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Without WorksPraying Out LoudShow Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: Less than a week after President Trump formed a Justice department task force fighting Anti-Chrisitian Bias, Reverend Dr. William Barber II - a founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, National board member of the NAACP, and MacArthur Fellow - was arrested for leading a public prayer. The Rev. Dr. an...2025-05-1521 min
Without WorksPreying for Who?Show Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: At two National Prayer Breakfast events President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new task force, “The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias,” to be headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI — te...2025-03-2120 min
Without WorksWe Didn't Start the FireEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: Fires are burning through Southern California. We don’t know how they started. Arson, fireworks, and unauthorized camping are potential causes. Driven on by hundred mile an hour winds, these fires quickly spread and devoured entire neighborhoods.
There are currently three remaining active fire incidents remaining: Palisades, Eaton, and Auto with the latter being 100% contained. Over fort...2025-01-2124 min
Without WorksScreaming into the VoidEpisode Notes
On Tuesday, November fifth, convicted felon, rapist, and would be dictator Donald Trump was voted back into office. It is pointless to go into how this could have happened, as any excuses will not change the results.
The truth is that it is inexcusable. Despite the exposure of the man, and many of his crimes, he was put into power. Again. The following is fifteen minutes of screaming into the void.
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Without WorksThou Shall Not KillEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: Marcellus Williams is dead. He was the third person executed in the state of Missouri, and the fifteenth person executed in the nation this year. As of this recording, the national total has risen to 20 people.
He was convicted in 2001 of the murder of Felicia Gayle, a former journalist, stabbed to death in her home in 1998. ...2024-11-2017 min
Without WorksVade RetroShow Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: Today we look into the murder of Sonya Massey. In my telling of the events, I will be quoting directly, and so will be using profanity. In her final words she used an ancient spiritual invocation against evil. Why?
To start with, this is what happened. Sonya Massey was a 36 year old black woman, a resident of...2024-09-2626 min
Without WorksThou Shalt Not...Show Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: Effective June twenty-seventh, all Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible, and the Ten Commandments, into their curriculum. Ryan Walters, Republican State Superintendent, insisted on this plan, made effective immediately. This followed a Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed House Bill 71 which required that requires the following:
Lemuel: ( in stentorian voice ) “Each public school governing authority and...2024-07-1927 min
Without WorksThe People Jesus Warned Us AboutEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: This week, in our new, shorter format, we will explore the new role of convicted felon and former president, Donald Trump in Get Thee Behind Me, Felicia.
Lemuel: I often used the word, blasphemy,’ to describe behavior that falls outside of the teachings of Jesus. It’s a strong word, overused these days to cover things less t...2024-06-2728 min
Without WorksSurviving the Next SchismShow Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: The amount of research that goes into each show makes it difficult to release episodes in a timely manner. By the time that we gather enough information for an informed opinion on a subject, it has been replaced with another fresh assault on the public accountability of faith. We are experimenting with a new idea: a single subject to...2024-05-2222 min
Without WorksBook of ClarenceEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: Today we will have an open discussion on the controversies around a recent film, “The Book of Clarence,” a recent comedy about fictional characters who live in Jerusalem at the time of Christ, and interact with Jesus and his disciples.
Lemuel: The stories’ protagonist is a feckless young man played by LaKeith Stanfeild. Accompanied by his best frien...2024-02-1856 min
Without WorksThe Woman Who Made JesusShow Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: Today we will look at the new speaker of the house and his opinions in Not Necessarily the Good News and Lemuel will look into the woman who started it all in Pillars of Wisdom.
Necessarily the Good News
Amity: Current speaker of the House , Republican Mike Johnson expressed his point of view this way:
“I...2023-12-2455 min
Without WorksIsrael/PalestineShow Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
This week, we are going to discuss the events occurring in the Gaza strip, the history of the region, and the evangelical view of the situation. This is being recorded on October 28, 2023 and we are doing our best to give the latest information.
