Latest Jojoruba Podcast Episodes
An Interview with Paul Dirks
Everyday Conversations Podcast - October 19, 2023 21:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe 2020 COVID pandemic proved to be a watershed for the entire world. Suddenly, it has become much harder to dismiss fears that a worldwide anti-Christian totalitarianism lurks just over the horizon, and western Christians have new questions. How, for instance, are we to respond to government s...
Audio Blog 060: Necessary Medicine: but No One Wants to Take It
Everyday Conversations Podcast - September 22, 2023 15:43 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDoug Wilson has never written an inconsequential book, and Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World, is no exception. As FBB writer Shafer Parker blogs through Wilson's book, he comes this week to Chapter 6, in which Wilson argues that any hope of saving the world ...
Audio Blog 059: The Critical Need for Christian Community
Everyday Conversations Podcast - September 08, 2023 17:18 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsChristians often look back with longing to a time when their faith was truly influential, shaping the laws of nations and guiding societal decisions. But those days are long gone and Idaho pastor/author Doug Wilson (Gashmu Saith It) warns they are not coming back---unless Christians relearn the ...
Audio Blog 058: Does Shame Get a Bad Rap?
Everyday Conversations Podcast - August 17, 2023 17:18 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIt should surprise no one that unbelievers proudly boast of perversions and habitual sins that in the past would have embarrassed the most decadent. And some of our readers may be old enough to remember when "shameless" was one of the worst criticisms you could aim at someone. This decline in pu...
Audio Blog 057: Blogging Gashmu: From Whence Cometh Love and Justice?
Everyday Conversations Podcast - August 10, 2023 17:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis is our fifth installment of "Blogging Gashmu," a chapter-by-chapter look at Pastor Doug Wilson's book Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the World. In it Pastor Wilson argues that before we can "save the world" we must first be certain the church is truly a Christ...
Audio Blog 056: Thoughts Toward the Next Pandemic
Everyday Conversations Podcast - August 03, 2023 18:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTo the great relief of most, it's been a year since COVID was tacitly, if not officially, acknowledged to be over. But amidst signs that government authorities are anticipating another crisis, FBB board member Murray Lytle offers a very personal blog mourning the divisions that afflicted the peo...
Audio Blog 055: Blogging Gashmu: Three Necessities for Christian Community
Everyday Conversations Podcast - July 27, 2023 16:12 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMost followers of Jesus give lip service, at least, to the need to "preach the gospel to every creature." But in the last decade many have awakened to the reality that if Christians don't do something, much could be lost--maybe forever. But what to do, was never quite clear, until, that is, when...
Everything is Surprisingly Better: The Dobbs Decision One Year On
Everyday Conversations Podcast - July 20, 2023 18:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsApproximately a year ago, on June 21, 2022, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ("Dobbs" for short) that restored to the 50 states their constitutional right to determine their own abortion laws. In this podcast Faith Beyon...
Audio Blog 054: Blogging Gashmu: Will Christians Pay the Price to Save the World?
Everyday Conversations Podcast - July 15, 2023 00:45 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsChristians instinctively realize that we have failed to maintain the "Faith" in the West. But for most of us, how to address this state of affairs remains a mystery. Read part three of FBB writer Shafer Parker's blog of Doug Wilson's book "Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that...
The Connection Between Biblical Doctrine and Effective Ministry
Everyday Conversations Podcast - July 07, 2023 15:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMany observers are aware that something is wrong with the modern church, especially when compared to previous centuries. Unlike previous centuries, it lacks the power to impact society in any specifically Christian way, it wins few souls to Christ, it cannot hold its members' children, and the m...
Audio Blog 053: Blogging Gashmu: How Western Culture Is Being Destroyed
Everyday Conversations Podcast - July 06, 2023 18:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNo serious Christian can look at the state of today's western culture without being deeply concerned. But asking, "What can I do?" is as far as most Christians ever go. Now comes American Pastor Douglas Wilson, who in his book Gashmu Saith It: How to Build Christian Communities that Save the Wor...
Audio Blog 052: Who in All the World is Gashmu?
Everyday Conversations Podcast - June 29, 2023 15:29 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIf you are a committed Christian you are likely very concerned about the direction of Canada's overall societal trends. But what to do is the question. To speak to this issue FBB writer Shafer Parker has taken on the task of blogging his way through Doug Wilson's book, Gashmu Saith It: How to Bu...
News You Can Use: A Power of Attorney Document That Protects You Against Euthanasia
Everyday Conversations Podcast - June 29, 2023 15:17 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCanada's governments are diligently coercing doctors and nurses, not to mention family members in the cause of euthanizing as many Canadians as possible, even to the point of making an exception in the Criminal Code for professionals who serve the cause of death. Bottom line, if you are old, or ...
Audio Blog 051: Shepherds and Sheep, a Mandate to Bless the World
Everyday Conversations Podcast - June 22, 2023 18:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsChristians wonder why the church has lost its power and authority, but FBB writer Ian McKerracher knows the answer. Within the church too many shepherds have abandoned their calling, and sadly, the sheep are happy enough to leave things as they are. Read to find out just what this abandonment lo...
Woke Churches? What Will You Do?
Everyday Conversations Podcast - June 21, 2023 16:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBy now most churchgoers are accustomed to “woke” statements and behaviours coming from traditionally “liberal” churches. It is no longer shocking, for instance, to see a United Church flying rainbow flags and hosting so-called pride month events. But surprisingly, some of Canada’s most conservat...
