Veil & Broc

The Chosen season 6 arrives on Sunday, and millions of people will watch Jesus die on a cross from the couch, one episode at a time. Veil asks Broc, our skeptic, what that does to the people watching. His first answer is an honest one: he doesn’t know.

This is Trend Check 05: one trend, one question under it, two very different answers. Veil and Broc go from the crowd at Golgotha in Luke’s Gospel to an actor’s face that turns up in prayer, the honest note at the start of season one and the three things people lose when the Cross becomes a TV episode: time, silence and their role. They end with five things that help anyone who wants more than an episode.

Following one pillar? The Blog Map keeps every series straight.

New here? Trend Check is our weekly segment: one trend, one question, two answers. See how it works.

0:00 — What Does the Cross Do to You?
0:43 — Spectator or Witness?
1:26 — What Is The Chosen?
1:46 — Why a Series, Not a Movie
2:21 — The Honest Note in Season One
2:53 — Whose Face Is It?
3:19 — An Icon or an Actor
3:43 — A Door, Not a House
4:11 — What the Screen Takes
4:57 — Five Things That Help
5:55 — Why Some Get Up Different

Did The Chosen bring you closer to the Gospel, or did it take its place? Leave it in a comment. We read every one.
Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.
This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: The Chosen Season 6: Why the Crucifixion Is Not a TV Show.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 31–40.

Want to go deeper? Icons (The Orthodox Faith, OCA).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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Why is Friday the 13th bad luck? Broc, our skeptic, swears he isn’t superstitious, yet he quietly moved his dentist from Friday the 13th to Thursday. Veil puts the superstition through three questions: how old it is, where it comes from and what the numbers say. If it fails all three, Broc moves back to Friday.

This is Trend Check 04: one trend, one question under it, two very different answers. Veil and Broc go from an opera composer and a horror movie to the Last Supper, a Dutch insurance study and the saint whose feast falls on Friday, November 13th, and end with three things to do when your stomach drops on Friday morning.

Following one pillar? The Blog Map keeps every series straight.

New here? Trend Check is our weekly segment: one trend, one question, two answers. See how it works.

0:00 — Does Friday the 13th Really Bring Bad Luck?
0:33 — Question One: How Old Is It?
1:27 — What About the Knights Templar?
1:43 — Question Two: Thirteen at the Last Supper
2:18 — Tuesday the 13th, Friday the 17th
2:40 — Question Three: What the Numbers Say
3:12 — Why We Give In Anyway
3:34 — Whose Day Is It? Saint John Chrysostom
4:11 — Luck or Providence
4:36 — What to Do on Friday Morning
5:03 — The Dentist Bet

Which superstition have you still not shaken off? Leave it in a comment. We read every one.
Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.
This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: Does Friday the 13th Bring Bad Luck? Why a Christian Isn’t Afraid.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 31–40.

Want to go deeper? Saint John Chrysostom (The Orthodox Faith, OCA).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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Main character syndrome is the trend that makes ordinary life feel like a movie, with everyone else’s movie looking better than yours. Broc ate cereal over the sink this morning and nobody filmed it. Veil bet him it would turn out to be the best part of his day, and she needed three rounds to prove it.

This is Trend Check 03: one trend, one question under it, two very different answers. Veil and Broc start with a student in an embarrassing T-shirt, move through highlight reels and the like button that works like money, and end with one question to ask before every post and the one who is really watching.

Following one pillar? The Blog Map keeps every series straight.

New here? Trend Check is our weekly segment: one trend, one question, two answers. See how it works.

0:00 — Why Does Everyone Else’s Life Look Better?
0:39 — Round One: Nobody Is Watching
1:14 — What Is Main Character Syndrome?
2:39 — Round Two: You Lose Every Time
3:21 — How the Apps Feed It
4:49 — Round Three: Someone Is Watching
5:16 — Vainglory: The Hunger to Be Praised
5:44 — One Question Before You Post
6:24 — The Cereal Bet

When did you last feel that your life wasn’t interesting enough? Leave it in a comment. We read every one.
Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.
This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: Main Character Syndrome: Why Your Life Feels Ordinary.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 31–40.

Want to go deeper? Vices (OrthodoxWiki).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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What are the four cardinal virtues, and do you really need all of them? Broc walks in with a solid report card: honest, brave, fair, and only a little too fond of dessert. Three out of four, he says. Veil answers that a house with three walls isn’t a house. It’s a porch.

This is Part 11 of our Inner Life series on the heart, and it keeps the promise from episode 38 to talk about respect and justice. Veil and Broc walk through prudence, courage, justice, and temperance as the four walls of one house. Along the way: why cardinal means hinge, a morning plan that falls apart by lunch, Luke Skywalker throwing his lightsaber away in the Emperor’s throne room, the trap of always being right, a widow who wore down an unjust judge, and why, without temperance, the other three go bad.

Following one pillar? The Blog Map keeps every series straight.

