All Episodes

Practicing Joy: Giving (Advent 2)

Practicing Joy: Imagination (Advent 1)

Our Money Story: Catching Turtles and Restoration

Money Stories: Myths, Villains, and Reimagining

Money Stories: Preemptive Promised Lands and Releasing

Money Stories: Sunday School Quarters & Remembering

The Golden Rule Tastes Like Chicken

Jesus Ain't Your Sunday School Teacher

God Doesn't Have VenMo

The Unasked Question

Pentecost and Protests

Journey, Week 2: Connections and Intersections

Journey: Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Home for Christmas: Search Terms (Christmas Eve)

Home for Christmas: Murder Mysteries and Jesus (Advent 4)

Home for Christmas: Getting Ready, Old School and New School (Advent 3)

Home for Christmas: Getting Ready, Old School and New School (Advent 3)

Home for Christmas: Peace (Advent 2)

Home for Christmas: Hope (Advent 1)

What Can't Wait: Incarnation (Christmas Eve)

What Can't Wait: Love (Advent 4)

What Can't Wait: Joy (Advent 3)

What Can't Wait: Peace (Advent 2)

What Can't Wait: Hope (Advent 1)

Rollercoaster Faith

Breathing Under Water: What Comes Around Must Go Around (Step 12)

Breathing Under Water: An Alternative Mind (Step 11)

Breathing Under Water: Is This Overkill? (Step 10)

Breathing Under Water: Skillful Means (Step 9)

Breathing Under Water: Payback Time (Step 8)

Breathing Under Water: Prayer and Posturing (Step 7)

Breathing Under Water: Ansel Adams and Axe Throwing (Step 6)

Breathing Under Water: Accountability IS Sustainability (Step 5)

Breathing Under Water: A Good Lamp (Step 4)

Breathing Under Water: Surrender (Step 3)

Breathing Under Water: Powerlessness and Desire (Steps 1 and 2)

S2 E51: First Street Gospel - Everyone Loves a Parade

S2 E50: Just One More Thing

S3 E7: Blue Christmas

S2 E49: First Street Gospel -- Construction Zone

S3 E6: Fig Trees and Falling Ash

S3 E5: John the Baptist vs Shopping Mall Santa

S2 E48: Party Platter, Herodian Edition

S3 E4: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Questions?

S3 Ep3: You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is John the Baptist

S2 E47: Millennials are Cereal Killers

S3 E02: Scratch and Sniff Nativity, and Other Invisible Truths

S3 E1: A Starry Advent

S2 E46: First Street Gospel: Hospitals and Health Clinics

S2 E45: More Than We Can Imagine

S2 E44: God Doesn't Play Sportsball

S2 E43: Game of Thrones, Ezekiel Edition

S2 E42: This Is Not the Savior You're Looking For

S2 E40: Crack Pot Religion

S2 E39: God's Plan

S2 E38: God's Backside

S2 E37: A Sheet Ton of Bacon Cheeseburgers

S2 E41: Who Are You?

S2 E36: Close Encounters of the Spirit-Led Kind

S2 E35: That One Time Twitter Worked Right

S2 Ep34: What's Your Story?

S2 E33: Awesome and Awful

S2 E32: Can You Believe It?

S2 E31: Put Me In, Coach!

S2 E30: Get Off Your Horse

S2 E29: Punching the Bear

S2 E28: For Such a Time as This

S2 E27: Covenantal Calesthenics

S2 Ep26: Reclaiming Hope

S2 Ep25: Idolizing Jesus

S2 Ep24: Reclaiming Brokenness

S2 E23: Wild and Whiny, a Freedom Tale

S2 E22: Reclaiming Anger

S2 E21: God Is Not Running for a Second Term

S2 E20: How to Be a Superorganism

S2 E19: The Sticky Notes on God's Bathroom Mirror

S2 E18: Pitfalls and Possibilities

S2 E17: Holy Historical Markers, Batman

S2 E16: Coming to a Baptismal Font Near You

S2 E15: Demon Repellant

S2 E14: Demons on the Daily

S2 E13: Scripture, Scapegoats, and S-hole Countries

S2 E12: There Are No Mic Drops in Heaven

S2 E11: Livin' that Magi Life

S2 E10: Rock Paper Scissors Baptism

S2 E9: Call Me by My True Names

S2 E8: What Do You See?

