InkleDeux Podcast

This week, Brandon and AJ discuss the idea of Critical Race Theory, especially how it effects schools and teaching. While we aren't experts, we will be taking the time to discuss the key tenets of the philosophy in the coming weeks.

On this week's InkleDeux pod, AJ and Brandon talk about AJ's move into teaching high school, especially looking at the relationship between our faith and reason and how to show they work together to the students.

After wrapping up our look at the 7 deadly sins, this week, AJ and Brandon take a break to just nerd out on the two Marvel TV shows, WandaVision and Falcon and Winter Soldier, and lean into their nerdiness.

This week, AJ and Brandon wrap up their look at the seven deadly sins with the OG sin, pride. Pride is an inflated sense of self where we see ourselves as better than others, and eventually becomes an attempt to take the Judgment Seat for ourselves instead of God.

In this week's episode, AJ and Brandon fight through technical problems and the return of playoff basketball to continue on with their look at the seven deadly sins with the sin of lust. What separates lust and love? How is beauty the solution?

This week, AJ and Brandon keep moving through the 7 deadly sins with Envy. We talk about the difference between envy and jealousy, the roots of envy, and how to try and avoid falling into the sin in the first place. Make sure to give it a listen and hit us with what you want us to take a closer look at!

Continuing through the 7 deadly sins, this time AJ and Brandon are looking at the sin of greed. Greed is still a matter of desire, not totally different from gluttony. How do we avoid an over attachment to things? Why do we so often tie up our value and worth in the possession of things?

Everyone gets angry, even Jesus. What is it that separates a righteous, holy anger from the deadly sin of wrath? How do we move past our desire for vengeance to offering forgiveness? And why is it so important for us to forgive?

This week, AJ and Brandon discuss the sin of gluttony. It's important to remember that the things in this world will never be able to fully satisfy us, they are means an end, and if we lose sight of that, we'll just chase those temporary tastes of joy and never get the real thing.

I am constantly told that I need to "grind." To me, that sounds like doing something so repetitive that it wears me down. I don't want to grind, but I do want to work hard. I want to see my vision and drive towards it. I want to learn those lessons. I want to grow into the person who will achieve that goal. To be that person, I have to work hard.