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Our guest is Austin McLaughlin. He works with Bridges International at the University of Tennessee!Listen
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2:55 – Who Austin And Kayla McLaughlin Are 4:20 – What It Was Like To Grow Up In A Home With A Catholic Dad And Protestant Mom 9:40 – How Austin Met Kayla (They Fell In Love In Sweden…) 15:20 – Why Easy Dating Is Boring 24:20 – Why They Decided To Go Back To Knoxville 29:10 – How It’s Going So Far 43:55 – Favorite Book, TV Show, Movie 46:40 – Best Meal He’s Had Recently 48:05 – The Nerdiest Thing He’s Into Right Now 50:00 – The Billboard QuestionLinks
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Our guest is Matt Morginsky. He’s planting pastor at Grace and Peace Church here in Denver!Listen
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3:00 – Who Matt Morginsky Is And What He Does! 6:00 – Why They Chose To Plant In Denver 8:00 – How A Pastoral Residency Helps People Prepare To Plant 10:20 – Thoughts On How To Listen To God 15:20 – What It Means To “Wait In Motion” 18:05 – Challenges And Successes With Church Planting So Far 24:50 – Specific Ways To Pray For And Support Them 28:30 – Favorite TV Shows, Movies, And Books As Of Late 32:00 – Best Meal He’s Had Recently 34:00 – Nerdiest Thing He’s Into Right Now 37:15 – The Billboard QuestionLinks
- Grace and Peace Church
- The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
- Surprised by the Voice of God
- Black Panther
- The Last Jedi
- Better Call Saul
- Stranger Things
- A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
- War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
- Welton Street Cafe
- The Rolling Pin Bakeshop
- Curtis Park Deli
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Our guest is Jason Procopio. He planted Connection Church in Paris, France.Listen
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3:45 – Who Jason Procopio Is (And How He Met “The Only French Girl In Florida”) 6:30 – How John Piper Became His “Gateway Drug” 10:45 – How To Pronounce The Name Of Their Church 11:30 – How They Decided To Plant In The Heart Of Paris (After Initially Saying It Was The One Place They Wouldn’t Plant) 16:25 – Challenges They’ve Faced As They’ve Planted 21:55 – Successes They’ve Seen Since Planting 31:20 – What To Do When You Run Out Of Space (Spoiler: They’re Not Sure) 33:10 – How The Terroristic Acts Of 2015 Effected Them 40:20 – How To Support And Pray For Them 46:20 – Favorite Show / Book He’s Watched / Read RecentlyLinks
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Our guest is Dan Marotta. He planted Redeemer Anglican Church in Richmond, Virginia.Listen
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3:15 – Who Dan Marotta Is, And What He Does 6:35 – How He Discerned God’s Call To Move To Richmond And Plant A Church 12:20 – Challenges And Successes He’s Faced Since Planting 18:00 – How They’ve Navigated Racial Tensions In Virginia 21:30 – How You Can Pray For Them 24:20 – Favorite Book / TV Show / Move As Of Late 25:50 – Best Meal He’s Had Recently 26:35 – The Nerdiest Thing He’s Into Right Now 28:03 – Where He Would Put A Billboard And What It Would SayLinks
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Our guest is Barnabas Piper. He’s the author of The Pastor’s Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
, Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not the Enemy of Faith
, and The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life
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2:30 – Who Barnabas Piper is, and what he does 9:15 – Assumptions that people make about pastor’s kids 14:15 – How pastor’s kids would be treated in an ideal world 16:25 – What led him to write a book titled “Help My Unbelief” 20:40 – What Jacob wrestling with God teaches us about life 24:55 – Why Christian curiosity is vital 30:00 – Why humility and curiosity are inextricably linked 32:00 – Favorite TV show as of late 33:00 – Favorite book as as of late 38:00 – Best hot chicken in Nashville (and where it came from) 39:40 – Where he would put a billboard, and what it would sayLinks
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Our guest is Kelley Nikondeha. She’s the author of Adopted: The Sacrament of Belonging in a Fractured World
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1:30 – Who Kelley Nikondeha is 5:00 – What compelled her to write her book 7:30 – How to think about theology and adoption 11:10 – How to help adopted kids understand that they belong in their family 14:00 – What grasshopper pie is 16:30 – How to have the “you are adopted” conversation with your kids 19:30 – How to work through potential bitterness with the birth mom 30:00 – Challenges associated with raising children of a different ethnicity 35:30 – How to think about the financial costs associated with adoption 39:30 – Favorite TV Shows 40:20 – Favorite Recent Meal 41:30 – Nerdiest Thing She’s Into 44:30 – Where She’d Put A Billboard, And What It Would SayLinks
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Our guest is Jemar Tisby. He’s the cofounder of the Reformed African American Network and the cohost of Pass the Mic.Listen
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2:25 – Who Jemar Tisby is 5:00 – What he learned while doing Teach For America in the Mississippi Delta 7:35 – Why he decided to go from being a teacher to a seminary student 9:45 – Why he decided to get his PhD in History 12:35 – Why the confederate statues went up (and why they must come down) 14:20 – The history of white supremacy in American churches 17:30 – Recommended resources on the history of segregation in the American church 21:50 – Lessons he learned from being in a multi-ethnic church 26:10 – The best way for a church to respond after an event like Charlottesville 30:15 – Longer term steps to becoming multi-ethnic 35:40 – His issue with Malcom Gladwell’s podcast about Brown vs. Board 37:45 – Why it’s so important for teachers to invest in their students (and why we need more minority teachers) 40:50 – Three books by African American authors that everyone should read 43:15 – If he could put a billboard anywhere, where it would go and what it would sayLinks
- Vice Charlottesville Documentary
- The Fierce Urgency of the Now
- The Image of God and the African American Experience
- After Charlottesville, will white pastors finally take racism seriously?
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
- Jude 3 Project
- Malcom Gladwell Podcast
- Jesus and the Disinherited
- The Coming Race War in America: A Wake Up Call
- Let Justice Roll Down
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Our guest is Karen Swallow Prior. She’s an English professor at Liberty University. She’s also the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
and Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
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