Make Saints

Make Saints

By Drew DownsReligion & SpiritualitySpirituality
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Make Saints episodes

  • Biblical Marriage

    Episode 95 of the Make Saints podcast

    For the last few weeks, the lectionary has put us in a soap opera following the Patriarchs in a sequence that upends traditional views of marriage.

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    6 min
  • Speech Recognition

    The software in our phones makes it easier to send messages, but they are missing something. The inflection, the emotion, that makes us human.

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    4 min
  • Radioactive Language

    The words we aren’t just their definitions. Emotions ride their coattails and the truth can be obscured by the political truths we avoid.

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    14 min
  • It's a thousand things

    When we think there is only one thing (solution, answer, problem, thing to focus on) we miss exactly what is causing our frustration.

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    15 min
  • We see more than fish

    In the US, we treat every issue as being in need of simplifying—through this we can uncover an essential truth. We couldn’t be more wrong.

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    16 min
  • What it means to be a Christian

    In which I talk about the way we talk and define what it means to be Christian and who wants to silence and disappear its diversity.

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    20 min
  • Peacemakers

    In a bishop’s sermon, the unhinged response, and the completely normal need to make things normal (we’re normal, right?) we might squeeze a glimpse of truth.

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    9 min
  • For the welfare of all

    In the person of William Temple, we have the example of courage, vision, and the wisdom to shape the world after World War II.

    The text of the reflection can be found here.

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    10 min
  • Another All Saints

    In the celebration of All Saints Day, we are given the chance to demystify the the life and work of the people we lift up, to see what we too are capable of.

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    8 min

About Make Saints

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Because (eternal) life is hard. We all need help; with life, work, love, and everything else. Make Saints is a podcast about that side of life. The part that's hard but seems like it's supposed to be…