In a round about way, Reid discusses the importance of generations sharing life and wisdom with one another.
The Signal App - https://signal.org/
Windsor Knots? I think knot! https://www.gq.com/story/tie-knots-zegna-windsor
The Sweet Swine O’ Mine Red box smoker. https://youtu.be/UQyRwiyjGsc
Sweet Swine O’ Mine rubs and sauces. https://ssomd.com
Reid and Jesse discuss the religious dogma, priesthood, cathedrals, heretics and militants of western secularism.
Evangelicals and Politics
https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/4/24/18513213/trump-evangelicals-gop
“Evangelicals and Evangelical Beliefs”
https://lifewayresearch.com/2017/12/06/many-evangelicals-dont-hold-evangelical-beliefs/
Give Me That Old Time Secular Religion
You are what you Love by James KA Smith https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-What-Love-Spiritual/dp/158743380X
The Coddling of the American Mind - Book https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Gate-Habsburgs-Ottomans-Battle/dp/0465013740/
Empires of the Sea - The Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Sea-Battle-Lepanto-Contest-dp-0812977645/dp/0812977645/
The Intolerance of Tolerance by Greg Koukl https://www.str.org/articles/the-intolerance-of-tolerance
The Coddling of the American Mind - Essay https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
PZ Meyers on the New Atheism https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/25/the-train-wreck-that-was-the-new-atheism/
The Guardian on the New Atheism https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/31/four-horsemen-review-what-happened-to-new-atheism-dawkins-hitchens
Reid encourages us towards both formal and informal paths for lifelong learning.
DA Carson, Christ and Culture Revisited http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2019/4/9/christ-and-culture-revisited
New York Times Review of Books https://www.nytimes.com/section/books
Westminster Books https://www.wtsbooks.com
First Things Journal https://www.firstthings.com/
Brian Regan on Reading http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s6qsfe/reading-the-news
1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. - 1 Corinthians 8:1-3
History of Welches Grape Choice and the Lord’s Table: http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/methodist-history-controversy-communion-and-welchs-grape-juice
Reid and Jesse discuss gender and culture with the aid of some courageous men and women on the wrestling mats. Our discussions of gender/sex and society need to account for biology, sociology and theology.
Wrestle like a Girl - Organization promoting women’s wrestling https://www.wrestlelikeagirl.org/
Stats on Women’s Wrestling from the National Wrestling Coaches Association - http://www.nwcaonline.com/growing-wrestling/growing-womens-wrestling/womens-wrestling-facts-resources/
News last month out of the Colorado State Wrestling Tournament - https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/24/colorado-state-wrestling-tournament-colorado-springs-wrestler-girl-forfeit/
Girls Should not pay the Price when boys are too uncomfortable to play - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/04/girls-should-not-pay-the-price-when-boys-are-too-uncomfortable-to-play
Male and Female Brain Biology - https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html
Book Reviewish - The Club by Robinson and Clegg - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40225612-the-club
Tech Reviewish - AirPods 2.0 - https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/27/airpods-2-first-impressions/
Finance Reviewish - Apple Card - https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18281071/how-apple-credit-card-works-fine-print-fees-cash-back-titanium
Reid and Jesse discuss various aspects of the biblical gospel and how we must not merely want to put the smackdown on those with whom we disagree.
Matt Chandler, Jared Wilson, The Explicit Gospel https://www.amazon.com/Explicit-Gospel-Paperback-Matt-Chandler/dp/1433542110/
Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral https://www.amazon.com/Hermeneutical-Spiral-Comprehensive-Introduction-Interpretation/dp/0830828265/ref=nodl_
Andreas Kostenberger, Richard Patterson, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation https://www.amazon.com/dp/082543047X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_thpLCbEVRCD4X
Carl Trueman book review, regarding name calling (white privilege vs. social Marxist): https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/live-marxs-world-now/
Captain Marvel https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain_marvel
Mark 1
Galatians 3:1-9
1 Corinthians 15:1-3
Isaiah 53
Luke 4, Isaiah 61
Titus 3:1-9
Romans 1:1-8
Reid and Jesse discuss the moral outrage aimed at Apple and Google for offering up Saudi Values in their Saudi Arabian app stores.
