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On Culture
by Mike Sherman - a podcast of The Embassy substack newsletter - theembassy.substack.com
An Island of Faith, Humanity and Grace For Understanding Our Strange World. We will talk about culture - and the intersection of culture and faith. theembassy.substack.com
Episodes
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On Culture - Pay Close Attention
Once again, I converse with Trey Herweck, Pastor of Refuge Church in St. Charles, MO - this time about paying attention. We talk about a recent piece from The Embassy - hope you read the whole story if you haven’t yet. Thank you for your attention to this matter … The Embassy is a…
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Being Human in the Age of AI - On Culture
Trey Herweck (Pastor of Refuge Church in St. Charles) and I talk about the use of AI and other technologies and how we can choose to act out of our humanity. As always, these podcasts are based on a dispatch from The Embassy - Thanks for listening! Tell us what you think or if you have any...
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Solutions and Trade-Offs - On Culture
Chad and I discuss the latest post from The Dispatch - Thanks for listening! The Embassy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe
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Where Our Treasure Is
As usual, this episode of On Culture stems from an article from The Embassy - You’ll want to check out the whole article as you listen to the whole episode. The Embassy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get…
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God as the Plot Twist
Drew and I talk There Will Be Blood, Wake Up Dead Man, and Black Bag and what we see as a surprising trend in movies and culture - God as the plot twist. This podcast comes out of the latest article from The Embassy - We mention a few other movies that follow this trend, but forgot to mention...
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On Culture Live
Trey Herweck and the people of Refuge Church in St. Charles hosted a live episode of On Culture. We talked about what On Culture is and what The Embassy is - then we talked about a lot of things we have talked about, and finished with a little bit on the latest piece: Thanks for listening, love…
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Fog of War
Trey Herweck and I talk about living in a world without all the info. Based on this dispatch from The Embassy - As always - read the whole thing. Also - we invite you to an upcoming On Culture live event - Sunday, April 26 from 5pm to 7pm at Refuge Church in St. Charles MO. Love to see you there....
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Following From Here
View This episode features Trey Herweck, pastor of Refuge Church in St. Charles, MO and I together and in person talking about local following, local discipleship, local transformation. Along the way we talk about Lent, the Pope, the Olympic Hockey teams, John Piper, and a bunch of other things....
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Early Winter
Trey Herweck and I talk about winter, aging, school buses, snowballs, and memories. This episode comes out of a recent piece in The Embassy, called Early Winter - Read the whole thing! The Embassy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a…
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Warm Individuals in Rugged Community
Trey Herwick and I talk about what makes community necessary and what makes it difficult and how individuality and community can coexist Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe
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Seeing, Not Believing. Believing, Not Seeing.
Trey Herweck and I talk about what is real - based on a recent dispatch from The Embassy - here is an excerpt: We live in a world where we, if we choose it, even if it is completely self-destructive, we can find some person or artificial companion to tell us what we want to hear, justify what we...
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The Resistance Will Not Be Instagramed
Drew Wendt (from DoYouLikeApples) and I talk Revolution, Resistance, Instagram, One Battle After Another, Eddington and other movies - and, also, talk about living. Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe
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Me, Myself, and The Algorithm
Trey Herweck and I talk about ‘The Algorithm’ - and how we should respond to it. This episode of On Culture is based on the most recent dispatch from The Embassy - Thanks for listening! The Embassy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a…
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Funerals and Other Expressions of Reality
This episode discusses the latest dispatch from The Embassy - Funerals and Other Expressions of Reality. Here is an excerpt - I officiated a funeral service for the mother and grandmother of friends of ours recently. I had never met the woman whose life we were remembering and whose absence…
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Thoughts and Prayers - On Culture
Trey Herweck and I share our thoughts about thoughts and prayers. This episode of On Culture - Thoughts and Prayers - is based on the article of the same name from The Embassy: Thanks for reading The Embassy! This post is public so feel free to share it. The Embassy is a reader-supported...
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Watching From the Sidelines - On Culture
Chad Myers and I discuss this piece from The Embassy - Watching From The Sidelines. Take I may post this again, but I wanted, in light of even more violence that appears to be part of our political divide or cultural wars to repost this piece: Interesting Times I pray there won’t be many more...
