The Happy Rant

In this episode Ted and Ronnie wander to and fro through a variety of topics: The movie,  Air,  and the work of Damon and Affleck What if Damon and Affleck partner with us on a movie project? Downton Abbey , the second movie  Pastoral perspectives on death scenes in movies For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Th...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Everything is grim and nothing is funny Is the church 7-10 years behind culture or 70 years behind it?  How the church can respond to culture instead of imitating it Goblin mode: the squalor of soul  The monolith of anxiety and how we can't approach it with nuance Redefining failure and disappointment For more...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: How would your 20-year-old self view your current self? How did we find our way into our gifts and callings? Where do we see ourselves in another twenty years? Ministry, retirement, and raising up young people For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering T...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Quintessential Gen X movies The Gen X ethos of opposing baby boomers Gen X icons (living and dead) Misery as a brand Anxiety is the new cynicism For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter All That Much (an...

In this episode Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Middle aged birthdays: the moods, celebrations, and gifts that make them awful or wonderful Why La La Land is the MOST millennial movie  How we move on from dreams and pursuits well For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Do...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Why Millennial movies kind of stink The rise of casual profanity Self-conscious story telling The millennial love of irony Consumption as a persona builder For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter All Th...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Gen Z stinks at tech support Gen Z and email Dealing with texts from non-friends Gen Z can't do humor Gen Z as elite processors of information For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter All That Much (and...

This episode includes all the usual wandering to and fro, but in a very different way than usual: it includes every single one of the live Q&A's that Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas have done since 2017. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this abundant collection of absurd and clever and dumb and brilliant questions and responses. TIME STAMPS: Q&A 1 - 00:01:42 Q&A 2 - 00:50:15 Q&A 3 - 1:31:00...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: What other posters need a "Clearly Reformed"  website? (Tim Keller, Matt Chandler, Steve Furtick, Francis Chan, Andy Stanley, Carl Truman, etc.) Violated reality Asbury Revival responses and the tendency toward skepticism Asbury responses by theological camp, especially reformed Can you have a "social media mi...

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In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: The Satanic Grammys and Satan's big trick Reformed reactions to the Grammy's BREAKING NEWS: Kevin DeYoung is Clearly Reformed Birthday requests for grown ups (especially pastors) For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things T...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Tom Brady's retirement and Jared C. Wilson's grief How we would counsel Tom Brady A little shameless self-promotion How ChatGPT will affect ministry and preaching For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Why is porn the only sin men talk about any more? Why reformed people often struggle to talk about heart stuff How we avoid the vulnerable stuff by silence  and by talking Our outlook on life by decade - 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety ion topics: What new things do we still try to keep up with? The performative aspects of keeping up with new things Fullbacks and casseroles Extricating ourselves from awkward conversations Names that will not work for theologians For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: W...

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Pastors and Apple Watches (and John Piper's mishap) Preaching motions, gesticulations, and mobility How pastoral fashion affects pastoral output What it looks like for pastors to dress their age Becoming "dad" instead of "a guy" Doing the Daddest things For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis che...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: What New Year's resolutions are the best for being pretentious and superior? A draft of the best movie plot and character devices and why we love them For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter Al...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: Ted has a big confession and needs help litigating it from Ronnie and Barnabas What does one do when one has NO CHRISTMAS TREE Piper Family Christmas decorations For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: 1. How year-end book lists are planned and put together (make it about me, posture a bit, be well-rounded, etc.) 2. Incorporating theology, history, Wendell Berry, biographies, and more 3. Barnabas and Ronnie's year-end book list line-up from 1-9 For more ranting, conversation, and cultural a...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: 1. The outrage and controversy over churches meeting on Christmas 2. Deviating from a sermon series for Advent 3. Variations in Church Christmas decorations 4. Christmas pastor attire Santa as a type of Christ For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy...

In this episode of The Happy Rant, Ted and Ronnie wander to and fro through a variety of topics: 1. Pastor voices 2. How does a pastor come across authentically from the pulpit? 3. Fake intellectual pastors and theological verbiage 4. Wanting to be liked vs. wanting to appear smart For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Throug...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas do something a little different. Instead of wandering to and fro they offer up three free chapters from the audiobook of The Happy Rant. Chapter 1: Evangelical Fame (We do weird stuff with Christian celebrity.) Chapter 8: Evangelical Money Guilt (Why are Christians so weird about money?) Chapter 14: Manly Men (What is manhood? What makes...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: 1) The big three for men in the church (according to a tweeter): Money, Sex, and Fitness 2) Are men actually leaving the church? 3) What men actually need in church 4) Learning leadership right For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: 1. Why are people so aggressive about when they start Christmas? 2. Identity everything - claiming and defending holidays or anything else 3. When is aggression the right response to anything? 4. Holding your ground vs. being an aggressive jerk 5. How the insistence of having a take feeds agg...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: 1. The death of cool as a thing 2. Our stories of growing up in the church 3. Growing out of cage stage calvinism 4. Post Young, Restless Reformed church For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter...

In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics: 1. Our feelings about Halloween and experiences with it growing up 2. Ronnie’s experience at a college football game 3. Halloween costumes by enneagram numbers 4. Why we love writing (especially since we’ve griped about it a lot) For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out...