Why does the Church refuse to unleash her most powerful weapon? Cooper and Cary have words about the public reading of Scripture.

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Cooper & Cary have words with Sherri Lynn about her comedy The Bold & The Sanctified, in which two pastors - one black, one white - are forced to join congregations. You probably haven't noticed this, but race and racism is currently a bit of a third rail issue. Probably best not to touch it. And especially don't touch it with comedy. One of Sherri's friends said before the show launched, "Don't do it." So why did she? And what have been the results? 

BONUS: off the back of our episode with Aaron Renn (#138), we ask Sherri whether men and women should be friends. 

https://boldandsanctifiedplay.com

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Cooper and Cary have words about THAT line in the Apostles' Creed. What exactly was Jesus doing between his death and resurrection?

https://journal.rts.edu/article/he-descended-into-hell/

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In the wake of the Matt Chandler Instagram DM story, Cooper and Cary Have Words with Aaron Renn, creator of the Masculinist. The word of the podcast is 'asymmetry'.

Read more from Aaron here: https://aaronrenn.substack.com/

https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/newsletter-25-what-do-we-do-about

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Cooper and Cary have words about whether or not certain gifts (ie healing, speaking in tongues, words of prophecy) are given to believers today. It all starts with a slightly spooky story from Barry...

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Cooper and Cary have words with Rhys Laverty about Classical Christian Education. Why is it becoming more and more popular? Why would we want to teach our kids Latin? And why are Christians taking an educational lead from - of all people -  THE ROMANS?

Reforming Classical Education by Rhys Laverty et al
Rhys' Ad Fontes Podcast
Association of Classical Christian Schools
The Lost Tools Of Learning by Dorothy Sayers (free online article)
Recovering The Lost Tools Of Learning by Douglas Wilson
The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fagles, read by Ian McKellen)
Dialogues by Plato
Mythos by Stephen Fry
The Abolition of Man by C S Lewis
The Light Ages by Seb Falk

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James and Barry have words about using a person's preferred pronouns. Is it the right, loving thing to use them? Our hosts do actually have words (well, mild disagreement - they are British) about whether it's ok to use a feminine name for someone who is biologically/genetically male. 

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Cooper and Cary are back in a fortnight with Ep 135, so just one more replay, this time with good friend of the show, Nate Morgan Locke who talks about The Genesis of Story, and the opening music should warn you that Nate Morgan Locke is back in town. He’s only recently recovered from Toy Story 4 (see Ep 59) but he is now thinking about how all stories are one story: the monomyth. Nate thought it would be a good idea to present this to Westminster Theological Seminar as a fictional roadtrip so he, James and Barry talk to him about that. And a little bit about Star Wars. You can get hold of Nate’s Roadtrip Thesis, The Genesis of Story, here.

If you enjoyed this, you might like to try episode #127 with Nate Morgan Locke here.

Cary does a podcast with Morgan Locke called Popcorn Parenting that you can find here.

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We'll be back in September 2022, but three years earlier back in 2019, we had words with author of one of our favourite books, Randy Newman. That book is Questioning Evangelism but his brand new book, Unlikely Converts was really interesting too. People keep become Christians the wrong way. Find out why. And not every podcast features one of the co-hosts using the word "ululate" as if it's no biggie, but this isn't "every podcast" is it?

Questioning Evangelism
Unlikely Converts

Our theme music is by Roger Taylor and his latest album is The Rubicon Moment. Other music and jingles by Barry, who really should have better things to do with his time.

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We'll be back for more words in September. Send us email if there's anything you'd like us to talk about. Send words to: [email protected] 

Back in August 2019, Barry and James finally bit the bullet and discussed predestination, as part of their ongoing project to please none of the people, all of the time. 

Here are some key passages in the unlikely event that you're following along at home:

Ephesians 1:3-12
Romans 8:28-30
Romans 9:10-24
Ephesians 2:8-9
John 6:44; John 6:65

Book: R C Sproul, What Is Predestination?
Article: John Piper, Watershed Differences Between Calvinists and Arminians

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We'll be back for more words in September. Send us email if there's anything you'd like us to talk about. Send words to: [email protected]