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We stutter started a little bit about our restart, but here's another go at it.  Let's see how this goes!

We decided, for whatever reason, to re-start Bastard Pastors!  Come here Jason and Justin talk about...whatever they talk about.

Today we catch up with Matt and Mitch - good friends and two of the funniest folks at our church.  It was fun catching up with them and getting to hear their story!

Brian and Marcella started hanging around our church before Covid hit, but we were just starting to get to know them!  Hear their story of coming to Cincy, loving good bbq, musicals and a host of other topics that we pop-corn around on!

Dave and Anita have been church leaders in Cincy for years, and key members of the hugely influential Vineyard Cincinnati Church.  Through their organization Elemental Churches, Dave and his partners helped our church go through an assessment program, and they have been great friends to us ever since! Their wisdom and experience with churches is a huge gift to us, and we're thankful for a great time talking to them!

The Laines started attending our church about 3 weeks before the world ended - so their experience with us has been almost entirely digital.  Let's check in with them and see what they think about church during quarantine.

For this season, we thought it might be interesting to check in with folks around our church and see how they're doing.  Our good friend, volunteer worship-leader, and all around awesome person Stephanie Cable is gonna kick off our conversations about church in quarantine, what we're learning and doing, and whatever else comes to mind.

The world is crazy.  We're struggling with the same crazy everyone else is.

I really thought we'd get back to doing this multiple times over the last year.  Then quarantine hit and I was SURE we'd start again.  Then Justin chopped his foot off, so obviously we'll have time.  But, it took until June and the new covid surge to get this party started! But we're back! The worst podcast in Christendom!

Hanging out with our good friend Mandy, this morning, from University Christian Church in Cincy.  She has a cool idea for a festival we wanna talk about!

We're back.  And we still suck.

Our friend Shawn, from Cincy Stories stops by to...tell stories.  Shawn's been involved in some cool stuff in the Cincy neighborhood of OTR, and runs in a lot of the same circles we run in.

Today we talk with our friend Josh Broughton, from the Church Project in Lebanon (a northern suburb of Cincy).  We just decided to talk about everything.

This morning, we're joined by our friend Josh from New City Presbyterian in Norwood.  Josh has been a good friend of ours since we started, pastoring in a pretty similary context that we are.  Today we talk about a little bit of everything, from communion to liturgy to spiritual development.

This week, we're joined by our friend Jane Gerdsen, who works with the Anglican church in researching and developing new expressions and communities of worship - she has tons of insight on how churches are growing and shrinking and living and dying and has been a good friend to us for a long time.

Our friend Tom swings by this morning to talk about life in general - from managing a huge dairy industry organization, to leading at a church, to busting people who are high at work, Tom's been through a ton of things, and we loved talking to him!

This morning we get to sit with Renee, pastor at the Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship in Oakley.  She has been a great friend of ours, and someone we've really valued getting to work with in both issues relevant to Oakley and worship services, bringing together diverse communities.

Join us for, maybe surprisingly, our most theological podcast to date - where we catch up with our friend Ali, who is about to be ordained through a reformed Jewish seminary, and discuss heaven, hell, and the nature of God's mission for us in the world.

We asked Professor/Doctor/Bishop N.T. Wright to be on our podcast.  And he said yes.  If I were him, I might have vetted my time a little better to see who i associate with.  Lucky for us he didn't! Seriously, though, join us for a short conversation with one of the leading New Testament scholars and Christian thinkers in the world today, as we think and talk about an applied theology - how to take what Wright says about the historical Jesus and deal with it in our modern world.