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Iglesia de Cristo del lado oeste - Elkton, KY
Iglesia de Cristo del lado oeste - Elkton, KY¿Qué hace el ánimo? (De nuestro culto del 27 de abril de 2025)Mira la Versión en Video Aquí: https://youtu.be/pvrSROTaxlQResumen: Resumen del Sermón: El Poder del ÁnimoIntroducción Personal El orador expresa un profundo orgullo por Colin Gregory por manejar con calma los desafíos durante el servicio de cantos. Recuerda una historia personal en la que Chris Kaufman lo ayudó durante un error, destacando la importancia del ánimo tranquilo. Esto lleva al tema principal: El ánimo tiene un impacto poderoso y duradero.Historia de la Abuela Moses Anna Mary Robertson ("Abuela Moses") comenzó a pintar a...
2025-04-2828 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyRed Rising, Lightbringer - with Mike SavaraTo commemorate Labor Day, here’s an episode about a slave uprising gone glorious! Mike Savara is a good friend and extraordinary social worker, government worker, addiction counselor, and the one who introduced me to the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. Today we talk about Lightbringer, book 5 of the Red Rising series. This is book 5 of 6, and there’s tons of spoilers, but we highly recommend you read the whole series because we really love it. We start off owning that we are mental health professionals and not literary experts…but feel ok wit...
2024-09-031h 01Word and Journey
Word and JourneyHow Fantasy Kills but Imagination Saves - Wheel of Time, Season 2Moses and Matt are back with the last half of Wheel of Time, the show, Season 2. Here we discuss more of the themes. The Wheel of Time show follows a pattern of developing morally ambiguous characters who have great powers, great ambitions, and blatant fatal flaws. We discuss implications of a story world lacking both a clear good and a clear evil, and the challenges this poses for story writers.  We discuss character arcs, and whether these characters are becoming the best or worst versions of themselves. As our heroes go about their adventures using m...
2024-08-1742 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyWheel of Time Season 2Moses Bernabe and Matt Rensi return to discuss Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series Wheel of Time as the show plods through its second season. As counselors who study people and readers who are long time lovers of sci-fi and fantasy, we had a great time being drawn into the story world, then pulling it apart for themes, lessons, and great moments. From a storytelling standpoint, we discuss the challenges of adapting a long book series(and a series of long books) into the tv show format. We note the hazards of gett...
2024-08-1739 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyHeroism of Presence - Wheel of Time Season 1(from the archives) The Wheel weaves as the wheel will! Welcome back to our discussion of the Wheel of Time! Originally, when the Wheel of Time show came to Amazon Prime, I started a series of discussion in which I had watched the show, Matt Rensi had watched the show and read the books, and Aaron Esparza had watched the show, read the books, and play the game. We started out to compare our experiences of the show. Along the way, a whole variety of life circumstances came up along the way, and one whole episode was lost, and this...
2024-08-1653 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyScrewtape's Toast and Democracy Roast Moses and Jake meet up for the finishing touches of The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis. Here we consider the desire for a long and comfortable life and how that may be very dangerous to our spiritual health. We talk about courage, cowardice, and virtues that the demons cannot replicate. We recognize that the spiritual journey is just long and tiring and that we are vulnerable when fatigued. Finally, we come to the end of “The Patient’s” journey and consider the ideal end to the Christian journey. THEN we get political…because Screwtape gets political. The epil...
2024-04-051h 06Word and Journey
Word and Journey6 Ways to Go to Hell - The Screwtape Letters commentary, Volume 3 Here we almost finish The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. Screwtape and Wormwood continue to hound the Christian on his spiritual journey. They try to get him to feel entitled to own things. They try to get him to lust after a new girlfriend, then to get bored with her. They poke at his craving for a tribe to call his own, then try to distract him with visions of “the historical Jesus.” They try to send him church shopping. They try to get him bored with “The same old thing,” and try to get him to make his reli...
2024-04-0556 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Demon Dialogues - Screwtape Letters Commentary, Volume 2 We’re back with more thoughts on The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis. Moses and Stephanie pull out their writer and editor lenses to talk about the writing - and proper reading - of the text. We consider genre, subculture, the narrator’s voice, and share thoughts to consider when writing about the spiritual world in general. Above all, we remember that this book is speculative; we don’t actually know what it’s like to be a purely spiritual being. Then we cover a few more letters. Screwtape advises Wormwood on how to take Hum...
