NEW PROBLEM RECORDS

NEW PROBLEM RECORDS

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NEW PROBLEM RECORDS episodes

  • THE BLESSING OF BOTH

    Let's talk about the future of this podcast! It's called Metropolitan Union. It's simple reflections about keeping your faith while you're letting people down, knowing you're never forever up to the task of loving as much as you wish you could. But in between these official entries (twice a month), we're going to talk like ordinary podcasters doing ordinary podcasty things. It's the off-week segment called The Blessing of Both. Just talking about things, warts in all. Because I can't always be an aspiring elegant writer. I'm an Aquarius. Of course I was going to have a podcast, no matter how embarrassing that association can be. It's the blessing of both! — the elegance and the vapid incoherence of podcasting. Thank you for the supporter! Let's keep going. 

    newproblemrecords.com

    14 min
  • THE SHOW MUST GO ON
    Thank you for listening to me, supporting me out, hearing me out. Let’s keep going. PS. Visit the website, newproblemrecords.com Follow on Instagram: @newproblemrecords
    6 min
  • WHY THIS WASTE? (a people's history of the kingdom of God)
    "Church planting" in New York City is a case-study of blood, sweet, and flowcharts all pointing to lost friends, lost dreams, and unfulfilled futures. I've watched this cycle my whole life. Being in this work and back in this world is dejavu all over again. Let's get honest about our work history in the Kingdom of God, and consider what (little) we have to show for it. And keep pouring. 
    NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. conclusion, THE JUST SHALL POUR BY FAITH act 6. conclusion
    34 min
  • O-B-E-D-I-E-N-C-E (the way to show that you believe)

    I wrote this in 2016, and like that random Radiohead song they only performed on tour that finally gets a proper version on an album, this is here. We have one episode to go in this podcast's first season, and this is the evolutionary prequel to the finale. You knew this — my father was a Baptist missionary in New York. 20 years later, I found another one. His family and I had one prayer meeting together in Greenpoint together. I could have picked a better week. But the problem with being a Baptist missionary in New York is: there's never really an easy week. 

    NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THIS DATE IN OLD PROBLEMS #2

    45 min
  • THE JUST SWIPE RIGHT BY FAITH
    My father was a Baptist missionary in the 90s. We traveled from Baptist church to Baptist church with his go-to sermon I sat through dozens and dozens of times as a kid. I'm happy to save you from the therapy of unlearning of a childhood on the road in Rush Limbaugh's America while giving you the highlights, and a reminder: the just shall live by faith. 
    NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THE JUST SHALL POUR BY FAITH act 6. chapter 3.
    53 min
  • THE TUESDAY AFTER EASTER FEELS MORE LIKE GOOD FRIDAY
    How many things continue to exist because we’re allowing them to exist, not because they’re actually alive? There is nothing more vexing than people’s capacity to lie to themselves about what living looks like.  I can't settle for a church or a job or a podcast that exists without multiplying. Life produces fruit, which means something has to die first. Easter is only worth celebrating when you acknowledge the death beforehand. 
    NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THE JUST SHALL POUR BY FAITH act 6. chapter 2.
    28 min
  • AN UNAUTHORIZED ORAL HISTORY OF THE WILL OF GOD
    This is an unauthorized oral history of Bridgetown Church and Oaks Church Brooklyn's pastoral changes. Change is hard and the will of God is hard to know. But if Mary of Bethany teaches us anything, it's simple: keep close, and keep pouring. 
    NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. THE JUST SHALL POUR BY FAITH act 6. chapter 1.
    26 min
  • EVERY BODY'S DYING (it's not living if it's not with you)

    Death planning is not an easy conversation. But your loved ones won't know what Beyonce to play at your funeral unless you let them know. (Sorry? I'm not sorry.) So I'm letting my buddy, Tim in Minnesota, know!  Thanks to Five Wishes, an organization that "changes the way we talk about advanced care planning," death arrangements seem doable. The 1975 were right: It's not living if it's not with you.

    NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. CHRIST HAS NO BEARD NOW BUT OURS act 5. conclusion 

    53 min
  • NO BODY'S HIDING (at 26 Federal Plaza)

    New Coalition Sanctuary convenes ordinary people to accompany ordinary people during their immigration proceedings. It's a brutal judicial fiction under the florescent lights of 26 Federal Plaza. It is the most ordinary office in New York City.  All together, no body is hiding. Which means we don't have to do much to be seen, except show up. 

    NEW PROBLEMS vol. 1. CHRIST HAS NO BEARD NOW BUT OURS act 5. chapter 3.

    31 min

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Long-form confessions about discovering our spiritual DNA in New York.