Flipped Table Theology

This conversation about Christian Nationalism was recorded as a live episode at National Avenue Christian Church in Springfield, MO.

The resources that were mentioned at the end of the discussion wer…

Our team gathered this week for a fun conversation around the books that have been consistent on our bookshelves over the years, and the books that we have added throughout our own deconstruction jou…

*Trigger warning: This podcast talks about death, grief, with some mention of suicide. 

This week, our podcast team was honored with the wisdom of guest, Tiela Creekmore. Tiela is a chaplain at her lo…

This week's episode was recorded over Zoom due to COVID but was too important of a conversation for us not to have.

This week, Christie Love shared publicly that she is resigning as Lead Pastor from …

This week our much-smaller-than-normal team, Christie, Rue, and Holly, began 2024's episodes with a conversation around Toxic Achievement. This conversation was prompted by our cultural goal-driven n…

This week, Shurita, Rue, Christie, and Holly continued the Deconstructing Advent Theme, talking this week about Love. 

Christie shared a quote at the end of the podcast: 

The Work of Christmas - By How…

This week, Phil, Shurita, Holly and Christie continued a conversation on Deconstructing Advent, focusing this week on Joy.

We had more audio challenges than normal this week so we apologize for the f…

Christie, Holly, Rue and Shurita gathered today to deconstruct the topic of peace. 

Christie recommended a new movie on Netflix called Rustin.

Holly shared a favorite children's book (gifted to her c…

As we enter into the month of December, we are starting a series on "Deconstructing Advent." This month is on Deconstructing Hope. Our full team is finally back together, talking through this holiday…

Trigger Warning: This conversation is part 2 of a conversation around the triggers that come with complicated family dynamics and holiday triggers.

Rue brought up the Internal Family Systems - or "Pa…

Trigger Warning: This conversation talks about family relationships in the context of family gatherings. For some, this conversation could be really triggering. 

Our whole team gathered for this conve…

Week 30 of FTT is an incredibly passionate and raw episode that came as a response to an emergency outreach gap our team experienced this week. 

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive communi…

This week, Christie, Shurita, Holly, and Rue talked through the topic of innovation and deconstructing as an institution.

Holly shared a book that she has felt very connected to (borrowed from Christ…

Backstory: The FTT team was scheduled to be at an event today to film the podcast live as one of the presenters.  Our team showed up to the event early (everyone except for Shurita who was at an all …

This week, we are missing Christie's voice as she is spending time with one of their college-aged kiddos and visiting Powell's Books :) 

Phil, Shurita, Rue, and I all took time this week to talk throu…

We are insanely humbled at the amount of people who have reached out and shared how much this podcast has meant to them on their deconstruction journeys.

With so many listening who are not local, we …

Last week we ended up talking some about rest and self-care, so we took a slight shift and spent this week talking about burnout. 

We hope you are able to find a safe, supportive community in your dec…

Our whole team gathered again for the second part of the conversation around deconstructing anger. 

Phil and Christie shared a couple books:

How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian - John Domi…

The whole team was together again this week for a fairly heavy conversation. This week we talked about anger, and it's place in the church and in theology. This conversation came out of heavy hearts.…

This week, our slightly smaller team (Holly, Christie, Rue and Phil) dove into the excitement, the trauma-triggers, and perspectives regarding all things back to school. Shoutout to Shurita who misse…