Today we’re chatting with Mako in this “mini-episode” on beards and their cultural history within Christadelphia. Mako and Zinnia discuss the experiences shared by some ex-Christadelphians about beards and compare it to the historical views of Christadelphians during the time of Doctor John Thomas and Robert Roberts. We also joke about drag names, the British slang for penis, and moustaches on firemen! Please join us for a chat about this hairy topic!

As a friendly reminder, please be advised that the humor in today’s episode is pretty “worldly” and this podcast is marked “explicit” across platforms. Listener discretion is advised. 

Resources and References: 

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life:

https://youtu.be/Xt53afFXbrg?t=74

Dictionary entry for “John Thomas”:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/John_Thomas

The Bible, 2 Samuel 10

The Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come by John Thomas, May 1856, Page 113 “The Gentile and the Jew”

https://antipas.org/library/Magazines/The%20Herald%20of%20the%20Kingdom%20and%20Age%20to%20Come%20(JT)/Herald56.PDF

The Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come by John Thomas,  March 1852, Page 62 (782 if using link below)

https://antipas.org/library/Magazines/The%20Herald%20of%20the%20Kingdom%20and%20Age%20to%20Come%20(JT)/Herald%20Jan1851%20through%20Feb1854%20-%20Text.pdf

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come by John Thomas December 1851 Page 280-281(Page 626 if using the link below)

https://antipas.org/library/Magazines/The%20Herald%20of%20the%20Kingdom%20and%20Age%20to%20Come%20(JT)/Herald%20Jan1851%20through%20Feb1854%20-%20Text.pdf

The Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come, May 1853, page 119 by John Thomas reprinting “Why Israelites were Forbidden to Shave” from the “Journal of Sacred Literature pp. 65, 66” 

https://antipas.org/library/Magazines/The%20Herald%20of%20the%20Kingdom%20and%20Age%20to%20Come%20(JT)/Herald53.pdf

My Days and My Ways by Robert Roberts, page 5, 67, 139

https://www.antipas.org/pdf_files/my_days_and_my_ways.pdf

“Robert Roberts: A Study of the Life and Character” by Islip Collyer

https://christadelphianlibrary.com/products/robertroberts-collyer

Drag Name Inspo and the name “Lourdes Prayer”

https://chelseacommunitynews.com/2021/01/12/the-150-best-new-drag-names-try-one-on/

On my comments on Leviticus:

https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-700876

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/world/africa/03iht-moses.4.5130043.html

On some religions using beards as a statement: 

https://dralun.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/the-medical-case-for-beards-in-the-19th-century/

https://credomag.com/2016/07/they-will-know-we-are-calvinists-by-our-beards-timothy-raymond/

The Christadelphian July 1871

https://www.antipas.org/library/Magazines/The%20Christadelphian%20Magazine/The%20Christadelphian%20-%201871.pdf July edition starting page 199, quote on page 219

On the Victorians using hair from the dead for mementos:

https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/theyre-not-morbid-theyre-about-love-the-hair-relics-of-the-midwest/#:~:text=Hair%20was%20sometimes%20taken%20from,a%20year%20and%20a%20day.

Misc Research into Beards:

https://www.theenglishshavingcompany.com/en_gb/blog/beard-psychology-science/#:~:text=Beards%20also%20impact%20perceptions%20of,than%20the%20clean%2Dshaven%20men