Part two and the ending of Conversation. Not the end of conversations...just the end of this particular one :) #DaCON #Namethem

I think all change can start with a simple conversation. What if you just sat down and said, Let's talk. Grab some coffee or in our case, a bottle of flavored water that you don't like and some pizza that did not cater to my more health centered friends and just talk. That's what we did for like 3 hrs. Sadly, only 2 hrs was recorded along with my reference to what blacks in America might call coons. Don't know how that made it in but it is what it is. Part 2 coming soon! #DACON

Part 2 and the finale of the previous episode.

Racism and Church. Technically, those two things shouldn't go together. Unless maybe you are a member of a church where your pastors name is Clayton Bigsby....or maybe you live in America. That isn't to say that churches in America are racist or even that American churches is the only place where racism can be found. It's just that some racist go to church, some churches played a part in that and we ask a series of questions concerning that. We got a panel of four people local and one via phone for this one. It's so big, we had to split the episode into two parts. So sit down and get ready to join the conversation and also hear everything that happens in one of the panelists home.

Ahmaud Arbery is the cause of the rising of a no longer silent voice.

Due his tragic death, there has been a voice crying from the ground for justice. Quite a few evangelicals are starting to voice concern about the situation that while current, is in no way new. One could say they are late to the party and others would say they are right on time. Here we discuss those and our racial differences in and out of the church and the impact that it has on reaching others for the Kingdom. Listen closely and along with that voice, you may hear my kids in the background playing Mario Kart louder than the church has ever been about these issues. That's little "c"...not big "C".

Just imagine...sitting out in the middle of nowhere. Just praying. And suddenly, you get into a fight with a spiritual being all night and all the way till morning. Don't know how it started but it had to be something serious to fight even after your hip gets displaced like a German Shepard. Let's talk about that. Oh yeah, I guess we can talk about Covid-19 as well and how ya'll ain't washing your hands. Shameful.

So, this episode is a bit rogue. It was planned buuuut not planned? What had happened was, a friend of mine joined in and for some reason, we talked about black churches vs white churches, clapping off beat with a click track, snake handlers, revivals and forcefully being made to be slain in the spirit and speaking in tongues. We also discuss diversity in worship music using a couple of bars from an Eminem song so there's that. Lot of random thoughts but this is a pretty fun eppy...also, there is a wild hairball in this for whatever reason. You'll hear it...Just embrace it.

Don't know how a Naruto and Sasuke reference made it into the podcast but it happened. We let the randomness thrive here. I digress...it's Black History Month and there is no way I can let this month ride by and not speak to it. Let's talk about the position and place that black people have in the Bible. You know...for the ones that say it was created to trick us and keep us enslaved. A ruse and a sham they say! How about we prove them wrong using said Bible? Let's go!

Life was the first episode so we knew that we would talk about Death next. What we didn't know was that this week was going to get the jump on everyone with the passing of a legend in basketball. Even though this episode is late, it's still right on time so let's talk about death from natural, to accident, and to suicide and hopefully we can shine a little bit of light on somber and dark week to get you through to a brighter the weekend.

So here my friend and I discuss the aspect of Life using John 15:13 as the starting point. We ask ourselves what it means to have your life and also to give your life. From Jesus to Choose Your Own Adventure books, like House of Pain, we Jump Around.