Father Chuck is back y'all, and he comes baring gifts from one of our listeners (his mom) and chimes in on some of our Matrix talk from last week. Also, the Pumpkin Spice continues to flow in our second episode in our Halloween series where the guys talk about fear. Fear is an essential part of Halloween and its religious origins, and we explore how fear is a fun aspect of the holiday. We also talk about phobias and existential fears that plague us, and the pitfalls of living in fear. We're also all in agreement: the first Final Destination is the best, and it still scares us.

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In this week's episode, Matt dares to ask JP what's on his mind after he had already The Matrix trilogy and binge-watched MTV's Scream series. Matt and JP discuss story structure and how it applies to reality and our lives, drawing a lot from The Matrix and Scream. Father Chuck is absent for this episode, so they didn't get into whether we're actually living in a simulation or not (sorry Chuck fans). Pour yourself a Pumpkin Spice latte and enjoy the first episode of October!

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Another riff-tastic episode of Masters of Divinity. The guys take time to reflect on the past month and the various topics they covered, especially the previous episode where co-hosts Chuck and Matt were replaced by their wives Cainna and Heather. We also followup a little on the topic of anxiety. They also talk about Tolkien and Middle Earth, C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, Matt's obsession with murder mystery fiction and Chuck confronts his own mortality by confronting death. It's an episode with three friends hanging out, and you're invited to hang out with us and listen to The Shaggs!

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This week, JP is caught completely off-guard as his co-hosts -- Father Chuck and Matt -- are replaced by their wives, Cainna Browning and Heather Wells! Sabotage! As you all know by now, this month each co-host will be individually choosing a topic to discuss, and this week Matt chose anxiety, and what better way to illustrate anxiety then to completely blindside your podcast's moderator with special surprise guests co-hosts! In a truly special episode JP, Cainna and Heather speak candidly about their own personal experiences with anxiety and offer some advice on how to endure it. Cainna also talks about minimalism and how it has helped her deal with anxiety. And what would a special episode featuring the wives of the co-hosts be if there wasn't talk about how they met their husbands? That of course means there is a lot of talk about relationships, parenting and of course the anxieties that come with each. You don't want to miss this very special episode featuring the Ladies of Divinity!

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It's our 30th episode, and we celebrate that milestone by talking about failure! We're in our second week of "Theme Roulette" where each of the Masters of Divinity choose a specific topic for the group to talk about. This week, JP watched Elizabethtown for some reason and it inspired him to address the topic of failure. From embracing failure to learning from it, there's a multitude of ways one can benefit from hitting rock bottom. JK Rowling gave a commencement speech to Harvard's graduating class of 2008, and she stressed the importance of failure to a bunch of kids who have probably never experienced it. Stephen Colbert was interviewed by GQ and he talked about how he "learned to love the bomb." We talk about these two quite about, and we figure out how to solve everybody's problems! (Hahaha not really we still don't know how to solve your problems but we're working on it).

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In this week's episode, we let Father Chuck choose the topic, and he asks us "Is religion good?" We start off by trying to define religion in our own ways, talk about passages in the book of James, bring up the Denzel Washington vehicle Book of Eli, explore the divide as well as the influence between religion and politics. It gets deep. Also something about Pharrell and his hat....you'll just have to listen.

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It's that dreaded time for children of all ages: Back to School season! In this episode the guys reflect on the anxiety associated with having to return to school, no thanks to corporations like JC Penney who felt it necessary to interrupt our summer TV programming with back to school sale commercials. We also talk about what it's like from the perspective of a parent and a teacher. Also, in perfect back to school fashion, the guys reflect on their summer vacation. We also talk about our experiences at different types of camps growing up, most notably "Youth Camp." At Youth Camp students typically make some pretty serious commitments, but once you're two weeks into the new school year, most of those commitments were thrown out the window. Why is that? Is it healthy to instill that kind of thinking to an emotionally vulnerable teenage mind? Also, Space Camp and Puppet Ministry.

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What is happiness? How does one find true happiness? Is there a difference between happiness and joy? Was Crystal Pepsi always disgusting? These are the important questions asked by JP, Father Chuck and Matt as they discuss the topic of happiness.

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This week JP, Matt and Father Chuck discuss the topic of short term missionary work. Delve deep into their philosophies on overseas mission work, learn how good of a person JP is, and if you're a young Millennial thinking of partaking in a mission trip, the trifecta offers up some of their own advice and relate their own experiences in overseas missions.

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This week JP, Matt and Father Chuck discuss the topic of short term missionary work. Delve deep into their philosophies on overseas mission work, learn how good of a person JP is, and if you're a young Millennial thinking of partaking in a mission trip, the trifecta offers up some of their own advice and relate their own experiences in overseas missions.

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