One of Alex’s favorite problems is observing, understanding, and communicating ideas from one context into another. It touches sociology, psychology, pedagogy, culture, communication, and issues of translation.

Marshall and Macon try to get Alex to more clearly articulate the problem itself, but first Macon did one of Alex’s retreats and survived.

Show Notes:

Pitch Perfect 1, 2, 3.

Sponsor 1: Greenhouse Retreats for January.

Sponsor 2: Plexus.

Galatians has 4 chapters.

So does Jonah.

There are many lesser podcasts, as it turns out. (None of these are the podcast that Alex refers to though.)

Alex is Galvinizing, but metaphorically (one of six types of Working Genius).

Enneagram 3.

Shop-Vac

Malcom Gladwell has podcasts.

Here's the episode (S0E12) where Macon and Marsh pre-critique Alex’s Counter Culture Sermon Series.

Macon, Marshall, and Alex return to the question of retreats, because Marshall and Alex are podcasting from a cabin in NC where they’re on a retreat.

Because it’s a month into the new year and who hasn’t taken their first retreat yet?

We talk about Marshall’s “Reading Retreat,” Alex’s struggle with retreats in general, whether Amplifier has any values, and good & bad Churches.

Remember to get out your Bingo cards and listen for: Enneagram, Marsh knowing his Bible, Gary Deddo, and Greenhouse Retreats.

Other high quality references:

Mast General Store Annex, Valle Crucis, NC

Valle Crucis Community Park

The Diversity Gap

Building a Healthy Multiethnic Congregation

Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who.

Like butter scraped over too much bread

Macon presents one of his Favorite Problems: How is it you can know anything? Alex wants to know how far back this problem goes for Macon, and Marshall tries to figure out how to pastor a person for whom this is a Favorite Problem.

“Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!’”

from 12 Favorite Problems, a Tool for Systematic Curiosity

My Buddy

gluhwein

Central Texas Cedar Season

the lights are going out

Richard Feynman

Meme

Making Change

Experiment - Fail - Curse/Learn - Repeat

The Explicit Episode

Explain it to a 12 Year Old

Greenhouse Retreats

Swiss Army Knives

Holacracy

Shop Class as Soulcraft

Hydraulic Supply Company

Eugene Peterson

HFP at myspace

First CityWide Change Bank

Greenhouse Retreats

The Infinite Game

A long obedience in the same direction, the book

A long obedience in the same direction, the quote

Life is good, but it can be better

The Four Disciplines of Execution

Macon's Notepad

and now it's time for the breakdown

Holacracy

Grace Community Church 12.18.2022

The Man in the Mirror

Winds of change podcast

A Charlie Brown Christmas

The Second Adulthood (previous episode)

The Explicit Episode (episode prior to the previous episode)

Kellsey's Plexus Page

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

The Grinch

Elf

The Polar Express

Die Hard

Spirited

The LEGO Movie

Paul Gould

C.S. Lewis

T.F. Torrance

George MacDonald

A Charlie Brown Christmas Album

Handel's Messiah

The Slient Stars, Alli Rogers

Behold The Lamb of God, Andrew Peterson

Joy

Halford 3 Winter Songs

Pentatonix Christmas

All I Want for Christmas, August Burns Red

Simply Christmas, Leslie Odom Jr.

Adore, Chris Tomlin

Making Room in Advent, Bette Dickinson

Jon Tyson

Moxie

Richard Rohr

James Hollis

Jungian Psychology

The wonder of bread on the shelves.

The Return of The Prodigal Son

HFP Episode on Work

FF Nitros Scenes

Loon Shots

You know nothing John Snow

The Ungame

Steven Curtis Chapman

Marsh, Macon, and Alex discuss work-a-day work and how it's addressed from the pulpit.

Alex and Macon explore the impossible possibility of understanding one's parents and having one's children understand you.