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Episode 66 Sunia Gibbs UMC pastor at The Groves in Portland, Oregon. Born in South Korea and raised in Minneapolis, Sunia arrived in Portland to work with the Assemblies of God campus ministries at Portland State University. Through the United Methodist church, Sunia became a church planter and worked at restoring and renewing and rooting the church in the neighborhood.  We cover a lot of gro...

Craig and Cody connect for a shorter episode to discuss two topics in particular: The recent wave of retirements in the world of professional athletics (headlined by Tom Brady) prompts Cody to ask: When do you know it’s time to quit? We don’t leave the discussion in the realm of sports—we talk about careers, ministry, and relationships. The conversation naturally flows to the popular topic of deco...

Cody and Craig visit with Katie Hargrove. Katie was also with us in earlier episodes, Episode 52: Kalie and Pride Month , and Episode 53: Kaile, A Look at Genesis 1 & 2 . Kaile is a pastor at First Christian Church of Decatur, Ga., and a seminary student. In the midst of Kalie’s seminary education, suddenly her academic world was changed when her school informed her that they could not accept...

When we first started, we outlined our podcast conversations around the daily liturgy - kinda. We even had an offering of sorts where we’d ask for money to support the podcast and the sponsor (themissionplace.org). But rather than having a benediction at the end, we would have a “Two-Minute Warning.” In football, the two-minute warning represents a fast-paced offense, and an edge-of-your-seat defe...

We spoke with Tobin, Professor of African American Studies, several months ago ( https://www.themissionplace.org/allthatsholybluecollar/episode45 ) and learned that he wasn’t keeping up with University of Montana Football (nonetheless, Go Griz). We speak to Tobin again and meet his long-time friend and partner in struggle to dismantle racism, Dr. Regina Shands Stoltzfus of Goshen College. Regina i...

 Black Friday Record Store Day https://recordstoreday.com/ Listen to Cody rattle off new pressings of albums and some pressed-again (not repressed) albums. Buy Black Friday – https://twitter.com/BBFInitiative https://twitter.com/blkfoodfridays Small Business Saturday, November 27, 2021 https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/shop-small/

Jacob and Katie O'Neall Eckeberger, aka My Anchor Holds, write and perform music “music for those with an evolving faith.” We had a really fun conversation with them as we learned about their musical/theological journey. But before we got into that conversation, Cody and Craig were marveling at one of the events in sports culture. The Washington Post had reported that a pair of Michael Jordan’s us...

The F Episode: How to Have an Enemy This is the F episode, perhaps it seems we don’t know our letters well. Don’t we mean frenemies , you might be asking yourself. But no! Cody and Craig do stick with the letter “F” through our 50-plus minutes of banter and commentary and opinion, before getting into conversation with our guest. Some the F’s we talk about include: ·     &n...

On this episode (LONG in the making but well worth the wait), Cody and Craig quickly discuss a few S topics before chatting with their guest Dominique DuBois Gilliard (author of Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege . Episode 57: Subversively Sly Sunshine (with Guest Dominique DuBois Gilliard) ATHBP Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconcil...

Craig and Cody make a majestically triumphant return! And this time, they keep the alphabet momentum going by showcasing the letter “M,” including an interview with a new band called Thinking About You Underwater (TAYU). Mayhem, Magic Beans, and Meteorology Craig recounts the mishaps on his trek home from Arizona, featuring motor vehicle mayhem, a magic coffee concoction he discovered at a coffee...

With Joe, we tackle the following “F” topics: Food & Faith We discuss how the pandemic led Joe to discover a passion for cooking food at home with his family and learning the joy of discovery, creativity, and “ownership” with his children when it comes to preparing and eating food How the restaurant industry is showing the church how to face the new normal, coming out of the pandemic Joe share...

Keeping the alliteration theme going, Craig and Cody talk about the letter “O” on this episode! Opening with some, um… QUESTIONABLE (at best) beatboxing and a MUCH too deep of a dive into the anthropological implications of Disney’s Pinocchio (although some profound things were definitely accidentally said), we moved quickly to our O topics for the day: OHTANI Like every other baseball fan (and an...

