There's Got to be a Better Way
by Paul Baudhuin
"There's Got to be a Better Way" seeks to find a better way of living, moving, and being in this increasingly anxious and confusing world. The host, Paul Baudhuin, lives at the intersection of being a United Methodist Pastor, a City Councilperson in St. Louis Park, MN, and a Substitute Teacher at St. Louis Park High School. This intersection informs the pod, as Paul uses the Biblical Narrative as a launching pad for seeking a better way, and thereby hopefully activating us all to be about the work of building up a more just and whole world together.
Episodes
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Why I Like The Christmas Jesus Best
This week Paul takes a exploreswhy the Christmas season is the most meaningful to him in the Christian calendar. First he takes a deep dive into his Christology (ie, the study of Christ and why he matters), and then he shares a brief personal story about why this season matters to him as much as…
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Trump Voters & What "The Left" Is Missing
In this week's episode Paul goes through a very unscientific survey he asked Trump voters he knows to fill out. The reality is that enough Americans support him to have elected him again, and Paul felt a need to understand a little better why people support him. And out of this tiny survey, came…
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.11: Bluebonnet BS
On Friday afternoon, the day this episode was recorded, the Texas Board of Education voted to allow the Bluebonnet curriculum to not only be allowed in its schools, but incentivizes them to do so. What is this a problem? Because the curriculum is fraught with Christian teaching. This week, Paul...
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.10: Post-Election Thoughts (aka: My Concept of a Plan)
This week Paul reacts to the presidential election. He outlines his feelings about it, as well as what he thinks we need to be doing between now and January 20th, when Donald Trump will be inaugurated into his 2nd term. He'd love your feedback, particularly about how we can be prepared to combat...
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.9: The Election, Spirituality, and Moving Through Anxiety
This week Paul welcomes his friends and fellow seminarians Kari Niedermaier and Matthew David Morris on the pod. They discuss the election, how their varying spiritualities inform their views on the present and possible future state of the US post-election, and what it means to simply be a human…
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.8: All The Devils Are Here
In a late drop, this week Paul looks at the one-man-show All The Devils Are Here as a way of exploring humanity's potential for evil. Patrick Page's show All The Devils Are Here traces how Shakespeare created "the villain", but also looks at our own potential for it. None of us exempt. So how do…
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.7: Rainn Wilson's Soul Boom
In this episode Paul breaks down Rainn Wilson's book Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution. Rainn Wilson is most famous for playing Dwight Schrute on the TV show The Office, and in 2023 he published Soul Boom, which has led to his podcast of the same title. Rainn Wilson is a deeply...
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.6: Is a Vote Really Like a Prayer?
This week Paul looks into Pastor and US Senator Raphael Warnock's idea that a vote is "like a kind of prayer". Is it? Perhaps yes, but also maybe not so much. Here Paul unpacks that metaphor a bit, while also naming just how important it is to vote. Are you registered to vote? Get registered at...
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.5: The Church, Its Past, and Its Future
This week Paul goes back. Way back, exploring how historical events in the Christian Church's history still ring through today and why that may just be at the root of its struggles. What happens when the empire get baptized?
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.4: A Problem With Easter
This week's text is the story of The Passover, and because of that Paul takes a deep dive into the problematic way that Christendom appropriates this story on Easter. In it Paul also calls his fellow Christians to look at and listen to their hymns, theologies, doctrines, and liturgies with a more...
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.3: Peace, Shalom, Salaam
As we approach the one year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's ongoing subsequent response, this week Paul uses the story of Joseph, his brothers, his grandfather, and his great grandfather Abraham to take a raw, unanswered, and frustrated look into Israel, Gaza, islamophobia,...
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There's Got To Be A Better Way 1.2: Look to the Stars
[Please excuse the over modulation in this episode. Something happened between editing and exporting. Paul will figure it out for next week.] This week on the There's Got to be a Better Way pod, Paul reflects on the odd 24 hours we had with the Presidential debate immediately followed by the 23rd...
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There's Got to be a Better Way 1.1: To Judge or Not to Judge
This is the first full and true episode of the "There's Got to be a Better Way" podcast. This week we take the story of Adam and Eve eat of the "forbidden fruit" and explore how the concept of "judgment" works in our world and in our souls. Hit me up at [email protected] for thoughts, opinions,...
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There's Got to be a Better Way: Preview
For far too long I've been meaning to start a podcast, and I just keep putting it off. But now's the time. My name is Paul Baudhuin and I live at the vocational intersection of being a city council person, a substitute teacher, and a United Methodist pastor. And that intersection is where this...
About this show
"There's Got to be a Better Way" seeks to find a better way of living, moving, and being in this increasingly anxious and confusing world. The host, Paul Baudhuin, lives at the intersection of being a United Methodist Pastor, a City Councilperson in St. Louis Park, MN, and a Substitute Teacher at St. Louis Park High School. This intersection informs the pod, as Paul uses the Biblical Narrative as a launching pad for seeking a better way, and thereby hopefully activating us all to be about the work of building up a more just and whole world together.
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