Meaningful Conversations With Delicious Beverages
Why would anyone boast of themselves as a slave? It seems counterintuitive that making ourselves slaves would even be in keeping with what God wants of us. After all, free will was His idea. Why in the world we be giving that up?
This week, AJ and Brandon spend some time talking about some of the ways we see ourselves impacted by our modern disconnection from the natural world. Hopefully, you find yourself listening to this on your way out to a lake or a campsite!
This week, AJ and Brandon discuss the uniqueness of humanity in creation. We are intelligent, but we're also animals. How do we reconcile these truths of who and what we... Continue Reading →
Reason, as a tool to know God and understand His revelation, is incredibly effective and helpful, but as the sole defining measure of truth, it's doomed. Reason is not a tool for defining the truth, but for discovery. In other words, it must be checked against something else to be sure of its accuracy.
This week, AJ and Brandon return to a conversation on prophesy. Are there still prophets today? If so, how do we figure out which ones are real and which ones aren't?
This week, AJ and Brandon discuss St. Athanasius' statement to the Jewish people that, since Christ, there has been no new priest, prophet, or king in Israel. Does this mean that there are no more even today? And what does it mean for us if we don't have those titles? Can we have the mission without the title?
Moving on from Lent, AJ and Brandon take some time to reflect on their Lenten journeys and their celebration of the risen Christ in this Easter season. Eventually, though, it becomes a conversation between them about the need for community, but also the way God gives us glimpses of consolation even in the midst of our desolation.