On today's episode, Matt and JP celebrate 20 years of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Last week was the 20th Anniversary of the titular series, and if you've been following the podcast or know JP and Matt in real life, you'll know that they are life-long Buffy fans. Father Chuck, unfortunately, is not present. While JP records from the comfort of his home, Matt is patrolling the graveyards for blood-sucking fiends from beyond the grave. The duo talk about what Buffy as a show means to them, why Buffy is such a memorable and important character, their favorite supporting characters, their favorite seasons, and much much more in this 2-part episode where JP and Matt unleash their Buffy fandom! They've been waiting their whole lives for this moment! Also, if you're a a fellow Buffy fan, listen to each episode all the way through ("Grr, arrgh").

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On today's episode, Matt and JP celebrate 20 years of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Last week was the 20th Anniversary of the titular series, and if you've been following the podcast or know JP and Matt in real life, you'll know that they are life-long Buffy fans. Father Chuck, unfortunately, is not present. While JP records from the comfort of his home, Matt is patrolling the graveyards for blood-sucking fiends from beyond the grave. The duo talk about what Buffy as a show means to them, why Buffy is such a memorable and important character, their favorite supporting characters, their favorite seasons, and much much more in this 2-part episode where JP and Matt unleash their Buffy fandom! They've been waiting their whole lives for this! Also, if you're a a fellow Buffy fan, listen to each episode all the way through.

Grr, arrgh.

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In this week's episode, Matt Wells is joined by Father Chuck and JP as they dive head-first into the history of the WWJD brand. You might remember it as an innocuous brand used to sell bracelets and guilt teenagers out of making out or seeing Rated R movies. What the majority of people don't realize is that the phrase "What Would Jesus Do?" is deeply rooted in the Social Gospel movement, and was coined by Charles Sheldon, a minister from the 1800's. We talk about Charles Sheldon and his message, Janie Tinklenberg and her fight to get the "WWJD" brand trademarked in order to save it from being over-commercialized, and we also ask ourselves what does the phrase "What Would Jesus Do?" mean to us? If you have no knowledge of the WWJD phrase beyond the bracelets and have always been curious about just what it means and where it comes from, this episode is for you! And just as a bonus, MATT WELLS IS HERE!!!!

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Great Scott! Matt was pulled from his temporal loop and found himself in our reality once again. While he was away he was very frustrated that JP and Father Chuck were talking about time travel without him, so they decided to talk about time travel again! In this tangent universe, JP, Father Chuck and Matt talk about time travel, their favorite time travel films, methods of time travel, parallel universes, and share their own time travel theories and fantasies. What would you do if you could travel back in time? If time travel were possible and widely available, would The Crucifixion be like Woodstock? Find out this week on Masters of Divinity!

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Great Scott! Father Chuck and JP are here to bring you our first ever episode (out of infinite other probable episodes occurring simultaneously on parallel dimensions)about time travel! We geek out over time travel in movies, going over our favorite "rules" from movies like Back to The Future and The Terminator, Donnie Darko and even The Last Temptation of Christ. And how can you have a full on nerdy conversation about time travel without mentioning the concept of parallel worlds? That, true believers, is when JP is finally let loose to get nerdy about the greatest sci-fi drama of the 90s, SLIDERS. We also talk about time travel and theology. Is there a parallel world where Jesus didn't die on the cross? Is the crucifixion a "fixed point" in time? Also some thoughts on pre-destination and how that relates to the infinite earths theory. Unfortunately Matt couldn't make it, as he found himself unstuck in temporal flux between realities. Oops.

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This week Fr. Chuck is flying solo! So you get to hear him talk to himself (like a typical Tuesday night) and ponder about Valentine's options, what the rest of the gang is up to, and who might be our patron saint. Good times. This one's short and awkward.

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Welcome back, MoD Squad! JP, Father Chuck and Matt are back again to discuss the evangelical “literary” phenomenon “The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life.” If you hung out in the evangelical community in the early 2000s, it’s a good chance that your church was blitzed by Bruce Wilkinson’s 80-page international bestseller. The Masters of Divinity certainly were, and since Christian subculture phenomenons are kind of our thing, we just had to talk about the book, its impact, and the bizarre story about the author’s African dream. Listen to this one all the way through. It gets weird.

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This week, JP and Father Chuck are joined by Mei Lin, a friend of Chuck's who is also an animation student. Mei Lin shares her background in how she got started in animation and how she was inspired by Laika Studios' Coralina, among many others. There is also talk of the great animated shows that are airing today that deserve attention, and are exploring themes and ideas in a way that can't be explored in other mediums. They also talk about Mei Lin's experience at the Women's March in Washington DC!

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Hey, did you know that we like comics? If you didn't, JP and Father Chuck are here to remind you that WE LOVE COMICS. In this next installment of the Matt is Missing Saga (we're praying it turns out better than the Clone Saga), JP and Father Chuck get nostalgic over growing up in the 90s as comic book nerds (the 90s were The Dark Age of Comics. It was pretty traumatizing), discuss the rocky history of the church's relationship with the comic book industry, geek out over their favorite comics and heroes, and discuss two graphic novels that they're currently reading: Blankets by Craig Thompson, and Kingdom Come by Mark Waid & Alex Ross.

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In Part 2 of our epic Social Media episode, Father Chuck explains why he left Facebook and Twitter, which leads to a discussion about the dark side of social media, its negative effects like Facebook depression, hive-mind thinking, reality distortion and conspiracy theories! Thanks for listening and don't forget to like us on Facebook!

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