Shades Midweek

Shades Cinema is back with a spooky halloween edition featuring Midweek hall of famer Patrick Smith! A conversation about the 2026 survival thriller film Whalefall!

JM's Album Of The Week: Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

Bradford's Book Club (Patrick's Pick): Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

This week we bring you an interview with Sara Hadgraft! Sara is a Couples Counselor, Sex Therapist, Coparenting Counselor, Divorce and Family Mediator at Sparrow Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. For over 30 years, she has worked with couples and families in some of their most painful and complex seasons: divorce, high-conflict co-parenting, disconnection, and relationship repair.

Please check out Wild Grace Encounters if you are interested in an individual or couples retreat. There's an upcoming one day anxiety retreat on Friday, October 30th. You can sign up here!

JM's Album Of The Week: World News - In Purgatory

Bradford's Book Club: Who You're Becoming: The Slow and Courageous Work of Cultivating Character in a Narcissistic Age by Chuck DeGroat

This week we go back to a sermon from November 9, 2015 preached by Jonathan called "Divorce, Remarriage & The Gospel" from Matthew 19:1-12 and 1 Corinthians 7:10-16.

JM's Album Of The Week: Lizzy McAlpine - Angel

Bradford's Book Club: The AI Apocalypse: A Survival Guide for Humanity edited by Collin Hansen & Skyler R. Flowers

This week Jonathan leads a discussion about Christian education & formation! 

JM's Album Of The Week: CMF - If We're Apart, I'm Somewhere Missing You

Bradford's Book Club: The Brain God Gave Us by Dr. Geoff Holsclaw

This week we continue our Meet a Member series by sitting down for a conversation with new-ish SVCC members, Connor & Amanda Sullivan!

JM's Album Of The Week: Austin TV - Ma

Bradford's Book Club: Wool (Book 1 of 3 of the Silo Series) by Hugh Howey

This past Sunday we had our ministry lunch! If you missed it but want to hear all about it as well as some changes with the Shades Kids ministry check out this episode with very special guest, Joely Coker!

JM's Album Of The Week: Brandon Flowers - Thrasher

Bradford's Book Club (Jonathan's Pick) - The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer (translated by) Emily Wilson

Shades Midweek hits the 300 episode milestone with a Shades Cinema episode on the 2026 Christopher Nolan film, The Odyssey! Here's to 300 more!

On this episode of Midweek we discuss worship, serving, community and mission as well as the amazing events we have coming up this fall at Shades!

JM's Album Of The Week: Dolly Parton - Jolene

Bradford's Book Club: Dust to Dust: Aging Wisely in an Anti-Aging World

Jonathan is back from his sabbatical and we get to hear all about it!

JM's Album Of The Week: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova & The Swell Season - Once (Original Music from the Motion Picture)

Bradford's Book Club: 40 Questions About the Trinity by Matthew Y. Emerson & R. Lucas Stamps

Patrick Smith joins us once again for Shades Cinema! On this episode we dive in to the 1977 Sci-Fi classic Close Encounters Of The Third Kind directed by Steven Spielberg!

JM's Album Of The Week: John Williams - Disclosure Day (OST)

Bradford's Book Club (Patrick's Pick): A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits - Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More by Paul Hirsch