All Episodes
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123 | Why We're Back Next Week
123 | Why We're Back Next Week by And Sons
122 | Nathan Clarkson - Hollywood and The World of Storytelling
Nathan Clarkson has spent his 20's in the world of Hollywood and has a few things to say about it. As an actor, director, and published author, Clarkson lives in the w...
121 | Lament - Bringing Your Heart to God
In the pursuit of inner growth we can slip into a way of thinking that justifies all pain and disappointment as initiation. And while some of the time that is just fin...
120 | Dave Small - Uranium, Burma, and the Father
Dave Small has spent several years in the jungles of Burma and Thailand in cooperation with the Free Burma Rangers, a group dedicated to training young men in Burma to...
119 | Jumping Ship
Leaving a town, a job, a small group can feel like freedom or failure depending on the circumstances. It'd feel a lot easier if we knew God was calling us into a new s...
118 | Volume 3 Behind the Scenes
With the next print of And Sons in the works, Sam and Blaine reflect on the process as it's happening.
117 | Jan Meyers Proett - Being the Face of God
Jan Meyers Proett has spent her life listening to others tell their stories. Over the years she has learned practices that make such work sustainable, powerful, and ho...
116 | That Joy is Scalable
"I know everybody says Money can't buy happiness But it could buy me a boat, it could buy me a truck to pull it It could buy me a Yeti 110 iced down with some silver b...
115 | Tinkering and Ebenezer
Today's episode was born out of a conversation with a young man. We found the conversation was lingering on a few questions that we've asked ourselves as well: When h...
114 | Josh Imhoff: Aquaponics, Business as Mission, and The Things Jesus Tells You to Say
Josh Imhoff is the founder of YWAM Emerge, an organization that builds food systems around the world to reduce poverty. What that means is that Josh and his team have ...
113 | How to Stop Reacting and Missing the Point and Ask Questions Instead
We say the Holy Spirit is our teacher. If that’s the case, it should radically inform our practices. Unfortunately, we live in a culture that trains us to react: answe...
112 | Yadda Yadda Yadda - Tips and Strategies for Reading the Bible
It started with an email: how did you guys learn to engage ancient languages and texts? That set us off on a treasure hunt. From OT to Hebrew scholars, pastors and our...
111 | James Baxter: There is a Way to Live
Want to like your life more? Here’s a guidebook to prayer, fasting, and self-denial. James Baxter is the Executive Director of Exodus 90, an organization that instruct...
110 | How Writers Make Writing
It's said painters like painting, and writers like having written. That tends to be true. From Zadie Smith to Flannery O'Connor, Steven Pressfield to John Gardner, Ann...
109 | (Un)common Emotions
There’s no scientific consensus as to what emotions are. Depending on who you ask, there could be 8 basic emotions (Dr. Robert Plutchik), 6 (Dr. Paul Ekman) or more th...
108 | The Video Game Dreamers - Chris Skaggs and John Bergquist
Chris Skaggs and John Bergquist have been collaborators for more than a decade. They've built companies, led folks into the heart, and built culture. With Soma games, ...
107 | How We Avoid Wasting Our Summer (Or Any Season)
I mean, does this really need a description? We all can worry about an anticipated season passing by without all the hoped-for pieces being realized. Sam and Blaine di...
106 | Roger Thompson - Sage of the West
Roger W Thompson is a writer, surfer, entrepreneur and overall outdoorsman. He’s a dad, and he’s got a mobile office in a van. We reached out to Roger because his writ...
105 | Heroism and Immortality
Well, we saw Avengers Endgame. So this podcast's got spoilers, but it gives us the opportunity to talk about heroes, heroism, and what our cultural moment is doing wit...
104 | Chaos, Initiation, and Atmosphere
Allen Arnold joins Sam and Blaine in the studio this week to talk about the presence of Chaos in our lives, and the ways that God approaches it.
103 | Dr. Tremper Longman III - Old Testament Controversies
Dr. Tremper Longman III is the man when it comes to ancient Near Eastern studies. Meaning, he’s written more than 30 books on the Old Testament and its world, he’s one...
102 | Understanding Escape
It’s rankled the And Sons team a while: it seems like VR presents a real threat of escaping reality, in a negative sense, but haven’t folks found ways to escape realit...
101 | Dr. Charles Stone: Holy Noticing : Christian Mindfulness and How to Love Your Life More
Dr. Charles Stone has been a student of the brain for a dog’s age and written on neuroscience across fields. It turns out, understanding human nature, physiology inclu...
100 | Decade by Decade by Decade
For our 100th episode and Sam's 30th birthday, we reflect back on what small, daily, choices made in the days can look like over time. And the reverse: to not look at ...
99 | Stasi Eldredge: On the Mother Heart of God and Mercy
What better way to explore the mother heart of God than through the eyes and experience of a mother? Whether you are a mother, had a great mother of your own, or misse...
98 | Making Choices for the Year while Living in the Day
Our lives are more than just the moment we are living in. They are the accumulation of billions of small moments, they are filled with weeks, months, years, decades. W...
97 | A Playful Jesus?
We've been reading "Beautiful Outlaw" again and it's been surfacing some wonderful things. What is Jesus' personality like? Yes, he is kind and merciful and all those ...
96 | A Profanity-Free Podcast on Swearing (aside from the intro)
Aside from the intro, of course. So we’re not going to do a series on drinking, swearing and smoking, but we are interested in talking about right action—how do we de...
95 | Developing a Family Culture of Readers
This podcast episode began percolating when we received several emails from different listeners, all of whom were asking the same question: how do you create a family ...
94 | Generosity: Embodying the Plenty of God
We want more of God. More intimacy. More miracles. More clarity. More play. More joy. It turns out Jesus has outlined disciplines as avenues into the life we want. Gen...