Audio Blog 050: The Truth Is Not out There
Everyday Conversations Podcast - June 15, 2023 19:29 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsRecent news-media emphasis on UFO activities seems designed to scare the public into embracing yet more government control. But FBB writer Shafer Parker suggests Bible-based Christians have no reason to fear aliens. They don't exist and they aren't coming. Instead, Christians should teach the wo...
Audio Blog 049: We’re doomed! No, we’re not!
Everyday Conversations Podcast - June 08, 2023 18:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe loss of hope for a better future often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This, as much as anything else, underlies much of the destruction and decline that afflicts western society. The question, then, is how to restore hope. FBB writer Shafer Parker suggests the answer is surprisingly sim...
Audio Blog 048: "Our ancient foe, Doth seek to work us woe"
Everyday Conversations Podcast - June 01, 2023 18:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsC. S. Lewis once wrote, "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them." Lewis was right, but in this week's blog, FBB writer Shafer ...
Audio Blog 047: For most Canadian Christians, their Bible is a pillow, not a sword
Everyday Conversations Podcast - May 25, 2023 21:53 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPerhaps the first takeaway from a recent Angus Reid survey of Canadian attitudes toward the Bible is the discovery that it is hardly read by anyone but Evangelicals. But FBB writer Shafer Parker reveals that the underlying reason for such apathy may lie in the decades-long campaign to persuade e...
Audio Blog 046: All Religions Are Not the Same, and Why this Matters
Everyday Conversations Podcast - May 18, 2023 15:56 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCanadians may assume that all good people are the same, no matter what their religion. But with the rise of Republican presidential aspirant and first generation American Vivek Ramaswamy, FBB writer Shafer Parker reminds us that a religion comes with a specific worldview, and that the difference...
Audio Blog 045: Can You Believe It? The UN and the Bible Agree!
Everyday Conversations Podcast - May 12, 2023 19:37 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTo the wonder of observers, the UN released a report in April recommending a return to meat, eggs, and dairy for growing children and nursing mothers in developing nations. In reporting this new direction, FBB writer Shafer Parker notes that, as in all things, common sense and God's Word have be...
Audio Blog 044: Is Revival Possible in a Progressive Christian World?
Everyday Conversations Podcast - May 04, 2023 15:45 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor the past 100 years Christian leaders have puzzled over why in the West the church has steadily lost ground. There are many reasons, perhaps, but FBB writer Shafer Parker argues that one big reason is the lack of emphasis on revival. He adds that another hindrance can be found in the unbelief...
Audio Blog 043: Christian Words and Christian Meaning
Everyday Conversations Podcast - April 26, 2023 20:12 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe world is quick to use words like spiritual, mystical and supernatural, but FBB writer Ian McKerracher shows that these words, while proper to Christian faith and practice, have very different meanings when used by unbelievers. It is important to know how those words are used outside the fait...
Audio Blog 042: The Challenge of Progressive Christianity
Everyday Conversations Podcast - April 20, 2023 19:49 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsProgressives have long argued that Christians only oppose LGBTQ behaviour because they misinterpret Scripture. But FBB writer Shafer Parker, demonstrates that after 30 years of failure to convincingly make the Bible say what it does not say, progressives have given up. Now they tell Christians t...
Audio Blog 041: The Snatchers Are Coming for You
Everyday Conversations Podcast - April 13, 2023 18:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMost people see organ transplantation as an unmitigated good, a way to extend one person's life by using organs from the recently dead, people who will never again need them. But, as Shafer Parker makes clear in his new blog, "The Snatchers Are Coming for You," this is, at best, an inaccurate pr...
Audio Blog 040: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
Everyday Conversations Podcast - April 05, 2023 16:24 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCritics of Christianity have constantly picked at its foundation document, the Bible. Their seek always to find reasons to doubt its goodness or its truth. Now Canadian author Jonathan Bernier has published a book reinforcing the earliest dating of the New Testament, and thereby helping believer...
Audio Blog 039: The Times that Try Men's Souls: A Review of Eric Metaxas' Book, Letter to the American Church
Everyday Conversations Podcast - March 30, 2023 18:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsMost Christians know that Western culture is collapsing, but have no idea what to do about it. Now author Eric Metaxas' latest book, Letter to the American Church, gives a clear description of what is going wrong and issues a clarion call to Bible-based, God-blessed action. Read Shafer Parker's ...
Audio Blog 039: Drag Queen Story Hour...Who is Being Served?
Everyday Conversations Podcast - March 24, 2023 21:10 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsRetired RCMP officer describes how the brutal arrest of Pastor Derek Reimer for protesting a drag queen story hour at a Calgary public library forcibly reminds Canadians that the movement to sexualize the nation's children marches on. Indeed, as the writer reports, the movement now has the added...
Audio Blog 038: Jon McCray Is the Man for this Season
Everyday Conversations Podcast - March 17, 2023 01:54 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIf you don't already know podcaster and blogger Jon McCray, you are in for a treat when attend FBB's April 29 Be Ready conference on progressive Christianity. But you can get a taste of what's coming in Shafer Parker's blog, Jon McCray Is the Man for this Season. Read on to get his prophetic ana...
Audio Blog 037: Grief versus the Griever: Insights from C.S. Lewis’ book A Grief Observed
Everyday Conversations Podcast - March 09, 2023 13:29 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEveryone grieves the loss of loved ones, and Christians are no exception. But how should Christians, as Christians, respond to deep grief? Nobody describes the grieving process better than C. S. Lewis in his book A Grief Observed. In this admittedly lengthy blog FBB speaker Shafer Parker prepare...
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