2024-02-0559 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyMy Dear Wormwod.... - The Screwtape Letters COMMENTARY, Volume I“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel and excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.”  Moses, Jake, and Stephanie are back and reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. Screwtape Letters is the correspondence by the demon Wormwood and his affectionate mentor, the demon Screwtape, and the letters are all about how to destroy a hum...
2024-01-171h 56Word and Journey
Word and JourneyHeros on Trial - Hunters, Season 2, RESOLUTION!And the saga of the Nazi hunters finally draws to its end! What makes a hero? Can a person be considered heroic, even if they do the same horrendous things as the villain?  We wonder if people can really change, or if they never out grow their past wrongs. And if ultimately we can define our enemies by their worst parts, what does that mean about how we see ourselves?  Our heroes will stop at nothing to see Hitler dead. Is this focused passion, or insane obsession? Does this end justify any means to...
2023-12-191h 04Word and Journey
Word and JourneyForgiving Dark Histories - Hunters Season 2, part 2 Moses and Jake offer more commentary on the Amazon Prime show Hunters, Season II. This season comes with thick layers of intrigue, drama, lies, betrayals, and dark histories revealed. And as the global adventure continues, the personal lives of the characters just get more and more chaotic. The show raises questions about identity, integrity, and explores what it means to be family. Much more difficult, we get to wonder - why should we forgive those who wrong us? This channel relies on the support of its listeners. Please join our community with a few dollars...
2023-12-181h 06Word and Journey
Word and JourneyNo One Owns Truth - Hunters Season 2, pt 1 More Nazis, more intrigue, more explorations of human-nature-under-duress, more drama - yes, dear listener, it’s Word and Journey’s commentary on the hit Amazon Prime show Hunters, Season II! Here we see our favorite heroes, anti-heroes, and outright villains continuing the quest to rid the world of Nazis, one gouged out eye at a time. The action rises when they figure out Hitler is alive and they know where to find him. Will they kill him? Only the full season will tell! Moses and Jake offer commentary on the story and deeper meanings of the...
2023-12-181h 04Word and Journey
Word and JourneyInheritance with a Twist. Hunters, Season 1, Part III Who are we really? Are we an ethnicity? Are we the horrors enacted upon us? Or could we be the manner in which we respond to darkness....with light? Or with more darkness?   What is justice? What is vengeance? How much "Wrong" is ok in order to do right? And what is the right in a situation like the Holocaust?   Where is God in the evils of the world? Could it be He is made real in the ones who are kind?   How does community hel...
2023-10-0456 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Rituals that Bind Us. Hunters, Season 1, Part II Moses and Jake continue their review of the hit Amazon Prime show Hunters, which follows the adventures of a group of Nazi Hunters in New York in the 1970's. We bring many questions.               Why do we need to remember the painful things?             We need to know where we came from so we don't repeat it.             We need to know where we came from so we know what's driving us, and what we're carrying.             We need to know what we are carrying so we can lay it down.             Why did God command the Chi...
2023-10-0359 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyWhy We Need Remembrance. Hunters, Season 1, Part I "The only difference between heroes and villains is who sells more costumes at Halloween." - Jonah Heidelbaum, Hunters, Season 1.               Hunters is a series on Amazon Prime created by David Weil. The story follows a group of Nazi Hunters based in New York in the 1970's. Moses found it first, then drafted Jake into watching and commenting on it with him.             Is the show any good?             Check out our full commentary and judge for yourself. The show is certainly complex, as it tackles issues of justice and vengeance and explores whether or not heroes and villains...
2023-10-0233 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Saving of Dorian Gray - a review of the movie "Picture of Dorian Gray", with Joel Sommer Moses and Joel are back, with dad jokes in tow! We read the book Picture of Dorian Gray…and then we watched the 2009 Film Adaptation with Colin Firth and Ben Barnes. Now we compare and contrast. We comment on the aesthetic of the movie and how, seeing the characters brought to life is cool, but the movie defaults to relying on spectacle, rather than allowing the profound concepts of the story to stand on their own. We discuss how the character of Dorian is altered by making him a victim of childhood abuse, and di...
2023-06-051h 03Word and Journey
Word and JourneyHow Beauty Killed Us - The Conclusion of "Picture of Dorian Gray," with Joel SommerDo you ever feel like, when you finish a book, it’s like a break-up? Sometimes we feel this way. Sometimes it’s a good break-up…and sometimes not. Thus, Moses and Joel reflect on the worst books we’ve read, and allow ourselves permission to NOT finish a badly written book. Meanwhile, we conclude the saga of Dorian Gray. In this section, we follow Dorian on his downward spiral to the lowest levels of society, which, for Oscar Wilde, was the Opium Dens.  “There were the opium dens, where one could buy o...
