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Too often, political and/or religious ideologies stop open dialog. It’s time to speak freely and break down the barriers that keep people separated. Let’s have an inappropriate conversation about …
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May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014
39 min
Whether membership must focus on a single church, as if fidelity is more to a congregation than to Christ?
May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014
1hr 1 min
Imagine that everything you ever have done and everything you ever will do has either already happened in a single flash of "time" or is happening now. Everything. We are only aware of an echo, a flow from that moment of reality, and it appears to proceed horizontally to us. What if the bigger picture functions vertically, though, and instantaneously? Our perspective on several theological concepts would be very different, and so would our relationships.
Different Drummer: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014
1hr 21 min
A long trip and a long interval between podcasts may call for a long episode. This nostalgia show covers my recent journey through England, Scotland, and Wales. Please, mind the gap while you are listening to this show. Our next stop will be the verticality of time. Thanks for listening!
Different Drummer: John Peel
Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014
43 min
Whether the concept of tithing applies to the giver or to the church as the receiver?
Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014
39 min
Whether the notion of "things we don't discuss in church" is strangling our ministry?
Mar 16, 2014
Mar 16, 2014
42 min
Rather than noting what is in this World Storytelling Day episode, I'll note what is regrettably missing.
* Not much personal storytelling, despite a commitment to return to nostalgia a few weeks ago.
* Repeating some material from Inappropriate Conversations #50 about Lilo & Stitch.
* Insufficient callout to the band The Peddlers for the theme song to The Lost Continent.
* Planned but forgot to connect the "sound" of Dana Gillespie to Candye Kane.
* Missed an opportunity to feature at least a clip from the blues singing of the Different Drummer.
* Perhaps even fell short on fully noting the impact of an actress and costume designer on me at a young age.
Despite missing some elements, the "monsters and dragons" topic for storytellers this March 20 brought out my memories of good monsters, both literally and ironically.
Different Drummer: Dana Gillespie
Mar 9, 2014
Mar 9, 2014
43 min
Whether condemnation of a denomination based on its lack of prejudice is really more of an endorsement?