S1E12 - The Bible
Episode Notes
Keith and Ben talk about translations, editions, formats, and disposal of the Bible. And Judi Tyler is our first Catechism Question winner!
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Season 1
(excerpt)
S1E13 - The Festival of Homiletics
Episode Notes
Ben & Keith talk about their time at the Festival of Homiletics in Pittsburgh.
Links
- The Festival of Homiletics
S1E14 - Perennial Waters Project (Social Statement: Caring For Creation)
with Win Kurlfink
Episode Notes
Win Kurlfink joins us to talk about the Perennial Waters Project, an environmental stewardship group operating from St Philip Lutheran Church in Trenton, MI. Ben and Keith talk about how the ELCA Social Statement, Caring for Creation from 1993, helps congregations
S1E15 - Lutheran Camps
with Rev Drew Tucker of Hopewoods Outdoors
Episode Notes
Ben talks with Rev Drew Tucker about the history of Lutheran Camps and how they are adapting to our changing world and ways of being church. Pastor Drew even gives us a Catechism Question!
S1E16 - Why Do We Accept Everyone?
Episode Notes
Keith is back! We discuss the ELCA's extravagant welcome of all people and what that means.
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S1E17 - Civic Engagement Social Message
Episode Notes
Ben and Keith dig into a Social Message that was adopted by the ELCA Church Council in 2020. It has some parts that are useful in helping us look at our human-built structures (government, economy, and social systems) in a way that sees God at work in the world.
S1E18 - "Lutheran" Podcasts
Episode Notes
Ben and Keith talk about what might make a podcast "ELCA Lutheran", why there aren't a whole lot of them, and why they're hard to find. They also do some self-reflection about this podcast and give some advice to anyone who is considering starting their own.
S1E19 - Deacons and Deaconesses
with Deacon Chelle Huth and Sister Marianne Brock
Episode Notes
Keith talks with Deacon Chelle Huth and Sister Marianne Brock about all thing Deacon in the ELCA.
Episode 18's Catechism Question: What technology made Martin Luther's writings spread
S1E20 - Online Church
with Rev Keats Miles-Wallace, Technicolor Ministries
Episode Notes
Ben talks with Rev Keats Miles-Wallace about Technicolor Ministries, and online expression of Lutheran community based in the SW Texas Synod. We discuss how it works, how that model might work for other groups, and how this ministry is expanding.
S1E21 - ELCA Churchwide Part 1
with VP Imran Siddiqui
Episode Notes
This is a long one. Ben and Keith ask the VP what his job in the church is and how the ELCA is governed. In the next episode, we'll get into more details.
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