Episodes
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Women of the Petateuch:: Hagar
Scott Erickson talks about your favorite TV shows, not throwing rocks at our goals, and the God who sees.
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Sunday School Stories:: Jonah
Kurt Kroon talks about big fish, relatable prophets, and the miracle of inclusion.
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Sunday School Stories:: Daniel & The Lions Den
Cara B shares about lions dens, resisting empires and the stories we choose to pass along to the next generation. She concludes with our celebration of the feast day of St. Francis with a blessing of the stuffies for our kids and families in the room.
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Sunday School Stories:: Abraham & Isaac
Stephen Carter shares about a history of religion, Meow Wolf, and the ways the earliest stories of the Bible tell about a different kind of God.
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Sunday School Stories:: Noah
Kurt Kroon shares about every Kids Ministry's favorite mural subject matter, knock knock jokes and how the point of ancient stories might be telling us something we'll miss with modern eyes.
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Sunday School Stories:: Adam & Eve
Kurt Kroon shares about great tactics for blaming others, helpful and unhelpful theologies and trying on new ways of looking at familiar stories.
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What Do You Love? :: Forgiveness
Cara B shares about schoolyard conflict, power dynamics in forgiveness and restorative conversations that help us keep a door open in our hearts for better versions of each other.
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What Do You Love? :: Jesus Then vs Jesus Now
Stephen Carter shares about Mayo Jesus shirts, the prodigal son and the enduring work of Rachel Held Evans.
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What Do You Love? :: Intergenerational Spaces
Kurt Kroon talks about Disneybounding, Lonliness, mutual mentorship and the benefits of an intergenerational space.
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What Do You Love? :: Jesus Wept
Scott Erickson talks about the shortest verse in the Bible, podcasts, Glen Hansard and the back of church signs.
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What Do You Love? :: Liberation
Kurt Kroon shares about liberation theology, transitioning from spiritual warfare to mysticism and how empathy and curiosity can help detox us from consumerism and bipartisan politics.
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Cascade Pride Part 3
Kurt Kroon talks through the New Testament passages that have been weaponized against members of the LGBTQ+ communities. We finish with an interview of John Simmons-Adkins.
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Cascade Pride Part 2
Kurt Kroon shares about the language and translations in the Hebrew Scriptures and the ways they've weaponized against members of the LGBTQ+ communities. We finish with an interview with Matthew Castillo-Kohlenberg.
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Cascade Pride Part 1
Kurt Kroon introduces our 3 part conversation on the church and LGBTQ+ inclusion. This first Sunday is a look at how we read the scriptures and an introduction into the next 2 weeks where we look at the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. Kurt is joined by Michael Dinter at the conclusion of...
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Fruit of the Spirit:: Self-Control
Cara Bartlett shares about being the world's foremost expert on self control (jk), scriptural examples of self-control and 5th grade haiku's.
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Fruit of the Spirit:: Faithfulness
Scott Erickson shares about turd sandwiches, Caravaggio paintings and how the words of Father Greg Boyle that we are all unshakably good and we belong to each other can propel us into faithfulness.
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Fruit of the Spirit:: Generosity
Kurt Kroon talks about goodness vs. generosity and a study at UCLA about the connection of empathy and generosity.
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Fruits of the Spirit:: Kindness
Scott Erickson does his best (and it's very good!) Ira Glass impression to talk about kindness from the fruits of the spirit in several acts. Take a listen and see which act you connect most with as you consider the practice of kindness in our world.
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Fruit of the Spirit:: Patience
Sarah Swartzendruber talks about road trips, smoking noses and the challenge of patience without a preferred outcome in sight.
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Fruit of the Spirit:: Peace
Kurt Kroon shares about peace as a bringing together of all things, not cutting off the noisy parts of us, others and our world. Shalom.
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Fruit of the Spirit:: Joy
Kurt Kroon explores the difference between joy & happiness and what can take you through the hardest moments in life.
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Fruit of the Spirit:: Love
Kurt Kroon shares about how love in the ways that Paul builds up his definition of love throughout his writings and how it starts with understanding God as the definition of love.
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Fruit of the Spirit:: Intro
Kurt Kroon shares about sassy Paul, reading other people's mail and the ways the Fruits of the Spirit invites a better way of practicing Christianity than "right" belief.
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Easter Sunday
Kurt Kroon talks about candy conventions, unrecognizable walks with Jesus and how we can be people beyond ideological labels and instead be people producing good fruit.
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Dreams that are Dying:: Life without Grief
Scott Erickson shares about the 23rd Psalm, life in the shadow of death and meals with "enemies".
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Dreams that are Dying:: Trees without Fruit
Kurt Kroon shares about dementors (not death eaters), trees without fruit and the ways we've obsessed about ideological identity over practical participation in spirituality.