2023-04-121h 01Word and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Deadliness of Secrets - Picture of Dorian Gray part 3, with Joel SommerIt's late at night and the Dad-Jokes are out in force!   Moses and Joel establish that “Picture of Dorian Gray” is a story about deplorable characters, some(Like Lord Henry) probably could not and should not be written in our current age. And yet, in the marvel of how stories work, even a story about bad people can teach us something true and important. Dorian has been watching how his portrait takes on the burdens of his life. When the original painter, Basil Howard wants to reclaim the painting, in order to display it in...
2023-04-1156 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneySacrament or Silly? A review of "Jesus Revolution," with Rousseaux Brasseur            Rousseaux and I are spiritual grand-children of the Jesus Movement, from which came the Calvary Chapel churches, whose origins in the turbulence of the 1960's was depicted in the 2023 film Jesus Revolution. We grew up under the spiritual tutelage of a pastor who was a direct mentee of the Jesus Movement's founder, Chuck Smith.             For today's episode, we watched the Jesus Revolution film, and got together to share impressions and memories, to reflect on our spiritual heritage and spiritual formation. Both of us have since left the particular churches associated with the Calvary Chapel movement, and so find cause to celebrat...
2023-04-071h 31Word and Journey
Word and JourneyDorian Gray's Portrait is the Opposite of an Icon - Picture of Dorian Gray part 2, with Joel SommerThis is a story about people being together and not seeing each other.  Here we follow the life and death of Sibyl Vane, an actress, and the object of Dorian’s obsession. In their short relationship, we see a depiction of utter obsession, which initially thrills, then ultimately leads to crushing disappointment.  Lord Henry displays a particularly potent version of toxic masculinity in how he regards the heartbreak and death of a young lady as just an inconvenient novelty. Once he says, “The only way a woman can reform a man is by boring him so com...
2023-03-2751 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyWhy We Need Ugly Things - Picture of Dorian Gray, with Joel Sommer "What happens in Oscar Wilde's bedroom stays in Oscar Wilde's Bedroom." "...unless it happens on the stage, and then we call it theater!"   "To reveal art, and to conceal the artist, is the artist's aim." - Oscar Wilde               Who is Dorian Gray? He's young. He's rich. He's beautiful. Lord Henry says those are the best and most important things.             Dorian Gray also has a portrait of himself - a portrait that absorbs the impact of all his sins. As Dorian takes his first steps into a life of exploitation a...
2023-03-2450 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyGood Stories and How to Find Them, with Deacon Nicholas KotarWhat makes a book good? And how does a story grow from being a good book to a great one, or earn the rank of classic literature?          Is it by being a good plot, like The Passage Trilogy?          Is it by building a fantastic world, like in Lord of the Rings?          Is it by developing compelling and relatable characters as in The Book Thief?          Is a book "Great" because the author does beautiful things with words, making each page beautiful just to look at, like Corman McCarthy's road?          Or is a book great for the way its author t...
2023-03-2053 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyDeath, Reconciliation, and Why We Need to Read Books - The Passage Finale, with Justin NicholsIf you could make 10 people immortal, who would you pick? If you could make some people immortal and not others…should you? Who gets to choose? As we conclude the Passage, we delve deep into the ethical conundrums of transhumanism, and it’s fun. We reflect on stories such as Jurassic Park, the classic movie Deep Impact, Battlestar Galactica, and LOST, all to further expound on the problem raised here in The Passage  of, “Who gets to choose who is worthy to survive?” We consider some different rubrics, but ultimately come back to r...
2023-03-031h 08Word and Journey
Word and JourneyWhy We Need Our Names - The Passage, with Justin NicholsMoses and Nics are back at it again - we’re almost done with The Passage, and the action is getting intense! More interesting, though, then car chases, and viral hunts, and intrigue among remnant tribes of militia are the concepts played out among the characters. What would it be like to erase, edit, or misunderstand most or all of which came before us? How does our understanding of history and the decades and centuries leading up to our present moment inform how we approach our day-to-day living? Our relationships? Our civil engagement? Our education? Ou...