Episode 26 - How Wrongeth You Are!
https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/9/5/episode-26-how-wrongeth
Moral Relativism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/
Beckwith and Koukl, Relativism, Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air - Chapter 2
https://www.bethinking.org/truth/the-death-of-truth/2-what-is-moral-relativism
Apple, Google Criticized for Carrying App that Lets Saudi Men Track Their Wives
A US Senator has demanded that Apple and Google remove a Saudi Arabi an government app that allows men 'abhorrent' control over women's lives
The Scandalous Origins of Human Rights by Ronald Osborn
“Can we have a rationally coherent, morally compelling, and historically sustainable discourse as well as a practice of humanistic values and human rights absent a “thick” metaphysical or religious framework, such as the one provided in the Western tradition for some two millennia by Judeo-Christian sources?”
http://www.veritas.org/the-scandalous-origins-of-human-rights/
A Disjunctive Syllogism
http://www.philosophy-index.com/logic/forms/disjunctive-syllogism.php
Reid and Jesse hit up Valentines Day and learn about commitment in a round about way from contemporary relationship advice.
Valentines Day History - https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a9299/valentines-day-history/
Gory Origins of Valentines Day
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-origins-valentines-day-180968156/
The Dark Origins of Valentines Day https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day
Is Your Relationship Working by Jeanne Croteau https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannecroteau/2019/02/06/is-your-relationship-working-ask-yourself-these-five-questions/
Philippians 2
Mark 10
James 5:16
Psalm 23:6
Proverbs 3:3-6
Reid and Jesse discuss racism, justice, and the gospel with the help of Dr. Eric Mason‘s new book “Woke Church“
Woke Church by Dr. Eric Mason
https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Church-Christians-Confront-Injustice/dp/0802416985/
One Blood by John Perkins
https://www.amazon.com/One-Blood-Parting-Words-Church/dp/0802418015/
Woke Christian Conference - https://wokechristian.com/
Jude 3 Project - http://www.jude3project.com
Thriving Frequency Conference - https://thrivingfrequency.com
Ephesians 2:14
Matthew 23:23
Hosea 12:6
Reid takes a look at Spiritual Wrestling in 2019
The Illuminated Journaling Bible - https://www.illuminatedbible.org
John 16:33
Philippians 4:10-13
Job 2:9, 10
2 Corinthians 1
1 Corinthians 15
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Reid discusses the nature of Pride/Proud from two different angles along with a few holiday season suggestions.
Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam By Fred Donnner, Islam and Professor of Near Eastern History at the University of Chicago.
Reid’s reflections on the Book
Book Referenced - CS Lewis, Mere Christianity - Chapter 8
Passage 1
I now come to that part of Christian morals where they differ most sharply from all other morals. There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else' and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the center of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now, we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
Passage 2
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Other vices may sometimes bring people together: you may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people or unchaste people. But pride always means enmity—it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that—and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison—you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Scripture Referenced
Proverbs 16:18 - Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
1 Peter 1:5-5-7 - Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for God, opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time, he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Jesse leads us in a discussion of the importance of place and how God calls us to be both home and homesick and this present age. We also talked about the importance of hospitality and bring others along with us into the kingdom.
Aquaman
A Christmas Tradition
https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/1/5/episode-10-a-christmas-tradition
Leaning into Lament
https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/1/20/episode-11-leaning-into-lament
The Gospel in the Home
http://www.powerofchange.org/s/Home-Team-A-Power-of-Change-Family-Worship-Resource-572j.pdf
Genesis 1-3; 18
Isaiah 7
Mark 10:45; Luke 19:10, Luke 7:34
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor -
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-FSG-Classics/dp/0374515360/
A Meal with Jesus by Tim Chester -
https://www.amazon.com/Meal-Jesus-Discovering-Community-Mission/dp/1433521369/
A reflection on Christians living under various governments and power structures
Psalm 50, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Perpetua, in Mark Gali and Ted Olson 131 Christians Everyone Should Know (Broadman and Holman, 2000) 363. See also https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=48
The Reverend Richard Allen by Reid S. Monaghan
First Among Poets, The Life of Jupiter Hammond by Reid S. Monaghan
Sojourner Truth, When I found Jesus by Reid S. Monaghan
Francis Grimke: Pastor, Preacher, Activist by Reid S. Monaghan
We have this Ministry - Learning from the Life of Gardner C. Taylor by Reid S. Monaghan
Things I've learned from the global underground:
Whether your government is fair or corrupt, make disciples.
Whether your society is hostile or accepting, make disciples.
Whether you have cultural power or not, make disciples.
