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Episode Notes Kimberley Guilfoyle is the kind of character who shows up a lot these days, and shows up a lot in American history: demagogue. Her personal history is checkered, as she has been the first lady of California, married to Democratic Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom, and is currently dating Donald Trump Junior. She doesn't have a consistent allegiance, or an agenda, other than to rema...

Episode Notes Recently, Shaun King, writer and activist , made this unusual proposition: “Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been… They are a gross form [of] white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down.” This idea has gotten the kind of reception...

Episode Notes Episode 28: Christ Jesus Not Necessarily the Good News Good ways to hold the bible: in both hands, under your arm, resting on your lap, or with a lectern. Bad ways to hold the bible: upside down in your fist over your head as though it were a bludgeoning weapon after ordering peaceful protesters and clergy tear gassed and removed so you can be photographed in front of a church that y...

Episode Notes Cannon Fodder Two Sikh doctors in Canada, brothers, made the difficult decision to shave their beards in order to serve their patients. Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/16/health/sikh-doctors-beards-coronavirus-trnd/index.html The More You Know We can assume, safely, that Jesus existed. This is not a joke; there was a historical-critical trend that denied that Jesus existed at al...

Episode Notes Too Cool for Sunday School Maybe you weren't really paying attention that Sunday Morning.. Maybe church wasn't a part of your upbringing at all. There are Bible stories that you may have heard referenced, but you don't know the details of. Now you can do a little catching up. Today we will talk about another Bible story so popular that it is often cited outside of a religious context...

Episode Notes Your Own Personal Jesus This week we face the terrors of Covid 19, but together, bravely in an entry of Your Own Personal Jesus Lemuel: Bishop Gereald Glenn of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Virginia passed away last week at the age of 66. He had tested positive for Covid 19 a month earlier, but insisted on continuing to hold services, and encouraged others...

Episode Notes The More You Know Because of the safety considerations that governments have put into place, Easter services will not be held at many churches around the world. Because of these safety restrictions, especially those about social distancing and gathering in groups, the regular traditional Good Friday and Easter services will be done through the internet and television without public p...

Episode Notes Canon Fodder Tonight we will declare a living person in a state of bliss: Jose Andres. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/03/17/jose-andres-says-people-have-to-eat-so-his-shuttered-restaurants-are-now-community-kitchens/ https://wck.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Andr%C3%A9s https://catholicexchange.com/jose-andres-famous-chef-catholic-humanitarian...

Episode Notes The More You Know When we last approached the topic, we were speaking about a recent development in the news: Paula White, presidential advisor and false prophet, had prayed for spiritual abortions for the satanic conspiracies against president trump. We know there is not a demonic master plan led by the democratic party, but this brings up an interesting topic. Why are fundamentalis...

Episode Notes We have discussed the National Prayer Breakfast before. It is a yearly, eccumencal event held in Washington D.C. and since 1980, in the Washington Hilton Ballroom. It is hosted by members of congress, and organized by the Fellowship Foundation, though attendance for the event is not restricted to Christians. President Trump followed the keynote speaker for the event, Professor Arthur...

Episode Notes Episode 19: Spiritual Warfare Part 1 The More You Know Today we will begin a discussion on the topic of Spiritual Warfare. It has been brought up in the context of a recent bizarre statement by prosperity minster and not so spiritual advisor, Paula White. Just a few weeks ago she made this strange declaration during a sermon: “We command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now!...

Episode Notes Get The Behind Me, Felicia According to Genesis, after Noah's flood God put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of His promise that He would never again destroy the earth with flood (Genesis 9:13–17): “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” So why, in its wisdom, did Kentucky’s Whitefield Academy, a Christian private school,...

Not Necessarily the Good News On December 18. 2019 the House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. During the hearings, Congressman Barry Loudermilk, representative of Georgia’s 11th district, made the following claim: “When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers,”...

Episode Notes This week, we become war correspondents, creeping around the no man’s land of discarded wrapping paper and ribbons, to address the (fictional) war on Christmas and its heinous roots. Then, we talk about some of our Christmas traditions. Find us on Twitter: @WithoutWorksPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/withoutworks Email @ withoutworkspod@gmail.com Transcripts available at our i...

Episode Notes A freewheeling conversation about the first Christmas. The Christmas story is something that everything thinks they know, but they might have missed the details or the meaning of the story as a whole. Many people are familiar with the details because of Charles Schultz. He decided to include a speech on the true meaning of Christmas in the 1965, “Charlie Brown Christmas,” television...

Episode Notes Great Moments In Christian American History A beka books was started as part of a curriculum of Christian education developed by Arlin Horton, who went on to found Pensacola Christian College, an independent liberal arts college in Pensacola Florida. It was founded in 1972 and named after Horton’s wife, Rebecca, who helped him found PCC two years later. The history books while inform...

Episode Notes Hidden Jesus Jesus and his story are very much a part of our living culture. His story shows up in the strangest places. Lemuel will name a film or book and Amity will look for the Jesus story hidden within it. Not Necessarily the Good News We discuss the Hell House phenomena and try to understand the why of it. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-ham-halloween-hell n 5dad32e2e4b0f34e...

Episode Notes Episode 13: Minimum Wages of Sin Not Necessarily the Good News In September of this year, a story was reported out of Blackwell OK. A young man had come out to his parents early in the spring of this year. Since then, he and his boyfriend had repeatedly been invited to come to the First Assembly of God Church, the church that this young man had attended with his family prior to his c...

Episode Notes Canon Fodder Greta Thunberg Autumn Peltier Jamie Margolin https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15 spm final.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Peltier https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/politics/zero-hour-climate-march.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/world/youth-environment-activists-greta-thunberg-trnd/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-s...

Episode Notes Pilars of Strength Deborah, judge and prophet, sat under a date palm while people brought their moral questions and situations. Sometimes, she received messages from God. One message was to a man named Barak. This is the story of what commenced when she delivered that message. Stand Up and Testify http://www.pbs.org/food/shows/great-british-baking-show/ https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03...

Episode Notes The subject of the second coming, and the rapture, if they are different things, are argued about in evangelical churches. The basic concept is the same: as promised, Jesus Christ will return to the earth and sweep up all of his loyal followers who will rush up to meet him in the sky. Christ will then abandon the earth and a period of evil and tribulation will follow. Demons, monster...

Episode Notes Immigration People claiming Christianity are actively attempt to prevent Christians from immigrating into the United States. We discuss the crisis at the southern border, the hypocrisy and dishonesty of the current administration and anyone who supports these concentration camps as fundamentally anti-Christian. Sources: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/conservative-christians-immig...

Episode Notes Introduction Opening discussion of the term Thoughts and Prayers, the meanings behind the words, and the direct link between them and the premise and title of our show: "Prayer that doesn't lead to concrete action toward our brothers is a fruitless and incomplete prayer. [...] Prayer and action must always be profoundly united" - Pope Francis. The More You Know We learn about Charasm...

Episode Notes Introduction Your Own Personal Jesus Abortion - How to reconcile two sides that are arguing different points https://juicyecumenism.com/2018/07/02/rachel-held-evans-abortion/ https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/pro-life-voting-for-hillary-clinton https://time.com/vault/issue/1969-11-28/page/72/ https://books.google.com/books?id=6lAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Allen+Hinand&a...

Episode Notes Introduction Your Own Personal Jesus Abortion - the 5 W’s and the Christian point of view https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/tough-questions-answers-late-term-abortions-law-women-who-get-them/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.41681633ec39 https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states?gclid=Cj0KCQjwl6LoBRDqARIsABllMSYwIQoLPMV1doAt4UO15JhhAZTBqLRjRgAs...