Amity: I have tried to keep this as straightforward and clear as possible. I am...2023-10-301h 07
Without WorksThe Merits of ViolenceShow Notes
Your Own Personal Jesus
1.Was Jesus a pacifist?
Jesus taught non-violence. That’s what we have been told. Is it true?
You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go...2023-08-201h 01
Without WorksEpisode 58: How Far is HeavenShow Notes
**Not Necessarily the Good News **
On June 8, 2023, Televangelist, three times decorated veteran, political consultant, media mogul, presidential hopeful, philanthropist, founder of Regent University and the Christian Broadcast network died in his home at the age of 93.
He had a few close calls in the closing years of his life. He had taken a bad fall from a horse in 2017, suffered an embolic stroke in 2018, and suffered another fall in 2019 in which he broke three ribs. Despite all this, he continued mostly regular appearances on his syndicated television program, The 700 club, which he...2023-07-1650 min
Without WorksEpisode 57: Pillars and PurgatoryShow Notes
Pillars of Strength
Who was she? She appears in only one of the Gospels, the last of them, the Gospel of John, Chapter 4, in verses 4 through 42. It’s not a synoptic Gospel, meaning that it does not have crossover material in the other Gospels.
Jesus is going through Samaria with his disciples. He passes through a town called Sychar, and while his disciples go out to look for lunch, Jesus sat by a historic well, a well dug by the ancient Patriarch Jacob hundreds of years earlier.
“When a Sama...2023-06-1148 min
Without WorksEpisode 56: The Bad PlaceShow Notes
Not Necessarily the Good News
Marjorie Taylor Greene, political gadfly, professional bully, anti-semite, anti-Catholic, and tantrum throwing child, said this recently, when addressing the arrest of former president, and professional mountebank, Donald Trump:
"Trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today," she said during an interview with Right Side Broadcasting in New York. "Nelson Mandela was arrested, served time in prison. Jesus — Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government."
Comparing that man to Jesus Christ, is blasphemy.
The More Yo...2023-05-031h 04
Without WorksEpisode 54: And ThenShow Notes
Not Necessarily the Good News
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154880673/jesus-commercial-super-bowl-billboard-he-gets-us-hobby-lobby-evangelical-billion
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/us/he-gets-us-super-bowl-commercials-cec/index.html
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/march/he-gets-us-ad-campaign-branding-jesus-church-marketing.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viSIMcWAe48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1idNZnX0F8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W127-l1t4T4
The More You Know
Last episode we looked into the nature of God. It was too big a subject for one conversation, but we touched on a...2023-03-2748 min
Without WorksEpisode 54: Who is God?Show Notes
Not Necessarily the Good News
https://www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org/stories/fr-rafael-garcia-sj-fulfills-vocation-in-ministry-with-migrants/
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/sacred-heart-church-provides-shelter-to-all-migrants-regardless-of-legal-status-immigration-el-paso-texas-border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_HPOPYrilw
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145245308/el-paso-migrants-church-shelters-christmas-freezing
The More You Know
Christianity has borrowed God from earlier sources, Judaism of course, and that sourced several more ancient religious ideas. The Creation cycle and the Story of Noah exist in other Near Easter beliefs, but their purpose is different. Those stories are filled with elements that would seem strange to a...2023-01-2958 min
Without WorksEpisode 53: Bearing WitnessShow Notes
Episode 53: Bearing Witness
Cannon Fodder
Jan Karski
Stand Up and Testify
Amity: This is the segment where we tell a personal story about something that we are grateful for.
