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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...
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...