Hope and Other Goodness

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Seeking hope and celebrating the good, we explore the themes of original blessing, life as gift, freedom, imagination, and abundant love for all peoples and places.

Kyle Carnes and Joe Thompson


    • May 29, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 27m AVG DURATION
    • 34 EPISODES


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    On Original Goodness

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2021 49:56


    We've all heard about original sin, but what about original goodness?...

    Fourth Week of Easter 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2021 30:01


    It's still Easter! That means resurrection, and life, and everything belongs. Everything. Yes, everything...

    Resurrection Continued

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2021 39:28


    Kyle and Joe keep talking resurrection. Can we really see everything as alive or as having the potential for resurrection? What about evil? What about the things that break our hearts?

    On Resurrection - Easter 2021

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2021 37:38


    Joe and Kyle chat about resurrection, "seeing," perspective, and the latest in particle physics. And then Kyle goes back to sleep...

    Reflection Points - Lent 2021 Week 7

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2021 43:36


    Holy week! Kyle and Joe talk church, ritual, mortality, and keep meditating on the project of love.

    Reflection Points - Lent 2021 Week 6

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2021 34:30


    Kyle and Joe keep talking Lent, the project of love, and Joe's propensity to judge everything...

    Reflection Points - Lent 2021 Week 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2021 35:13


    Joe and Kyle talk Spring, hope, and... other goodness.

    Reflection Points - Lent 2021 Week 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2021 28:00


    Kyle and Joe talk about looking in the mirror, the enneagram, agency and control, and what it means to do this thing called Lent and why...

    Week 3 Bonus Reflection

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2021 23:26


    Sometimes you just can't keep a good conversation down (or even wait for a week). The guys take a deeper dive on turning over the tables and how that fits into a project of love...

    Reflection Points - Lent 2021 Week 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021 38:13


    The boys keep talking Lent: projects of love, transformation, and even turning over tables.

    Reflection Points - Lent 2021 Week 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 26:10


    Kyle and Joe talk about how to carry the themes of Ash Wednesday forward, what types of transformation might occur through the pandemic, how to move through life when no one is really "okay," and the role of grief at such times.

    Reflection Points - Lent 2021 Week 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2021 31:42


    Kyle and Joe welcome Lent wondering what it means to enter a season of fasting and deprivation after almost a year of loss and loneliness.

    Reflection Points - Christmas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2021 39:22


    Kyle and Joe talk about the Christmas story and how to hear it with awe and wonder even if you are 42 years old!

    Reflection Points - 4th Sunday of Advent

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2020 38:38


    On Greek myths, the virgin birth, rabbit holes, the power of story, surrender, and joy...

    Reflection Points - 3rd Sunday of Advent

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2020 34:02


    Kyle and Joe chat more about John the Baptist, the wilderness, the notion of faith, and a larger vision of Love for this third week of Advent.

    Reflection Points -- 2nd Sunday of Advent

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2020 37:00


    Trying a new approach, the boys chat about Advent and the readings for the week.

    How're ya now? - On Prophets and Politics (before the election)...

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2020 35:55


    Joe and Kyle chat about Kyle's sermon and reflect on the accidental nature of our existence and the voice of the prophets during these important times... and Kyle takes a request for more boiled eggs!

    What This Election Won't Fix

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2020 27:05


    Kyle calls upon the voice of the prophet Micah to lead us into some good and necessary questions for our time.

    How're ya now? - Too Many Purity Tests

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2020 28:35


    Kyle and Joe practice their Canadian accents, talk about Kyle's sermon, relating to one another in our culture today, and Kyle's hatred of "being nice"...

    Too Many Purity Tests

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 21:24


    “...because the idea of purity tests is to divide. It's to divide. To make in and out--that is the only purpose…But Jesus' point was always the relationship, his purpose was always the relationship…”

    God is Love is Dynamic

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2020 16:24


    “...the idea [that] God is love is true in a way that I can play with it, I can work with it, I can push it around and it doesn't change. But the more that I grow, the more that I learn, the more that I change, the more that I maybe even transform in certain ways, that truth isn't stagnate, it doesn't stay in one place, it grows with me…”

    How're ya now? - Week of July 19, 2020

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2020 32:11


    Kyle and Joe talk about their break, life during Covid and these tumultuous times, and what it means to try to speak something helpful into the world right now... all to the lovely sounds of Kyle's backyard bird sanctuary.

    It's Broken...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2020 9:40


    Joe wonders how Christianity fits into his life right now and it reminds him of a favorite flash-bulb memory.

    Funeral Marches All Around

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 7:33


    Kyle reflects on the nature of mourning and our need for it in these times.

    Marching and Mourning

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2020 11:25


    “God is moving and active with the poor in spirit, the lowly, the humble. God is with and for those who mourn because they are the ones in touch with reality. Wake up... Of course they are mourning in the streets--and still are today."

    The Pharisee and The Tax Collector

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2020 30:57


    We could all use mercy right now. Jesus taught that God's mercy was abundant, but simply receiving it might be trickier than we'd like to think.

    What to Say? What to Do?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 18:49


    We are living through heavy times... It's hard to know what to say, or more importantly, what to do.

    The Feet of Compassion

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 32:25


    How are we to move forward in a world that can seem so divided? How can we heal the divisions?

    Walking With

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2020 16:12


    Joe's take on "the why" of this podcast.

    A Different Place to Start...

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 22:44


    Kyle talks about this project—how it got started and why he and Joe attempt to talk about God at all.

    Imagine Awe

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2020 12:36


    Fourth Sunday of Easter Do you remember the last time you were in awe of anything? Amazed by anything? Perhaps a little awe might be helpful in these times...

    Fewer Strangers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2020 18:18


    Third Sunday of Easter Are there any strangers in this place, anymore? Any who do not know the things that have taken place in these days? What would it mean if we let the answer be no...

    Stepping Into the New

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2020 16:30


    Second Sunday of Easter Sometimes we just long for things to be normal again... I think we can all relate to that, but maybe we are called to let go of what was and step forward into a new day. Continuing with the readings, we think about what those first disciples were up to after Jesus death, and how that time for them might be a little like this strange time of pandemic for us.

    Easter Mourning

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 17:05


    Where is the joy this Easter, during a time of global pandemic? How do we take in the Easter story in a time of such fear and grief? Perhaps the grief and pain and weeping are part of the story even on Easter morning...

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