Thinking with Sam Harrelson

Thinking with Sam Harrelson

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Thinking with Sam Harrelson episodes

  • Episode 159: You Can't Get a Babysitter For Church

    Merianna and Sam discuss church schedules, life of the pastor's spouse, missing Sunday morning worship, Micah 6:8, and high church baptists.

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    Links:

    • The Aviator (2004) - IMDb
    • John Roderick (musician) - Wikipedia
    • oremus Bible Browser : Micah 6
    • What is a High Church Baptist? - Sam Harrelson
    25 min
  • Episode 158: We Don't Talk About That in Church

    This week, Revs. Merianna Neely Harrelson and Sam Harrelson discuss canonization, the politics of commentaries, Jonah's Whale, interpretation history, Doomsday Clock, Harrowing of Hell, and masturbation lessons from Sunday School.

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    Links:

    • Did Jonah Really Get Swallowed by a Whale? | The Institute for Creation Research — Yikes... quite the hot take here (spoiler: no, it wasn't a whale in the text).
    • Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia
    • Biblical hermeneutics - Wikipedia
    • Harrowing Of Hell
    • What Does the Bible Say about Masturbation? — Yikes... "In a sense, it becomes a substitute god."
  • Masturbation in the Bible - Scripture Quotes about it's Sinfulness — In case you wanted to prooftext it...
  • 5 Biblical Ways to Overcome Masturbation | ApplyGodsWord.com — No words...
  • Sex and the American Teenager: Seeing through the Myths and Confronting the ... - R. Murray Thomas - Google Books
  • 1 hr 9 min
  • "The Next Day" Sermon

    Bonus episode here as the main show will be coming out a little later this week. This is audio from Sam's sermon on John 1:29-42 this past Sunday at Garden of Grace UCC in Columbia, SC about sin, community, identity, and why he started going to church.

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    Links:

    • oremus Bible Browser : John 1: 29-42
    • John 1:29-42 Commentary, Bible Study
    • David Bowie: The Next Day Album Review | Pitchfork
    25 min
  • Episode 157: Talking To Our Younger Selves about Religion

    Sam is joined by The Rev. Merianna Neely Harrelson to discuss how she approaches Acts in church Bible studies, canonization, ascension vs resurrection vs transfiguration, the problem with a seminary education, and 4 listener questions.

    Music from https://filmmusic.io

    "Ancient Rite" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
    License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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    Links:

    • The Minister and The Mystic
    • Apocryphal Acts - Biblical Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 156: You Miss 100% Of The Shots You Don't Take - Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott

    Sam is joined by Matthew Klippenstein this week to discuss fracturing of denominations, late dating of biblical texts, what an American has to learn from a Canadian, why the Dalai Lama might want to consider the lilies, and why ACTS might be the best book in the New Testament.

    Special Guest: Matthew Klippenstein.

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    Links:

    • Home - Canada EV Sales
    • Christianity in Canada - Wikipedia
    • Search | National Observer
    • David Trobisch - Wikipedia
    • Who Published the New Testament - David Trobisch
    • Demographics of British Columbia - Wikipedia
    • 2017 British Columbia general election - Wikipedia
    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 155: Back to Weekly

    Big news in this one… we’re coming back weekly for 2020! Starting around New Year’s Day, we’ll be back with all new guests and voices (and voices of guests) as well as some fun book giveaways, and a number of insider downloads drawing from the show’s past (and present and future).

    Merry Christmas from Merianna, Sam, and the Harrelson family and more soon!

    (We also have an exciting new podcast studio that we'll be discussing)...

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    3 min
  • Episode 154: What's the Point?

    Merianna and Sam discuss cultural transitions and how churches of all sizes and shapes are positioning themselves in the midst of societal shifts.

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    36 min
  • Episode 154: What's the Point?

    Merianna and Sam discuss cultural transitions and how churches of all sizes and shapes are positioning themselves in the midst of societal shifts.

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    36 min

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