Natalia welcomes professor and author Jennifer Powell McNutt to talk about her new book and to talk (*GUSH*) about Mary Magdalene and why she is awesome.

Links:

Jennifer's book: http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/the-mary-we-forgot/417641

Jennifer's Substack: https://jenniferpowellmcnutt.substack.com/

Holly Carey's book: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802879158/women-who-do/

Socials: @jpowellmcnutt on most of the things

Emmy and Natalia talk about what Christians are mad about now (spoiler: it's Halloween).

What's the history, why is it not about the devil at all? And how does this kind of moral panic happen anyway?

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You're Wrong About - Satanic Panic

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CC 243 - Witchy Season

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/243-the-witchy-season/id1422007489?i=1000630680657

Emmy and Natalia answer another very timely listener question about the pastoral call process and how it works and how you know it's right or not right.

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Matthew's Book!: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506497044/The-End-Is-the-Beginning

Emmy and Natalia continue their journey through the sacraments with the Rite of Confirmation. Is it a sacrament or a ritual? Why do we do it? Do we have to do it? Are we more or less holy depending on our confirmation status? So many good questions to dig into.

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Emmy and Natalia answer a listener question about what it means that we're all loved the way we are and how our lives are supposed to be for a "purpose." What purpose? Is that really true? Or is it just a holdover from some toxic early 2000s theology?

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Emmy and Natalia keep the sacramental conversation going with confession - what is it and do we need and why do we do it and does it even matter if it's not officially a sacrament for everyone?

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Emmy and Natalia do a little more sacramental conversation and then move into a current topic of political anointing. Does God anoint candidates? How do we talk to people who believe certain people are anointed for a particular political position and others are not?

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Emmy and Natalia continue the conversation from open tables and communion last week into talking about baptism this week. What's it for? Do we need it? What's the right way? We don't have all the answers, but we do have some opinions!

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Emmy and Natalia answer a listener question about communion - what it's for, who it's for, and why we do it. We also get introduce a new segment called "What are Christians mad about this week" and Emmy gives us another fun fact in Christian history.

Links and Notes:

Books talked about in this episode: "Eat This Bread" by Sara Miles, "Searching for Sunday" by Rachel Held Evans

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Emmy and Natalia are back after our long time apart and we do our best to catch up on the latest news and what we're up to and why Christians are mad about so many things right now.

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