Newsworthy With Norsworthy

Fate Hagood joins the show to discuss his hometown of Compton, N.W.A., Law Enforcement, binary thinking, Martin Luther King Jr.,  Malcolm X, listening and hope.

Suzanne Stabile and Ian Cron return to the show to discuss the Enneagram, personality profile, and their new podcast The Road Back to You.

Sean Adams returns to discuss the church's response to the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. We also discuss the importance of listening, how bad people are in all occupations,  good cops, and why our identity as Jesus' followers should take precedent over identity markers.

Jonathan Storment returns to discuss Islam, cherishing your particularities, the hazard of growing up as a young preacher, moral progress, sacraments as the future of the church, Trump, and reconciliation. For more on this month’s sponsors the E3 conference click here.

Lisa Sharon Harper discusses culture shock, Walter Brueggemann, Creation stories, Cross Colours, pilgrimages vs. trips, reconciliation as discipleship, Shalom vs. Heaven, shoes, sin and her new book The Very Good Gospel. For more on this month’s sponsors the E3 conference click here.

Tripp Fuller from Homebrewed Christianity podcast returns to answer questions about the Devilpalooza. We discuss Calvinism, Rohr, Bono, Trump, the return of preaching and ducking issues as a minister.  For part two click here. For more on this month’s sponsors the E3 conference click here. For more from Tripp Fuller checkout his new book.

Joshua Ryan Butler returns to the show discuss his trip to the Vatican to meet Pope Francis, bad views of God as an excuse to not live in relationship with God, Jesus as the ideal for Humanity, the difference between people who commit genocide and those who don't, and Josh's new book The Pursuing God. For more on this month’s sponsors the E3 conference click here.

Jonathan Martin returns to the show to discuss vulnerability hangovers, the portable Jerrod McKenna, shipwrecks shaping theology, baptism, Barbara Brown Taylor, bulking up with Stephen Furtick, Robert Redford, and his new book  How to Survive a Shipwreck. For more on this month’s sponsors the E3 conference click here.

Dr. Josh Graves returns to the show to talk about the recent PBS story on his bridge building work between the Christian and Muslim community in Nashville, along with a brief discussion of the Enneagram, particularities, How Not to Kill a Muslim, the power of the table, and Josh's early skepticism of the podcast. For more on this month's sponsors the E3 conference click here.

Jonathan Storment joins us again to discuss his jealousy of Tripp Fuller, Evolution, Evil, the bow and arrow effect, God as an idea, Christian art, the LGBTQ community and all things May from the podcast.

Sally Gary joins the show to discuss the church's response to the LGBTQ community, fear, safety, sexuality, idealizing family , transitioning from trial law to running her non-profit CenterPeace that provides safe places for men and women who experience same-sex attraction and her book "Loves God Likes Girls."

Live from Malibu the Devilpalooza with N.T. Wright, Richard Beck, Greg Boyd, Tony Jones and Tripp Fuller. Luke and Tripp Fuller of The Homebrewed Christianity podcast make a full twenty minute introduction to the podcast, at the 21:00 mark the actual Devilapalooza begins with Tripp, Tony Jones and Luke.  At 31:30 Richard Beck comes on the stage talking Reviving Old Scratch , N.T. Wright joins at 55:20,  and at 1:19:12 Greg Boyd gets on the mic.  If you are really desperate for more Luke and Tripp tune in at 1:46:53 for the discussion of Tripp and Luke's budding bromance and of course Daniel Tosh. To signup for the discount on Reviving Old Scratch and the video of the Devilpalooza go to LukeNorsworthy.com.

Writer and Director Rodrigo Garcia joins the show to discuss the struggle of making a non-religious movie about Jesus, the humanity of Jesus,  Father/Son relationships, the devil and his new movie Last Days in the Desert.

Dr. Richard Beck along with sidekick Jonathan Storment discuss the Devilpalooza (which will air next week), whose is responsible for the Wrapup podcast with Storment, going native, revolt theology, keeping faith during suffering, shame, and Richard's new book Reviving Old Scratch.

Physicists Dr. Paul Wallace joins the show to discuss the relation of Science and Theology, Job, evolution, God as an idea, Newton, God as a presence, God as un-shoehornable, Ex Nihlo and Stars Beneath Us.

Jonathan Storment returns to the show to talk Justin Bieber, Calvinism, Ecumenicalism, grief, progress, suffering, flea markets, Three Phrases, Deuteronomy vs. Job and Jonathan is thankful for anyone interacting with him.

Philosopher Dr. James Smith joins the show to talk The Power of Habits, being changed by Love, smoking nurses, virtues vs. laws, developing 2nd Nature, St. Augustine grass, sacraments,  and his new book You Are What You Love. 

The topic is modern spirituality's propensity to build structures of safety instead of teaching us to swim in the mystery for the first ever Newsworthy Monologue.

Filmmaker Paul Nevison returns to the show to discuss his recent trip with World Vision to film the Syrian Refugee crisis, sitting with suffering, hopelessness, neighboring, and refusing to see persecutors as enemies.

Dr. A.J. Swoboda returns to the show to discuss why Portland is so weird, rap songs by Shaq, modern Christianity's over-promising, wandering pastors,  and his new book The Dusty Ones.