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SIDECAR: Prohibition Theology's live video meetups

This is your access to Prohibition Theology's live online video meetings with Thorsten (and sometimes guests). You can also access them as recordings later. Participants are free to keep their camera on or off, just as in ZOOM. No software or apps needed. You can participate fully or observe anonymously, as you wish. Topics will always be related to theology, interpretation and or culture. PAY ONLY ONCE FOR ACCESS TO ALL FUTURE MEETINGS AND RECORDINGS. I will use SPEAKEASY (my newsletter) to announce upcoming LIVE sessions on SIDECAR as well as other relevant PROHIBITION THEOLOGY news.

$25.00 USD

Speakeasy: Prohibition Theology's Newsletter

Learn about Prohibition Theology's events, new courses, project, resources, news items and LIVE meetups on our SIDECAR (Zoom like) platform. Get early bird access and registration links for our boutique events around biblical interpretation, church and culture as well as theology. The one time fee of $25 helps Prohibition Theology create content, plan events, weed out irrelevance (such as in social media comments under posts) and gives us a direct communication channel, free from algorithms and trolls. If you wish to support Prohibition Theology at a higher level (thank you!!), you can choose any amount greater than $10 for this one-time payment at checkout. 

$25.00 USD

My Courses

God's return and the parables of Jesus

Ignore for a minute what you think you know about Jesus' parables. Let's start over. Interpret his punchy stories through the eyes of HIS crowds, at the beginning of christianity. This course? Informed by scholarship. Accessible, but fast-moving! It lets Jesus' short stories explode onto your scene. They will matter much more for you and your community! No sermon shortcuts here, but invigorating engagement of the actual texts. See what each parable did to THEM. Feel how THEIR lives changed so that yours can too! These are NOT mediocre novels in the vein of "what's the main point here?" Instead, observe the contextual explosions that are the 25 parables. Become a better interpreter of Jesus! 

$150.00 USD

WHAT ON EARTH?! The Bible's apocalyptic texts explained!

Most Christians are beyond puzzled by apocalyptic texts of the Bible. Bad interpretation - even in seminaries - and especially at church, on TV and on social media leaves them open to bizarre misunderstandings about creation and the so-called end-times. It often seems easiest to take everything literally and to claim that "God can do it". But that is recipe for supplanting the text with personal preferences. This course brings clarity by studying the key portions through their first century (and before) eyes first. After all, these texts were written for people in Antiquity, very different from us. We ignore that at our peril!  To understand the Book of Daniel, Ezekiel, the key NT letters and Revelation in relation to Jesus and the Gospels, we have to do our interpretive homework first, to read the texts as THEY heard them - and this course does just that for you and with you! CEU certification available.

$150.00 USD

ANCIENT FUTURE - Building small restorative faith communities from scratch

Institutional churches - whatever their denomination or non-denominational status - are almost without exception private religious clubs that are managed top-down by the one or the few, that rely on an attendance model where you watch “the program” at the front and where you pay for the building and maintaining of physical temple-like assets. Those campuses are then used to (a) control your faith experience by entertaining you and (b) to entice you into thinking of faith as something to pursue not in the world, but separate from it. The disconnect with Jesus of Nazareth and the foundations of Jesus-centered faith is jarring! What, then, are healthy alternatives that Jesus - were he to stop by - would actually recognize as a meaningful communities for the benefit of you, yours, your local context and even the world at large? Let’s enter that much more exciting world of building communities of faith that actually work, that reflect the values of Jesus and that avoid the troubling power dynamics and social irrelevance of institutional churches. This course has super practical implications, even at the level of DOs and DON’Ts. You get communal continuity with Jesus without ever copying the early christians. And if you’re looking for healing from church hurt, I cant think of a better way! Feel free to send this as a gift to someone who needs it!

$150.00 USD

THE NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE - Become a truly competent Bible and culture interpreter!

So many view points out there. Content creators, sermons, workbooks, TV programs, claims and counter claims. It's overwhelming and super unclear where to go with it all. Why? Because we have lost our interpretive bearings. Let's begin to fix that and change how we read and how we evaluate theological claims out there, both "in the wild" and in our trusted resources and opinion makers. This package will transform you. It includes THREE COMPONENTS, (1) The basecamp: Instead of someone's textbook, we'll use our own dedicated and complete digital course on Hermeneutics (how to become a better interpreter - 30+ mini lectures uploaded so far). (2) The hike: We will have TWELVE successive dedicated LIVE WEBINARS that use the course as their foundation: We will experience interpretive transformation communally. In each webinar, Thorsten summarizes very briefly the pertinent content, followed by us going deeper, collaboratively and by letting it change us as interpreters - live! We clarify, we illustrate, we expand, we apply, we co-create! (3) The Summit: We also include eligibility for a communal fun get-together at the conclusion of the experience and a personal video call with Thorsten for each participant to let the interpretive transformation sink in and to clarify everyone's needs and wants and outlook in theology and interpretation. To give you an idea: The latest fun social meetup was a weekend spent baking fun stuff in a vintage bakery near Pittsburgh with lots of theological conversations happening on the edges.  WARNING: Following completion of our "Interpret Don't defend!" experience, you are likely to expect higher standards in your interaction with Christian thinkers, content creators, authors and pastors. You will also feel the urge to ask content creators to put their own hermeneutical cards on the table - if they have any!

$450.00 USD