0:00 — Three Out of Four Isn’t Enough
0:29 — The Heart Series, Part Eleven
1:28 — Cardinal Means Hinge
2:16 — Prudence: Know-How and Wisdom
3:11 — Courage: When It Costs You Something
3:36 — Luke Skywalker Says No
4:28 — Justice and Its Rough Corners
4:57 — The Self-Justification Trap
5:20 — The Persistent Widow
6:12 — Temperance: Stopping in Time
6:54 — Without Temperance, the Others Go Bad
7:14 — The Wall Holding Up the Other Three
7:30 — One Wall, One Step

If one moment from today stuck with you, leave it in a comment. We read every one.

Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 31–40.

This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: The Cardinal Virtues: What They Are and How They Balance Your Life.

Want to go deeper? The Orthodox Faith: Spirituality (Orthodox Church in America).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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Why does God not answer my prayers? People who pray every day are now typing that question into a search bar late at night. Not people who quit, people who still pray. Broc came in counting. Veil came in with seven reasons heaven feels silent, and the last one is the one most believers never hear.

This is Trend Check 02: one trend, one question under it, two very different answers. Veil and Broc start with the grace of beginners and the hard season that breaks the ground, stop in Gethsemane, where the cup did not pass, and end with three small things you can do tonight when heaven feels quiet.

Following one pillar? The Blog Map keeps every series straight.

New here? Trend Check is our weekly segment: one trend, one question, two answers. See how it works.

0:00 — Asking the Internet Instead of God
0:30 — Welcome to Trend Check
0:50 — New Here? How Trend Check Works
1:11 — The Trend: Why Does It Feel Like God Isn’t Answering?
1:45 — The Question: Why Did It Go Quiet?
2:01 — Reason 1: The Silence Is the Plow
2:38 — Reasons 2 and 3: Instant Answers and Heavy Feelings
3:05 — Reason 4: Even Jesus Heard Silence
3:43 — Reason 5: The Bible Is Full of People Who Waited
4:14 — Reason 6: Answers Through Circumstances
4:30 — Reason 7: Prayer or Report?
5:29 — Three Things to Do Tonight
6:12 — Big Enough to Carry It

What was the first thing you ever asked heaven for? Leave it in a comment. We read every one.
Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.
This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: Unanswered Prayer: Why God Stops Answering.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 31–40.

Want to go deeper? The Orthodox Faith: Prayer (Orthodox Church in America).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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Should Christians celebrate Halloween? Broc went to the supermarket for apples and came out with a skeleton hanging over the dairy aisle and a plastic axe on sale next to the kids’ socks. Veil does not ask whether it is allowed. She asks what one night of death turned into a joke does to us and our kids, repeated ten years in a row.

This is Trend Check 01, the first of our weekly segments: one trend, one question under it, two very different answers. Veil and Broc trace Halloween from the Celtic night when the wall between the living and the dead went thin to the supermarket aisle where it landed, ask why people laugh at ghosts, and end on what stays (the costume) and what changes (the content).

Following one pillar? The Blog Map keeps every series straight.

New here? Trend Check is our weekly segment: one trend, one question, two answers. See how it works.

0:00 — A Skeleton Over the Dairy Aisle
0:23 — Welcome to Trend Check
0:57 — New Here? How Trend Check Works
1:18 — The Trend: A Holiday Nobody Voted For
3:07 — The Question: What Does This Night Do to Us?
4:00 — The Answer: Laughter Is for Those Who Aren’t Afraid
4:40 — First the Night, Then the Morning
5:48 — A Candle and No Joke

If one moment from today stuck with you, leave it in a comment. We read every one.
Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.
This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: Halloween and Faith: Why a Christian Says No.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 31–40.

Want to go deeper? The Orthodox Faith: Death (Orthodox Church in America).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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Can you see God in nature, or is it all chaos and survival? Broc walks in with the official vegetable position: nature is trial and error, and whoever survives wins. Veil answers with a rabbit that never disappears and a balance too precise to be an accident.

This is Part 1 of Wonders of Creation, a brand new Beyond series, after the Holy Light of Jerusalem series closed in episode 37. Along the way: why rabbits have so many babies and lions so few, nature as one big team of bees, earthworms, and birds, the ant nobody notices, bodies built exactly for the job, the hummingbird, the parrot, and the elephant’s trunk, a hermit whose only book was creation itself, and three simple steps to start seeing your own place in it.

Following one pillar? The Blog Map keeps every series straight.

0:00 — Is Nature Just Chaos?
0:29 — Wonders of Creation, Part One
1:32 — Why Rabbits Have So Many Babies
2:06 — The Balance: Rabbits, Lions, and Grass
2:34 — Nature as One Big Team
2:59 — The Ant Nobody Notices
3:33 — Built for the Job: The Cat and the Bird
4:00 — The Weird Ones: Hummingbird and Parrot
4:27 — Built for Strength
4:51 — The Elephant, Nature’s Swiss Army Knife
5:28 — The Hermit’s Book
5:48 — Order, Not Chaos
6:09 — Nature Never Gets It Wrong
6:26 — Three Steps to See Your Purpose
6:50 — The Days You Can’t See Your Purpose

If one moment from today stuck with you, leave it in a comment. We read every one.

Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 31–40.

New this week: Trend Check — one trend, one honest question, two very different answers.

This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: What Is the Purpose of Life? Nature Never Gets It Wrong.

Want to go deeper? The Orthodox Faith: Creation (Orthodox Church in America).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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Welcome to the Veil & Broc podcast — forty episodes in, and it’s time for another short pause before we keep going.

BROC: Forty episodes. I counted on my fingers. Ran out four times.
VEIL: And?
BROC: And I still can’t say “fake” about that light in Jerusalem. Not out loud, anyway.
VEIL: That’s an honest place to stop. That’s kind of the whole point of this one too.

Welcome back to Veil & Broc. Not a new episode this time — another pause. Forty episodes deep across four pillars, and before episode forty-one, we wanted to walk back through the lines from this batch that stuck with us the most. The golden moments — the ones people actually screenshot.

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New Golden Moments episode — and a fresh sticker pack — every ten episodes.

Thank you for the next ten. Onward to forty-one and beyond.
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Want to go deeper? One thread per pillar: Inner Life · Beyond · Family · Old World

Following one pillar? Episodes alternate between all four — Inner Life, Beyond, Family, Old World — so the numbering isn’t one single story in order. Check the Blog Map to follow just the thread you’re on.

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Who were the descendants of Cain, and how did his family end up giving the world its first trades? Broc walks in calling progress more noise and more bills, and wants to know who started it all. Veil’s answer comes straight from Genesis: Cain’s family, the first one who strayed far from his path.

This is Part 8 of Key Moments in Human History, picking up from episode 36. Veil and Broc follow the other branch of the family tree: Cain settling in the land of Nod, the question every skeptic asks about Cain’s wife, the mark of Cain as protection rather than curse, and the first city, built like a wall around a restless conscience. Then come Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Cain, the first herders, musicians, and metalworkers, two family trees with almost the same names, and two Lamechs: one boasting of revenge, the other the father of Noah.

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0:00 — Who Started All This Progress?
0:23 — Key Moments in Human History, Part Eight
1:26 — Cain in the Land of Nod
1:50 — Where Did Cain’s Wife Come From?
2:42 — The Mark of Cain: Curse or Protection?
3:05 — The First City and the Other Enoch
3:35 — The Cities We Still Build
4:17 — Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Cain: The First Trades
5:19 — One Tool, Two Uses
5:39 — Does Progress Bring Spiritual Progress?
6:06 — Two Family Trees, Same Names
6:28 — Two Lamechs: Revenge or Forgiveness
7:05 — Three Things to Try
7:30 — Progress or Direction?

If one moment from today stuck with you, leave it in a comment. We read every one.

Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 21–30.

This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: The Descendants of Cain: How Humanity’s First Trades Began.

Want to go deeper? The Orthodox Faith: Doctrine & Scripture (Orthodox Church in America).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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How many ancestors do you have, and are they just someone to blame? Broc walks in sure they are: a bad temper from his great-grandfather, no savings thanks to some great-aunt from 1890. Veil answers that he may have inherited the temper, but what he does with it today is still on him.

This is Part 2 of our Family series, How Many Ancestors Do You Have?, picking up from episode 35. Veil and Broc slow down to the first eight generations, 128 people, and walk back row by row: parents between fear and hope, grandparents who learned to survive, great-grandparents caught between old and new, and the revolutions further back. Along the way: what epigenetics actually says, a line from a Serbian elder, and three steps to heal the future.

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Following one pillar? The Blog Map keeps every series straight.

0:00 — Are Ancestors Just Someone to Blame?
0:28 — How Many Ancestors, Part Two
1:38 — 128 Ancestors in 8 Generations
2:15 — A Theater Full of Ancestors
2:46 — Your Parents: Between Fear and Hope
3:11 — Your Grandparents: Learning to Survive
3:50 — Your Great-Grandparents: Old and New
4:28 — Light Bulbs, Revolutions, and Napoleon
5:19 — Generation Eight: The Age of Revolutions
5:38 — What Epigenetics Actually Says
6:15 — Our Thoughts Shape Our Lives
6:53 — Three Steps to Heal the Future
7:09 — An Excuse or a Responsibility?

If one moment from today stuck with you, leave it in a comment. We read every one.

Get to know the show on the About Veil & Broc page.

Catch up on the Golden Moments — our favorite lines from episodes 21–30.

This episode grows out of the written article behind it. Read the source on the blog: The Legacy of Genes: 128 Ancestors in 8 Generations.

Want to go deeper? The Orthodox Faith: Worship (Orthodox Church in America).

Jingle: „One Story Ingrid” by White_Records (Pixabay).

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