Departied Podcast
46 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThis is a place for those of you who may currently be politically homeless, but who haven’t forgotten your true home
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Episodes
Season 3, Episode 3: Messiahs
August 23, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBA look at the messiahs we often run after, and how this is missing the mission. https://twitter.com/departied Episode Resources: David French: Christian Political Ethics are Upside Down Kari Lake and "BDE" More Kari Lake The Young Turks Response to BDE Lauren Boebert, AR-15s, and awful theology Matt LaBash - Jesus Wept In God We Trust Signs in Public Schools Pew Survey: Declining Church Affiliation DW Interview of Rick Wilson (quoted from around 4:30 mark) Image: In God We Trust ...
Season 3, Episode 3: Messiahs
August 23, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBA look at the messiahs we often run after, and how this is missing the mission. https://twitter.com/departied Episode Resources: David French: Christian Political Ethics are Upside Down Kari Lake and "BDE" More Kari Lake The Young Turks Response to BDE Lauren Boebert, AR-15s, and awful theology Matt LaBash - Jesus Wept In God We Trust Signs in Public Schools Pew Survey: Declining Church Affiliation DW Interview of Rick Wilson (quoted from around 4:30 mark) Image: In God We Trust ...
Season 3, Episode 2: Confessions of a Ted Cruz Voter
August 02, 2022 03:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBIn this episode, I take a look back at the transformation of Ted Cruz over the last six years. It isn't pretty. https://twitter.com/departied Links to some of the research for this episode: The Rise and Fall of the Cruz-Trump Bromance Cognitive Dissonance and the Peg Turning experiment (correction, in the episode I said this was from 1915. It's actually from 1959) Let's Go Brandon "Leave the rest to the Republican congressmen" Inside Ted Cruz's Last-Ditch Effort to Keep Trump in Powe...
Season 3, Episode 1: What Could Go Wrong
July 18, 2022 01:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this episode, I explore more deeply the consequences of ignoring character in our leaders, in light of the COVID pandemic and the aftermath of the 2020 election. Links: https://twitter.com/departied 300,000 US COVID deaths could have been averted through vaccination, analysis finds: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/300000-us-covid-deaths-averted-vaccination-analysis-finds/story?id=84753284 Trump's faith advisor goes HEAVY METAL!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzIym0eZsH0 1/4/22 PRRI S...
Season 2, Episode 7: Grief
October 31, 2020 03:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBWhile there is reason to be hopeful, there's always place for lament as well. Some reasons for grief from the past four years, with a special guest monologue from Molly Wahlquist.
Season 2, Episode 6: Pro Life
October 16, 2020 04:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBWhat does it mean to be pro life? My observations as a pro life voter in this contentious election year.
Season 2, Episode 5: Voting for your Neighbor
October 03, 2020 19:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBThis is the second half of my interview with Bethany and Thomas Macias, in which we explore ways our civic engagement can be loving toward our neighbor.
Season 2, Episode 4: Peacemakers
September 27, 2020 03:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBThis is the first half of a two-part interview with my daughter Bethany and her husband Thomas, in which we take a look at the conflict in our country and discuss the causes and the possible remedies. They also share the wonderful story of their pandemic wedding.
Season 2, Episode 3: The Deal
September 18, 2020 03:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBAn analysis of the deal that Donald Trump struck with evangelicals in 2016; the terms of the deal and what each party to the deal received.
Season 2, Episode 2: Counter-Intuitive Solidarity
September 08, 2020 03:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBAn interview with my wife Jill regarding her journey of listening to and learning from the voices of people of color. The title of this episode was coined by Dr. Drew Hart and describes the practice of listening to and believing the lived experiences and stories of others even when their stories seem foreign to us.
Season 2, Episode 1: Principalities and Powers
September 01, 2020 03:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBWelcome to Season 2 of the Departied Podcast. In this episode I examine modern evangelical End Times beliefs and how those beliefs can drive unhealthy views of our politics and the worth of other human beings.
Episode 35: The End of the Matter
July 25, 2020 19:00 - 10 minutes - 7.38 MBSome parting thoughts as I close out this podcast.
Episode 34: Enough
May 31, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBIn this episode I wonder when we will have finally had enough of conspiracy theories, ends-justify-the-means thinking, and the grief at another unarmed black man killed by the police.
Episode 33: Seeing Hope and Truth
May 21, 2020 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBThis is the second half of my interview with Ira Hall, in which he provides some reasons for hope in our contentious culture and exhortation toward valuing truth more than political narratives.
Episode 32: Seeing the Other
May 14, 2020 02:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBPart 1 of my interview with Ira Hall, in which we discuss lots of things, including how difficult it can be to see things from someone else's point of view and within their life experiences.
Episode 31: Character is Destiny
April 25, 2020 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBMy thoughts on the pandemic, the 9/11 attacks, and what current events say, both good and bad, about our nation's character.
Episode 30: The End of the Beginning
April 11, 2020 20:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBThoughts on the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter, toxic political idolatry, a better way, and the Coronavirus pandemic.
Episode 29: Reality TV
April 01, 2020 01:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBIn this episode I examine how Donald Trump views his presidency through a Reality TV framework, as evidenced by many of his actions during the pandemic.
Episode 28: Social Distance
March 22, 2020 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBMy thoughts on the pandemic, social distancing, and what I hope are some encouraging words during this time.