2023-02-161h 02Word and Journey
Word and JourneyHow to Make a Monster, or Find a Family - The Passage Part IV, with Justin NicholsHow do you make a monster? No, it’s not through viral injections, nor radiation, nor supernatural curses - Monsters are made by hate, anger, resentment, and wounds that never get healed. Moses and Nics are back, talking monsters and heroes, love and hate, abuse and attachment, trauma and legacy. We talk about what it means to be a parent, and to hold the power to shape multiple future generations with just our words. We talk about what makes a family, with an emphasis on shared struggles, and shared rituals. In the story it...
2023-02-0158 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyHow the Whale Saved Us - a review of Avatar: The Way of Water, with Aaron Kelsay.We're getting on the IFS Soapbox and blowing the Orthodox Trumpet and Woking Ourselves and unpacking Trauma and pondering the essence of being Human...and SPOILING the movie Avatar: The Way of Water! Long-time friend and colleague Aaron Kelsay makes his first appearance on the show, after having taken me to see the new James Cameron film. We discuss and review it at length, and conclude with our estimation of the overall goodness-to-greatness of the story. Brief spoiler - as counselors always on the watch for good metaphors for the healing journey - we got...
2023-01-311h 11Word and Journey
Word and JourneyHow Tradition Gets Us Through the End of the World - The Passage Part III, with Justin NicholsHow do you write an epic? Moses and Nics(aka Rhys and Justin) analyze the writing style of Justin Cronin and reflect on how he brings the world and characters of The Passage to life. We look at world building, characters, plot, and word-smything. We discuss writing in multiple eras, writing with ensemble casts, and how to write info dumps and make them pretty. In the content of the story, we utter many spoilers as we jump ahead 92 years to The Colony and a whole new group of characters! This is a lingering band of...
2023-01-161h 00Word and Journey
Word and JourneyHow to Die Well - The Passage Part 2, with Justin NicholsThis is the episode where everyone is dead. In the book The Passage, by Justin Cronin, it took thirty-two minutes for the world we know to end. The “Jumps,” or the Virals - the vampire characters, have broken containment, defied any attempt to contain them, and have spread their chaos across the continent. All the characters we have known and loved or hated so far have been slain, except for Brad and Amy. Now we pause with them for a year while they take refuge in the woods. Yet even their idyllic interval must come to an expl...
2023-01-0953 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyHow Isolation Kills Us - The Passage Part I, with Justin Nichols“Growing up, what was your favorite bookstore?” For Nics, as a kid, it was the school library, and public library. For Moses, as a kid, it was Bookman’s, in Flagstaff, AZ. As an older kid, it was Barnes and Noble in Medford, OR. As adults, both Moses and Nics have a fond respect for Powell’s in downtown Portland. Welcome to a new series with the Word and Journey! We are reading “The Passage,” by Justin Cronin. It’s our first ever sorta-scary story, packed with action, intrigue, mystery, murder, mutated humans, monsters, muddled morality, and...
2023-01-0459 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyEbenezer Scrooge - Miser or Monastic?Happy Holidays! My holiday of choice is the Nativity of our Lord, otherwise known as Christmas. This year, I commemorated the season by reflecting on some favorite stories associated with Christmas, Nativity, winter, etc. For the full line-up, check out the last episode, "Holiday Stories we Loved and Lived." Of particular interest, is Charles Dickens' classic novel, "A Christmas Carol," in which the old miser Ebenzer Scrooge is visited by three spirits, and challenged to reflect on the way he keeps(or doesn't keep) Christmas, and how that impacts all of his relationships, and his...
2022-12-2925 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyNativity Stories We Loved and Lived, featuring the Word and Journey CastFor this episode, I gathered together friends and family to reflect on stories we have loved, that have become part of our holiday traditions, that have created experiences for us, which in turn created more tradition. Our accounts range from the very silly, to the very personal, to the deeply thoughtful. We need tradition to know who we are and how to be. Holidays, particularly the Nativity, provide a wealth of tradition and shared lived experience. In holding to traditions, holding to each other, and keeping in mind the Author of all Tradition, we can face the...
2022-12-091h 18Word and Journey
Word and JourneyWhy We Need Our Inner Children - Boy's Life CONCLUSION with Eric Shane Love“There’s these stories, they live in us, they gotta come out!” More on how to write a book, AND how to market a book, even while also reading good books. You’d think writing a book is about inspiration, or even skill…but functionally, it ends up being more about discipline and persistence. We talk about our concerns about representing our characters well and doing them justice…as peripheral to how the characters represent ourselves. “You’ll be judged by your first book until you have a more famous book that’s different...
