Two Pour Spirits
Two Pour Spirits is where signature cocktails meet spirited conversations for the sake of the Church and the common good.
It is co-hosted by Rev. Dr. Kyle David Bennett, and Dr. Chris Cimorelli, Co-Founders of Project : Neighbor.
Project : Neighbor ecumenically educates, equips, and empowers the Church to image her Creator and love all creatures, including her enemies, in public places with particular practices. From soil to sky, crib to casket.
Visit https://www.projectneighbor.org/ to learn more.
Episodes
60 episodes
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Be a Better Colleague
Do you hate it when they leave splattered marinara sauce in the microwave? Do you hesitate to pass the ball to them because you don’t believe they’ll make the shot? How many times did you draft that email response to make it cordial? From whenc...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Don't Make Your Boss God and Your Kids Swag
Do you dream of becoming a Wolf on Wall Street? Is having a library dedicated to you on your bucket list? Are you prepping all your kids to become President because you never could? In America today, we generally consider ambition to be a lauda...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: See Your Failures as Blessings
You excoriated a colleague. You locked in but left the faucet on for a week. You were on full grindset but forgot to pay the bills. Have you ever made a mistake at work? Or failed? Maybe so. But can you really call an egregious error a "failure...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Have Another Beer (Part 2)
As the monks tend their barley fields and ferment their yeast, they remind us that stewardship is not abstract theology but a daily, delectable act of worship—bringing creation (and a good grains) to its joyful, God-intended end. A profound pra...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Drink More Beer (Part 1)
As the ancient Israelites advanced toward Canaan, during the latter phase of the exodus, be'er (בְּאֵר) served as a pivotal staging point where the people rested and received divine provision. “From there they went to Beer, the well wh...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Stop Trying to Be Alone
Being alone will give you vertigo. You'll get lost in your own head and your eyes will cease to cooperate with reality's demand. You'll probably start to enjoy blurriness. Like espousing the belief that living alone is the same thing as lonelin...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Take Care of Your Homestead
Why don't cats ever smile? Shouldn't eggs last longer than a month? How come turkeys don't know camping etiquette? Have you ever sat there—delighting in a sip on your coffee—only to be interrupted by robin refuse—worm, feces, dirt? How di...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Confess—Just Not Everything
Wouldn't it be ideal and idyllic to live in a society in which we don't have any secrets? Any and all information would just float out there in the ether for the taking—even by apes, angels, and aliens. Silly mistakes could hang on drying racks...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Feel More than Sorry
There's the reply guy who believes it’s innocuous but is totally being extra. And the baddie who accepted the promposal and made all the chaperones shake their heads. And the braggadocious Brad who was caught in 4K kicking that poor old man’s B...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Don't View People As Objects
What are eyes for? Not side eyes or Gen Z stares. What should people be doing when they’re convalescing? Definitely not online aura farming or mukbanging.What sins and vices are more likely to pop their heads in an apartment ...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Figure Out Your Calling in Life
Maybe we're all here just figuring it out based on curiosity and piquancy. I could have been an NBA star but chose to be a writer instead. You could have been a model but got sidetracked tinkering with mechanical engineering. Orrrrr: Maybe we a...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Give Them a Another Chance
"What they did to you—that? That deserves to be buried for the entirety of your life. For eternity, in fact. God was definitely absent. You have to flush those memories down the porcelain of the abyss. Don't remember ...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Accept Your Mortality
How do you practice patience when it seems like everything is in flux? How can you believe in control when you only experience the rush of life? Can relationships actually be patched together and made whole again, or is it all merely psychologi...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Stop Complaining
What does a Christian do with loss, change, and failure? When it seems like permanence is fleeting and the stability of your efforts is slipping through your finger tips, what do you say to yourself? Or when the veneer of everything glamorous i...
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: See Grace Everywhere
We talk like Thrasos but we deserve to be treated like hooligans–the miscreants we have become. And yet He’s gracious. And kind. All the time. His generosity is undeserved, and yet we see it everywhere. It’s in the little things like oxygen, id...
Don't You Want to Be Naked? How We Hide from Communion
We all want to be naked. We want to stand before our spouses, parents, strangers, enemies, and our God and not feel guilt or shame. To be nepheshly exposed, and find comfort in the authenticity, honesty, integrity, and hospitality of i...
Don't Be a Debbie Downer: Christian Demeanor for Democratic Living
How you sit, stand, lay, jump, and walk in public spaces and buildings is significant. We know this. And those feigned smiles and side eyes aren't salubrious. You know that, too. But did you know that when you act all salty and sulk, you'...
Too Much Skin? Stewarding Our Bodies and Clothing
Half-dressed girls on billboards. Low-rise jeans on models at Abercrombie and Fitch. Nude beaches still around. There's no doubt about it—there's a lot of skin being shown these days. Not to mention, the rampant sensuality, salacious marketing,...
Tribalism and Talebearing: Two Vices of the Day
Don't deny it—we all do it. We exaggerate the sins of our enemies. We overbear their faults and unnecessarily seek to discover any and every infirmity that they possess. And then we accentuate these malfeasances (cf. Genesis 9:22): ...
Do You Kiss Your Neighbor with That Mouth?
When we go out in public, we take our mouths and tongues with us. We can't leave those at home. Unfortunately, some people talk in public like they are at home—in the man cave, with the good ol' college buddies, throwing out obscenities and pro...
Wear a Helmet and Don't Be an Idiot: Stewarding the Street
The road wasn't put there for you to get to Whole Foods. It’s a thoroughfare for everyone to travel. You have your routes and routines, sure, but so does the next guy. You got to share the street. And you might even do it like a Christian—by bl...
Don't Fly off the Handle: Neighboring in the Air
Get your legs out of the aisle, you're going to trip grandpa! Read your boarding pass before you get on the plane so you don't congest everything. Keep your sneakers on—nobody wants to be sniffing those nasty, reeky socks! Put your sea...
God on the Go? Sharing Sidewalks
It's fair to say most Christians know how to use their hands. They raise them in worship, help grannies with their groceries, and shovel their in-laws' driveway. But handfuls of Christians turn pagan when they promenade in public. They don't kn...
Stay in Your Lane and Smile: Memos on the Metaphysics of Driving
Our roads and highways are designed and governed with a particular end in sight. A metaphysics, with a telos, if you will. Everything matters—placement, movement, speed, and focus. Each aspect contributes to either the opening of the m...
You Shush Your Face: How to Lose Friends and Ruin a Movie
One has beer, the other has popcorn. One aims at stimulation, the other makes you soporific. One has bleachers, the other padded seats. One calls forth engagement, the other demands silence. One rolls out the carpet for the spectator, the other...
