This week, Brandon and AJ resume their conversation about Tolkien's Middle Earth. What starts as a conversation about how change in perfection must be a loss becomes a conversation about how we experience our fall and God's salvation of us as ongoing stories rather than single historical events.

This week, Brandon and AJ spend their time comparing the modern trust in progress and development with Tolkien's own skepticism and doubt about development in time.

After their week off for Christmas, Brandon and AJ talk about the magi and what they can teach us about wisdom outside of the Covenant.

As Christmas draws ever nearer, Brandon shares his frustrations and misgivings about adult gift exchanges and AJ wants to broaden the definition of what a gift is. We talk Red One, love languages, projecting preferences, all in the name Christmas!

This week, Brandon and AJ spend some time looking ahead. What are they hoping to see happen in the coming year? What books and travel? What opportunities for growth will they hopefully seize?

This week, Brandon comes to AJ wanting to talk through balancing going all in versus risk management. Rather than decision making, they end up focusing on confidence and trust.

This week on Brandon's Therapist Chair, he and AJ talk about the impact of framing on our experience and the way we look at a situation actually impacts how we experience it.

This week, AJ returns a married man and he and Brandon talk about what the Prophet Amos teaches us about passing judgments.

AJ took the week off after his wedding, so Brandon sits down with Walther Cantu, friend of the podcast, to discuss the role of we play in forming the home.

This week, AJ and Brandon build on last week's talk about justice and pharaoh by looking at God's mercy with Israel in the desert.