Lemuel: A few episodes ago we talked about my health issues. Late last year I discovered that the almost staggering pain in my back were not a pulled muscle, but an unusual , frankly rare case of coccidioidomycosis. It ate through the discs in both my upper and lower back, and that pain was the grinding of...2022-12-1635 min
Without WorksEpisode 52: Spellbound?Show Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: This week we have a special open conversation. It will start with one of lemuel’s many sad memories of childhood, and end with reviewing how it affected his view of Halloween. I, as the voice of reason and a former pagan, will shake my head in silence.
http://www.boolean-union.com/Chick/Comics/Spellbound/Spellbound.htm
...2022-10-301h 21
Without WorksEpisode 51: Love and HappinessEpisode Notes
Episode 51: Love and Happiness
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: We start with a story of a man who is a shame to the cloth in a short segment of
Get the Behind Me, Felicia
Lemuel: I will start the conversation this way: We will have Amity read all of the negative statements Jesus made about homosexuals and ho...2022-09-111h 09
Without WorksEpisode 50: Church vs. StateEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: This week we are discussing church and state - how it is supposed to be separate and how our activist court is eroding that separation.
The first amendment to the US Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The two parts, known as the "establishment cl...2022-07-3147 min
Without WorksEpisode 49: Jesus is for ClosersEpisode 49: Jesus is for Closers
Not Necessarily the Good News
Amity: “The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about y...2022-06-051h 28
Without WorksHe is RisenEpisode Notes
Not Necessarily the Good News
President, Dictator, and former KGB Head Vladimir Putin was attending a rally in March in support of his actions against Ukraine. This was early in the war, and over 20,000 Russians attended the rally, mostly those who support Putin’s aggression and his dream of recreating an empire.
Putin had given reasons before the invasion of Ukraine including stopping the Ukrainian sepratists, the villains in his interpretation, from genocide of their own people. Then he added this:
"And this is where the words from the Sc...2022-04-1747 min
Without WorksOne Nation Under GodEpisode Notes
Not Necessarily the Good News
Just a few months ago former national security advisor Michael Flynn made this statement:
“If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.”
He did this at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas, the bully pulpit of Evangelical misogynist, anti-semite, and homophobe John Hagee, best known for creating the idiotic, “Blood Moon Prophecy,” an apocalyptic prediction inspired by the cycles of the moon.
This was part of th...2022-01-0943 min
Without WorksThanksgiving and Giving ThanksEpisode Notes
As we approach the holiday season we will hear a great deal of rhetoric about families and family values. We will hear about the historical importance of Thanksgiving and Christmas, and how they were both expressions of Christian values.
Christmas is a religious holiday that has been adopted by all kinds of people as a secular celebration. Thanksgiving is no less religious, and it has also been adopted as a secular holiday.
Thanksgiving needs to be practiced with some awareness of its problematic origins.
The first Thanksgiving was a three day ha...2021-11-2551 min
Without WorksEpisode 45: What to do with an Apostle Like PaulEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: This week we complete our conversation on Saint Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know.
The More You Know
Lemuel: We have covered the negative aspects of Saint Paul, at least the aspects that have impacted Christianity as a faith. We started this discussion with the question, “ Why are churches half empty, and a younger generation declaring themselves non-religious. I feel t...2021-11-0237 min
Without WorksEpisode 44: Paul versus His PastEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: This week we continue an exploration to investigate influential and problematic saint Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know. First we are going to Texas to discuss why we don’t live there - and it has nothing to do with our exes - in Not Necessarily the Good News.
Not Necessarily the Good News
2021-09-261h 01
Without WorksEpisode 43: Pretty and WittyEpisode Notes
I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
This week we will talk about hypocrisy in the Church- and continue with our conversation about the most problematic declarations of a problematic saint in The More You Know.
First, we are going to discuss current hypocrisy, ethics in journalism, and leaps of logic in Not Necessarily the Good News
Not Necessarily the Good News
...2021-08-0847 min
Without WorksVessels of WrathEpisode Notes
This week we continue an exploration to investigate influential and problematic St. Paul of Tarsus in The More You Know. But first we’re going to visit the Supreme Court in a brief detour of Not Necessarily the Good News.
Not Necessarily the Good News
In its final week of session, SCOTUS ruled in favor of a Philidelphia Catholic charity that wouldn’t allow same-sex foster parents.
