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Hold On To What Is Good: A Sermon Preached at Generation Church in South Oceanside

This week we’re changing it up a bit, sharing a sermon I preached at Generation Church in South Oceanside earlier this year. Generation Church is pastored by Tim Parlier–friend and

Morality Made Strange: A Conversation on Christian Ethics with Prof. Craig Hovey

You are riding in a trolley without functioning brakes, headed toward a switch in the tracks. On the current track stand five people who will be killed if the trolley

Church Politics: Life Together for the Sake of the World (w/ Dr. Joel Looper)

How does the contemporary Christian church recover its witness in a post-Christian society? How does the church resist falling prey to a futile and misguided culture war as well as

The Suburban Survivalist, Part 2: A Conversation with Daniel Leetch

This is the second part of my convo with the man himself, Daniel Leetch, wherein we head to Afghanistan, think through fatherhood, and grapple with living a faithful, ordinary life

The Suburban Survivalist, Part 1: A Conversation with Daniel Leetch

How does a soldier and survivalist stomach suburbia?  To find out, dive into this two-part conversation with human swiss army knife, Daniel Leetch, as we talk discipleship from Christianland to

Christ and the Prisoner: A Conversation w/ Maurice Woods on Identity, the Street Life, and the Hope of Jesus in Jail

On the newest episode of the pod, I am honored to talk with my friend, Maurice Woods, Field Director for Prison Fellowship in Southern California. This is Maurice’s story. But

Dead Men Waking: On Humility, Masculinity, and Leadership w/ Pastor Tim Parlier

Recently, we have begun to experience the cultural and ecclesial reckoning of a certain kind of masculinity and the fallout of a spiritually fatherless generation. A fatherless generation is many

The Four Loves, Part 4: A Conversation on Agape w/ Rev. Hayden Butler

On this episode we conclude our four-part series on C.S. Lewis’s The Four Loves with a discussion of agape, the love that moves the sun and other stars. Agape is

The Four Loves, Part 3: A Conversation on Eros w/ Rev. Hayden Butler

“Eros ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.”  Join resident Anglican Priest of the Pod, Rev. Butler, and myself as we continue our series

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