Rafe Kelley | Training Our Bodies to Pursue the Highest Good

Rafe Kelley, founder of Evolve Move Play, discusses the transformative benefits of physical fitness and embodied spiritual disciplines. He shares about his unique upbringing in the counterculture and how it has shaped his current interest in ancient Christian ideas and the intersection of myth and science. Rafe's work explores the value of physical discipline in character transformation.He's been featured on  Paul VanderKlay, John Vervaeke,  Jordan B. Peterson,  Jonathan Pageau,  and many other podcasts. Find out more about Rafe Kelley at:https://www.evolvemoveplay.com/rafe-kelley/ Become a patron on Patreon and get bonus Q&A Episodes, resources, opportunities for live discussions on Zoom, and access to our community Discord server: www.patreon.com/deeptalkstheologypodcast Timestamps:00:00  - Intro02:27 - Rafe's unique upbringing17:01 - Wrestling with our pictures of Christ21:40 - Modern Gnosticism & the Proper Valuing of our Bodies33:52 - Physical Participation in Pentecostal & Charismatic Christianity39:20 - Navigating Sexual Ethics in Counterculture & Religious Communities44:37 - Original Sin, Religious Myth, and our Evolutionary "Hardware"54:26 - Finding a Shared Pursuit in a Religiously Pluralistic Society59:44 - Christianity, Group Selection, and Empire01:12:31 - Pagan Resurgence plays on the Sex & Violence Hardware01:21:58 - Rafe Kelley reflects on  @JordanBPeterson  ARC project 01:29:30 - Sin is Pursuing a Mistaken Good01:35:29 - Becoming Christ-like without Orthodox Beliefs?01:46:50 - Young Men Yearn for Courageous Practices