With us today in the back corner is our friend Pete Stubbs. Pete is a former law enforcement officer with the RCMP and now serves as the Lead Pastor of Kings St Stephen. He'd rather be alone in the woods with his chainsaw, but we asked him to join us to talk about the latest news in the church world and his big decision to leave the RCMP to follow God's call on his life.

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Our guest today is a living legend in local church leadership in Atlantic Canada. Pastor B led the Wesleyan Church in Moncton, NB (now called Tidal Church) for over 40 years and transformed it from a typical small church into a growing, vibrant, evangelistically effective congregation that, for many years, was the largest in the region. Since his retirement from leading that congregation, he has dedicated his life to serving other churches and leaders by helping them believe in what God can do through them and to have the security to pursue it. He is chronically encouraging, pathologically positive, endlessly energetic, and every day is the best day he’s ever had.

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Father James Mallon is a Roman Catholic Priest in the Diocese of Halifax-Yarmouth and serves as the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Fr James founded Divine Renovation - a worldwide ministry (with national offices in Canada, the UK, the US, Australia, and Germany) focused on parish renewal by helping parishes move from maintenance to mission. He has served on the world board of Alpha and has been a trailblazer in the Alpha in the Catholic Context movement. He is an in-demand speaker worldwide. If you are an evangelical pastor and have never heard of him, I guarantee you you have heard of leaders with whom he is friends and who come to him for wisdom, guidance, and inspiration. He is the author of multiple books, a proud kilt wearer, a haggis aficionado, and a leader and friend we are honoured to have join us in the Back Corner!

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Our guests today are no strangers to the Back Corner. Our friends Anthony Moore and Mike MacNeil return in our mid-season premiere to catch up on various things in the news, crazy conspiracies, and Mike's recent health scare. 

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Before we take a break for the holiday season, we have to have a very special Back Corner Christmas episode. We get a little festive in this episode with some Christmas cryptids, karaoke, a Mountainous Top 4 of Mountainous Top 4s, and a very special Christmas reading. So grab a chair, a warm beverage, and a tasty treat, and join us as we celebrate Christmas in the Back Corner.

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Jason Ballard joins us in the back corner this week to talk about West Coast cryptids, church productions, Advent, and the exciting things he is seeing in churches across Canada. 

Jason is quickly becoming one of the most influential voices in the Canadian church. He is a pastor, a communicator, a church-planter, and honestly, one of the best thinkers on renewal and discipleship in our generation. He’s the co-founder of The Way Church in Vancouver, a podcaster, leader of the Pastorate, a writer and contributor to a plethora of discipleship materials and formation resources. Jason is a former leader with Alpha and was the face and mind behind the original youth Alpha series.

You can find out more about The Way College here: https://thewaycollege.ca/

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Our good friend Neil Horner is with us in the back corner to talk about sports betting, credit cards, the insane Toronto Blue Jays run, and what it looks like to become free from the burden of finances. Neil is a pastor at Woodstock Wesleyan Church and a financial coach who helps people overcome the burdens of debt and feel more comfortable with their finances. 

You can find out more about Neil's financial coaching here: https://www.facebook.com/neilhornerfinancialcoaching

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On this quick bonus episode of the Back Corner Podcast, we talk with Spencer Conway about his experience as a pastor's kid and offer some advice on how to support and care for pastor's kids in your church.

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Spencer Conway returns to the back corner to talk about dressing up, wearing plaid, and what exactly is the mark of the beast. Spencer also goes deeper into his upbringing, how suicide has affected his family, and how to process things like suicide and suicidal ideation.

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