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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 say

Links

• Justified
• The Get Down
• Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing
• Peg Leg Porker
• Stoney River Steakhouse
• Good Poems
• Prince’s Chicken
• Barnabas Piper’s Website

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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 Say

Links

• The West Wing
• Game of Thrones
• Taco Flats
• Money and Possessions

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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.

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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 say

Links

• 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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1:23 – Why Dr. Prior goes by all three names (Karen Swallow Prior) 3:45 – Who she is and where she comes from 6:15 – How and why she made the move to Liberty University 9:38 – What it’s been like working at Liberty for almost 20 years now 14:03 – How she thinks about church (“It’s not about me”) 15:45 – What are legitimate criteria for leaving a church of which you are a member? 17:45 – What she does with her summers (“I sit around and eat bon bons…”) 19:00 – What her new book is about… 21:40 – What her first book – Fierce Convictions – is all about 23:25 – A great question from a listener… 30:05 – If she had to pick three classics for everybody to read, they would be… 32:15 – Best thing she’s watched recently 33:25 – Nerdiest thing she’s into right now 34:30 – Best thing / worst thing she’s seeing in this generation of students 37:30 – Best meal she’s had recently 38:15 – If she could put a billboard anywhere in the world, where would she put it, and what would it say

Links

• Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
• Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
• Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
• Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
• Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
• Broadchurch
• Get Out

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Our guest is Derek Rishmawy. He’s a PhD student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He’s also a blogger and a podcaster.

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1:55 – Who Derek Rishmawy is… 7:25 – Why he ended up studying theology at “TEDS” 10:15 – How and why he decided to pull out of ministry work to pursue further studies 16:30 – Why you might decide to NOT pursue a graduate degree 19:00 – How to minister to millennials 22:45 – Me, boiling his TGC talk down to a few sentences (and him agreeing with it) 24:45 – The four books he would put in front of every millennial 29:00 – How to balance things you feel like you “should” do vs. the things you “want” to do 35:00 – How he thinks about daily and weekly rhythms 41:15 – The worst pronunciation of his last name he’s ever heard (and the worst one he’s done to someone else’s last name) 44:45 – The best burger in Chicago… 47:45 – If he could put a billboard anywhere in the world, where would he put it, and what would it say?

Links

• The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Doctrine
• Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine)
• Biblical Authority after Babel: Retrieving the Solas in the Spirit of Mere Protestant Christianity
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Revised Edition
• Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will
• Gospel Coalition Breakout
• The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
• Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
• The Skeletons in God’s Closet: The Mercy of Hell, the Surprise of Judgment, the Hope of Holy War
• The Pursuing God: A Reckless, Irrational, Obsessed Love That’s Dying to Bring Us Home
• Knowing God
• Ecclesiastes
• The Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Anti-Climacus (Penguin Classics)
• Derek’s Website
• Derek’s Podcast
• Key and Peele – Substitute Teacher
• Au Cheval

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Andy Crouch is the author of The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, as well as Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing.

N.D. Wilson is the author of Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God’s Spoken World, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent, and a number of children’s books.

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Our guest today is Nancy Guthrie. She’s the author of, like, a million books. I won’t try to name them all, but you can find them here!

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2:10 – Why did God create Satan if He knew he would fall? 8:45 – Helpful ways to walk with people through pain and suffering (hint: show up and say something) 18:10 – How to avoid the extremes of “silent sufferer” and “over-sharer” 23:00 – Nancy’s Books!

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Nancy’s Books

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Our guest is Hannah Anderson. She’s the author of Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God’s Image, and her most recent book, Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul.

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1:05 – Who Hannah Anderson is / what she does

2:45 – How to avoid skunks / what to do if you get sprayed

6:40 – What her book Made for More is all about

9:45 – What one of her (not so) secret hopes for the book is…

11:30 – What you should do about educating your kids (Public? Private? Homeschool?)

13:40 – Why there isn’t a “right choice” when it comes to educating your kids

19:15 – What people are missing in the debate about the “Benedict Option”

24:04 – Why retreating from culture cannot work with evangelical theology

27:10 – Why you can’t call for limited government when your personal life is free of boundaries

31:10 – What she thinks the future holds for the political landscape

34:05 – Her take on Russell Moore and the SBC

37:55 – Why she wrote her new book — Humble Roots

43:30 – Which character she identifies with on Parks and Rec

44:15 – The nerdiest thing she’s into right now

46:10 – The best meal she’s had recently

47:40 – If she could put a billboard anywhere in the world, she would put it __________ and it would say ______________

Links

Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God’s Image The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul

Parks and Rec

Iditarod

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Our guest is Chris Horst. Chris is the author of Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities, and Churches, and VP of Development at Hope International.

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2:30 – The ninety second Chris Horst story

3:40 – How and why Hope International got started

4:35 – What “Microfinance” is all about and how it helps people

6:20 – Two or three inspiring stories of the work Hope has done

9:40 – What the Colorado Microfinance Alliance does

12:15 – What he means when he talks about “the dignity of work”

13:45 – What the Denver Institute for Faith and Work is doing

17:10 – What his book “Mission Drift” is all about

20:02 – Practical ideas for navigating the tension between work and family

26:05 – “Sabbatical is a circuit breaker for idolatry.”

27:15 – The book he’s working on next… (“Rooting for Rivals”)

29:19 – Favorite book he’s read recently

30:00 – Favorite TV show and movie he’s watched recently

31:00 – Nerdiest thing he’s into right now

31:55 – Best meal he’s had recently

33:00 – If he could put anything on a billboard, what would it be and where would he put it?

Links

Colorado Microfinance Alliance

Rocky Mountain Microfinance Institute

Denver Institute for Faith & Work

Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities, and Churches

EntreLeadership Podcast

Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (the Hobbit / the Fellowship of the Ring / the Two Towers / the

30 Rock

Arrival

Fantasy Baseball

Denver Biscuit Company

Park Renew – Andy Crouch

Park Renew – Jamie Smith

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Our guest is Amy (Lepine) Peterson. Amy is my sister. She’s also the author of Dangerous Territory: My Misguided Quest to Save the World.

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1:45 – The similarities between birthing a baby and birthing a book

3:40 – Who Amy Peterson is and what she does

7:00 – What the “Missionary Myth” is, and what’s unhelpful about it

9:33 – What you probably don’t know about David Brainerd’s story…

13:33 – How things often don’t mean what they seem in other countries

16:20 – Where the word “missionary” came from

17:45 – How “short-term missions trips” become a thing

19:50 – What’s problematic about short-term missions trips (flying in like little gods)

23:05 – What advice she’d give to someone considering going on a short-term missions trip

28:25 – Why she got kicked out of a country she isn’t allowed to name in southeast Asia

32:25 – How to fight for justice without casting ourselves as the heroes of the story

36:08 – How to be faithful in the mundane (when it feels like nothing you’re doing matters)

40:15 – Best movie she’s seen lately

42:15 – Best TV show she’s seen lately

44:20 – Best book she’s read lately (and how it’s helped her marriage)

47:10 – Nerdiest thing she’s into right now

48:55 – Best meal she’s had recently

52:45 – If she could put a billboard anywhere, where would she put it, and what would it say?

Links

Dangerous Territory: My Misguided Quest to Save the World Short-Term Mission: An Ethnography of Christian Travel Narrative and Experience Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work Manchester By The Sea – an Amazon Original Movie

Search Party

The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

Enneagram

Braised Short Ribs

Goat Cheese Polenta

Blue Apron

Cultivated

Fox News Article on the book / movie Silence