In this Very Special Episode, rachel, Kendall, and Luke talk about:
* Coming from different evangelical backgrounds
* The shaping of our respective authority issues as related to religious upbringing
* Luke's birth /literally/ in a baptismal font :)
* What we mean when we say "religion"
* Tech salary as a way to fund a church planting career
* Leaving the church behind but bringing the leadership lessons along
* Good and bad authority structures represented by the church
* Detoxing from evangelicisim, finding a new purpose
* Choosing between being right or being good
Switching to rachel's background:
* Moving to the US at 11, with no real religious upbringing before that
* Trying hard to buy into the fundamentalist Baptist faith
* Leaving for college and never returning
* Atheism vs agnosticism
* Whether your beliefs are a choice
* The value of faith in one's own community and whether humanity deserves the asteroid treatment
And on to Kendall's Christian upbringing:
* Dad fasting and actually praying on his knees for guidance
* The weird incentives and blame structures of fundamentalism
* Noticing the tendency to open the Bible more often to curse than to bless
* Working for a religious organization in China for 10 years
* Realizing that much of evangelical Christianity as it is practiced in the US is very much culturally a White American thing
* Not needing to understand how praying works
* Does it matter if you're wrong about faith? Nah. What matters is being willing to be wrong.
* Servant leadership and how it works for both sacred and commercial applications if done well
Back to Luke:
* Was the "walk to remember" a kind of psychic break, or prayer?
* Realizing all you really need is validation
* Only needing a loose grip on the framework to get the benefit
* Not wanting to tell people what to do, and all the insecurities that represents
* Not being able to follow instructions if the goal isn't clear
* How an aversion to certainty can get in the way of leading
* What is justice, if not love at scale?
You can accost Luke with ideas for scaling love on Twitter at @saintlukas :)
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3