2022-12-0958 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyWhy We Need Editors, and the Mechanics of Establishing Trust with the Reader - Boy's Life part 3, with Eric Shane LoveCrucial to every work of fiction is a good editor. Moses and Eric are back, and talking about writing! We discuss why we have editors, how to make good use of an editor, and what are some features of a good editor. As writers, we get deep in our heads and profoundly affected by our work, and we need the occasional grammatical gut punch to set us on a right course. Eric shares tips on how to best use the feedback from Alpha and Beta Readers, as well as developmental and line editors.  Then we g...
2022-11-2956 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyWhy We Need the Fantastical - Boy's Life Part II, with Eric Shane LoveEric published a book! He shares bits of his journey of self-publishing and marketing, which, he says, was harder than actually writing the book. Word to the wise - getting a book published on Amazon is easy. Getting a book on Amazon correctly and effectively, is hard and complicated and a multi-layered process. Eric states that there does not yet exist a concise instruction manual for how to accomplish this feat…so he’s writing one. Stay tuned! “The one thing I’ve learned is you really need to know what you’re doing befo...
2022-11-2159 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Age Before the Internet - Boy's Life, with Eric LoveHow do you get inspirited to write a novel? Do you dream a dream? Work a challenging job? Live through major world events? How about all of the above? In this episode, Moses returns to the podcasting rhythm, this time with new friend and fellow writer Eric Love. This marks the first series of episodes done with a fellow writer. Per Eric’s recommendation, we started reading the 1991 novel “Boy’s Life,” by Robert McCammon. Fans of Dave Eggars and Don Miller may find something to appreciate in this memoir style, light fantasy, highly character driven...
2022-11-1452 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyFight Club Finale!All the twists are revealed as we conclude this epic and chaotic tale. Here at the end, we wonder - just what is Chuck Palahniuk teaching us? We reflect on the camaraderie and community that has grown up around the Fight Clubs and Project Mayhem. There’s an instant and sometimes unspoken bond between people who have been through a shared struggle. The two brothers reflect on the quickly understood shared experiences they have with other former home schoolers. Moses reflects on the necessity of unfiltered relationship experiences in which all of...
2022-09-071h 20Word and Journey
Word and JourneyProject Mayhem and the Search for Father God - Fight Club part 4Jeremy raises the really good question of, should we be concerned about a group that doesn’t allow itself to be questioned? And we conclude…YES! This raises the question - what is the appeal of Project Mayhem? (Just as, what was the draw to the original fight clubs?) We raise the question, what mind of mental, emotional, spiritual state must a person be in for them to find an abusive relationship(whether with an individual of a movement) to be the best possible option? Moses compares Project Mayhem to an abusive relationship that meets just enough of a...
2022-08-301h 18Word and Journey
Word and JourneySelf-Destruction, Freedom, and Fighting as if You're Dead - Fight Club part 3fight club part 3 Is Fight Club literature? Can we fairly call it a classic? Just how does a story transition from being a story that is written down to a story that is a classics? Are classics just stories that endure? Are they popular? Do they address a particular kind of content at a particular kind of level? Jeremy compares stories to whiskey and says the best whiskey is the whiskey you like to drink,the way you like to drink it. “Flavor and what it does to you are 100% subjective.” Mose...
2022-08-241h 04Word and Journey
Word and JourneyFight Club part 2 - Why You Need to be Punched in the FaceThis episode marks the birth of the first Word and Journey baby! Jeremy becomes a father and Moses gets to be an uncle! Let the Dad-Jokes freely roll… In reflecting on pop-culture references, Moses offers the quiz - name the source of the quote, “There is no spoon.” We pick up with chapters 6-10 of Fight Club, in which we witness the actual birth of the Fight Club. Here we talk about violence, spirituality, asceticism, masculinity, fatherhood, sex, mental illness, coming of age, and internal autonomy. These passages explore salvation through self-destruction, perhaps an ext...
2022-08-151h 03Word and Journey
Word and JourneyFight Club, part I - Why We Need Struggle, with Jeremy Pasimio“Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyl;er’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.” Welcome to the iconic story of Fight Club! Moses welcomes very special guest, his very first family member to guest on the show, and master martial artist, Jeremy Pasimio into the studio to read the novel by Chuck Palahniuk written in 1996, later made into the hit movie bu David Finchner, with Brad Pitt and Edward Nortan in 1999. Lots of us have heard...
2022-08-0849 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyBower Lodge, and the gift of poetry, with Paul PastorI could say "I finished a book of poems." But does one ever finish such things? Does one not rather linger long on word and page taking in favored moments again and again until the words find themselves embedded in memory where they may shape the soul? Welcome to Bower Lodge, the first book of poems by poet, writer, editor, and connoisseur of ordinary miracles, Paul Pastor. Paul is a genuine Native Oregonian, having lived about an hour's drive from the hill he...
