Subversive spaces: Why the church needs more than a service
What if the most countercultural thing a church could do was have a lounge?
Joel, Stu and Tim are into theme four of Stu's PhD - alternative Christian shared spaces that embed belonging. Stu traces the intellectual journey from new social movement theory through Melucci's subversive spaces to Oldenburg's third place theory, and explains why a barber shop in New York where a Mercedes driver and a homeless person sit together laughing about the Knicks was exactly the image he needed for what Soul Revival was trying to build.
The conversation covers why Christian third places are harder to…
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