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Self-awareness. Self-improvement. Personal growth. Personal development. Personal progress. Personal productivity. What happens when the paradigms and strategies of self-improvement that have saturated our culture find their way into the church?

Continue readingNow We See In An Enneagram Dimly: A Conversation on Self-Reflection and Spiritual Growth w/ Rev. Hayden Butler

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“In spite of the pain and its failures, I love the church.” On this episode of the pod, I am joined by my friend, Pastor Cole Beshore, a third-generation pastor

Continue readingTo Love the Church: A Conversation w/ Pastor Cole Beshore on Loving and Serving the Church without Growing Cynical

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In lieu of some technical difficulties with our previously scheduled episode this week (don’t worry, it’s still on the way!), I am rolling out an episode that was released previously

Continue readingLove in the Ruins: John Donne and the Skeptical Crisis

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Every year, Rev. Hayden Butler teaches Dante’s Divine Comedy to teenagers. Why? What does a 14th-century poem that very few adults have ever read in full have to teach teenagers–or

Continue readingFinding the True Path When You’ve Lost Your Way: A Conversation w/ Rev. Hayden Butler on How Dante’s Divine Comedy Can Change Your Life

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“Here am I, Lord, send me.” Many have read these words in Isaiah, others have imagined their implications, or even said them aloud, a precious few have actually followed through

Continue readingFrom Ireland, With Love: A Conversation w/ Pastor Ray Clancy on the Call to Ireland, the Cost of Ministry, and the Grace of God

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A new year has dawned . . . and it’s already off to a rocky start.  How should Christians approach and understand time and its passing?  How do we resist

Continue readingA Christian Sense of Time: A Conversation w/ Rev. Hayden Butler on Anxiety, Hope, and How to Live Well in the Time that Remains

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“Are we primarily formed by the community of the church or the community of the nation?” As we are poised on the tense precipice of Jan. 20th, I hope this

Continue readingBonhoeffer’s America: A Conversation on Christian Nationalism and the Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer w/ Dr. Joel Looper

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Perhaps unbelievably, this was recorded the day before the deadly chaos of January 6th.  Let that sink in as you listen to it.  Something is well and truly over, folks. 

Continue readingThe Collapse of Contemporary Christianity: A Conversation w/ Pastor John Hallowell on the Decline and Fall of a Movement

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Advent is a time of fasting; Christmas is a time of feasting!  In the spirit of the holiday, I am so happy to be able to bring you this conversation

Continue readingOur Daily Bread (and Cheese): A Conversation on Life, Faith, and Food w/ Roshelle Simpson

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Gather around, my friends, for one of the great ghost stories of this or any other age.  On this Christmas Pod Special, Laura Batstone and I talk about that Victorian

Continue readingA Christmas Pod Special: Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”