About Aaron Klinefelter

http://aaronklinefelter.net

Aaron lives in Cincinnati, where he serves as Minister for Young Adults and Families at The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. Aaron is a host of the Praxis Podcast and helps lead a Micah Group for ministry colleagues through Fuller Seminary. He is also part of several other Praxis communities and experiments - including beer and hymns, pub theology, and flash compline. His grandparents (Gerry and Gladdy Klinefelter) were missionaries to Appalachia with the Red Bird Mission in the 1940s. His parents were teachers in a small town outside of Lexington, KY (Paris) – which is where he grew up. He went to Asbury University in Wilmore, KY, where he met his amazing wife, Sarah. They have 3 awesome kids. He has an MA in Cross-cultural studies, concentrating on contemporary culture/postmodernity, from Fuller Theological Seminary. He gardens, loves composting, rides his bicycle about town, and drinks really good coffee (most of the time).

Author Archive

August 2, 2014 by Aaron Klinefelter

Brad Modlin and the Camino de Santiago Way back in December Aaron, Andrea, and Karl sat down with Brad Modlin to hear stories of his experience on the Camino de Santiago. It was magical and now you get to hear it too! Brad is a PhD candidate in creative writing/poetry at Ohio University and lives in Athens, Ohio where he’s involved with […] Brad Modlin and the Camino de Santiago

May 22, 2014 by Aaron Klinefelter

Praxis Podcast – Brianna Kelly interview Listen here! Aaron sprung this interview on Brianna one day this spring. You are in for a treat!  Be sure to check her out on Bandcamp and this summer at Wild Goose Festival. If you still need to buy your ticket for Wild Goose be sure to use the promo code: LYDIA – you’ll save 10% and Lydia’s House will […] Praxis Podcast – Brianna Kelly interview

May 6, 2014 by Aaron Klinefelter

Food and Embodied Spiritual Practice Aaron sits down with Lisa Andrews and Maggie Gough, both registered dietitians and all around good people, to talk food and embodied spiritual practice. Our conversation ranges from smoothies to fish fries to artificial nutrition. Listen here. Food and Embodied Spiritual Practice

April 23, 2014 by Aaron Klinefelter

Praxis Podcast – Introduction to Embodied Spiritual Practice Listen here. DG, Andrea, and Aaron introduce a new theme for a series of podcasts on embodied spiritual practice. What does it look like to live our spiritual practice in our bodies? We’ll talk with practitioners of yoga, personal trainers, massage therapists, and others about how they live and incarnate spiritual practice in their lives. […] Praxis Podcast – Introduction to Embodied Spiritual Practice

April 22, 2014 by Aaron Klinefelter

Singleness and the Church {Listen here} Brianna, Andrea, Paul, and Aaron talk about singleness and the church. We used this article as a launching point: Are Single People the Lepers of Today’s Church? In an age of rising singlehood, many churches are still focused on being family ministry centers. by Gina Dalfonzo Floral House Intentional Community A Social Experiment: Communes […] Singleness and the Church

April 19, 2014 by Aaron Klinefelter

Introducing the Praxis Podcast, a podcast for practitioners by practitioners who live and practice the Way of Jesus. In this week’s episode Brianna Kelly, Andrea Bardelmeier, DG Hollums & Aaron Klinefelter sit down for a roundtable meta-conversation about their hopes and dreams for the Praxis Podcast as we relaunch. Episode Audio: Praxis Podcast Roundtable Conversation 4-9-14 Original Post on […]

April 2, 2014 by Aaron Klinefelter

Apostle of the Wilderness Today is the feast day for James Lloyd Breck. Yesterday I spent the day in my hometown, Paris, KY. The kids are on Spring Break and we headed south to enjoy the sunshine and warm weather with my parents. Right as we parked in front of their house, my uncle and grandpa pulled up as well. […] Apostle of the Wilderness

March 29, 2014 by Aaron Klinefelter

A Lenten Meditation: In the midst of the liminal, or what do a hawk, pigeon, and goose have to teach us We have a visitor at our church. She stops by from time to time. But often she’s only around for a fleeting moment, just long enough to keep an eye on things. She perches atop our steeple, carefully balancing up on the cross, ever vigilant but always wary. She’s a red-tailed hawk, full of powerful […] A Lenten Meditation: In the midst of the liminal, or what do a hawk, pigeon, and goose have to teach us

November 27, 2013 by Aaron Klinefelter

CANA Initiative Last week I was in Washington DC at the National Cathedral for the “opening ceremonies” (as Doug Pagitt put it) of the CANA Initiative. It was a gathering of some of the best and the brightest in emergence, progressive, convergent Christianity. As Stephanie Spellers articulated on Thursday, “CANA is a collective of Christian leaders, organizations and networks […] CANA Initiative

November 18, 2013 by Aaron Klinefelter

Bible Study Question of the Week: When Have You Helped Make God’s Mission Real in Your Neighborhood? Andrea, Jane, and Karl got together and wrote 40 Bible study questions for diocesan convention.  Then we recorded people answering those questions.  We’ll post one every week, and we invite you to submit your own answers, either in the comments section below, or by posting a video to YouTube and then e-mailing the video’s url […] Bible Study Question of the Week: When Have You Helped Make God’s Mission Real in Your Neighborhood?
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