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Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
There are often ties made between the business world and the church. Some of them are more helpful than others. Some of them are more appropriate than others. In this episode, I asked Bart Day (the president and CEO of Lutheran Church Extension Fund) about what he learned by completing a Master of Business Administration from Washington University and what he wish he had known from that program as a newly minted pastor. What can we actually learn from the business world that helps in our work in the church?
List of books mentioned:
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
- Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- All the Leadership Fables by Patrick Lencioni
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- The Machine That Changed the World by James Womack, Daniel Jones, and Daniel Roos
- How Stella Saved the Farm by Chris Trimble and Vijay Govindarajan
- The Goal and It’s Not Luck by Eliyahu Goldratt
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Special Guest: Fr. Bart Day
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The Twenty-Seventh Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 25:1–13.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
This episode reaches beyond the issues that exist only in the Lutheran world and into the world of Mere Christianity. To vest or not to vest—that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of sacerdotal charges, or to take up arms against a sea of satire and by opposing end them. Our guest, Doug Wilson (pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, ID) has something to say about it. The occasion for the chat was a blog post he had written in 2018, Surplices are for Sissies, focusing on the importance that the pastoral office need to be masculine in voice, action, and representation. Our conversation discussed that and more. Wilson is eminently reasonable on the topic, as you will no doubt see.
If you enjoyed this episode, you might enjoy these:
- TGC 232 — Christian Nationalism
- TGC 217 — A Lutheran Kuyperian Vision?
- TGC 200 — The Fathers & The Solas
- TGC 187 — On Imprecation
- TGC 115 — Liturgicals, Pietists, and the Kingdom of the Left
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Special Guest: Pr. Douglas Wilson
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Trinity, Matthew 25:31–46.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Christian Nationalism is all the rage in the media these days. By some it is used as a term of derision, a smear, in order to silence debate. By others it is a vision of what their nation should be and strive for. In this episode, Ramirez and I seek to clarify its meaning and ask the question if Christians should take up the smear in the same way our fathers in the faith took on the name “Lutheran.”
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Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Regular Guest: Fr. David Ramirez
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The Feast of All Saints, Matthew 5:1–12.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
In this Book Talk, Willie Grills walks us through the book Thoughts for Young Men by J.C. Ryle.
You can hear more about J.C. Ryle HERE.
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Special Guest: Fr. Willie Grills
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Epistle reading for The Commemoration of the Reformation, Romans 3:19–28.
Read the rest of this entry »Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
The last time we spoke, Adam Koontz mentioned that the family used to be the place where all the things for Christian living and living in general were passed down. But we live in a culture with no names for things. And we live a culture with no names because we as the church lack a robust modern articulation of the theology of creation and the created order and the wisdom found in that order.
You can hear more from Koontz here:
- A Brief History of Power with Jonathan Fisk
- Word Fitly Spoken with Willie Grills and Zelwyn Heide
Host: Fr. Jason Braaten
Regular Guest: Fr. Adam Koontz
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Two pastors thinking out loud about the upcoming Gospel reading. This episode is devoted to the Gospel reading for The Feast of James of Jerusalem, Brother of Jesus and Martyr, Matthew 13:54–48.
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