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Manifestation and Gratitude
This episode interacts with the latest dispatch from The Embassy - here is an excerpt: View Sharon Melzer, 24, has long believed in manifestation, or the idea that she can bring her hopes and dreams to life by visualizing them. Coming Soon: Your Beautiful, Successful, Confident Life - Ayson…
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Living a Discovered Life
As always, we use the latest dispatch from The Embassy for our discussion - here is an excerpt: The debate concerning the origin or foundation of mathematics has been around for a very long time. Particularly, this question: Is mathematics invented or is it discovered? Because mathematics…
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Interesting Times
Trey Herweck, pastor at Refuge Church in St. Charles, MO, joins me to talk about living in Interesting Times. We are using the most recent article from The Embassy as our jumping off point. Here is an excerpt: View Although it is often mislabeled as a Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting...
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The Private and The Public - On Culture
This week’s On Culture is a conversation between Trey Herweck and me about privacy and our public selves and how they relate. It uses the latest piece from The Embassy as the jumping off point. Here is an excerpt … Even though it is something I feel called to, it is a strange thing, not ever…
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The Good People and The Bad People
Chad Myers and I talk about the latest piece from The Embassy - The Good People and The Bad People. Here is an excerpt: About four or five years ago, a friend gave me a copy of Richard Beck’s book Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality. In this book, Beck explores how we view...
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Struggling Imperfectly Forward - On Culture
We are back! It has been awhile since our last On Culture - but I’m going to work back to my old schedule, if I can, with some exceptions. Anyway - this episode features frequent collaborator Trey Herweck and is engaged with the last issue from The Embassy - Struggling Imperfectly Forward. Here…
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This Thing Isn't Working and Render Unto Caesar
You’ll have to listen to this one: * A brief recap of the last two dispatches from The Embassy * And solo podcast explaining the lack of other podcasts Enjoy! The Embassy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get...
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On Culture - Show Me Something Real
Here is an excerpt from the dispatch from The Embassy - Show Me Something Real … Phillip Hancock was on death row at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He was convicted of two murders committed in 2001, resulting in a penalty of death. Devin Moss was his chaplain, or spiritual advisor as Moss...
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On Culture - Ruining Words
This week Susan James and I talk about how and why we ruin words. As always, we are discussing the latest dispatch from The Embassy - Ruining Words - here is an excerpt … … We don’t tend to use these words with their actual meanings engaged. I think many of us don’t even know their meaning as we...
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On Culture - Endings and Beginnings
Chad and I talk about how we face endings and beginnings throughout our life and how that connects with a life of faith. Here is an excerpt … Trying to find meaning in an alienated world. I’m not a Doomer Optimist, but that is actually pretty good. In fact, the Christian narrative offers meaning…
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On Culture - Belief, Doubt, Faith, Mystery
Trey Herweck, pastor of Refuge Church here in St. Charles, and I talk about faith and doubt and certainty and mystery. As always, we riff on the latest edition of The Embassy - Certainty, Doubt, Faith, Mystery. Here is an excerpt: About that path to God - much of the New Testament interacts with...
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On Culture - All Who Thirst
This episode of On Culture interacts with this latest dispatch from The Embassy. Here is an excerpt - Some commercials stay with you. Perhaps they resonated during a particular time or place, or became a cultural talking point like Apple’s 1984 Super Bowl spot introducing the Macintosh or Wendy’s...
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On Culture - A Redemptive Arc
This episode of On Culture is an extension of the latest article there - A Redemptive Arc. Here is an excerpt: When I showed up for that coffee with my friend, I wasn’t thinking about redemption. Because, as far as I knew, it hadn’t arrived. As far as I knew, the redemption that has seemed to...
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On Culture - The Noble Lie
This episode of On Culture interacts with the most recent dispatch from The Embassy - The Noble Lie. You may want to check it out before or as you listen to this. Here is an excerpt … You may have heard of what we call the noble lie. It can be a bit subjective to define, but, simply, it is a lie...
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On Culture - Counting Blessings
In this episode, Susan James and I talk about gratitude. This episode is based on the latest dispatch from The Embassy - Counting Blessings. Here is an excerpt … Most of us take what we have for granted and many of us feel that we are losing out on something that others have. Or, even if things…
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On Culture - A More Perfect Union
This episode of On Culture interacts with the latest piece from The Embassy - check it out at theembassy.substack.com Here is an excerpt … In the tragic vision, individual sufferings and social evils are inherent in the innate deficiencies of all human beings, whether these deficiencies are in...
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On Culture - Of Bears and Men
On Culture - In this episode, Susan James and I talk about the choice between bears and men … and how we can talk to and listen to one another. As with most episodes, we interact with the latest piece from The Embassy - Of Bears and Men - here is an excerpt … Recently, a question (for women) was...
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On Culture - Why So Serious?
