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Show Notes Not Necessarily the Good News https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154880673/jesus-commercial-super-bowl-billboard-he-gets-us-hobby-lobby-evangelical-billion https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec/index.html https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/march/he-gets-us-ad-campaign-branding-jesus-church-marketing.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viSIMcWAe48...

Show Notes Not Necessarily the Good News https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/stories/fr-rafael-garcia-sj-fulfills-vocation-in-ministry-with-migrants/ https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/sacred-heart-church-provides-shelter-to-all-migrants-regardless-of-legal-status-immigration-el-paso-texas-border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_HPOPYrilw https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145245308/el-paso-migrants-c...

Show Notes Episode 53: Bearing Witness Cannon Fodder Jan Karski Stand Up and Testify Amity: This is the segment where we tell a personal story about something that we are grateful for. Lemuel: A few episodes ago we talked about my health issues. Late last year I discovered that the almost staggering pain in my back were not a pulled muscle, but an unusual , frankly rare case of coccidioidomycosis....

Show Notes L emuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: This week we have a special open conversation. It will start with one of lemuel’s many sad memories of childhood, and end with reviewing how it affected his view of Halloween. I, as t...

Episode Notes Episode 51: Love and Happiness Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: We start with a story of a man who is a shame to the cloth in a short segment of Get the Behind Me, Felicia Lemuel: I will start the conversation this...

Episode Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: This week we are discussing church and state - how it is supposed to be separate and how our activist court is eroding that separation. The first amendment to the US Constitution st...

Episode 49: Jesus is for Closers Not Necessarily the Good News Amity: “The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy...

Episode Notes Not Necessarily the Good News President, Dictator, and former KGB Head Vladimir Putin was attending a rally in March in support of his actions against Ukraine. This was early in the war, and over 20,000 Russians attended the rally, mostly those who support Putin’s aggression and his dream of recreating an empire. Putin had given reasons before the invasion of Ukraine including stoppi...

Episode Notes Not Necessarily the Good News Just a few months ago former national security advisor Michael Flynn made this statement:  “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.” He did this at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas, the bully pulpit of Evangelical misogynist, anti-semite, and homop...

Episode Notes As we approach the holiday season we will hear a great deal of rhetoric about families and family values. We will hear about the historical importance of Thanksgiving and Christmas, and how they were both expressions of Christian values. Christmas is a religious holiday that has been adopted by all kinds of people as a secular celebration. Thanksgiving is no less religious, and it ha...

Episode Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: This week we complete our conversation  on Saint Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know.   The More You Know Lemuel: We have covered the negative aspects of Saint Paul, at least the as...

Episode Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: This week we continue an exploration to investigate influential and problematic saint  Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know. First we are going to Texas to discuss why we don’t live...

Episode Notes I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. This week we will talk about hypocrisy in the Church- and continue with our conversation about the most problematic declarations of a problematic saint in The More You Know. First, we are going to...

Episode Notes This week we continue an exploration to investigate influential and problematic St. Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know.  But first we’re going to visit the Supreme Court in a brief detour of Not Necessarily the Good News.  Not Necessarily the Good News In its final week of session, SCOTUS ruled in favor of a Philidelphia Catholic charity that wouldn’t allow same-sex foster parents....

Episode Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: This week we will begin an exploration of an equally influential and problematic saint in The More You Know. But first a moment of prayer in Not Necessarily the Good News. Not Neces...

Episode Notes This week we do something a little different as we go to media for our source. We watched 1960's Inherit the Wind, based on a play based on a trial set in the south in the 1920s pitting a school teacher against the state for uttering Charles Darwin's name in his class. We discuss the spectacle, the oration, the acting and the ice cream alongside some name drops (Ussher, we see you) a...

Episode Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Today, a short exploration into the work of Bishop Usher. But first, Amity has a condemnation of the Vatican she would like to speak to. Amity: I am using my inherent white woman power to...

Episode Notes Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works. Amity: Today we will investigate an instance of heathen idolatry a CPAC. Yes, someone a actually made and worshipped a golden idol. There is a historical precedent for this, and we discuss...

Episode Notes Get Thee Behind Me, Felicia! I want to speak a moment about US Representative from the state of Georgia Margery Taylor Greene. This woman makes me want to say some very rude and uncharitable things but I am an adult and will do my best to engage with this subject in a mature way. Ms. Greene is a white woman from the south that subscribes to several conspiracy theories and has a long...

Episode Notes This week a touch of good news with a large group of clergy finally taking a stand on the right side of history and then we get further into our series on Creationism. Stand Up and Testify Last month, more than 370 religious leaders from around the world are calling for a global ban on conversion therapy.  The declaration, spearheaded by the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Live...

Episode Notes For our first episode of the new year, we will spend a little time discussing a positive step for our country in Canon Fodder, and Lemuel visit an interest he’s had since childhood and discuss dinosaurs, and how they fit into the fundamentalist narrative in, The More You Know. Canon Fodder 2021 has already been quite a year. Within the first week, the sitting president of the United...

Episode Notes Today we will have an open discussion about bad Supreme Court decisions and COVID in, “Not Necessarily the Good News.” Then, we learn about the prodigal son in, “The More You Know. NOT NECESSARILY THE GOOD NEWS: When we spoke last about the Supreme Court, it was in reference to the latest addition - at that time only a nominee - now a full fledged justice who is already on the wrong...

Episode Notes We have a freeform discussion about the election, the results, the meanings of both and where we go next. Find us on Twitter: @WithoutWorksPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withoutworks Email @ withoutworkspod@gmail.com Transcripts available at our internet home: www.withoutworkspodcast.com Find out more at https://without-works.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast .

Episode Notes Today we will have an open discussion about Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett in, “Not Necessarily the Good News.” And we will explore saviorhood, and how it does not apply to Donald Trump in, “The More You Know. NOT NECESSARILY THE GOOD NEWS: Judge Amy Coney Barrett is from the South and Midwest. Her career has been largely spent teaching while raising seven children, includin...

Episode Notes First up, on Friday, September 18th a cry went out over the land as the women of this country learned of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At 87, she had fought off colon cancer and several bouts of pancreatic cancer but was unable to overcome it one last time. On September 25th, she became the first woman and the first Jewish person to lie in state at the state...