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Xenia: Reflections on Being a Good Neighbor in Uncertain Times

Last week, we reflected on what it means to be home during this crisis.  This week, we look outward from our homes and ask what it means to be a

Nostos: Reflections On Home and How to Get There

How has it been being… home?  What is a home for?  Recorded on an iPhone, this is the first pod since the general lockdown, in which David reflects on what

The Cloud of Unknowing: Clarity in the Age of Corona

The Corona Virus. Frozen 2. And Christian Sensationalism. Welcome to the new/old normal! Right before the ban, producer Zach Leetch and I snuck into the church to make one last

Stability in an Age of Flux: Spiritual Formation Among the Living and the Dead (w/ Rev. Hayden Butler)

STAY PUT. Those two words mean something very different to all of us today than they did even three weeks ago. And while I can’t claim any particular prescience here,

Life Together: Being Single in the Christian Church (w/ Pastor Aaron Gomez)

Love Island. The Bachelor. The Bachelorette. Are You the One? Temptation Island. Love Connection. Blind Date. The Dating Game. Beauty and the Geek. Next. Love is Blind… In a culture

The Neverending Story: A Modern Fairy Tale of Nihilism and Love

You do you.  Follow your desire.  Seek your own perfection.  Reality is something each of us constructs for ourselves by exerting our will and manifesting our desire.  Or so we’re

I Desire Dragons: Exploring J.R.R Tolkien’s “On Fairy-Stories”

What are fairy tales and why do they matter? This is the question J.R.R. Tolkien took up in a lecture he gave at the University of St. Andrews on March

Further Up and Further In: The Endless Education of the Soul through the Imagination (w/ Rev. Hayden Butler)

When, as a child, were you overwhelmed by reality? What most decisively shaped your imagination as you grew up? Who were the teachers in your life whose love of their

The Face of God: On Motherhood, Suffering, and the Call of Christ to Love Every Child (w/ Angela Ward)

In his book on Christian community, Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”  If you haven’t listened

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