Kalie joins us once again— last installment, Kalie shared with us her personal story of transition and embracing fully who she is. This time, Kalie drops some insight on familiar scripture, Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. Highlights from this episode include: How LGBTQ+ people fit in to the creation narrative. The ways our cultural views shape our take on the creation story, and vice versa. Kalie notes t...

Keeping the alliteration theme going, Craig and Cody are joined by Kalie— a transgender woman serving as associate pastor and intern at a congregation in Decatur, GA. This is the first episode of a two-part conversation with Kalie— the highlights of this episode include: Pride Flags and marketing— is the embrace of Pride Month by corporate giants and professional sports leagues capitalism run amok...

episode 51 the “b” episode We got a bit alliterative. We got hung up on the letter “b”. No, you did not miss the “a” episode. And with Code-man Cody and Crash-test Craig, we’ve got the letter “c” covered already. This week we stay with this wonderful letter and allow it to usher us into theological imagination, homiletical insights, as well as a helping us to further the missio dei (see if you can...

episode 50 Christine Longhurst: will worship “get back to normal”? Professor of Music and Worship, Dr. Christine Longhurst is our interview this week. However, Cody and Craig hadn’t talked for along time and had a lot of catching up to do. After a few minutes of us gabbing, if you want to hear some real wisdom, forward to 1:24 into the episode and listen to Christine Longhurst discuss her research...

After spending a number of years talking and thinking about Paul, Kurt Willems realized he wanted to talk about Jesus as the “center of faith.” Kurt’s first book, Echoing Hope: How the humanity or Jesus redeems our pain , provides reflections and exercises and practices to allow the reader to participate.  Echoing Hope is published by WaterBrook . Follow Kurt on social media on Facebook , Ins...

Cody introduces us to Anthony Smith, pastor, poet, and imaginaut in Salsbury, NC. Anthony introduces us to a lot of incredible perspectives on Black History Month. Linking Black History month to liturgical imagination and historical reflection, Anthony brings out some remarkable insights. Around the 40:00 minute mark, Cody and Craig learn about unlearning whiteness and about “would-be” white peopl...

episode 46: positively seinfeldian Positively, no negatively. Seinfeldian, seinfeldish, maybe even incorporating seinfeldianizationary rhetoric. If you are aware of the show, Seinfeld, you might now how the show was described: https://youtu.be/EQnaRtNMGMI In a wide-ranging conversation, Craig and Cody talked about something. A lot of somethings , even. But just nothing in particular. However we di...

Episode 45: Tobin Miller Shearer (Before we get too far, my mic died. I sound terrible. Sorry for hurting your ears -Craig) Following up on last week’s conversation regarding Lent and Ash Wednesday, we get to premiere a wonderful song just in time for your Ash Wednesday time of worship. From Katie and Jacob Eckeberger, better known as, My Anchor Holds , is their newest song, Ashes.  “We love...

In keeping with our New Year’s Resolution to look into the upcoming lectionary themes at the beginning of each month, we take most of this episode to discuss themes, approaches, and a few resources for Ash Wednesday and Lent. Along the way, we talk about Denver’s need for more heroes as we listen to the newest record yet, by Five Iron Frenzy. Check out their website and YouTube page for more infor...

Episode 43: Drew Hart In this episode, we have a conversation with Dr. Drew Hart, Assistant Professor of Theology at Messiah University , Mechanicsburg PA. Drew has written two books which both tell his own story as an African American in predominantly white spaces, as well as provide directions for discipleship to dismantle racism. Our conversation is wide ranging and covers Drew’s personal story...

Enjoying the Days of Christmas following Kate Bowler’s Facebook page -   The Catalonian poopper Pet Peeves about New Year's? Bringing in the New Year vs Ringing in the New Year Best year in review show: Death to 2020 on Netflix Rotten Tomatoes rating is only 29%, which tells you more about me, I suppose. Trailer https://youtu.be/veUqfcyZ_Bo Theological issues for 2021? 1.   &nb...

"Make these messes matter, make this chaos count" Cody and Craig discuss the Christmas star and Covid on eyelids, as well as a lot of other meaningless and profound things.  Cody talks about story while Craig bakes bread. We discuss stories and Christmas preparations; Christmas and church life; and turns toward ranting about seasonal pet-peeves. Craig gets all worked up over the misuse of the...