Church in Space

In which the 3-Ds come up with half-baked ideas for both science fiction and religion -- ideas which it's very clear neither Dave, Drew, nor Dan have thought through. In other words, you hear them in their natural state.

Their ideas are all over the map: from a Star Trek series about the Earth-Romulan War (okay; that one's pretty decent) to a hard-hitting drama based on Church in Space (uhm...). Listen in and gloat. After all, your ideas are way better than these. It's easy to build your self-esteem when you compare yourself to the 3-Ds!

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For more of our shenanigans, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We're @churchnspace.

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Credits:

Editor Extraordinaire: Cathy Rinella of Merodi Media

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

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"For who could hate or bear a grudge

Against a luscious bit of fudge?"

- Oompa-Loompas (via Roald Dahl)

Politicians and pundits paint Artificial Intelligence as an existential threat to humans. It's just a bunch of sophisticated code right now: programmed to seem intelligent, but what happens when the programmed fakeness becomes genuinely sentient? At what point should AI have rights?

The 3-Ds debate. Along the way, they discover the ethical flaw in the Star Wars franchise when it comes to droids; realize that the biggest existential threat to the Empire is R2D2; and reveal to the world the awesome might of the Force Tickle.

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For more of our shenanigans, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We're @churchnspace.

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Credits:

Editor Extraordinaire: Cathy Rinella of Merodi Media

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

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"...he used those special parts to make his robot friends. Robot roll call:

Cambot! Gypsy! Tom Servo! Croooooow!"

- Joel Hodgson (MST3k Theme Song)

Pastor Dave has one question for the 3-Ds: are you certain?

What else are we certain (or not) about? Listen in to find out! We assure you: this episode does end well!

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For more of our shenanigans, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We're @churchnspace.

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Credits:

Editor Extraordinaire: Cathy Rinella of Merodi Media

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

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"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

- Vincent Van Gogh

Fresh from the Red Planet, we are greeted by our first ever guests. Julia & Kate add their distinctiveness to our own as we are driven to answer the question: Could you survive Order 66?

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For more of our shenanigans, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We're @churchnspace.

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Credits:

Editor Extraordinaire: Cathy Rinella of Merodi Media

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

Special Guest Stars: Julia Nelsen & Kate Venable

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"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale."

Winter is coming. And so is the final episode of our game of A Quiet Year.

So much is unresolved. How can our hardy band of Lutherans survive with the rutabaga crop devastated, and only a box of lowing Twinkies to eat? Is the only way to solve thefts on the Martian railroad to build more suspension bridges? And which Hollywood producer will green light the latest biblical epic from colonist Cecil B. DeMars?

Download this bugger, and enjoy the pulse-pounding finale of our saga of the first Lutherans on Mars.

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For more of our shenanigans, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We're @churchnspace.

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Credits:

Editor Extraordinaire: Cathy Rinella of Merodi Media

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

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"They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially 'colonized' it. So technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!"

ANDY WEIR

"We struck oxygen, boys!"

All seems well in the Lutheran colony in our third installment of A Quiet Year. Indeed, the game play goes well enough that our spacey Lutherans decide to build a brewery, and the Pope sends a Catholic contingent. Pastor Dave and Dan rejoice, but Drew has perfidy on his mind: there's a predator on the prowl, and the excommunicated engineer engineers an insidious return. Who will stop his senseless waste of resources on suspension bridge construction now?

Gasp!

All this and more awaits you in this episode of Church in Space!

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For more of our shenanigans, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We're @churchnspace.

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Credits:

Editor Extraordinaire: Cathy Rinella of Merodi Media

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

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"NASA's Mars Lander found traces of ice and salt on Mars. Right now, it's searching for tequila." - David Letterman

Murder. Mystery. Mayhem. And suspension bridges!

The tension and drama Lutherans face as they colonize Mars reaches a fever pitch in Part 2 as we play The Quiet Year. In this episode, the domed city of New Augustana must repel an invading army from the dome next door. Will the Methodists cooperate? Why is the corpse of Martin glowing, even as Frasier and Niles decide it will make a great lighting fixture? And just what role can rutabagas play in the colony's salvation?

Listen in as Pastor Dave, Drew, and Dan bumble...er, decisively strategize the fate of Lutherans on Mars!

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For more of our shenanigans, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We're @churchnspace.

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Credits:

Editor Extraordinaire: Cathy Rinella of Merodi Media

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

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"Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?"  - VICTORIA LAURIE

We're back! Season 2 finally launches after a long hiatus: going underground to escape the Shadow Bishop, Drew and Dan performing with Figrin D'an on his intergalactic concert tour as a covert cover, and rescuing Pastor Dave from the Spa of Innumerable Unpleasures. (Drew and Dan will post recovered audio from their SighOps debriefs as the season goes on.)

In this episode: live play! We begin Season 2 with actual play of The Quiet Year. In Season 1, Pastor Dave lamented the lack of sci fi about Lutherans in space. Now, in a bout of hard-set wish fulfillment, he teaches Drew and Dan how to play The Quiet Year, with this set-up: the ELCA's first colony ship has just landed on Mars. How can they eek out an existence in the harsh environment of Mars? Did NASA pack casserole dishes in the supply ship? And is there a good spot for a Holy Suspension Bridge?

All this and more await you in this start to Season 2!

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For more of our shenanigans, be sure to follow us on Twitter! We're @churchnspace.

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Credits:

Editor Extraordinaire: Cathy Rinella of Merodi Media

Co-Producers & Co-Hosts: Dave Kamphuis & Drew Nelsen

Producer & Plucky Sidekick: Dan Mushalko

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"It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid."

Ray Bradbury

After a long hiatus due to the rigors and chaos of our modern lives -- and not at all due to a massive theological conspiracy to silence those who question religious dogma within the framework of deeply informed speculative fiction, nor who believe The Rings of Power IS canon -- Church in Space will return in a few days.

Listen to the announcement for more.

If you dare!

In which Pastor Dave and Drew desperately try to make Dan an acolyte of baseball.  They try pointing out that it's a Calvinist game, that you can be really out of shape to play (even professionally), and that there's a whole lot of physics and math involved.  Will Dan be drawn in to this Cult of Sport?  Or is he simply too far down the path of Nerdom to ever succumb?