A short and weird episode. Doing good deeds without trying to raise our own profiles. Love languages. Serving people well. Recognizing authority.

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Deferring in friendship. Friends you fight for. That one friend you’re not sure is your friend. The definition of friendship. Being a doormat. Friend imitations. Friendship paranoia. People exhaustion. Best friends. Work friends. Positive acquaintances and negative acquaintances. Friendship investments. Sacrificing. When to let it go.

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Adventures in Tinderland; Donna’s a cultural MacGeyver; The Nashville Statement; DACA.

Warning: We swear.

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How to balance acknowledgement of pain with acceptance of God’s sovereignty; politicizing tragedy; suffering and how to feel about it; how news stories get twisted; welcoming persecution; a brief rant on Arpaio; effective grace; little bit about Mattis and differing standpoint; Eddie Murphy; people with better souls than we can even dream of having; the Rapture; how to use vocation as a ministry, if at all; Rebel makes a guest appearance; Shane Claiborne; equality.

“It’s not cute; it’s powerf

Holly explains last week’s summary; how to create space for conversation; Lady Gaga and the white expectation to be socially educated by Black Americans; Holly recounts pre-woke life/fails at saying “participation”… a lot; a lesson on educating other white people; racism as a hierarchical system of oppression vs the sociological definition (Black vs White/Personal vs Clinical Racism); the life-long journey of unlearning privilege and on why some white people are never exposed to the understanding fi

Hey, guys. This is Holly. Just a forewarning about this week, much of this is a rant for me, personally. Donna's much more gracious than I am. I don't personally feel like I reflected a lot of Jesus in this episode, but I very much feel like I portrayed my own brokenness, as well as a heartbreak and anger I think many of us feel right now. I wanted to post it anyway because I think it's okay and good to share that, too. God bless all y'all. God is sovereign and God is good.

Why Tinder can’t have nice things.

Ryan Lochte.

He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

Seeking validation from external sources.

Participation trophies and grades.

Grammar as a tool for oppression & necessary part of communication.

Importance of intellectual curiosity.

Perspectives.

Privilege.

Singleness.

Changes on the journey from Complementarian to Egalitarian.

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What we've learned from secular music and the beautiful non-Christians in our life, how to handle conflict, and drawing a comparison between Dr. King's concepts of negative peace, positive peace, and necessary tension and the Bible's idea of peacemakers vs peacekeepers (Blessed are the peacemakers).

NERD OUT: NEEDTOBREATHE “Hard Love” w/ Andra Day (Video on YouTube and track on iTunes)

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This week on Method Theology: (TRIGGER WARNING: from 1:02:05-1:02:30, Donna tells a story about the death of an infant in a captive situation that may be triggering for some people who have suffered miscarriages, had abortions, birthed stillborns, or lost a young child. We love you and want you to be healthy. <3 )

• A little quality talk on ADHD
• Holly does drugs.
• Game of Thrones
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman
• West Wing
• Swiping right on a former boss
• Woman’s Intuition
• Jesus’s Sociological Imagination
• Tinder
• Toxic Masculinity and Jay-Z’s 4:44
• Submission and Egalitarianism
• Origins of Society
• Idolatry of Relationship and Romance
• Psychology and constantly changing terms
• Gay marriage, again
• The Election, again
• How to endure persecution as a Christian
• Donna tells a terrifying story about ISIS
• Donna and Holly can’t figure out if they’re arguing, multiple times.
• Holly’s interactions with conservatives.
• Relitigating the elections 
• Donna can’t
• A preview of next week’s topic

 

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This week: 

• We cuss A LOT…
• Holly breaks things.
• Boundaries at work.
• Working in the entertainment industry.
• Boundaries with family.
• A NEW SIDE NOTE WITH DONNA on the semantics of racial slurs.
• Holly’s hypocritical feelings about “GD.”
• Donna’s impression of Deborah.
• A brief etymology of the insult “snowflake.”
• A small overview of the minimum wage, its history and the possible economic impacts of raising it to $15/hr; college tuition and the student loan debt crisis; and the recession and its effects on the Millennial generation. ***also, when referencing capping student loan interest rates, Holly is referencing private student loans, not federal, as federal student loans are already regulated***
• How to set boundaries.
• NERD OUT: 
• • Kesha: Praying
  • Sigrid: Don't Kill My Vibe
  • Sza: CTRL Drew Barrymore

 

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