With AJ out of the country for the month, we wanted to revisit our mini-series on the Four Loves. To start with, we take a look at the natural love of friendship and community.
Episode 159 – Love and Friendship(Repost)
The Beauty Of The Faith Is The Evidence Of Its Truth
Intellectual conversations and arguments are largely known and follow kind of a set, general path. Specific pieces of evidence vary, and the way they resonate depends from person to person. Beauty, on the other hand, hits us at a much more primal level.
Episode 155 – Built To Last
This week, AJ and Brandon talk a little about Brandon's trip to New York. Having been struck by the beauty and permanence of what he saw in New York, they try to figure out why beauty seems to be getting more difficult to find, and why it's so important for us to find it.
Who Would Volunteer To Be A Slave? Even For Christ?
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?
Episode 150 – No More Idols
This week, AJ and Brandon go back to St. Athanasius to see his challenge to the Greeks. Just as the Jewish people lost their priests, prophets, and kings, he points out that the Greeks have lost their magic and idols.
Episode 149 – No More Titles
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?
Episode 148 – He Is Risen!
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.