InkleDeux Podcast

AJ and Brandon are talking about heretics, and they're being weirdly complimentary. How can heretics be helpful for the development of the faith?

This week, AJ and Brandon talk about the gnostic gospels, the various works that are written about Jesus, but aren't part of the Sacred Scriptures. Where did they come from? Why are they called gnostic? Should we read them?

This week, AJ and Brandon start a discussion about the Bible. It's such an important part of faith that sometimes, we run the risk of taking it for granted. Today, they take a brief look at the differences between the Protestant and Catholic versions of the Bible.

This week, AJ and Brandon talk about how we think God sees us and how that impacts our attempts to follow Him. It's one thing to know that God loves us, but it's a whole nother thing to really internalize and live that.

This week, Brandon drags himself from the depths of illness to talk with AJ. They start with a conversation about Brandon's entry into Tolkien's Silmarillion. After that, they find that they keep coming back to the Valar and Melkor when discussing their own struggles with selfishness and answering God's calling.

This week, AJ and Brandon talk about one of the main obstacles to carrying out our mission, the fear that it won't work, and what that failure may mean for us.

This week, AJ and Brandon talk about one of the things that gets in the way of answering our call, our limiting beliefs. What are the things that hold us back from really going all in to following where God wants us to be?

This week, AJ takes a turn talking through his journey to his call in teaching. The journey isn't complete, but every part of it matters.

This week, AJ and Brandon keep talking about the idea of mission, but this time they wrestle with our selfishness in the mission. How do we make sure we are doing what we can for the sake of the Kingdom of God instead of out of our selfish motives?

In this week's Highlight interview, AJ is joined by Taylor Schroll from Forte Catholic to talk about his journey into ministry and the things he's learned since. Make sure to give it a listen and give him a follow on all the socials with @TaylorSchroll to get more of what he has to offer.

Continuing their discussions about mission and leadership, this week AJ and Brandon are talking about the role of leaders in finding and answering our own calls. Does it matter if we have their support? Does it even matter if they know?

In this week's Highlight interview, Brandon sits down with Christopher Priebe, founder of Cultivate Coffee as well as a pastor, about how he has come to fulfill the mission he always knew he had in serving Christ. Make sure to give this a listen, because Christopher has a lot of incredible insights to share.

Finally free of technology problems, AJ and Brandon discuss the very real risks of bad leadership, especially in religious and spiritual contexts. How do we find the balance between humble submission and the responsibility of reason?

On this week's Highlight interview, Brandon sits down with Amber Hunter to discuss her journey through loss to music to help lead others to God and how she has come to offer her music as her "tears and prayers." Make sure to give her a follow on Instagram at @soul_confetti and listen to her on Spotify HERE .

Isn't technology grand? Since AJ couldn't get connected, Brandon flew solo and talked about finding and answering the calling. It's often a bit of a winding path, but there is still progress.

In this week's interview, Brandon is joined by David Bates, who co-hosts the weekly podcast  Pints With Jack , discussing the works of C.S. Lewis, the Christian apologist and author of  The Chronicles of Narnia in addition to running the website  RestlessPilgrim.net , to discuss his journey to this mission field.

This time, it's AJ's turn to bounce something he's been wrestling with off of Brandon. Starting with the German bishops, bouncing into the Book of Numbers, and eventually talking about their own experiences of authority, it was a bit of a wild ride.

This season of Highlights, we're talking to people about how they've found their calling. Brandon starts it off by sitting down with friend of the pod Robby Lashua to take another dive into his faith journey and learn from his experiences in walking with the Lord.

This week, AJ and Brandon talk about the importance of approaching the children in their lives with both justice and mercy. Obviously, we need both, but which one do we tend to start from?

This week, AJ and Brandon talk about the importance of word choice and what gets lost when we accept some of the modern "synonyms."

With the benefit of AJ spending most of the day in the chapel, he and Brandon dive in deeper on the relationship between commitment and love by looking at the example of God's relationship with His people through the Biblical covenants.

This week, AJ and Brandon discuss some of the difficulties with acknowledging how we love. So many other people and things try to tell us what how we have to feel and what it should look like, but should that matter?

AJ and Brandon finally reunite to record a new podcast. They chat about AJ's experience in the United Kingdom and the importance of both having a destination in mind, but also making sure to enjoy the journey as you're getting there.

Concluding our look back at the four loves, we finish with the highest, purest love there is: agape, the self-sacrificing love of Christ.

This week, we revisit the love of family, with its central importance to the health of the human community.