“When were you saved?” 
“3 people were saved last week.” 
“I got saved at summer camp.”

The language of “getting saved” is common among Christians, and it relates to one of the most important concepts within Christianity: Salvation. But have we really paused to consider what we are saying when we use the buzzwords of the faith? What does it mean to “get saved”? How does one become saved? And who or what are we being saved from?

For Tom and Pete, growing up in the faith, there was a clear answer; they were saved from hell, which is a place of eternal punishment that God sends sinners who don’t accept Jesus. This worked for a while, but eventually, some questions emerged. Chief among them was, “So....are we saying that Jesus saves us from...God?”

In this episode, Tom and Pete break down the language a bit, reflecting on how their upbringings in the church shaped what they thought it meant to “get saved”, and how their understanding has begun to shift. 

One might say that the longer they’ve followed Jesus, the more God has saved them from a bad understanding of what it means to be saved! 

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This conversation is so good, it’s sinful.

(Sorrynotsorry for that horrible pun.)

Is Original Sin a helpful doctrine in the Christian faith? What has been the fruit of this doctrine in the lives of people who grew up inside the Church? What is the relationship between the doctrine of Original Sin and the presence of shame in our lives? Where does this doctrine come from, and does it still mean today what it originally meant? And ultimately...should we still hold onto Original Sin, condemn it, or perhaps simply set it aside for a while, until we can revisit it without it being as tangled as it has become today?

In this episode, Tom and Pete consider this long-held doctrine within many Christian traditions (yes, that’s a small hint that says, not EVERY Christian tradition has held this doctrine!), starting with how it’s affected them in their own faith journeys. 

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...but what does that even mean?

We live in a cultural moment where what it means to “Be a Man” seems to be changing. Some people lament this change as a departure from the traditional understanding of mature masculinity that has resulted in immature boys in men’s bodies, while others see these changes as a healthy and necessary departure from the emotion-suppressing, socially-isolated, toxic masculinity picture of what it means to be a man. 

In this episode, Tom and Pete share their own experiences of growing up as men within Christian culture, and the unraveling they’ve experienced as a result. They discuss whether it’s true that there are many “unfinished men” in our society today, and why that might be. They also reflect on their own journeys of what they’ve had to learn and unlearn as they’ve navigated their own emotional and spiritual lives as men. 

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With so many people talking about freedom right now (whether freedoms are under attack, etc.), we thought we’d take a stab at unraveling the common understanding of Freedom to see if there might be a better, truer sense of freedom that would lead to wholeness and life. 

What is freedom? Why are some afraid of losing freedoms? How have some expressions of Christianity led people to literally take up arms in protest of governmental restrictions for public health? Does freedom mean I get to do whatever I want? Does freedom only have to do with individual rights? (Does Christianity even have anything to do with “Individual Rights”??) 

Or, is freedom more of a collective/communal reality? And then, what might be the best use of freedom in the midst of a global pandemic?

We seek answers to these tough questions in our second episode of Unraveling with Tom & Pete. 

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It seems to be all we’re talking about these days...and for good reason. Almost no part of daily life hasn’t been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Many of us feel ourselves unraveling as we’ve lost count of things we take for granted that are now anything but certainties, both for the present and, even more troubling, for the future. 

This has meant something different for each of us...some of us grieving, scared, angry, or feeling like we’re just going crazy. We share what the last few weeks have brought each of us, and how we’re navigating our own unique challenges. 

And yet, even more challenges emerge as we human beings grapple with something as unfathomable as a global pandemic, and seek to provide explanations. So often, it’s the steady diet of quick, cookie-cutter, bumper-sticker explanations so many of us were raised on in the Church that eventually leads to an uncomfortable unraveling in our faith, but one that can lead beyond the empty platitudes and into something so much greater...if only for the fact that it’s something that’s actually real. In this first episode, COVID-19 and the ways many Christians have understood and reacted to this crisis serves as the launching point into topics we’ll certainly return to throughout this podcast, about how some forms of Christian faith and teaching can lead us to claims that eventually cause a problem for us, and need to be re-examined. 

Also, Pete is apparently a little sensitive about his age. 

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Tom & Pete use the Fire-Ready-Aim approach for an unscripted conversation in which they share a bit of who they are, some of their life and faith experiences, why they started this podcast, and what kind of podcast this will be. 

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