"Some valorize doubt; others demonize it...[but there's] an alternative path"

After a long podcast silence, Stanford and Peter are back with a banger! They sit down with A.J. Swoboda, pastor, professor, and author of After Doubt - a popular new book exploring the experience of deconstruction and doubt and asking the very simple question: "is it possible to question your faith without losing it?". Chances are that you or someone you love is in the beginning, middle, or ending stages of a deconstruction journey. These stories are common, often-disorienting, and sometimes-exhilarating.  We hope that this conversation is helpful regardless of where you are on that journey. 

There's more to say than what could be said in this short conversation, but this is a great place to start: What is deconstruction? Why does it seem to be happening so much right now?  How do you believe something you don't necessarily like? Where does the Church go from here? 

Want more from A.J.?

Read his book: After Doubt

Listen to his podcast: In Faith and Doubt

Jerry Seinfeld’s Mom was incredulous that anyone could not like her son. And apart from that being a hip reference to draw you in, it also matches our thoughts on stars of this episode.

Kyle Jung and Paige Abril: how could anyone not like them? (Well, John might not like them, but John’s got other problems. Make it to Quarantine Corner, you’ll get what we mean). These two are some of the best conversation partners around, and when you add in the salt of their expertise on their passages, it becomes a tasty-tasty dish.

This is Talks on Talks. We’re pouring cups of recappaccino for anyone who will listen.

Enjoy the podcast!

This episode was edited by Mike Loretto: mikelorettocoaching.com

“We want your time in college to be the best years yet; but we want to do it in a way that ensures the next decade will be even better.”

If you’ve been around College Life, you’ve heard something like that. We don’t want College Life to be the best it gets for our students, we hope that it’s a launching pad to further faithfulness and fruit in Jesus.

Nathan Ely and John Bailey, are two College Life legends who graduated about a decade ago. So we pose the question to them, “how’s it been going?” A decade out, what’s your faith like? Would the college-you like what has become of current-you?

This conversation is provocative, surprising, messy, and hopefully a realistic primer on what life is like in the Next Decade. Our greatest hope is that it’ll help you start to envision what you want your life to look like in a decade.

Enjoy the podcast!

This episode was edited by Mike Loretto

Resources:

After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith Without Losing It, AJ Swoboda

Check out Caroline Ely's Podcast! Good Christian Fun 

Julie told us how to love people even when it’s difficult. Nic told us that God loves how we smell.

And they’re back to take us behind the scenes of their brilliant College Life talks. What else did their passages have to say? What happens to you when you live with a passage as a companion for a few months?

And... is it "The Lord of the Rings"? Or just "Lord of the Rings"

Of course there’s recappuccinos, pericope percolation, and a sweet-sweet aftertaste!

Enjoy the podcast

This episode was edited by Mike Loretto: mikelorettocoaching.com

The best conversations almost always start with great questions.

The fans of Your Pod and Your Staff sent in some great questions these past few weeks, and Stanford Gibson and Peter Nittler try their best to turn them into great conversations.

At the very least, they turn them into an eclectic set of conversations. On this episode the guys talk about dinosaurs, Melchizedek, Marvel Movies, how to disagree with people well, Belly buttons, a particular College Lifer’s sense of humor, spiritual gifts, spiritual habits, and spiritual practices.

Much is discussed. But much was left on the table. So if listening to this episode sparks a question in you that you’re dying to hear discussed, it’s not too late to ask that question.

Head to collegelifedavis.com/questions and maybe you can be the spark for the next great conversation.

This episode is our Ode to the Question Mark.

Enjoy the podcast!

This episode was edited by Mike Loretto: mikelorettocoaching.com

Remember when Jensen and Mike finished their Tuesday Night talks and you thought, “I could listen to them for another hour?!”

Today’s your lucky day! We’re back with another episode of Talks on Talks. This week we’re chatting with the aforementioned gentlemen to hear the hard won wisdom they’ve gleaned both from the preaching process and the deep burrowing they’ve done to the passage.

This episode goes in a lot of different directions and we really think you’ll enjoy it. We talk about singles, we chat about spiritual gifts, and we discuss D&D character names.

So lend your ear and enjoy another cup of piping hot recappacino!

Enjoy the podcast!

This episode was edited by Mike Loretto: mikelorettocoaching.com

Well, it’s about that time. Next year is starting to come into focus and the great promise of 2021-2022 is starting to poke its head out of the water.

The first step in next year’s planning is finding out who will be leading us.

As you may know, College Life calls our ministry team The XII. And in this episode we talk about everything you could possibly want to know about The XII: the vision behind it, how it came to be, what it means to be on The XII, and the hopes behind it all. Simply put – if you’re interested (even fractionally) in the significant and important service that is Life on The XII, this episode is a must-listen!

It’s actually a conversation we had last year with Miriam Hamilton, Kyle Jung, Jess Dell’Acqua, Paul Mutz, and Madee Peterson. And is just as relevant today.

We hope that it’s your first step in joining in as we lead College Life hopefully out of one of the strangest and most challenging seasons of our lives together.

Come be a part of something! And enjoy the podcast!

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If you have ANY interest, visit collegelifedavis.com/xiifirststep to tell us what you’d like to do next.

And, if you have any questions for us for an upcoming “Ode to the Question Mark” episode, please ask those questions at collegelifedavis.com/questions

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How great were Teagan and Julia’s Tuesday Night talks?!

Welcome to our new podcast mini-series, Talks on Talks. We will be chatting with some of College Life’s Student Speakers to hear more from them about their experience preparing and giving these talks that are blessing our community.

Like anything in which the Spirit is clearly involved, even when we’re talking about the technical aspects of preparing a talk, spiritual insight and wisdom just ends up oozing out all over the place.

This episode is chalk-full of it, and we think your affection for Teagan and Julia will skyrocket…

So come join us for a nice warm cup of Recappacino… you’ll see what we mean…

And don’t forget to send us your questions for our upcoming Ode to the Question-Mark episode at collegelifedavis.com/questions!

Enjoy the podcast!

This episode was edited by Mike Loretto

I Themed a Theme is back!

We’ll be spending this quarter in the world of Corinthians, so Christian Wingate and Peter are here to help us get our bearings.

We’re once again opening this ancient mail and eavesdropping on the conversation.

What was ancient Corinth like? Why does that matter? Why are there two letters to the Corinthians, again? If these letters were written way back then, how does it impact my life right now?

Come for the tour of Corinthians, stay for Christian-being-Christian and Peter-being-Peter.

And don’t forget to send us your questions for our upcoming Ode to the Question-Mark episode at collegelifedavis.com/questions!

Enjoy the podcast!

This episode was edited by Mike Loretto

We’re one year old!

It’s Your Pod and Your Staff’s birth week and we thought we’d celebrate by going back to our roots. We are re-releasing our first ever episode.

In this episode, Stanford and Peter discussed the ways they were thinking about the Coronavirus. What should or could our posture be during difficult times like these? Do we look for the silver lining? Do we have faith and ignore fear? Do we have blind hope? Do we have the exact same looking anxieties as everyone else?

It’s got everything you love: Stanford being Stanford, Peter doing accents, attempts at bringing Biblical truths to bear on the here-and-now, and, of course, Quarantine Corner.

Chances are, if you listen to this show, you’ve heard this episode. But chances also are, that this year has changed you like it’s changed many people and you might be a different person now then you were then, and we think that person might want to hear this stuff, too.

We’re doing an Ode to the Question Mark: Q&A Episode soon! Send us your questions at collegelifedavis.com/questions

Thanks for supporting the podcast! It’s been the best part of a very hard time.

Enjoy the podcast!