In the grand tradition of solving a problem that doesn’t exist, in 2018 CSS declared that would not consider same-sex couples as potentia...2021-07-2038 min
Without WorksBetter Call SaulEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: This week we will begin an exploration of an equally influential and problematic saint in The More You Know. But first a moment of prayer in Not Necessarily the Good News.
Not Necessarily the Good News
On March 24, 2021, Representative James Talrico led the Texas House of Representatives in an Invocation at the start of th...2021-06-2039 min
Without WorksInheretanceEpisode Notes
This week we do something a little different as we go to media for our source. We watched 1960's Inherit the Wind, based on a play based on a trial set in the south in the 1920s pitting a school teacher against the state for uttering Charles Darwin's name in his class. We discuss the spectacle, the oration, the acting and the ice cream alongside some name drops (Ussher, we see you) and some missed opportunities (division of church and state?). It's an interesting and slightly different discussion.
Find out more at https...2021-05-0950 min
Without WorksHouse of UssherEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Today, a short exploration into the work of Bishop Usher. But first, Amity has a condemnation of the Vatican she would like to speak to.
Amity: I am using my inherent white woman power to demand to speak with Catholicism’s manager about a piece of news being reported that the Vatican, and thus the Pope, has issu...2021-04-0446 min
Without WorksEpisode 38: Heathen IdolatryEpisode Notes
Lemuel: I am Lemuel Gonzalez, repentant sinner, and along with Amity Armstrong, your heavenly host, I invite you to find a place in the pew for today’s painless Sunday School lesson. Without Works.
Amity: Today we will investigate an instance of heathen idolatry a CPAC. Yes, someone a actually made and worshipped a golden idol. There is a historical precedent for this, and we discuss that in The More You Know.
First, though, we are going to speak about taking a stand in a brief edition of Canon Fodder.
...2021-03-2132 min
Without WorksEpisode 36: Creationism the ThirdEpisode Notes
Get Thee Behind Me, Felicia!
I want to speak a moment about US Representative from the state of Georgia Margery Taylor Greene. This woman makes me want to say some very rude and uncharitable things but I am an adult and will do my best to engage with this subject in a mature way.
Ms. Greene is a white woman from the south that subscribes to several conspiracy theories and has a long history of speaking some extremely heinous things.
On the floor of the House on February 3, she l...2021-02-071h 02
Without WorksEpisode 35: A Return to CreationEpisode Notes
This week a touch of good news with a large group of clergy finally taking a stand on the right side of history and then we get further into our series on Creationism.
Stand Up and Testify
Last month, more than 370 religious leaders from around the world are calling for a global ban on conversion therapy. The declaration, spearheaded by the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives, also calls for an end to violence and criminalization against L.G.B.T.Q. people.
“We recognize that certain religious teachings have, throughout the...2021-01-2452 min
Without WorksEpisode 35: Jurassic SnarkEpisode Notes
For our first episode of the new year, we will spend a little time discussing a positive step for our country in Canon Fodder, and Lemuel visit an interest he’s had since childhood and discuss dinosaurs, and how they fit into the fundamentalist narrative in, The More You Know.
Canon Fodder
2021 has already been quite a year. Within the first week, the sitting president of the United States fanned the flames of a coup attempt, aided by capitol police, that led to the flying of the Confederate flag within the ha...2021-01-1039 min
Without WorksProdigal TruthsEpisode Notes
Today we will have an open discussion about bad Supreme Court decisions and COVID in, “Not Necessarily the Good News.”
Then, we learn about the prodigal son in, “The More You Know.
NOT NECESSARILY THE GOOD NEWS:
When we spoke last about the Supreme Court, it was in reference to the latest addition - at that time only a nominee - now a full fledged justice who is already on the wrong side of history and humanity with a couple of the court’s latest rulings. A phrase that is likel...2020-12-1343 min
Without WorksElection 2020 - Let's talkEpisode Notes
We have a freeform discussion about the election, the results, the meanings of both and where we go next.
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Without WorksEpisode 32: We Need to Talk About AmyEpisode Notes
Today we will have an open discussion about Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett in, “Not Necessarily the Good News.”