This episode of On Culture starts from the most recent written piece from The Embassy - Why So Serious? Here is an excerpt … As I was in the process of collecting my thoughts for this essay, I noticed a number of pieces that are noticing the same trend. In the wake of the 2016 election, there…
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On Culture - A Drug for Everything - Revisited
This is the podcast that goes with A Drug for Everything, which we revisited last week. I will also post a new “print” piece this weekend - and we will go on a path of something new every other week, followed by that podcast (what we have been doing) plus revisiting a piece every other week, now...
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On Culture - Anatomy of Belief
This episode uses as its starting point the piece from The Embassy - Anatomy of Belief - which uses as its starting point the movie Anatomy of a Fall. Here is an excerpt: Anatomy of a Fall is set in France, the house that is the principle setting is high up in the snowy mountains. There is (as…
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On Culture - Our Zone of Interest
This episode of On Culture interacts with this piece from The Embassy. Here is an excerpt … From time to time a psychology experiment will enter the cultural attention span - perhaps because we can relate to the findings of the experiment, even if those findings reveal a disturbing truth. One…
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On Culture - Something in Common
View Chris Bantz and I talk about finding common ground based on the latest edition of The Embassy called Something in Common. Here is an excerpt … Over the past three editions of The Embassy, we have looked at what transformation from within is and how it can impact our culture, instead of our...
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On Culture - No Place Like Home
A conversation between Chad Myers and me on our mission in this culture - based on the latest from The Embassy Here is an excerpt … I am not here to tell you how to be the Ambassador from the United States to (Sweden, Norway, Germany …). But let’s reflect on what the job is - on why we are there....
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On Culture - Two Steps Forward
This episode is taken from last week’s dispatch from The Embassy - Two Steps Forward. Here is an excerpt … View There is a principle that those within the Christian church have claimed for centuries: In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, charity. There are essentials…
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On Culture - How Not to Change the World
View This podcast is based on the piece How Not to Change the World (in this very substack). Here is an excerpt … Starting with the acknowledgement that there is a culture war, and that, to some extent at least, we find ourselves in it - what do we do? For some, it seems that the point of the...
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On Culture - Gnats and Camels
This Episode of On Culture Interacts with Gnats and Camels - from The Embassy - Here is an excerpt - Instead of a real conflict about a real situation faced by real people - answering the question how does our Christian theology fit into this real life situation? … what are the missional...
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On Culture - Peace and the Alternatives
This episode is, as usual, based on the preceding piece from The Embassy - check it out for the full show notes. Here is an excerpt … Shalom means peace and harmony and community and everything being as it should be - extending far beyond the bounds of mere avoidance or absence of conflict. If…
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On Culture - Who is in charge around here?
Anti-institutional, Anti-authority, populist ... and lost This episode is based on the latest dispatch from The Embassy - here is an excerpt: … Institutions Surely you have noticed the cultural trends toward anti-institutionalism. It may be true that we were too trusting in institutions - our...
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On Culture - Does God Care About Creation?
View What are you doing for the environment? It is a question that is at once easy and difficult to answer. We recycle. (Of course we do, we aren’t demons.) We don’t run the heat very high in the winter or the AC very high in the summer - though, to be honest, there are other factors at play…
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On Culture - The Best Year
This episode comes out of the latest dispatch from The Embassy - The Best Year. Check it out in its entirety - but here is a bit of it … View 2024. Will it be the worst year ever? Or maybe the best? Those of us who are old enough remember when Prince sang - … I was dreamin' when I wrote…
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On Culture - A Season of Gratitude
This is a companion podcast for the piece from The Embassy - A Season of Gratitude. Here is an excerpt from that piece: (please check out the whole piece at theembassy.substack.com) One of our grandchildren has discovered a joy from my youth - A Charlie Brown Christmas. Do you remember when we…
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On Culture - Are You Turning Into Your Parents?
View Susan and I talk about the universal experience of growing old and / or growing into our parents - while being surprised by our participation in this universal reality … and what to do about it. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under…
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On Culture: I Just Want to Be Forgiven
I talk with Trey Herweck, pastor of Refuge Church in St. Charles about how difficult it can be to be forgiven. Based on the latest from The Embassy - theembassy.substack.com Link “I Want to be Forgiven. I Just Want to be Forgiven.” - Dave Barry, The New York Times Forgiveness - Psychology Today…
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On Culture - The Mideast, Explained
Evan Sherman and I talk about the Mideast (some) - but also how we have turned politics into the primary expression of the moral - and how that has moved dogma from religion into world of politics - altering what we acknowledge as fact. An excerpt … But morality exists within this reality we are...
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An Island of Faith, Humanity and Grace For Understanding Our Strange World. We will talk about culture - and the intersection of culture and faith.
theembassy.substack.com
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