Episode 27: America's Unholy Ghosts
March 11, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBMy interview with Joel Goza, author of America's Unholy Ghosts. This is a wide-ranging discussion on faith, politics and race, and very few sacred cows survive unscathed.
Episode 26: We're Good People, Part 2
March 03, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBHow do we protect ourselves from lending support to something horrible? What are the narratives we build for ourselves to rationalize that support? Are we good people? A multitude of thoughts on this topic in this episode.
Episode 25: Saving Elephants
February 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBA two-way interview with Josh Lewis, host of the Saving Elephants podcast (http://savingelephantsblog.com)
Episode 24: The Millennial Interviews, Part 8: A Wider Lens
February 20, 2020 02:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBPart 2 of my interview with Andrew Roberts, in which we discuss current and future prospects for our country, for the church, and talk about how to widen our view.
Episode 23: The Millennial Interviews, Part 7: It Takes Work to Notice It
February 12, 2020 01:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBAn interview with Andrew Roberts in which we discuss cultural blindspots and the work it takes to see beyond them, as we try to make sense of the phenomenon that is our current baffling political moment.
Episode 22: The Millennial Interviews, Part 6: Lamentation
February 05, 2020 02:00 - 54 minutes - 37.1 MBThe second part of my interview with Hannah Roberts, in which she gives her thoughts on the American church's lack of a theology of suffering and the resulting indifference that is often manifested regarding those who are suffering among us and on our border.
Episode 21: The Millennial Interviews, Part 5: Border Stories
January 27, 2020 01:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBA conversation with my daughter-in-law Hannah about her experiences teaching young immigrants in our city and serving asylum seekers and immigrants on the border.
Episode 20: The Compass is Spinning
January 20, 2020 01:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBA response to Dennis Prager's recent fireside chat in which he defends the Donald Trump's Access Hollywood tape by arguing that private conversations don't tell us anything about a person's character.
Episode 19: The Generation Z Interviews, Part 2: Bad Options
January 15, 2020 02:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBAn interview with Macy Bain, a non-political Gen-Z enneagram 9 who, in her first chance to vote, faced the bad options of 2016
Episode 18: The Evil of Two Lessers
January 04, 2020 20:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBA discussion of the ways we think about voting; shifting from a "lesser of two evils" philosophy to a "qualified vs unqualified" philosophy.
Episode 17: Magnificat
December 23, 2019 18:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBAn exploration of the Kingdom values in Mary's Magnificat from Luke 1, and how from the viewpoint of those on the upper side of things we often miss or filter out the message.
Episode 16: Taking a Stand
December 14, 2019 19:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBAn interview with Russell Minick - pastor, former IMB missionary, and a clarifying voice in these confusing times - regarding his principled stances and actions in the Trump era.
Episode 15: The Millennial Interviews, Part 4: Moving Forward
December 08, 2019 02:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBThis is part two of my interview with my daughter Bethany, dealing with moving forward from disappointment at the inconsistencies and hypocrisies of the church in our current political moment.
Episode 14: Quick Hit - The War on Christmas
November 17, 2019 02:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBThis episode explores some of the history of the War on Christmas controversy (that is showing some signs of coming back in 2019), and hopefully points to a better way.
Episode 13: The Millennial Interviews, Part 3: Other People's Shoes
November 08, 2019 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBThis is the first part of a two part discussion with my daughter Bethany, dealing with faith struggles, the election of Donald Trump, the culture wars, and the church's role in all of the above.
Episode 12: Gardening
November 02, 2019 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThe sequel to episode 9 ("What is truth"). We need to understand and identify the weeds of falsehood in the good garden of truth, as we work to cultivate truth in our culture and politics.
Episode 11: Virtue Signal
October 24, 2019 03:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBA look at the damage being inflicted on conservatism and Christian ministry in our current political moment. What are we signaling to the world?
Episode 10: Quick Hit - Conspiracy Theories
October 16, 2019 12:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBThis is a "quick hit" episode (shorter episode) that explores the subject of conspiracy theories
Episode 9: What is Truth
October 10, 2019 03:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBA discussion of the importance of truth and an examination of the ways Trump lies to us.
Episode 8: The Millennial Interviews, Part 2: Looking to the margins
October 03, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBContinuing the discussion from Episode 6 with Molly Wahlquist regarding listening to, learning from, and looking to those who have different lived experiences.
Episode 7: Chariots and Horses
September 25, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBA look at trusting (or not trusting) God in a world of "I alone can fix it"
Episode 6: The Millennial Interviews, Part 1: Learning to Listen
September 18, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBPart 1 of an interview with my daughter Molly on neighborliness and learning to listen.
Episode 5: Be Best
September 12, 2019 03:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBThis episode takes a look at Presidential bullying, and what it's doing to us.
Episode 4: Generation Z
September 04, 2019 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBAn interview with a college student about the 2016 election
Episode 3: The Only Thing We Have To Fear
August 28, 2019 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBThis episode is a discussion of why it seems that we evangelicals are most known for our fear, and why we are susceptible to human promises of protection.
Episode 2: The Image of God
August 24, 2019 17:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBEveryone is created in the image of God. Does this affect how we talk about and treat our political opponents?
Episode 1: We're Good People
August 17, 2019 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBOne evangelical's journey out of the GOP