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With the world cowering before COVID-19 Gal Gadot thought, "what can I do to help?" The answer she came up with to have a bunch of celebrities sing John Lennon's Imagine. Imagine has an undeserved place in the musical cannon as inspirational and unifying. The only way it can truly unite us is in our hatred of it and its absurd message.

Tod Bolsinger is an expert on leadership and adaptive change in the church. In 2015 he published a book called Canoeing The Mountains that used the Lewis and Clark expedition as a metaphor for the changing realities of church leadership and Christian discipleship in a post-Christendom era. You can buy his book wherever fine books are sold or get free resources from Fuller about using the book with your church/organization by texting "canoeing" to 66866.

The guys have a wide ranging discussion about the spread of COVID-19, social distancing, how Asian countries have responded, the church's responsibility in the midst of crises, the problem of evil, human agency, and the culpability of the CCP.

Read some of Lyman's work on COVID-19:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/13/christianity-epidemics-2000-years-should-i-still-go-to-church-coronavirus/

https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/the-church-must-be-a-refuge-in-the-midst-of-fear

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13bKFzl1PvObLlRXTx9pIPMOyBWiGkKhHdXu_iWXUqjM/preview

Who is your hero? Do you have one? What makes a hero? The boys stop and mull this over before sharing the name and story of one of their own heroes, neither of which wears or wore a cape.

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger murdered Botham Jean in his apartment in a terrible tragedy. At her sentencing Jean's brother offered forgiveness and the moment went viral which prompted a backlash against this act. Was it right for him forgive? What's the relationship between justice and forgiveness? Will Dave like what tinned-fish Mike serves him today? Listen to find out.

Is there literally no reason to believe in God? Is it all just a "God of the gaps" scenario and basically an appeal to ignorance and a constant losing rearguard action. You can imagine Mike and Dave don't think so. Hear why in this episode.

Mike did not like the movie. Dave kinda did, but also can't keep the plot straight.

Mike doesn't like Star Wars. Dave does. Did they like this movie? Ehhhhh.

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The article on Millennials leaving the church can be found here: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/millennials-are-leaving-religion-and-not-coming-back/

Data on religious switching can be found here: https://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/chapter-2-religious-switching-and-intermarriage/

On Young Adults leaving church and the reasons they do look here: https://lifewayresearch.com/2019/01/15/most-teenagers-drop-out-of-church-as-young-adults/

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