2022-08-0157 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyThe 1984 Conclusion!It’s here! After much delay and interruptions, that one terribly dystopic and scrutinized year is coming to an end - we are finally finishing 1984! So what happened to Winston and Julia? Did they hold fast to their convictions? Did they betray each other as they predicted they would? In the end, what won out? Principles, or pleasures? We compare and contrast Fear of Pain versus Fear of Loss of Liberty We discuss what makes some people able to tolerate high amounts of pain, and others not? Our perspective is that it has to...
2022-06-181h 01Word and Journey
Word and JourneyJune Reading ListHappy June! Here’s a list of what I’m reading this month. Check out the full episode to hear brief commentary on each, as well as a few choice excerpts! Artemis, by Andy Weir. A fun, fluffy heist novel set on the moon. Altogether You, by Jenna Riemersma. A Protestant rendering of the Internal Family Systems model of counseling Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Dorian is young, rich, beautiful, and a hedonist. Thankfully, he has a gorgeous portrait of himself to absorb the weight of his sins, and do h...
2022-06-0125 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyKindred, a review, with Cree GordonHere it is, friends, that time when we talk about slavery, racism, and how we as fellow humans have responsibility to each other! In today's special episode, I interview Cree Gordan about a book we both love - Kindred, by Octavia Butler. Here's a brief synopsis for those who haven't read it: Dana, a black woman living in Los Angeles in 1976, is repeatedly pulled back in time to the early 1800's to save the life of one of her ancestors - a white plantation and slave owner named Rufus. Throughout the story, Rufus the white...
2022-05-271h 16Word and Journey
Word and JourneyBONUS SERIES - On the Road: Wheel of Time, Part IIDoes the show stand up to its own hype? So far, we think….yes? Matt continues nerding out over all the foreshadowing, Moses scrounges up a scarcity narrative around language, and Aaron almost cries. We meet a False Dragon, a Feral Channeler, and a farm boy who almost becomes a werewolf. Aaron can hold a map of the world in his head, while Moses is distracted by the medium of the television show. We decide we love Perrin and are intrigued by Mat and mostly think Rand is a one-dimensional hero…at least for now. Alon...
2022-05-1354 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyBONUS SERIES - Enter the Two Rivers: Wheel of Time Part ISo is the new Wheel of Time show any good? Well, we’re about to find out. Welcome to the Two Rivers, and a world of Trollocks, Aes Sedai, and Dragons Reborn! Moses has only ever seen the show. Matt has seen the show and read all the books. Aaron has seen the show, read most of the books, and played the game! (By the way…there’s a Wheel of Time GAME!!) We discuss first impressions of the show, comparing and contrasting the world of the show and the world of the...
2022-05-0659 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Manifesto Episode!! 1984, part 2, chapters 9-10(the one with the loooong paragraphs)Trigger warning - this chapter is DEPRESSING!! But the giggles are also out in force. Moses, Jake, and Stephanie read the book within the book, the Book of the Brotherhood, which is the manifesto of the hoped for revolution! Turns out…it’s not really well written. Surprisingly, not surprisingly, war is fought for economic purposes…not actually ideology. We learn that when private life is eradicated, and an individual has no significant inner life, they are highly susceptible to being manipulated. There’s at least two types of people. Those who are not educ...
2022-04-291h 02Word and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Privilege of Turning Off the TV. More from 1984.More hook-ups, more musings, dreams of murdering mother over chocolate, and first contact with the rebellion! It’s everything you love from the dystopian classic 1984 and more! Our uncertain hero Winston is pursuing the revolution because he needs something to believe in. His younger partner and co-conspirator Julia seems to be in the revolution just for fun. His job is to erase the past. Her job is to create the present and future, through creation of consumable stories. He is driven by principles and has more life experience from age. She is driven by pleasure an...
2022-04-1155 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Truth about Dystopian Hook-ups, and why enemies give us endorphin rushes. 1984 continues...“Dystopia is all about hook-ups.” …or is it? Here we compare and contrast a dystopian hook-up and a current day real life attempt at dating via online platforms. We get into Winston’s backstory, and deeper into the not-so-deep character of Julia. Our two protagonists present competing ideologies of escape and hedonism versus idealism, rebellion, and activism. Talking about hedonism, of course, means also talking about food as a world-building detail. Steph shares about her journey from Iowa to Oregon and back. Moses talks about ritual participation in stories as far d...
