Podcast Overview

Author

All My Knotted Up Life BONUS Episode

08/31/23

5 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

In our monthly book club episode, these 2 Lutheran women (Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin) discuss Beth Moore's memoir, "All My Knotted Up Life."
- Book Review
Mental Illness and the Gospel with John Bryant

08/30/23

5 mins

By Kelsi Klembara

This week’s episode is a conversation between author John Bryant and Kelsi about John’s new book (out in September), A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ.
Accountability

08/27/23

4 mins

By Adam Francisco | Scott Keith | Caleb Keith | Bruce Hillman

Are accountability groups a good idea? The Thinking Fellows discuss the potential use of accountability groups in the church.
Episode 245: The Church

08/21/23

10 mins

By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston

In episode TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE, Mike, Wade, and Jason discuss the communion of saints and the one holy Christian/catholic and apostolic Church.
- Communion of Saints
- Ministry of the Church
318: Nestigen - Luther on Marriage, Vocation, and the Cross

08/17/23

11 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

All In The Family. In this episode, we discuss marriage, vocation, and cute theology of the cross. How can Luther’s teaching and preaching on marriage and vocation help Christians at present waist the temptations of the world and Satan, which pervert and disrupt God’s will for marriage? What does baptism have to do with marriage? How does Luther’s formulation of marriage and family help Christians comprehend their relation to society and the state?
New Testament Church: Prescriptive or Descriptive?

08/11/23

4 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

This episode Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin discuss Acts 2, where we read about the early church, and how it grew.
317: Löhe - Pastoral Care of the Sick

08/08/23

10 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Spiritual War, What Is It Good For? In this episode, we discuss pastoral care to the healthy and sick and spiritual warfare while reading Wilhelm Loehe’s book, The Pastor.
Episode 242: Does the Gospel Get Old?

08/07/23

10 mins

By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston

In episode TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO, Mike, Wade, and Jason discuss whether the gospel ever gets old and if not, why not.
- Gospel
A Good Man is Hard to Find BONUS episode

07/31/23

7 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

This month's Book Club, we are doing a short story by Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
The Relationship Between Faith and Reason with David Andersen

07/18/23

5 mins

By Kelsi Klembara

Author David Andersen joins Kelsi to discuss his book, "What Can We Really Know? The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding" and how the study of knowledge leads us to some inevitable truths about ourselves and the limits of knowledge, in general.
- Faith
- Reason
- Book Review
315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating

07/15/23

9 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Hey Man, Nice Shot. In this episode, we discuss Rene Girard’s argument for why Jesus’ death as a scapegoat is unique to all other sacrifices in human history. What is violence for? What is a scapegoat, and why is one necessary for peace and good order? How does Jesus break the law machinery that demands a victim?
Talking to Kids about Purity and Modesty

07/13/23

5 mins

By Katie Koplin | Gretchen Ronnevik

In this last episode with guest Rachel Joy Welcher, we discuss the concept of modesty, and how we talk to our children about their sexuality and their bodies if not through "purity culture" or the secular culture.
- Family
- Book Review