Hope and Other Goodness

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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"...

“...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…”

“...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…”

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.

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

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

“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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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...