2022-04-0457 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneySex and Gender in Dystopia! 1984 section II, part IHere, we finally get to hear what superpowers Jake, Steph, and Moses wish they had. Also, our protagonist Winston writes in his journal, meets a girl, and sneaks off into the woods with her. We get to talk through sex, gender, gender stereotypes in literature, and the impact of repressing sexuality. What happens when love becomes entirely sexual? Moses takes the time to talk about narrative burdens assigned to our sexual experiences. Steph shares some tips for male writers writing female characters. Jake offers to someday have us over...
2022-03-281h 01Word and Journey
Word and JourneyWhen We Lose Our Stories - 1984, chapters 7-8“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” Does revolution make the world better? Is there a way to do hierarchy well, or is it always oppressive? Are we more enlightened than our ancestors? Moses, Steph, and Jake toss around ideas around how to share stories, why we need to write our stories down, and how relationships are an indispensable resource. We talk about  why we need our elders, body memories, and how there is more to know that just what our intellect can tell us.
2022-03-2158 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyPrecision of Language, and Perception of Reality. 1984, chapters 5-6After a brief interlude....we're back! Moses, Jake, and Steph return with another lively discussion about a dystopian classic. What happens when we lose precision of language, or language altogether? Do we really see the eventual collapse of society? We talk about about lack of language, lack of story, and lack of history leads to lack of purpose and interior vacuum, which leaves one vulnerable to manipulation. And just how powerful are words? We conclude that the one with the clearest, loudest voice, holds the power. Along the way we discuss the maxim "Perception is...
2022-03-1847 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyCensorship, and What Rafiki Taught us. 1984, chapters 3-4It's another episode! Moses, Jake, and Steph are back to talk about heroism, censorship, and the dangers of isolation! Is Winston a hero? What makes a hero anyway? Here we discuss active versus passive protagonists and what kinds of character arcs they can have. Turns out that not all heroic feats require swords and guns. Some heroism happens with in the inner world of one's own mind. Here is also where 1984 gets really political, and potentially politically relevant! We talk censorship and cancel culture! Just what does that look like? It's not just...
2022-02-2254 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyWhy we need time, feelings, and to turn off our screens. George Orwell's 1984, chapters 1-2The clocks are striking thirteen, Big Brother is watching, and the gin is freely flowing! This can only mean that the Word and Journey podcast is back for another novel! Moses Bernabe and Jake Schwartz return and delighted to welcome editor and long time friend Stephanie Bennett to the show. With that, we plunge into what might have become one of the most oft referenced dystopian novels in our recent memory. We are struck right away by the visionary(some might say prophetic) world building at play. George Orwell's signature of a dystopian society is...
2022-02-1458 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyBonus Episode - The Pilgrim's Progress: an in-depth journey with Rousseaux BrausseurMoses teams up with long time friend Rousseaux Brasseur for a deep dive into one of the greatest classics in the Protestant tradition - The Pilgrim’s Progress. Written by 17th century preacher John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress is the allegorical tale of Christian and his journey from the City of Destruction, through many perils, temptations, adventures, and victories, on the way to the City of Zion. Rousseaux first encountered the story as a young adult. Reading it once turned to reading it dozens of times for more than a decade. In our conversation, he shar...
2022-01-311h 09Word and Journey
Word and JourneyThe Great Ones, the Bright Place, and the Conclusion of the Most Fantastic Bus Ride - The Great Divorce Finale!Moses finally pitches his story! Details within. At the same time, Moses and Jake begin the conclusion of the Great Divorce! Our protagonist continues to journey with George MacDonald and learn all sorts of thing about spiritual fame, spiritual formation, and, in the eternal sense, who really are the Great Ones? We talk about relationships that are based holding tight to one’s rights, versus relationships based on forgiveness and humility, and how these are the beautiful connections. Also, what is left in a relationship if I have nothing to provide to you? We talk ag...
2022-01-2553 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyLove, Lizards, and the Problem of Evil - The Great Divorce Chapters 11 - 12After a brief delay, we're back! Here we learn that Jake has a secret passion for Chinese cooking shows. Here we also meet more ghosts and hear more stories! We learn about the difference between parental love and controlling obsession. We also learn, "We can't approach God as a means to something else." Diving deeper, we wonder what it means for God to be a "God of Love" when the world is so full of pain and difficulty. And while we're on the topic of the Problem of Evil, we wonder about death of infants...
