Nerds At Church

Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Chaplain Russell Braman (he) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for the first Sunday in Lent, which falls on March 6th this year, including our deep dive into Shavuot!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  To learn more about Judaism, check out information from Union for Reform Judaism, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Orthodox Union, Chabad.org, and My Jewish Learning.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Aubrey Thonvold, Executive Director of ReconcilingWorks, to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Ash Wednesday, which falls on March 2nd this year, including our deep dive into repentant and reconciling communities!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about the books: Transforming: the Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians by Austen Hartke, You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (especially the audiobook), The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck, and Crazy Christian by Bp. Michael Curry.  Aubrey also mentioned the Building an Inclusive Church toolkit and these awesome trainings that ReconcilingWorks does!

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Emily Ann Garcia (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Transfiguration Sunday, also known as the last Sunday after Epiphany, which falls on February 27th this year, including our deep dive into glitter! (There is a little feedback in a few spots, but everyone is still very understandable!)

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  If you want to support Emily Ann Garcia in her art and life, you can do so here!  We learned about the history of glitter from this article and gay glitter from this article.  Kay mentioned Carrie Fisher’s glitter bombing.  Check out diakonia.faith’s TRANSfiguration Worship here!

CN: we talk about sexual assault when discussing the deep dive.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Angela Kordahl Rapp (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for the 7th Sunday after Epiphany, also known as Lectionary 7, which falls on February 20th this year, including our deep dive into radical generosity!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Find The New Jim Crow here!

Make sure you check out Books to Prisoners, especially the fundraiser Angela mentioned, and The Prison Book Program.  Also, check out last year’s Lent 5 episode for more on Archbishop Óscar Romero.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for the 6th Sunday after Epiphany, also known as Lectionary 6, which falls on February 13th this year, including our deep dive into Blessings and Curses!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about Litanies to My Heavenly Brown Body by Mark Aguhar, which is a queer re-reading of the Beatitudes (NSFW). Kay mentioned DND Disability as an opportunity to create disabled DND characters. Kay also mentioned this Stephen Colbert clip about his faith.  Make sure you check out Emily and Pace on Horror Nerds At Church for their 3rd season all about vampires.  It’s sure to leave you faint and/or sparkly!

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest, Suzannah Porter, (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany, also known as Lectionary 5, which falls on February 6th this year, including our deep dive into vocation!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Suzannah talked about the diakonia.faith project that she is working on.  Suzannah talked about the importance of 1 Corinthians 12 and the diverse members of the body, which you can hear more about on our recent episode for the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany, also known as Lectionary 4, which falls on January 30th this year, including our deep dive into Holy Troublemakers!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Here are the stories of the biblical Holy Troublemakers that we talked about. Emily mentioned this article about youth climate activists.  Here are some of the fuller quotes of the cherry-picked quotes from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.  Check out Faith-Rooted Organizing from your local library or buy it here!  Learn more about Maggie’s new friend, Jorts, here (NSFW)!  Find out more about Archbishop Óscar Romero in our Lent 5 deep dive with Francisco Herrera.  Kay mentioned this meme connected to Jeremiah.  Dive into love in our Easter 6 episode.  Learn more about childism in our episode for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for 3rd Sunday after Epiphany, also known as Lectionary 3, which falls on January 23rd this year, including our deep dive into the Anatomy of the Church (aka: the Body of Christ)!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Rev. Ingrid Brown (she) of Weird Church to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, also known as Lectionary 2, which falls on January 16th this year, including our deep dive into alcoholism and addiction!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Rev. Ingrid  talked about the Isaiah passage from our Baptism of Jesus episode.  If you want to learn more about Alcoholics Anonymous, go here. If you want to learn more about Narcotics Anonymous, go here. For connections between spirituality and recovery, Rev. Ingrid recommends Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps by Richard Rohr.

CN: we talk about alcoholism and substance use when discussing the deep dive.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Baptism of Jesus, also known as the first Sunday after Epiphany, which falls on January 9th this year, including our deep dive into baptism!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about grace, which you can learn more about on our 21st Sunday after Pentecost episode.

CN: we talk about infant death when discussing the deep dive.

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