And we will explore saviorhood, and how it does not apply to Donald Trump in, “The More You Know.
NOT NECESSARILY THE GOOD NEWS:
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is from the South and Midwest. Her career has been largely spent teaching while raising seven children, including two adopted from Haiti and one with Down syndrome, and living according to her faith. She has made no secret of her beliefs on div...2020-11-0144 min
Without WorksShe Was LoosedEpisode Notes
First up, on Friday, September 18th a cry went out over the land as the women of this country learned of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At 87, she had fought off colon cancer and several bouts of pancreatic cancer but was unable to overcome it one last time. On September 25th, she became the first woman and the first Jewish person to lie in state at the state capital, one more glass ceiling she broke with her tiny but inimitable frame.
Then, in Stand Up and Testify, we first...2020-10-0413 min
Without WorksEpisode 30: Sister SisterEpisode Notes
Kimberley Guilfoyle is the kind of character who shows up a lot these days, and shows up a lot in American history: demagogue. Her personal history is checkered, as she has been the first lady of California, married to Democratic Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom, and is currently dating Donald Trump Junior. She doesn't have a consistent allegiance, or an agenda, other than to remain in the spotlight for as long as she can. We rebuke ger in Get Thee Behind Me, Felicia.
Then, in Pilars of Strength, we discuss Queen Esther...2020-09-2035 min
Without WorksDoesn’t Look a Thing Like JesusEpisode Notes
Recently, Shaun King, writer and activist , made this unusual proposition:
“Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been… They are a gross form [of] white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down.”
This idea has gotten the kind of reception you would expect. Shaun King has been threatened, and his idea, ironically, has been labeled as racist. So in today’s episode we will explore racism, white su...2020-07-0345 min
Without WorksChrist JesusEpisode Notes
Episode 28: Christ Jesus
Not Necessarily the Good News
Good ways to hold the bible: in both hands, under your arm, resting on your lap, or with a lectern.
Bad ways to hold the bible: upside down in your fist over your head as though it were a bludgeoning weapon after ordering peaceful protesters and clergy tear gassed and removed so you can be photographed in front of a church that you have never set foot in and where you do not pray.
Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/02/trumps-use-bible-was-obscene-he-should-try-reading-words-inside-it/2020-06-2134 min
Without WorksJust JesusEpisode Notes
Cannon Fodder
Two Sikh doctors in Canada, brothers, made the difficult decision to shave their beards in order to serve their patients.
Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/16/health/sikh-doctors-beards-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
The More You Know
We can assume, safely, that Jesus existed. This is not a joke; there was a historical-critical trend that denied that Jesus existed at all. There are no documents written by Jesus himself, and the best sources outside of the gospels, are Josephus, a jewish historian whose very brief observation may have been...2020-06-0829 min
Without WorksEpisode 26: What’s so good about peace, love, and Samaritans?Episode Notes
Too Cool for Sunday SchoolMaybe you weren't really paying attention that Sunday Morning.. Maybe church wasn't a part of your upbringing at all. There are Bible stories that you may have heard referenced, but you don't know the details of. Now you can do a little catching up. Today we will talk about another Bible story so popular that it is often cited outside of a religious context, as an example of ethical behavior: A Good Samaritan! Bonus: Unboxinghttps://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/HOLY-LAND-MEMENTOS-Christmas-Greetings-Bethlehem/10235903793/bd...2020-05-1147 min
Without WorksCoronageddonEpisode Notes
Your Own Personal Jesus
This week we face the terrors of Covid 19, but together, bravely in an entry of Your Own Personal Jesus
Lemuel: Bishop Gereald Glenn of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Virginia passed away last week at the age of 66. He had tested positive for Covid 19 a month earlier, but insisted on continuing to hold services, and encouraged others to attend. Bishop Glenn, in one a post infection sermon, expressed indifference to dying from the virus. He also encouraged people to continue to congregate in defiance of...2020-04-1937 min
Without WorksYolo! J/K - JesusEpisode Notes
The More You Know
Because of the safety considerations that governments have put into place, Easter services will not be held at many churches around the world. Because of these safety restrictions, especially those about social distancing and gathering in groups, the regular traditional Good Friday and Easter services will be done through the internet and television without public participation. With that in mind, we thought it would be a good idea to explain what to expect if you had attended a Good Friday or Easter Service.
