Ringside Preachers

TOPICS:

1. Manly Poetry
2. Why not follow the OT law?
3. What its like to work for Joel…
4. Living Together before Marriage

CRAFT of PREACHING WORKSHOP

August 4-6, 2025 at St. James, Chicago

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other Stuff:

Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church, Abram Van Engen

The Four Quartets, TS Eliot

TOPICS:

1. Hope for Humanity at the Ball game
2. New Pope talk
3. Christ's Ascension & Implications

Guest: Rev. James Hopkins

CRAFT of PREACHING WORKSHOP

August 4-6, 2025 at St. James, Chicago

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

TOPICS:

1. The Call Day Experience
2. Choosing a Church
3. New Pastor Advice
4. Essential Friendships in the Ministry

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CONFERENCE JUNE 10-11, 2025

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

TOPICS:

1. Absurd Easter Memories
2. Passing of Pope Francis
3. Resurrection and Remembrance
4. Confession Absolution
5. The "Closed" Canon of Scripture

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CONFERENCE JUNE 10-11, 2025

(Registration open until May 10)

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

TOPICS:

1. The Impossible Prize: A Theology of Addiction NEW BOOK
2. Words of Identity
3. Community in Recovery
4. Empathy vs. Sympathy
5. Symbols in Worship

GUEST: Rev. Donavan Riley

NEW BOOK: The Impossible Prize: A Theology of Addiction

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CONFERENCE JUNE 10-11, 2025

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

TOPICS:

1. Swearing Pastors
2. Why does Mark's Gospel end like it does?
3. Fear and Trembling
4. "They know not what they do"

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CONFERENCE JUNE 10-11, 2025

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other:

Technopoly, Neil Postman

Dune 2

TOPICS:

1. Rivalry in Sport and Society
2. The Chosen
3. Christian Entertainment
4. Repentance and Forgiveness

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CONFERENCE JUNE 10-11, 2025

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

TOPICS:

1. Comfort Dogs
2. Loneliness
3. Anti-social Technology
4. Revolt against a King

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CONFERENCE JUNE 10-11, 2025

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other:

Written in March, William Wordsworth

The Anti-Social Century, Derek Thompson

Alone

TOPICS:

1. Situation and text
2. Newton/Einstein interpretation
3. Deconstructionism asks good questions.
4. Best Theories comes before Best practices
5. De-centering of the self
6. Modernism is not our salvation

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CONFERENCE JUNE 10-11, 2025

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Ringside interviews the incredible minds at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne during Symposia 2025.

Guest Rev. Dr. Jason Lane

TOPICS:

1. Benedict Option
2. Democracy as the new religion
3. Joyful Living: It's fun
4. Formulated ideas by podcasts
5. Technology is faster or Slower?
6. Liturgy of rest

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St. James Lutheran, Chicago

Monthly Sponsors: James Houseman, Frankie Meadows, Blayne Watts, and Eddie Switek

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Music:

Joel Allen Hess - More on bandcamp

Dead Horse One - "I love my man"

Other:

The Fall of Rome, W.H. Auden

After Virtue, by Alasdair MacIntyre

How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill