Nerds At Church

Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Rev. Kelsey Brown (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Reign of Christ Sunday, also known as Christ the Queen (or King), which falls on November 21st this year, including our deep dive into Pose and Ballroom Culture!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. We mentioned Kelsey’s post on Pose on the Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries blog.  Kay mentioned an Abby Cox video on the history of the mullet.  We talked about Vanta black and our Transfiguration Deep Dive with Emily Ann Garcia (become a Patreon supporter to check out the Uncut episode).  Kelsey suggested the following shows if you liked Pose or are interested in Ballroom culture: Pose, It’s a Sin, Legendary, and We’re Here, especially season 2.

CN: we talk about Transgender Day of Remembrance and violence against trans women, racism, and body image 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 the 25th Sunday after Pentecost, also known as Lectionary 33 or Proper 28, which falls on November 14th this year, including our deep dive into biblical genres and classification!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about our Advent 3 episode deep diving into Prophecy.  Also, we mentioned our spirituality and religion deep dive in our episode for the 23rd 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 the 24th Sunday after Pentecost, also known as Lectionary 32 or Proper 27, which falls on November 7th this year, including our deep dive into perspectives and morality!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about our gospel for the All Saints Episode.

CN: we talk about supersessionism, a type of antisemitism, and an abusive God when discussing the deep dive.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Sister Colleen O’Toole (she) of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for All Saints Day, which falls on November 1st this and every year (though it may be commemorated on the closest Sunday), including our deep dive into saints!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Colleen mentioned these spirituals by Servant of God, Thea Bowman.  We talked about Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was our deep dive topic for our episode on the 5th Sunday in Lent this season.  We mentioned Saint Gerard Majella, the closest we could find to a patron saint of handkerchiefs!  This is The Christ Hymn by Alana Levandoski that Colleen mentioned.  If you want to learn more about saints, Blessed Among Us by Robert Ellsberg is great!  Also, we found out after recording that the painting we said was a Goya painting of Miguel Pro actually wasn’t.  Oops!

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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 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, also known as Lectionary 31 or Proper 26, which falls on October 31st this year, including our deep dive into organized religion and spirituality!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Emily mentioned the 10 Commandments discussion we had with Russell Braman in our Lent 3 episode.  Kay mentioned this story about Rabbi Herzog.  And something fun from Pastor Kay: find the Twilight Series in 15 Minutes here!

CN: we talk about colonization and gendocide when discussing the first reading.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Pace Warfield-May (they) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Reformation Day, which falls on October 31st this and every year (though it may be commemorated on the closest Sunday), including our deep dive into Martin Luther and the Reformation!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  If Pace’s voice sounds familiar, it’s because Pace was a guest with Horror Nerds At Church Podcast co-host Joe for our Easter 3 episode this year!  Also, if you want to learn more about the Reformation, check out this blog post Emily did about lesser-known Reformers from the Reformation to our contemporaries, or track down Pace’s recommendations: Women of the Reformation by Kirsi Stjerna, Martin Luther, the Bible and the Jewish People by Brooks Schramm and Kirsi Stjerna, and the first two volumes of The Annotated Luther.  We also mentioned our episode on the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, when Jesus learns from the Syrophoenician woman whom he insults, and our episode on the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, where we deep dive into learning (and teaching) hard things.  Pace also references the episode of HNAC on The Witch, which comes out October 28th.  Don’t forget to check out The Lutheran Insulter for some terribly great and some just plain terrible insults!

CN: we talk about Martin Luther’s antisemitism during part of the deep dive.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Rev. Beth Wartick (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost, also known as Lectionary 30 or Proper 25, which falls on October 24th this year, including our deep dive into disability and consent!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Beth mentioned the picture book Melanie by Carol Carrick.

CN: we talk about ableism 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 the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, also known as Lectionary 29 or Proper 24, which falls on October 17th this year, including our deep dive into grace!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about cheap and costly grace, and this article explores a modern application of it.

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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 20th Sunday after Pentecost, also known as Lectionary 28 or Proper 23, which falls on October 10th this year, including our deep dive into economic justice!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about the Jewish concepts of Jubilee, which you can explore more here.  This is the tweet about billionaires in the Pandemic that Emily talked about.  This is the Heinlein story about libertarianism that Kay mentioned.

CN: we talk about domestic abuse when discussing the first reading.

Don’t forget to check out our Horror Nerds At Church crossover episode on Hocus Pocus when it comes out, October 7th!

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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 19th Sunday after Pentecost, also known as Lectionary 27 or Proper 22, which falls on October 3rd this year, including our deep dive into marriage!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Pastor Kay talked about this article of marriage tips for folks.

CN: we talk about ableism and queerphobia connected to marriage in the deep dive and divorce throughout the episode.

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