Topics:

1. Christmas Traditions: weird, unhealthy, profound?
2. Advents message in our fractured times
3. Roe v. Wade and Mississippi Law
4. A pastor's struggle with political stands
5. Reason for the Season, is there no meaning in anything else?

Guest: Rev. Graham Glover

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia "Emmanuel" on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

For the Time Being a Christmas Oratorio, W. H. Auden

Topics:

1. The observer influence what he observes (Quantum physics)
2. Development of perspectival reality
3. Imposing Einstein on Newton
4. 3 categories of reality = Quantum world, Newton everyday, Einstein relativism
5. Lutherans strength and weakness (predestination vs. evangelism)
6. The De-centering of the Self: you don't matter
7. Philippians 2:11, both Newton and Einstein really in God's Word

Guest: Dr. James Voelz

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia "Emmanuel", on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Richard Feynman: The Two-Slit Experiment

Reading Scripture as Lutherans in the Post Modern Era (Lutheran Quarterly 2000)

White Fragility

Gary Philips

What Does This Mean? James Voelz

Topics:

1. Lack of Thankfulness
2. Bad Translations of the Bible: He vs. She
3. Body and Soul separation
4. Christmas services - is it too many?

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia "Christmas Bells", on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Topics:

1. Public Trials, should we know this much?
2. Tyranny of information: it makes you care
3. Can you know something to be true?
4. A Christian's Trial on Judgement Day

Intentional Interim Host:

Rev. James Hopkins

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia "My Mom Told Me", on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

The Trial, Kafka

Rittenhouse Trial

Acts 17:31

Robert Capon

Topics:

1. Obsessing over the Golden Age and LARPing in the church
2. Refreshing politics, our recent quarter term election…
3. Weddings and Funerals are giving up on Jesus
4. What is the narrative that you already believe?
5. Can Jesus just be a moral guide?

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia "No Heroes", on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

The Second Coming, Y.B.Yeats

1984, George Orwell

Losing our Religion, Paul Koch on thejaggedword.com

Stanley Fish

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy

Ringside Preachers and Craft of Preaching join forces to bring you this special edition podcast discussing "Christianity Without Christendom." Rev. Dr. David Schmitt from Concordia Seminary St. Louis joins us to talk about the following topics:

• A cultural turn in preaching - "person of the preacher"
• Hearing with different ears: shifting from guilt/forgiveness to shame/honor
• "Hearer response" feedback - what do you hear?
• Experiencing beauty and the Creed
• Subversion of beauty

Thank you:

Craft of Preaching

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - In the Arms of the King, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other Stuff:

Say it, Eric C. Redmund

What Do They Hear?: Bridging the Gap Between Pulpit & Pew, Mark Allen Powell

William Willimon

Edward Rojas

Topics:

1. Reformation Basics: high points
2. A man should pray in public?
3. Teaching to pray
4. What would you say to Alec Baldwin?
5. Suicide and forgiveness

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - My Mom Told Me, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

October, Robert Frost

The Ringside Preachers hang out with students and professors at Concordia University Chicago for a Live Podcast... with a thought inspiring nacho bar, of course.

Topics:

1. Keeping the Church off message
2. Is Jesus a Hate Symbol?
3. Even Christian causes can overshadow Gospel
4. Pernicious Superstition (anti human being)
5. Bread that spoils = is that changing the culture? (John 6)

Guests:

Dr. Adam Francisco from Concordia University Chicago

Caleb Martin, student at Concordia University Chicago

Charlie McClain, student at Concordia University Chicago

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia, "My Mom Told Me" on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Topics:

1. Always saying "yes" to God is an interesting life
2. Exploring the misconceptions of Christianity
3. Behavior modification vs. spiritual transformation
4. Following the rules is easier than a relationship
5. Stealing Jesus' glory in suffering
6. Reformation of the Christian conversation

Guest:

Bill Myers

billmyers.com

Thank you:

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - Coming Home Again, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Rendezvous With God, Bill Myers

McGee and Me

Eli, Bill Myers

Community College, Chicago: Friday October 22

Ringside Preachers and Craft of Preaching join forces to bring you this special edition podcast discussing "Christianity Without Christendom." Rev. Dr. Jeff Gibbs from Concordia Seminary St. Louis joins us to talk about the following topics:

• Reactionary End Times conversations.
• Preaching resurrection is big
• Christ as representative
• Physical bodies and creation and resurrection, repairing your house matters.
• Where is the reign of God? Right here on earth
• Fixing the world vs. a hope that it's all ok
• Pastors need each other

Thank you:

Craft of Preaching

1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia - In the Arms of the King, on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other Stuff:

Every Moment Holy, Douglas Kaine McKelvey everymomentholy.com

Hope of the Early Church, Brian E. Daley