Thinking Out Loud with Pastor-D
Thinking Out Loud with Pastor-D
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Apparently, Pastor-D believes we all need a little weed in our lives. Before anyone calls the elders, he’s talking about Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the weeds—but that doesn’t stop Joe from asking how to recognize the human weeds tangled around our spiritual roots and, more importantly, how to remove them without pulling ourselves apart in the process.
This episode begins with a serious discussion of the Lindsay Clancy trial, the lone holdout juror and a society that often seems quicker to explain evil than to call it evil. Can mental illness explain a terrible act without excusing it? Why does public sympathy sometimes drift away from the victims and toward the person responsible? And does standing alone against eleven other people offer Christians a glimpse of the pressure they may face when conscience collides with culture?
From there, Joe and Pastor-D travel from a Massachusetts courtroom to the streets of Kathmandu, where Ramesh started a church without waiting for money, a building or perfect circumstances. They also examine why Jesus called Himself the “Son of Man,” why He taught through parables, why Christianity attracts hostility in supposedly tolerant places and whether churches have softened Jesus’ teachings about judgment and hell because they make people uncomfortable.
Finally, they confront the “posers”—people who admire the idea of Jesus but have little interest in actually following Him. What separates genuine faith from a carefully maintained Christian image?
It’s an episode about courage, accountability, dangerous weeds, uncomfortable truths and why looking religious is considerably easier than living faithfully. Listen now—preferably before Pastor-D’s gardening advice gets taken out of context.
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