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2020-21 have stunk. Paul encourages Christians to think about good things. These are some of the things Mike and Dave are thinking about. Mike makes Dave eat seaweed paper.

Lizard people, jet fuel melting steel beams, crisis actors, JFK blown away what else do we have to say? Quite a bit actually.

Pastor Dave read Ruth Graham's NYT piece following the end of Carl Lentz's tenure at Hillsong NYC and thought "there but for the grace of God go I." The guys talk about entitlement, alienation, and accountability in the church.

Michael J Nelson isn't on social media at all. Pastor Dave uses his like an addict. Which is healthier? You decide!

The year was 2006, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins were topping the bestseller lists denouncing religion. Pastafarianism was the fastest growing religion on Facebook. Fast forward almost 15 years and New Atheism is old. Where did it go? Who won? Do we even know what we're talking about.

Before getting his PhD from Harvard, Peter Moskos served as a cop in the Eastern District of Baltimore. Moskos has written extensively on issues related to policing, crime, prisons, and reform. You can find his work at copinthehood.com and buy his books Cop In the Hood and In Defense of Flogging on Amazon.com

Here we talk about issues related to policing that have arisen since the killing of George Floyd and broader political and ideological challenges in this particular moment.

Chris Arnade was a quant on Wall Street before growing disillusioned with his "front row" life and started visited neighborhoods where people told him not to go. What he found there changed his way of understanding the world, including the role of faith in providing Americans of all stripes with a sense of dignity. It also challenged his confident, though not obnoxious, atheism. His collection of photos and reflections on what he saw and experienced in his travels and what it taught him about class, race, religion, and politics in America are found in his book Dignity, available wherever fine books are sold. https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/dp/0525534733

We wanted to record an episode about this, but felt like this captured all that we could say at this particular moment that was worth saying.

You can find Jason and his work at reclaimedleader.com

When Amy went into pre-term labor with her first child her doctor prescribed bed rest for 6 weeks. For those long weeks Amy had to stay in bed more than 23 hours a day. How did she survive? What helped? What didn't? Where was God? What can that teach us about making it through the pandemic?