This week is parent teacher conference week. Normally, this week is exhausting, and the only consistent use of "hope" during it is me hoping that I survive the week. This year, everything is different.
Hope Doesn’t Care About Your Timelines
Episode 71 – Finding the Good
Brandon shares a story of an online interaction around the Black Lives Matter movement, and then he and AJ talk about what we can say and do in times like these to try and bring good out of the madness.
Develop Faith,Hope, Love; Let Go Of Fear
I thought the advice I gave her was good...really good actually. Good enough that I sat at the end of the night and asked myself if I was doing these things.
Episode 65 – Easter Hope
It's Easter! Christ is risen! After the "Lentiest Lent that ever Lented," Christ is risen, and our hope is fulfilled! What does hope mean? How do we hold on to our hope? These questions, plus an important final note from last week's Hero Bracket, on this week's InkleDeux podcast.
Good Work Is Always Worth It
We will not see the outcome of the good work, but I have to believe that it was still worth doing. That there is something else that I can't see. I believe that doing good should be done without the condition of compensation or reward. Doing good is a good in itself.
Episode 48 – Kanye and Celebrity Conversions
Brandon and AJ spend some time discussing Kanye West's recent, and very public, conversion. How are we supposed to react to a celebrity conversion? What are the actual impacts? How do we balance our hope and optimism for a new brother in Christ with our concerns about how some Christian celebrities have represented us badly in the past?
Saintly Sinners
Saintly Sinners Often, we look to the Saints as examples bordering on perfection. This can be wonderfully inspiring, but what can we learn from the failures of the Saints?