This weeks episode is a deep dive into an attempt to address that question that we keep hearing, "What's with all this talk about Babylon?"

Rodney Fickas returns to join us for a discussion on the deep and sacred value of work itself.

In the conversation they spent some time remembering the words of Dorothy Sayers, in particular her essay 'Why Work'

Here is an audio version that Jon recorded on his other podcast called The Work Ethic

you can find the text here

After their time together in Orlando for the Exponential conference, the crew came back together to reflect on the role of prophetic practitioners in todays gatherings such as the conference. It's fascinating to hear Taylor and Hugh share about their experience talking about Brave Cities with the gathering of church planters they got to connect with.

Enjoy this conversation with Lance Ford

This is a really fun conversation about the call go to hell.

We invited Fitch to join us as we wrestle with the conviction that the gospel is not just Jesus. We are so grateful for this brothers life, work, and mind. We hope this conversation opens you up to a broader, deeper, more profound sense of just how immeasurably great the good news of the kingdom is.

This brother is a builder! Hugh came back from a visit to Lance's ecosystem and told the team that we had to get him on and hear his story. In this episode we did just that. Lance has built so much and we are so excited to be able to share this conversation with you here.

This is a kind of part 2 of the convo we began about the poor in episode 14

In this this episode Taylor and Jon wrestle with questions of God's heart from the poor and the place of the poor in our communities and in the kingdom itself. Taylor kinda takes the posture of interviewer in an effort to get Jon riffing on some of these ideas. Next weeks episode is will be a continuations of this conversation with Hugh and Joel. You can consider this episode a part 1.

This is an incredible conversation with Rodney Fickas of Soulcraft. It's a great introduction to Rodney, his journey from traditional ministy/church-planting to a wood shop in Ferguson, and the beautiful table that is Soulcraft, where they make things good.

We hope his story inspires you as much as it has us!