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This week on the summer series finale, Brandon sits down with Reverend Dr. Steve Fountain, pastor of the Largs Church of the Nazarene on the west coast of Scotland, for a conversation about the Camino de Santiago and what a 200-mile pilgrimage teaches us about walking with God.
Steve is a country boy from the American South whose winding road led through Trevecca, a PhD at the University of Glasgow, a career in medical communications, a charity with his wife Tasha, and finally a call to ministry in Scotland. In this episode he shares how he and Tasha took on the Camino Primitivo, the original and hardest route from Oviedo to Santiago, through a 95-degree heat wave, mountain climbs, and an eighteen-pound pack.
But the Camino was never really about the finish line. Steve talks about carrying a homemade journal full of prayer requests from their church and literally bearing other people’s burdens mile after mile, leaving them on rocks at shrines along the way. He reflects on meeting fellow pilgrims and the strange trust that builds with strangers, the locals who welcomed two tired pilgrims into a Wednesday evening service they stumbled into by accident, and the realization that the moments along the journey mattered far more than the arrival in Santiago.
He brings it all home with a simple pilgrim lesson for those of us who can’t walk 200 miles: simplify your day to just getting from here to here, carry as little as possible, leave behind what you don’t need, and don’t rush past the moments that actually mean the most. It’s a conversation about bodies, burdens, and what it means to actually walk with God rather than just talk about it.
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21 Aug 2026
Rev. Caleb Haynes - Earthbound Christian
In this week’s Wednesday night summer series, Rev. Caleb Haynes joins us to talk about his new book, “Earthbound Christian: Flourishing Within Limits in the Age of Infinite Growth.” He makes the case that we are not just heaven-bound people passing through - we were created for and within this earth, on purpose. The conversation covers why he opens the book with confession instead of guilt, the difference between guilt that moves us and shame that shuts us down, and why limits are not the enemy but God’s love language.
What does it look like to live a qualitative life on a normal Tuesday?How the Tower of Babel speaks to our obsession with growth and technology. Why caring for creation is a holiness and sanctification issue, and how salvation is better understood as the healing of all things rather than a ticket out of here.
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6 Aug 2026
Kevin Nye - Hope For the Mission
Kevin Nye is an author, speaker, and co-founder of the National Faith Coalition to End Homelessness. His books, Grace Can Lead Us Home and Hope for the Mission, help Christians and faith communities confront the crisis of homelessness with care, faithfulness, and best practices. In this conversation, Kevin joins us to talk about what comes after we understand the problem - how churches turn head and heart into hands and feet.
We talk about the rescue mission model: where it came from (including Jerry McCauley, who started the first one), what went wrong, and what is worth recovering. Kevin is honest about harmful practices - the transactional way basic needs get tied to conversion - but he refuses to stop at critique. The book is full of stories of churches actually getting it right: a few San Diego churches whose storage program helped more than 100 people secure housing, a mission in Oklahoma City that went from worst example to best, churches opening parking lots to people living in their cars, and organizations centering people with lived experience in leadership.
We also get into the harder questions: how to respond to NIMBY opposition, what is happening with criminalization and Housing First policy, and why Kevin ends the book by calling us to turn “I” into “we.”
If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the size of the problem and wondered what your church could actually do, this conversation is for you. Kevin’s answer is not a bigger program. It is finding one other person who wants to do something, and going from there.
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