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Dreams that are Dying:: Relationships without Conflict
Harriet Congdon shares about outgrowing shells for a life in the ocean, relational conflicts around religion, and finding new ways to belong.
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Dreams that are Dying:: Fixed for Expansive Roles
Kurt Kroon talks about Mary & Martha and the ways that we can demonstrate hospitality and let the roles we accepted by choice or force pass away for more expansive roles.
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Dreams that are Dying :: Value of Interdependence
Kurt Kroon shares about Marlboro Man Richard Hammer, Cheryl Strayed and the ways that we can let the independent dream die for a new dream of interdependence.
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Love & Grief
Kurt Kroon talks about the relationship of love and grief and how one informs the other. Take a listen to ask new questions of the things you're rightly grieving these days.
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Why Engage the Scriptures? :: Asking New Questions
Kurt Kroon shares about romenesco broccoli, the woman at the well to the feeding of the 15,000 (take a listen if this sounds wrong!), and how asking new questions of the scriptures can help us break out of a bad relationship with them.
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Why Engage the Scriptures? :: Transformation
Sarah Swartzendruber shares about the power transformation that the scriptures can initiate if we're willing to process where we've come from and the ways we've been given permissions externally and internally to change.
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Why Engage the Scriptures?:: The Culture
Kurt Kroon shares about the way that Lord of the Rings, the high five emoji (prayer hands) and the Jesus/Superman/Luke Skywalker stories and the way the scriptures influence the world around us.
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Why Engage the Scriptures? :: The Power of Storytelling
Harriet Congdon explores how storytelling impacts us utilizing a clip from Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man and a new song led by Sam Hedrick.
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Why Engage the Scriptures? :: Destroy or Restore
Scott Erickson leads us through a conversation about ayahausca trips, a magical monastery, and the ways the scriptures have been used as a tool to destroy or restore. Scott also failed at his task of never being asked to preach again.
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Why Engage the Scriptures?:: The Intro
Kurt Kroon starts off our new message series exploring the scriptures and if they are still worth engaging today. Come for the statistical analysis of Bible sales in 2024 and 2025 and stay for another look at the Ethiopian Eunuch.
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Home:: Keeping Watch by Night
Kurt Kroon shares about the nomadic home of the shepherds and ways we can keep that home with us, even when we're in the wilderness.
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Home:: Mary was Perplexed
Kurt Kroon explores the nature of home, how Jesus shows up to call this world his home and how we leave home to adventure and return to tell the stories of our successes and failures.
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Esther 8 & 9
Kurt kroon concludes the series on Esther by looking at the tradition of Purim and how we remember what we repeat.
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Esther 7
Kurt Kroon covers the culminating action of the story of Esther and we communally wonder about the role of violence in the ancient world and our world today.
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Esther 5 & 6
Kurt Kroon continues our exploration of the book of Esther with a focus on Haman and the ways that power corrupts him.
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In the Low:: An Interview with Scott Erickson
Scott Erickson is interviewed by Kurt Kroon about his new book "In the Low". They talk about depression, the avoidance that can exist within some Christian circles and helpful tools when we need to not feel all alone.
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Brian Recker:: Hell on Earth
Brian Recker visits and talks about how Hell has been utilized culturally today and the disconnects from the source material in the scriptures. This is part of his newly released book "Hell Bent", which you can purchase here.
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Esther 3 & 4
Kurt Kroon talks through the rising tension in the story of Esther culminating in the big "for such a time as this" line. We take a look at what that looked like for Mordecai to deliver, Esther to receive and what that could mean for us today.
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Esther 2
Kurt Kroon teaches about the "ewww gross" beauty pageant of King Ahasuerus, Portland protesters in inflatable costumes and confuses Benny Hill and Benny Hinn
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Esther 1
Kurt Kroon starts off a brand new series on the book of Esther and what creative protest can look like. The invitation is to rebel well and stand with the marginalized and oppressed as a pathway to our collective healing.
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What is Faith For? Fantasy to Reality
Scott Erickson leads us through a conversation about Zacchaeus, NPC's, Death and UAP's. This all helps us move our framework of faith from seeing the world as a simple fantasy to a complex reality.
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What is Faith For? A Crutch to A Healing
Kurt Kroon shares about the ways that religion can be a crutch and how it can be a healing. A Karl Marx quote and a Jesus healing story frame this exploration.
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What is Faith For? From Instructions to Wisdom
Kurt Kroon continues the What is Faith For? by discussing our relationship to the Christian scriptures and the ways we've tried to pull out a few verses to follow instead of letting the whole of the scriptures shape us into people of wisdom.
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What is Faith For? From Control to Liberation
Kurt Kroon kicks off a new series looking at the containers that are holding our reimagined theologies and how they need the same reimagining. This week looks at how we can use faith as a mechanism of control in the world and how that will ultimately let us down.
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