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93 | The Cost of Following God
Many of our conversations with friends have been around the subject of the cost of "really" following God. There is a sort of understanding that we are not completely ...
92 | The Conservationist Bowhunter
Brian Dreher is one of four Senior Terrestrial Biologist's in the state of Colorado. He got his masters studying bears. He's also an avid bowhunter. Enough said, right...
91 | Greg Winters - The Soul of the Craftsman
Back in the fall I (Blaine here) started building a mini barn in my backyard. Doing so dismantled a great many misconceptions I held about building and craftsmanship, ...
90 | The Proverbs and Power - How to Want Things Worth Wanting
“Two things I ask of you, Lord; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread...
89 | Bart Hansen - Maturing Adventure [Explicit]
“If your life with God doesn’t have a regular dose of adventure,” Padre says, “It’s not going to sustain the masculine soul.” That’s all well and good, but what if ...
88 | When Information Becomes Action
We've touched on learning before, and this isn't a repeat episode. Recently a young man asked us how we learn things, as in, how we gain skills or information that act...
87 | "I Trust You"
Our identities are shaped by our stories, by the messages we receive from those around us, and by the scripts we seem doomed to live out. But out identity as we know i...
86 | Wookie Jones: Risk and risk and risk... the freelance life
Wookie is a designer, coffee shop owner, New Hampshire-based motorcycle rider. He’s a fascinating young dude with a penchant for risk and plenty of insight into which ...
85 | Dating; Our Stories not Our Posture
Sam, Blaine, and Luke sit down to tell some stories from their experiences in dating from high school, into college, and eventually into marriage. This is not meant to...
84 | Advent, Folks, or, The Final Words of Prophet Jeremiah
It’s Advent, folks. The beginning of the year. The reorientation to our revolution. Sure, advent is a time of preparation, too, but it’s also a time of doubling down o...
83 | A New (and Old... and Daily) Hope
What are you hoping for? What are you thinking about on a daily basis that brings expectation and anticipation? We all know the story of the Christian hope, it's on t-...
82 | Work Life Play - The Creative Habits of And Sons
In this episode, we flip the script. Aaron McHugh, of Work Life Play, interviews the And Sons team (Sam and Blaine) to talk about creative work. How does And Sons keep...
81 | How to Search for a Job (and Meaning) - Mega-tactical with Luke
If the data can be trusted, we’ll all find ourselves job searching, more than once, in our 20s (and 30s too). In this episode, we brought in Luke from a long-term unde...
80 | Kim Woodard Osterholzer: Birth, Dudes
Two things are given in human experience. Birth and death. Our culture doesn’t spend much time thinking about either one. And neither, to be honest, do we. Not until w...
79 | The Everyday Voice of God
Here at And Sons there’s one question we get more than any other: How do I build conversational intimacy with God? Meaning normal, practical, chatty relationship. Hear...
78 | Simple Practices for Soul Care
Books and seminars and conferences and counselors and lifetimes are spent on this subject, and rightly so. But the truth is, knowing that we need to care for our souls...
77 | Quit Learning, Start Learning
We roped in And Sons strategist Jon Dale to riff on a growing concern. It’s education. Problem is, when most folks think of education, they think of mining textbooks f...
76 | Choose Difficult Things
When it comes to our daily rhythms, we tend to drift into paths with less resistance and difficulty than others. Life is hard enough as it is, so why wouldn't we choos...
75 | Anthony Ashley: Strategy, The Way of the General
Strategy is an abused word for a vital concept. In this episode, we sat down with our friend and longtime pro-strategist Anthony Ashley to get to the root of the disci...
74 | Hank Shaw: Wild Game Gourmet
We've got a few books stacked around the office that we like to flip through for inspiration, and Hank Shaw's "Buck, Buck, Moose" has had a spot on our desk for a whil...
73 | Dr Randolph James: The Doctor who says "Die"
Dr James practices medicine out of his clinic in Colorado, True Life Medicine, after leaving behind the "traditional Western model" of healthcare. By addressing sympto...
72 | Reorientation: The Worldview of Jesus
Know what Familiarity breeds? Perceived Familiarity. Perceived Familiarity breeds Unfamiliarity. Which breeds Disinterest, Apathy, and, yup, Contempt. This is one of t...
71 | Laurie Thornton: Leading Leaders
Laurie Thornton is one part of a husband/wife pastoral team (guess which) with a decade of experience in music ministry, discipleship, missions, retreat-leading, all t...
70 | The Summer Issue
The summer issue of And Sons is out, and yes, it technically is still summer even though most schools are back in session. In this episode Blaine and Sam flesh out som...
69 | Ultrarunning: The Suffering Master and Apprentice
When Justin Lukasavige began running he didn't imagine going for 100 kilometers let alone down the block. But then Dave Eitemiller came along and offered his guidance,...
68 | The River
Why do we keep going back to the same places? What is the value of knowing a land, a rock face, a town, when everything is about "what's next"? John (Padre) writes, "E...
67 | Sean Buckles: When Starting a Business is Scarier than Jumping Out of Airplanes
Sean Buckles is a coffee shop maven with a long career in the US Army, both as a member of a Special Ops team and as an instructor. He’s one of those people you like m...
66 | Summer Hacks or It's Not Too Late
The pernicious and crippling feeling of "it's too late" can infiltrate almost every part of our lives, so it should be no surprise that we are already feeling it in re...
65 | Study Poetry. Really
We'll be honest and say that this episode made a least 1/2 of the And Sons team a little queasy, insofar as it looked like we'd have to buy typewriters and write outsi...
64 | The Seminarian Question
You remember Jesse Barkalow - the longtime painter, line cook, and world's most prolific reader. Well, he's been at seminary. Usually, that makes us concerned for a pe...