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EPISODE · Oct 14, 2025 · 1H 4M

Episode 284: The Telephone of Life

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In which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk painless tattoos, workaholic scripts, sloppy social media, and Japanese lifesavers. Also, Sarah gets down with a theater full of fifth graders before singing with church full of Norwegians. Closing music courtesy of Voice of Joy. Click here for more details about -- or to register for -- the Fall Mbird Conference in Charlottesville, VA (11/14&15). Click here to read in the Atlantic about how "People Are Getting Tattoos Under Anesthesia." Click here to watch the short film, Beneath the Ink. Click here to read "If I Work Harder, Will You Love Me?" by Arthur Brooks in the Atlantic. Click here to read "We Are the Slop" by Freya India in the After Babel newsletter. Click here to read Dave's piece "Grace in a Time of Line-Drawing and Statement-Making" on Mbird. Click here to read about "The Pastor Who Rescues People from Japan’s ‘Suicide Cliff’" by Kazusa Okaya in Christianity Today. Click here to find out more about Voice of Joy, the Norwegian gospel choir Sarah mentions who also close the show.

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