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. 

My dog is whining in the background toward the end, but don't worry, he's fine, just a little needy.

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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 powerful."

This week: Holly explains last week's summary; how to create space for conversation; Donna wants to talk about Lady Gaga and the white expectation to be socially educated by Black Americans; Holly recounts pre-woke life and fails at saying "participation"… a lot; Donna teaches Holly 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); Holly on the life-long journey of unlearning privilege and on why some white people are never exposed to the understanding firsthand.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

-Martin Niemöller

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 an 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, God is good, and thank you, Lord, for that.

• Why Tinder can't have nice things.
• Ryan Lochte.
• American competition.
• He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named
• Donna references Lauryn Hill and Holly references a Nickelodeon Boy Band.
• Donna quotes Holly quoting Donna and both of them are wrong.
• Seeking validation from an external source.
• Participation trophies.
• Participation grades and illiteracy.
• Grammar as a tool for oppression and grammar as a necessary part of communication.
• The importance of intellectual curiosity.
• Perspectives.
• Privilege.
• Why and how people focus on different parts of problems.
• Being satisfied in singleness.
• Changes on the journey from Complementarian to Egalitarian.
• Donna and Holly seriously can't get the pop culture references together.

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• Holly's rebellious as Hell.
• Turntable knowledge
• How God uses the secular (Eminem, Rihanna, Flo Rida, SZA, etc)
• What we've learned from our non-Christian friends
• Dick Pics
• Abortion… again
• TV Shows with agendas
• Friends of other religions
• Sex… again
• Homosexuality… again
• Grace 
• Humility
• JESUS :)
• Ecclesiastes 3
• Personal equity
• A metaphor about fetch and tennis balls…
• Subjectivity of efficacy
• Side note: In minute 45, Holly is not the white girl who was intimidated by Donna's speech. Holly loves Donna's speech. It just kinda sounds like Holly was the white girl in the retailing, but she is in fact just one of many white girls and not this specific one.
• Holly has another epiphany because of Donna
• Martin Luther King Jr's concepts of negative peace, positive peace, and necessary tension meet the contrast of peacekeepers vs peacemakers in "Blessed are the peacemakers."
• Colin Kaepernick and Black hair
• Holly blesses lots of things
• The ladies remember that time VP Cheney shot a guy in the face

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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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