Sources:
https...2020-04-0529 min
Without WorksToo Cool For Sunday SchoolEpisode Notes
Canon Fodder
Tonight we will declare a living person in a state of bliss: Jose Andres.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/03/17/jose-andres-says-people-have-to-eat-so-his-shuttered-restaurants-are-now-community-kitchens/
https://wck.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Andr%C3%A9s
https://catholicexchange.com/jose-andres-famous-chef-catholic-humanitarian
Too Cool for Sunday School
Maybe you weren't really paying attention that Sunday Morning. Maybe you had been watching Creature Features on Saturday night, and slept in the next morning. Maybe church wasn't a part of your upbringing...2020-03-2245 min
Without WorksSpiritual Warfare Part 2: The Devil Made Them Do ItEpisode Notes
The More You Know
When we last approached the topic, we were speaking about a recent development in the news: Paula White, presidential advisor and false prophet, had prayed for spiritual abortions for the satanic conspiracies against president trump. We know there is not a demonic master plan led by the democratic party, but this brings up an interesting topic. Why are fundamentalists so eager to see these evil conspiracies? Well, it goes back a way, and involves old acquaintances like Jack Chick.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...2020-03-011h 00
Without WorksForgive and ForgetEpisode Notes
We have discussed the National Prayer Breakfast before. It is a yearly, eccumencal event held in Washington D.C. and since 1980, in the Washington Hilton Ballroom. It is hosted by members of congress, and organized by the Fellowship Foundation, though attendance for the event is not restricted to Christians. President Trump followed the keynote speaker for the event, Professor Arthur Brooks, a conservative Catholic who in the past has contributed to dialogs with the Dalai Lama and President Barack Obama. Professor Brooks has recently published a book, “Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save Am...2020-02-1629 min
Without WorksSpiritual Warfare Part 1Episode Notes
Episode 19: Spiritual Warfare Part 1
The More You Know
Today we will begin a discussion on the topic of Spiritual Warfare. It has been brought up in the context of a recent bizarre statement by prosperity minster and not so spiritual advisor, Paula White. Just a few weeks ago she made this strange declaration during a sermon: “We command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now!” This bizarre statement drew a lot of attention. Why? Because no one knew what it meant! What is a “Satanic Pregnancy?” After all the questions, memes, and joke...2020-02-0237 min
Without WorksMethodist to the MadnessEpisode Notes
Get The Behind Me, Felicia
According to Genesis, after Noah's flood God put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of His promise that He would never again destroy the earth with flood (Genesis 9:13–17): “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” So why, in its wisdom, did Kentucky’s Whitefield Academy, a Christian private school, expel a 15-year-old girl after her mother posted a photo to Facebook of the student eating a rainbow cake in a rainbow...2020-01-1934 min
Without WorksImpeachmentNot Necessarily the Good News
On December 18. 2019 the House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. During the hearings, Congressman Barry Loudermilk, representative of Georgia’s 11th district, made the following claim:
“When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers,” said Loudermilk, who represents Georgia’s 11th congressional district. “During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this President in this process.”
On today’s episode, we will discuss w...2020-01-0542 min
Without WorksBah Humbug: The War on ChristmasEpisode Notes
This week, we become war correspondents, creeping around the no man’s land of discarded wrapping paper and ribbons, to address the (fictional) war on Christmas and its heinous roots. Then, we talk about some of our Christmas traditions.
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Without WorksEpisode 16: Christmas Time is HereEpisode Notes
A freewheeling conversation about the first Christmas.