2022-01-1841 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyGeorge MacDonald, Hyacinth Bucket(boo-kay!!) and why we need community to be saved. The Great Divorce, Chapters 9-10Here we are again, getting off the bus from hell. This is the chapter where we see a division among the characters and rising stakes! Why do some people stay in the bright place and some go back to Grey Town? Here we meet George MacDonald, and learn that heaven and hell are no mere states of mind, but an increasingly solid reality. If one reaches it, then everything will have been heaven leaving up to it. If one misses it, then even the best things of this temporal life will have been no more...
2022-01-0449 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyImpressive Cynicism and the Hard Bitten Ghost - The Great Divorce chapters 7-8Moses and Jake are back with more ghost stories! And Bright People stories. And metaphors and social commentary inspired by imagery provided by C.S. Lewis. Here we meet the Hard-Bitten Ghost. He is jaded, and somewhat resembles a conspiracy theorist, but with a strong materialist bent. He seems to reject the ideas that anything is sacred, or that anything can be progressive. Neither heaven nor hell matter to him; he sees both as mere propaganda. The Hard-Bitten Ghost is opposed, most of all, to being controlled. He's not strictly an intellectual, just very guarded and mistrusting...
2021-12-2846 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyHonest Opinions and Unimpressive Relationships. The Great Divorce, chapters 5-6Blessed Nativity! We are continuing our trek out of Grey Town into the land of the Bright Ones! Today we discuss our honest opinions! Did we really come by them honestly? What does that even mean? Can we be saved just by sincerely believing a thing? C.S. Lewis offers an intriguing dialogue between a Ghost and a Bright One and Moses Bernabe and Jake Schwartz take it upon themselves to interpret it unto the world. Along the way, we talk about, “The fallacy of the true neutral,” and the value of being free to ask...
2021-12-2050 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyInternal Space - The Final Frontier! (The Great Divorce, chapters 3-4)We're back and on the road from hell to heaven! Just what is real here? Just what does it mean to be real? To be realer than real? Moses and Jake take a brief tour through personal stories, how we are shaped by our faiths and impacted by our work and just what we bring to the reading of a story. C.S. Lewis kicks off our metaphorical journey by introducing us to the contentious passenger manifest in this most mysterious flying bus. We talk about things are "more solid than solid," and what it...
2021-12-1356 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyPilot! The Great Divorce, Chapters 1-2It's our first episode ever! We are delving into C.S. Lewis's famous allegorical tale, The Great Divorce. Moses and Jake share their initial thoughts on tackling one of the most intelligent(and very British) writers of the last century. What's the story? So a man gets on a bus in Hell, better known here a Grey Town. Said bus embarks on a voyage toward Heaven. The bus makes a few stops along the way, and every time, our narrator and the other passengers get out of the bus to interact with the ever more...
2021-12-0645 minWord and Journey
Word and JourneyA Trailer! A Preview! A Foreshadowing!Hi! My name is Moses Bernabe, counselor and healer by day, writer by early morning light, lover of stories all the time. And this is the Word and Journey podcast! Word and Journey is a book club in podcast form. We're all about good stories about important ideas. Stories that shape us and make us think. Over time, we'll be reading books, both classics and cultural icons, and talking about what we bring to the story, and how the story shapes us. Read along with us and join in the conversation! Or feel free to just take...
2021-11-0207 minRoy Malloy - Deep Senses
Roy Malloy - Deep SensesDeep Senses 054 - Roy Malloy (Guestmix by Paul Hazendonk) [November 2017]Part 054 of Deep Senses Radio with Roy Malloy & guestmix by Paul Hazendonk. Visit us online at www.facebook.com/deepsensesradio TRACKLIST : 01. Armen Miran & Hraach - Traveller (Original Mix) [Earthly Delights] 02. Brian Cid - Welcome Them (Original Mix) [microCastle] 03. Christian Monique - Suspiria (Agustin Lupidi Remix) [Revelation Records] 04. Danique & Distorted Beauty - Scream (Gabriel Ananda Remix) [Percep-tion] 05. Madloch & Matias Vila - Hazze over Night (Roger Martinez Remix) [Sound Avenue] 06. Martin Bernabe - Spontaneity (Original Mix) 07. Oovation ft Amber Long - Falter (Juan Deminicis Remix) [Flow Vinyl] 08. Biologik - Metaphysical (Orsen Remix) [Particles] 09. Comuno - Drunken Desert (Original Mix) [Not Another] 10. Berni...
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