Twelve Enough

Worship is not meant to be a moment of just observing and taking in

stimuli, but being a part of the experience, creating something and being a

part of something that is greater than one’s self.

It is one thing to have a song that we sing and to want to share it with

the world, but we also need to remember that others have their own songs

and sometimes we need to stop and listen to what it is that others are

singing/saying.

Good conversations are important to have. It is a precious thing to have

that space to get deep with someone, have a long-form conversation, to be

honest, be pushed and to push back.

The 100th episode! Adam Ericksen is the host and Jonathan is the guest for

this historic episode. Fun for all!

One of the great things about the Bible is that the majority of the

characters are multivalent in their strengths and weaknesses. We do not

find many two dimensional characters in scripture who are all good or all

evil. This means that there is more often than not a place where we can

connect with the humanity of the people who are found in scripture.

Bob Houghtaling joins Jonathan to talk about the problems with the death

penalty, racial strife, and good books to read to keep us thinking.

Part of the challenge of life is that we can never truly know what it is

like to be someone else. We can only speak for ourselves and our

experiences. Yet we live in community at various levels and thus need to

try to understand each other.

A conversation with Pastor Cheryl Harris about relaxing and enjoying life.

This is something that we do not do very well as we are often told that we

should be moving faster and faster. We need to figure out how to relax and

let that feed our spirituality. Also, the book of Ruth, and some other

great books to read.

It is very easy to become so comfortable in our context that we can lose

our accent, our culture as Christians. It can become very ease to slip into

a way of speaking that makes sense to everyone else, but that cannot be

understood as a specifically Christian way of speaking and being.

Fantasy sports, old books, and LARPing. What else could you ask for? How

about a good discussion about truth and knowing as well as what our

religious accent might be and how we can let it be heard through our voice

and actions.