Nerds At Church

Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for New Year’s Day, which falls on January 1st this and every year, including our deep dive into time!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  For more on time travel, check out the Witch, Please! Podcast’s episode on time travel in the third Harry Potter book.  For more on multiverse theory, check out Horror Nerds At Church’s episode on Everything Everywhere All at Once and read Jane Unlimited by Kristin Cashore.  For a great Doctor Who podcast, check out TARBIS (Time And Relative Blackness In Space).  For more on what the Labor Movement has done for us, check out this poster from the Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio. For more on shepherding, check out our Good Shepherd Sunday episode with Polly Festa.

CN: brief mention of suicide when discussing the second reading.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Rev. Collette Broady Grund (she), creator of The Grief Lectionary,to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Christmas 1, also known as the First Sunday of Christmas, which falls on January 1st this year, including our deep dive into grief!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  For more on the Church calendar, or Revised Common Lectionary (which N@C uses for our episodes), check out our intro minisode.  We talked about It’s OK that You’re Not OK by Megan Devine, the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking and book The Hot Young Widows Club (both by Nora McInerny), and Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor as great resources during grief.

Emily also mentioned this scene from Doctor Who “The Time of Angels.”

CN: we talk about ableism when discussing the deep dive, child murder in the Gospel reading.

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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 Christmas Day, also known as the Nativity of Our Lord III, which falls on December 25th this and every year, including our deep dive into the Gospel of John!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We mentioned this year’s episode diving into the book of Revelation, last year’s Jesus Loafs You series of episodes on the Bread of Life Discourse, this year’s Good Shepherd Sunday episode with special guest Polly Festa, this year’s Holy Trinity episode diving into Woman Wisdom, this year’s Advent 3 episode diving into the Babylonian Exile, and this year’s 7th Sunday after Pentecost episode with Rev. Nic Peñaranda where we talk about God’s Holy Darkness. Kay talked about a Diana Butler Bass piece on John 14:6, which on reflection is probably in her excellent book, “Freeing Jesus.”

Also, if you want to learn more about the 7 signs & 7 discourses in John, try this site. And if you want to read about the 7 “I am” statements, this article will be helpful. And a basic outline of the Gospel of John itself is here.

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Pace Warfield-May (none/they) of the Horror Nerds At Church podcast to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for the 4th Sunday in Advent, which falls on December 18th this year, including our deep dive into dreams (and nightmares)!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about the diakonia.faith collective’s #AdventMasPhany calendar, which Pace and Emily are leading.  If you’re in the DC area or virtually participating, check out HNAC’s live podcast episode at the Q Christian Fellowship Conference.  Check out the Oh No Ross & Carrie Podcast’s episode where they dig into night terrors and sleep paralysis.  We mentioned this year’s All Saints’ Day episode with Rev. Justin Thornburg where we talked about liminal spaces, this year’s Palm/Passion Sunday episode with Andrea Garnett where we talked about Jesus Christ Superstar, and this year’s Reign of Christ episode where we dove into models of leadership.  We mentioned HNAC’s episode on Suspiria and HNAC’s latest episode on Everything Everywhere All at Once.  Kay mentioned this Digger Unearthed comic.

CN: we talk briefly about suicide and death in the deep dive and sexual assault/incest in the Gospel.

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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 Third Sunday of Advent, which falls on December 11th this year, including our deep dive into the Babylonian Exile!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  You can find general information on the Babylonian Exile here, and more specific information on its long term impacts here. Also, if you want to learn more about Tishah B’Av, ReformJudaism.org has a page on the holiday and one on what is being mourned that day.  We also mentioned our Season 1 episode with River Needham where we discussed Jonah!

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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 second Sunday in Advent, which falls on December 4th this year, including our deep dive into genealogy!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  Emily mentioned the diakonia.faith collective’s #AdventMasPhany Movie Calendar adventure.  We talked about Jesus’ genealogy.  If you want to dig more into sparkling vampires, make sure you check out Horror Nerds At Church’s 3rd season.  Check out Harvey Milk’s Hope speech!

CN: we talk about complicated family dynamics, including brief mentions of incest and rape, 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 first Sunday in Advent, also known as the beginning of the Church Year, which falls on November 27th this year, including our deep dive into the Gospel of Matthew! (Welcome to Nerds At Church Season 3!)

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Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they), Rev. Kay Rohloff (she), and Pace Warfield (none/they) to explore new and nerdy connections to podcasting: past, present, and future!

As podcasts, we mentioned using: Audacity, LogicPro, Riverside, Anchor.fm, and Descript. We also talked about using Buffer, Zoho, and Canva.

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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 Reign of Christ, also known as Christ the Queen/King/Monarch, which falls on November 20th this year, including our deep dive into models of leadership!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We talked about mentioned our episode this year for Good Shepherd Sunday (AKA: the 4th Sunday of Easter) with Polly Festa, last year’s episode for Reign of Christ diving into Pose and Ballroom Culture with Rev. Kelsey Brown, and this year’s episode for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost on criminal (in)justice with Professor Sally Frank. Also, Emily mentioned Does the Dog Die, which is a great resource for content notifications (CNs) before watching a movie and Kay mentioned Ask A Manager, which is a great resource for tricky situations.

CN: we talk about Transgender Day of Remembrance when discussing the Gospel reading.

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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 Proper 28 or Lectionary 33, which falls on November 13th this year, including our deep dive into social safety nets!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here.  We mentioned our deep dive into taxes for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost episode, our deep dive into dehumanization for the 14th Sunday after Pentecost episode, our deep dive into invisible and emotional labor with Rev. Nic Peñaranda for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost episode, and our deep dive into death for our All Saints episode this year.  Find out more about WIC here.

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