What happens when missionally minded folks, who are also into sports and athletics, combine their passions for reading, cooking, and preaching and spend time talking together? Hopefully a thoughtful conversation with unexpected connections: NFL draft and the nature of the Holy Spirit; preaching as outlined in baking recipes; batting averages, what triple-doubles have to do with what it means to be a church of mutual accountability. We are allergic to big words, but not big ideas. DISCLAIMER: Profound things will be said, but it will be entirely by accident.
A belated happy new year. We’re finally showing up here.
As the year begins, we look at the upcoming Super Bowl, and will be focusing on the Academy Awards.
And just because Craig was feeling nostalgic, the transition music is all from Five Iron Frenzy’s musical search for Reese Roper’s pants (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uUktkM7ir8L0mJgS0pmPK?si=ce6eede192284b55).
And, as we recognize Lent is coming soon, we are looking for suggested acronyms for Lent. We try out a few and are looking for some more! Send us your LENTen acronyms!
28 Dec 2023
episode 91: a rising christmastide, Tom Joad & spilled milk
After getting it figured out what time of the year it is (year’s end - Gregorian calendar, year’s beginning - lectionary calendar), we agree it is Christmastide.
Odd word, “Christmastide”, but as of this recording, it is the 4th Day of Christmas, so the Christmas tide is still rising.
As always we begin with random talk about bagels and smoothly segue into hefty theological discussions and conversations about lists. This is the season of lists. The best of the year, the worst of the year, and more. We look at some of those often overlooked lists.
Here are some links for what we discussed:
Google Search Trends (https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2023/GLOBAL/)
Worst Things to Spill in Your Car (https://www.thrillist.com/cars/the-worst-things-you-can-spill-in-a-car-food-and-drink-that-will-leave-stains-and-ruin-interiors)
Varieties of Axe Fragrances (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Axe_products)
And the inventor of auto-tune, Dr Andy Hildebrand (https://www.grammy.com/news/dr-andy-hildebrand-honored-recording-academy-special-merit-award)
(Apologies to Botticelli’s Nativitiy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystical_Nativity#/media/File:Mystic_Nativity,_Sandro_Botticelli.jpg), thanks PhotoShop Generative Fill AI)
21 Dec 2023
episode 90: deconstructed macaroons & theology of sport
Cody and Craig discussed the process of deconstructing theological assumptions by thinking about coconut macaroons, letting go of beliefs that are no longer true or beneficial, and the potential for reconstructing beliefs to align with a deeper truth.
We’ve been using Sesh.com (https://sesh.com/about/seshappforzoom) (Dear Sesh, sponsorship?) to guide our conversations. It’s a great app that can work with Zoom. By providing a shareable agenda, with timers, meetings can stay on topic and on time. As an added bonus, we’ve been using the “ice-breaker” feature, which poses random questions, to begin and end our conversations.
The conversation also covered a range of other topics including, sports as panentheistic (big word warning: we go against our own motto about not using big words), Christmas celebrations beyond Christmas Day, and experiences at various gourmet restaurants.
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