faith and/or fear in the uncertain realm of our relationships with everything. Starting to think Grace may be a form of anarchy. - Jay Bakker
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S03E05 So This is Christmas Time?
So this is Christmas time. Steve touches on emotions surrounding the song so this is Christmas by John Lennon. Christmas episode ends up the stirring questions like... 1. Why does it seem so hard to spend time just for the sake of valuing a relationships? 1. Is there something to the saying that...
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S03E04 OK BOOMER
Disrespectful? A witty comeback? Malignantly dismissive? Or simply a way to let out some frustration? A millennial, a gen Xer and a Boomer discuss the meme heard round the world OK Boomer!
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S03E03 And Then There were 3
Punks are Back! 3 3 and now 3
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S03E02 JayBakker
Our first honored guest of season 3. You may know him from the Sundance television series one Punk under God. He is the author of Son of a Preacher Man: My Search for Grace in the Shadows. Why did he write that? Maybe in part Because He is the son of televangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The loud, encouragingly troublesome, rebellious, colorful artistry of what one really, actually believes. What if real, transformative faith is more like disruptive punk rock?In a world of people addicted to some piece of certainty on "faith-based" reason. Punk Theology exists to explore some hopeful, uncomfortable questions on growth, peace, well-being, recovering what's lost, understanding the plight of "the other", faith, fear and being alive.An examination of the misfit's awakening spirit. So... How do you define meaning, beauty and truth?One of the most positive things you could say about punk? It's not a lukewarm, Punk is alive.Conversations about the artistically odd, pop culture, entertainment, "the church" and current events.Punk is art without rules...
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Russ Shaw
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The loud, encouragingly troublesome, rebellious, colorful artistry of what one really, actually believes. What if real, transformative faith is more like disruptive punk rock?In a world of people addicted to some piece of certainty on "faith-based" reason. Punk Theology exists to explore some...
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