The Christmas story is something that everything thinks they know, but they might have missed the details or the meaning of the story as a whole. Many people are familiar with the details because of Charles Schultz. He decided to include a speech on the true meaning of Christmas in the 1965, “Charlie Brown Christmas,” television special.
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Without WorksAmerican History X-tianityEpisode Notes
Great Moments In Christian American History
A beka books was started as part of a curriculum of Christian education developed by Arlin Horton, who went on to found Pensacola Christian College, an independent liberal arts college in Pensacola Florida. It was founded in 1972 and named after Horton’s wife, Rebecca, who helped him found PCC two years later.
The history books while informative, followed a construct devaluing Native Americans, reducing them to place holders, waiting for the fulfillment of what they considered God’s plan: the arrival of European civilization. This is t...2019-11-2458 min
Without WorksScaring the Bejeezuz out of you!Episode Notes
Hidden Jesus
Jesus and his story are very much a part of our living culture. His story shows up in the strangest places. Lemuel will name a film or book and Amity will look for the Jesus story hidden within it.
Not Necessarily the Good News
We discuss the Hell House phenomena and try to understand the why of it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-ham-halloween-helln5dad32e2e4b0f34e3a783bed?fbclid=IwAR3m20vK2-P1AR3ePkwwiiVlrP6RTXGgLwm1kslCcyMvhicYkRlQzW5pUZc&guccounter=1&gucereferrer=aHR0...2019-11-0941 min
Without WorksThe Minimum Wages of SinEpisode Notes
Episode 13: Minimum Wages of Sin
Not Necessarily the Good News
In September of this year, a story was reported out of Blackwell OK. A young man had come out to his parents early in the spring of this year. Since then, he and his boyfriend had repeatedly been invited to come to the First Assembly of God Church, the church that this young man had attended with his family prior to his coming out where his parents were youth pastors. Finally, the couple did attend a service one Sunday. Everything in...2019-10-2049 min
Without WorksOriginal Sin and Real-Life LoraxesEpisode Notes
Canon Fodder
Greta Thunberg
Autumn Peltier
Jamie Margolin
https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15spmfinal.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Peltier
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/politics/zero-hour-climate-march.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/world/youth-environment-activists-greta-thunberg-trnd/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/09/vanishing-what-we-lose-when-an-animal-goes-extinct-feature/
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/12/17967738/climate-change-consumer-choices-green-renewable-energy
https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/100-companies-responsible-71-ghg-emissions/
http://thisiszerohour.org/
The More You Know2019-10-0654 min
Without WorksThe Lesser Known BarakEpisode Notes
Pilars of Strength
Deborah, judge and prophet, sat under a date palm while people brought their moral questions and situations. Sometimes, she received messages from God. One message was to a man named Barak. This is the story of what commenced when she delivered that message.
Stand Up and Testify
http://www.pbs.org/food/shows/great-british-baking-show/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/business/walmart-ends-handgun-ammo-sales/index.html
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Without WorksThe Rapture and/or The Second ComingEpisode Notes
The subject of the second coming, and the rapture, if they are different things, are argued about in evangelical churches. The basic concept is the same: as promised, Jesus Christ will return to the earth and sweep up all of his loyal followers who will rush up to meet him in the sky. Christ will then abandon the earth and a period of evil and tribulation will follow. Demons, monsters, and the antichrist will follow, until God rectifies everything by purging and destroying the world.
The problem is that nearly all of this...2019-09-081h 05
Without WorksImmigration and SalvationEpisode Notes
Immigration
People claiming Christianity are actively attempt to prevent Christians from immigrating into the United States. We discuss the crisis at the southern border, the hypocrisy and dishonesty of the current administration and anyone who supports these concentration camps as fundamentally anti-Christian.
Sources:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/conservative-christians-immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/14/sarah-sanders-bible-trump-immigration-border-policy
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/methodists-bring-church-charges-against-jeff-sessionsn5b28fc2ee4b0a4dc9920b9dd
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/12/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/
If you have time:
...2019-08-251h 11
Without WorksThoughts, Prayers and Tongues, Oh My!Episode Notes
Introduction
Opening discussion of the term Thoughts and Prayers, the meanings behind the words, and the direct link between them and the premise and title of our show: "Prayer that doesn't lead to concrete action toward our brothers is a fruitless and incomplete prayer. [...] Prayer and action must always be profoundly united" - Pope Francis.
