Brendan Graham Dempsey | Metamodern Spirituality | Arethion: Spiritual Community after Christianity @BrendanGrahamDempsey | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Caleb Cuccaro-Green is the founder of Arethion, a new kind of spiritual community for seekers, questioners, and those who've left the church but haven't given up on community, service, and a spiritually meaningful orientation to life. Here we discuss how Arethion arose, beginning with Caleb's story of deconstruction out of his fundamentalist Christian faith through modern historical-critical studies of archeology and biblical criticism and on into his reconstructive path towards meaning on the other side. We discuss the video series put out through Arethion that covers the important information he encountered as part of his studies but otherwise unavailable in the Christian informational ecosystem. From there, we talk about the new sort of spiritual community Caleb has founded, where seekers from all backgrounds are welcome to participate in a "church that is not a church." Is Arethion, and other groups like it, the future of metamodern spirituality?
0:00 Introduction
2:00 What is Arethion?
5:45 Caleb's Story: Leaving Christianity
11:07 Deconstruction through Modern Biblical Archeology
17:38 Group Responses to Questioning and Critique
24:20 Compassionate Criticism: Asking the Tough Questions of Traditional Faith
32:38 From Legacy Religion to a New Kind of Spiritual Community
41:39 Meaning Reconstructed
58:17 "You Don't Have to Believe to Belong": What Arethion Is Doing
1:08:00 Is This a Cult?
1:10:12 Is This a Religion?
1:17:06 The "God" of Arethion
Arethion's website:
arethion.com
Arethion's YouTube: @join.arethion
youtube.com/@join.arethion
Caleb Cuccaro-Green is the founder of Arethion, a new kind of spiritual community for seekers, questioners, and those who've left the church but haven't given up on community, service, and a spiritually meaningful orientation to life. Here we discuss how Arethion arose, beginning with Caleb's story of deconstruction out of his fundamentalist Christian faith through modern historical-critical studies of archeology and biblical criticism and on into his reconstructive path towards meaning on the other side. We discuss the video series put out through Arethion that covers the important information he encountered as part of his studies but otherwise unavailable in the Christian informational ecosystem. From there, we talk about the new sort of spiritual community Caleb has founded, where seekers from all backgrounds are welcome to participate in a "church that is not a church." Is Arethion, and other groups like it, the future of metamodern spirituality?
0:00 Introduction
2:00 What is Arethion?
5:45 Caleb's Story: Leaving Christianity
11:07 Deconstruction through Modern Biblical Archeology
17:38 Group Responses to Questioning and Critique
24:20 Compassionate Criticism: Asking the Tough Questions of Traditional Faith
32:38 From Legacy Religion to a New Kind of Spiritual Community
41:39 Meaning Reconstructed
58:17 "You Don't Have to Believe to Belong": What Arethion Is Doing
1:08:00 Is This a Cult?
1:10:12 Is This a Religion?
1:17:06 The "God" of Arethion
Arethion's website:
arethion.com
Arethion's YouTube: @join.arethion
youtube.com/@join.arethion
