Red Skies: Recent Episodes
Rowland Smith
Red Skies explores various topics important to the church over the coming decades. The meta-narrative cultural shifts discussed in each episode are relevant to the church being good news to our culture and future generations. Topics like race, leadership, sexuality and gender issues, church economics, context, eco-theology, migration, and digital culture are discussed with topic experts, pastors, and leaders. The goal is to provide the listener with a framework for understanding our call as followers of Jesus and leaders who help display the Kingdom of God in the context of these challenging issues. Learn more at https://redskiesfuture.com
Rowland Smith and Rich Robinson have a conversation with rural pastor, author, and eco-theologist Tyler Kleeberger about the church's role in curating an awareness of creation, community, food, and sustainability. Tyler is a rural practitioner, leading his community in practices that grow, produce, and utilize resources from their own farm.
In this episode, Rowland, Oneya, and Rich are joined by pastor and author Michael Adam Beck to discuss his chapter on contextual intelligence. They also discuss Fresh Expressions and how the church can see church planting differently in the context we find ourselves in, equipping people to launch faith communities around the rhythms of their everyday life.
Rowland Smith and Rich Robinson sit down with Pastor Oneya Okuwobi PHD to discuss systemic racism and ways the church can give hope to this topic in the future.
Oneya is Co-Pastor of 21st Century Church and does research in the areas of sociology and race.
In this episode, Rowland and Rich sit down with authors Deb Hirsch and Gregory Coles to talk about our current culture of sexuality and how the church can be good news to this culture in the future.
Sexuality has long been a topic that the church has struggled to develop healthy conversations around. Deb and Greg give some ideas and guidance on how we, as Christians, should possibly view sexuality and our conversations of faith with in view of sexual identities.
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In this episode, Rowland Smith and Rich Robinson have a conversation with Brian Sanders. Brian is known as a ecclesial entrepreneur, thought leader, and cultural observer, with a voice in both Christian circles and business development for social good. He is a contributor to the book Red Skies: 10 Essential Conversations For Our Future as the Church, as well as an author of several other books on church ecclesiology. As well, his latest book The 6 Seasons of Calling addresses leadership seasons of life.
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In this episode, Rowland has a conversation with Alan Hirsch and Rich Robinson about the overarching themes of Red Skies, and how we might reimagine our future as the church.
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