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All Episodes

The Blue Room with MaryAnn McKibben Dana — 70 episodes

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1

Off-Script: A Conversation with Joseph Yoo

2

For the Generations

3

Catching Hope, Tossing Back “Normal”

4

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: The Pitt Needs Chaplains! We Volunteer.

5

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Project Hail Mary, the film

6

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Project Hail Mary, the Book

7

Making the Impossible Possible

8

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Sinners

9

Surprise and Joy... Even During Lent

10

On Creating Real Communities

11

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Pluribus

12

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Category Crowns, Lord of the Rings Edition

13

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Big Themes, Lord of the Rings Edition

14

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: “Will It Preach?” Lord of the Rings Edition

15

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: What’s Saving Our Lives Right Now

16

Never Alone: “Good”

17

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Wake Up Dead Man

18

The Work of Christmas

19

Our Favorite Pastor Portrayals in Pop Culture

20

Give Me Your Hand

21

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: “Will It Preach?”—Holiday Grab Bag Edition

22

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: A Charlie Brown Christmas

23

The “Christian Century?”

24

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

25

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: KPop Demon Hunters

26

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

27

Pop Culture Pastors Hour - Life Soundtracks

28

Brave: Braving the Unknown

29

Pop Culture Pastors Hour -- Celebrating Banned Books Week

30

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Battlestar Galactica (Miniseries)

31

Brave: In the Lion's Den

32

Pop Culture Pastors Hour: Station Eleven

33

Let Justice Roll Down

34

Tyranny, Irises, and Sleepless Nights: On Finding the Hoped-For Things

35

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! — The Life of Chuck

36

“Take up your cross and follow”

37

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! Superman (2025)

38

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! Stranger than Fiction

39

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! Check-in and Preview of Coming Attractions

40

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! Andor Wrap-up and Rogue One

41

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! Andor Season 2 Episodes 10-12

42

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! Andor Season 2 Episodes 7-9

43

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! Andor Season 2 Episodes 4-6

44

Pop Culture Pastors Hour! Andor Season 2, Episodes 1-3

45

Bonus Pod: Hope and Resistance in Star Wars's Andor

46

Teamwork Makes the Filibuster Work

47

Some Verse for Your Weekend

48

Re-Weaving Our Frayed Ties

49

Social isolation: let’s talk about it

50

We’re not giving up. We’re doing something else.

51

When you’re looking for the light

52

Slow is Fast, Fast is Slow (in life and politics)

53

Evangelical Christians and Trump—A Theory

54

The Greatness of the Small

55

S02 E06 Hope Beyond Hope

56

S02 E05 The Practice of Hope

57

S02 E04 Hope Travels in Story

58

S02 Bonus Episode: Good Hope, Good Ancestors

59

S02 E03: Hope Lives in the Body

60

S02 E02: What Hope Is

61

S02 E01: What Hope Is Not

62

Hope Notes: A Preview of Hope: A User's Manual, MaryAnn's Next Book!

63

Hope Notes: Art and Music for the End of the World

64

Hope Notes: Wall-E, Earth Day, and Irrational Love

65

Hope Notes: tick, tick...BOOM!, and How to Live Like We’re Running Out of Time

66

Hope Notes: Lord of the Rings, Ukraine, and the Good Worth Fighting For

67

Hope Notes: Free Guy, Two Years of Covid, and Playing the Right Game

68

Hope Notes: Black Panther, Part 2

69

Hope Notes: Black Panther, Part 1

70

Hope Notes: The Long Winter