Ringside Preachers

Topics:

1. Is there a time for an insurrection?
2. What is the best Bible translation?
3. What does the daily Christian life look like?

Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

Willing Virginia "Sure as Hell" on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

Journey of the Maji, T.S. Eliot

Topics:

1. Letting go in 2022
2. Older Christians teaching the pastor
3. Pandemic of "Experts"

Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

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

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

The Year, Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Topics:

1. Circumcision matters (Luke 2)
2. Promise on your phallus
3. How you get a dictator

Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

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

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

The Brick Testament (Lego storybook)

Topics:

1. Fatman: the new Christmas Classic
2. Colossians 1: In Him, Through Him, and For Him
3. Material and matter redeemed
4. Can you fix the world?

Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

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

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

On the morning of Christ's Nativity, John Milton

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Oxen, Thomas Hardy

Can you hear those Christmas bells my friend? I knows it's hard to hear them when you're at your rope's end. Put some L.L. Bean leather slippers on, splash some Aqua Vit on some ice, and let us cheer you up! Guest Dr. Michael Walcheski from Concordia St. Paul.

Topics:

1. Christmas and Depression
2. "Mary" as the new "Eve"?
3. Don't believe in the pre-incarnate Jesus
4. Dangers for our young men

Guest: Dr. Michael Walcheski

Associate Vice President of Graduate Studies Concordia University St. Paul

Dean College of Human Services and Behavioral Sciences.

Professor of Psychology and Family Science

Thank you:

1517.org

and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

and thejaggedword.com

Music:

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

Dead Horse One - I love my man

Other stuff:

In the Bleak Midwinter, Christina Rossetti

Most Americans, and Many Christians, Don't Believe the Son of God Existed Before the Manger, christianitytoday.com

The Boy Crisis, Warren Farrell and John Gray

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