Conversational Bodies and Tables

An interview I did with Andrew Camp on the Biggest Table Podcast

New Series!!!

Next week, I am planning to start a short series of reflections for the 40th anniversary of the release of Neil Postman’s essential book Amusing Ourselves to Death, which of course is fundamentally about our societal capacity for conversation and is as timely as ever in 2025. (I intended to start the series this week, but for a variety of reasons, including that it is Holy Week, I decided to delay the start of this series until next week.) This anniversary would be a good time to read or re-read Postman’s book, and I invite you to join me in reading and discussing the book.

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About a year ago, I recorded an interview with my friend Andrew Camp on his podcast, The Biggest Table. Andrew brought some really engaging questions, and we had a long chat about the importance of the practice of conversation.

With the release of my new book The Virtue of Dialogue: Becoming a Thriving Church Through Conversation (Englewood Press), Andrew decided to re-release this podcast episode since it was super-relevant to this this new book.

Episode Description (via Andrew)

In this episode I have a rich conversation with Chris Smith. We cover a range of topics, starting with his own personal journey of food over the past ten years. But we spend the majority of our time using a couple of Chris’s books, namely Slow Church (co-written with John Pattison) and How the Body of Christ Talks, to dialogue about the importance of conversation for the health of ourselves and our community. Through recovering of conversation, we begin to see how God wants to collaborate with us in his work of redemption.

Give it a listen:

Or, you can listen on your preferred podcast platform…
You’ll find a list of options here.

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Also, in case you missed it, you can read Q/A that I did here on Substack about this new book:

And we also featured a key excerpt of the book here too:

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