S2 E7: God Makes This World Our Home (Advent 4)

S2 E6: May the Joy Be with You

S2 E5: Joy Is Our True Home (Advent 3)

S2 E4: Love Sharpens the Axe

S2 E3: Home Is Where We Meet (Advent 2)

S2 E2: God Is Not Your Superhero

S2 E1: Come Down Home (Advent 1)

Episode 83: Saints and Children

Episode 82: The Power of All Saints

Episode 81: Jesus Is My Boyfriend?

Episode 80: Playdoh Protestants

Episode 79: Dual Citizens - Earth, Heaven, and Holding the Tension

Episode 78: Context, Call, and Character -- 60 Years at St. Paul's UMC in Reno

Episode 77: Ubuntu

Episode 76: Joy-Shaped Heart

Episode 75: Thoughts and Prayers

Episode 74: Take That, Pheidippides

Episode 73: Top Ten Secrets of Pastors

Episode 72: Imitation v. Impersonation

Episode 71: Mirror Mirror

Episode 70: The Facts and Figures of Forgiveness

Episode 69: Accounting for Forgiveness

Episode 68: Awake, My Soul

Episode 67: Pizza and Chinese Food: a Portrait of Love

Episode 66: Spiritual Fake It Til You Make It

Episode 65: Recalculating... Recalculating...

Episode 64: Messy and Miraculous

Episode 63: Rocks, Keys, and Tools

Episode 62: Mission: Go Hop a Fence

Episode 61: Show Me Your Receipts

Episode 60: The One About Charlottesville

Episode 59: Fear and Loathing

Episode 58: Heaven Is Down to Earth

Episode 57: In the Weeds

Episode 56: Farm Like a Fool

Episode 55: Your Story Matters

Episode 54: Gorgeous Prophets of Wrestling

Episode 53: Somebody Should Really Do Something

Episode 52: Impossible Dreams

Episode 51: For When You Need Some Normal

Episode 50: Church Conflict and Trinity Truces

Episode 49: Spirit of Truthiness

Episode 48: Pentecost Acts Now

Episode 47: God Is Bigger than the Boogey Man

Episode 46: Holy House Hunters

Episode 45: Together, We Can... ?

Episode 44: Jesusgate 2017

Episode 43: They Had Hoped

Episode 42: Strangers on a Journey

Episode 41: #FOMO

Episode 40: Stagecoach Faith

Episode 39: Well, What Did You Expect? (Easter!)

Episode 38: Looking for the Living (Easter!)

Episode 37: Good Friday: Silver, Water, Thorns, Veil

Episode 36: Divine Interruptions

Episode 35: Relationships

Episode 34: Witness Marks

Episode 33: Resources

Episode 32: Wide Gates, Narrow Paths, and Princesses

Episode 31: Rejection

Episode 30: Be Careful What You Ask For

Episode 29: Regret

Episode 28: Restlessness

Episode 27: How to Judge Like a Pro

Episode 26: Rebelllion

Episode 25: In God We Trust?

Episode 24: Building a Mystery

Episode 23: Sunken Eyes and Broken Wings

Episode 22: Follow the Leader

Episode 21: When Sunday School Answers Won't Do

Episode 20: Salty & Shiny

Episode 19: Harry Potter and the Shrouded Spirit

Episode 18: Too Blessed to Be Stressed (Or Not)

Episode 17: Beati-dos and Beati-don'ts

Episode 16: Nardly Faith (feat. the Rev. Michael Harrell)

Episode 15: Serving Up Baptismal Realness (feat. Anthony Fatta)

Episode 14: What Is Love?

Episode 13: Aspirational Planting

Episode 12: In a World...

Episode 11: The Story Isn't Done Yet

Episode 1: Hope for Cynics

Episode 02: Slow Down, Pay Attention (Mark)

Episode 3: Cohen Can't Sing, and Neither Can I

Episode 4: The World As It Is (Matthew)

Episode 5: Whose Side Are You On?

Episode 6: The Ultimate Advent Playlist (Note: Not An Actual Playlist) (Luke)

Episode 7: 99 Problems but Joy Ain't One

Episode 8: The Light in the Darkness (John)

Episode 9: Do You Believe in Christmas?

Episode 10: Christmas in the Chaos