The More You Know
We learn about Charasmatic Christians, Pentecost and the practice of speaking in tongues. Lemuel takes us through the history in the classical Church, the rebirth in the modern Church, and...2019-08-111h 00
Without WorksFinding a Way ThroughEpisode Notes
Introduction
Your Own Personal Jesus
Abortion - How to reconcile two sides that are arguing different points
https://juicyecumenism.com/2018/07/02/rachel-held-evans-abortion/
https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/pro-life-voting-for-hillary-clinton
https://time.com/vault/issue/1969-11-28/page/72/
https://books.google.com/books?id=6lAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Allen+Hinand&source=bl&ots=rGuKhQpaDk&sig=9h3TvNOdiu06S5E2uCZNQ6LRlTE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj8NaFx9HTAhVE7iYKHc9IB5kQ6AEIMzAC#v=onepage&q=Allen%20Hinand&f=false
https://www.npr...2019-07-281h 02
Without WorksTo Be or Not To BeEpisode Notes
Introduction
Your Own Personal Jesus
Abortion - the 5 W’s and the Christian point of view
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/tough-questions-answers-late-term-abortions-law-women-who-get-them/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.41681633ec39
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states?gclid=Cj0KCQjwl6LoBRDqARIsABllMSYwIQoLPMV1doAt4UO15JhhAZTBqLRjRgAsi821C4r--VQQXt9krGwaAmseEALw_wcB
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/sexual-and-reproductive-rights/abortion-facts/
https://www.self.com/story/abortion-is-health-care-end-of-story
Stand Up and Testify
Backlash to Backlash and the Little Mermaid Casting
Chants engendered by Women’s Soccer
Detroit Faith Community Coming Together for their Vuln...2019-07-1441 minWithout WorksProselytism v PropagandaEpisode Notes
Introduction
Canon Fodder
Rachel Held Evans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RachelHeldEvans
Bikers Against Child Abuse
https://bacaworld.org/mission/
The More You Know - Chick Tracts
Outro
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This podcast is powered by Pinecast.2019-06-1656 minWithout WorksWhat is a Christian?What is a Christian Episode Notes
Introduction
The More You Know - What is a Christian
https://juicyecumenism.com/2019/04/10/trending-episcopalians/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed
Intro to Get Thee Behind Me, Felicia
Apple from the tree - the Grahams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/us/franklin-graham-trump-day-of-prayer/index.html
Outro
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The More You Know - The Last Supper and Communion
Canon Fodder
Patton Oswalt
https://www.thisisinsider.com/patton-oswalt-helped-pay-mans-medical-bills-gofundme-2019-1
Jacinda Ardern
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/asia/new-zealand-gun-control-intl/index.html
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Canon Fodder
Candice Payne
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/us/candice-payne-homeless-chicago.html
Marc Pocan
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/betsy-devos-grilled-congress-over-proposed-elimination-special-olympics-funding-n987751
Not Necessarily the Good News
The Bible in Public Schools
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/trump-bible-literacy-public-schools.html
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In this inaugural episode, Lemuel and Amity discuss the who, what and why of this new podcast endeavor.
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The LatecomersEpisode 107: Twin Peaks Junior DetectivesWe are super confused about one threesome in particular. The chess pieces are moving and it's all about to come to a head. We lose a bird, RIP Waldo, and gain a blond for the night. Twitter: @latecomerspod Emails: Latecomerspod@gmail.com Check out Lemuel's book: https://www.amazon.com/Seeling-Night-Psychomanteum-LEMUEL-GONZALEZ-ebook/dp/B00K65306K Thanks to the Freak Fandango Orchestra for our theme song Late as Usual.2017-12-281h 14