Looking Through Your Eyelashes - Lent 4A (March 15, 2026)

This week, returning guests Cassi Bruno (@cassi_dicci) and Lou Pastorius (@notorious_pastorius) join Bob and Eric for John 9 — the man born blind — and nobody in the room sees it coming. Jesus makes mud in a way that polite people don't repeat in public. The Pharisees are certain they can see. The blind man ends up being the only one who actually does. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, a comedian accidentally preaches the sermon.

Expect:

• A very polite omission of how the mud was made
• The moment Bob realized he could NOT say what he was about to say
• Why Jesus may have healed on the Sabbath on purpose
• The dangerous history of the phrase "the Jews" in John's Gospel — and why it matters
• A room full of ADHD brains wrestling with the longest gospel reading of Lent
• Two kinds of blindness, and which one Jesus actually came to cure
• What happens when you wake up and the light is too bright to open your eyes all at once

Also featuring: Eric's tractor cliff story, Bob's 1994 Concordia College beanie, Jonathan Groff's spray zone, and a ghost tour where Bob was definitely the problem.

Pull quote: "If you know better, do better." — Lou Pastorius

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John 9:1–41 (NRSVue)

This one's too long to fit in our episode notes - grab your Bible and look it up!

Hosted by Pastor Eric Damon and Pastor Bob Schaefer.

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