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. - 1 Timothy 1:15
It is one thing to preach at a funeral. It is quite another thing to preach the sermon at your own funeral. In this episode Reid talks with Brent Malcolm about the experience of having his Father’s own sermon be what guided his own memorial.
We invite each of you to listen to the sermon included here mid-podcast entitled “Our Death Benefits” and consider your own destiny in Christ or without him. We exhort and encourage each of you to put your faith and trust in Christ and be able to face your own mortality and say “for me to live is Christ, to die is gain!”
John 11 with emphasis on John 11:24
Reid and Jesse discuss the essence and influence of culture and how we create, inhabit, resist and engage it.
Notes Towards a Definition of Culture by TS Elliot
Prophetic Untimeliness - A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance by OS Guinness
Unapologetic Apologetics by Dempski and Richards
Christ and Culture Revisited by DA Carson
Center Church by Timothy Keller
Resident Aliens by Stanley Hauwerwas
To Change the World by James Hunter
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
1 John 2:12-15
James 4:4
Matthew 21:17-21
Daniel 1-6
Mark 16
Jesse interviews Dr. Walter Strickland, PhD, Vice President for Kingdom Diversity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Southeastern Seminary Kngdom Diversity - http://kingdomdiversity.sebts.edu
Personal Web Site - http://walterstrickland.com
Plain Theology for Plain People https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Theology-People-Lexham-Classics/dp/1683590341/
Every Waking Hour https://www.amazon.com/Every-Waking-Hour-Introduction-Christians/dp/157799678X/
Jackie Hill Perry: @JackieHillPerry
Sho Baraka: @AmIshoBaraka
Propaganda: @prophiphop
Ambassador: @ambassador215
Charlie Dates: http://progressivechicago.org/about1
H.B. Charles: http://hbcharlesjr.com
George Yancey: http://georgeyancey.com
Karen Ellis: http://ellisperspectives.com/about
Soong-Chan Rah: http://profrah.com
Christopher Brooks: http://evangelministries.org/chris-brooks
Gender Reveal Injustice? Should I go to a gender reveal party?
Dr. John C. Lennox Curriculum Vitae
Should we Fear Artificial Intelligence? Lecture available here
Book Recommendation. Can Science Explain Everything?
The Problem With #BelieveSurvivors by Emily Yoffe, Contributing editor at The Atlantic.
Justice requires fairness, not automatic belief tweet by Emily Yoffe
Reid and Jesse discuss educational choices and the attending difficulties and encouragements associated with each path.
3.3% of school aged kids are homeschooled or about 1.7 million though other estimates are as high as 2.3 million. Link to Discussion
5.7 million in private schools, most are religious in orientation around 10%. Link to Stats
Just under 51 million kids in America’s Public schools. Link to Stats
How Parental Involvement Benefits the Entire Educational Process
The Enduring Importance of Parental Involvement from your Neighborhood Friendly NEA
Deuteronomy 6:4-6
Ephesians 6:1-4
Deuteronomy 29:29
Reid and Jesse discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of the youth sports culture in America. Also a discussion of kids sports and Sunday worship to round out the episode.
How Kids sports became a $15 billion industry http://time.com/4913687/how-kids-sports-became-15-billion-industry/
The Benefits of Youth Sports https://www.ncys.org/publications/the-benefits-of-youth-sports.php
The Dark Side of Youth Sports https://www.momsteam.com/team-of-experts/shane-murphy-phd/the-dark-side-of-youth-sports
Why Kids Quit Sports by John O’Sullivan https://changingthegameproject.com/why-kids-quit-sports/
Field of Screams https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58c43902e4b0a797c1d39d51/amp
Spring Sports and Sunday Church by Tony Reinke/Mary Kassian https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/spring-sports-and-sunday-church
When Church Gets Sidelined for Youth Sports https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2018/may-web-exclusives/when-church-gets-sidelined-youth-sports.html
Engagement and Mission in the Realm of Sport by Reid Monaghan https://ftc.co/resource-library/blog-entries/engagement-and-mission-in-the-realm-of-sport
Justin Martyr First Apology - On the Administration of the Sacraments - Sunday worship was an early established practice of the Christians http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm
Hebrews 10:24, 25 - Regular gathering
1 Corinthians 16:2 - Church gathering on Sunday/first day of the week
Try Hard
Have Fun
Treat People Well
Thank your Coach
Jesse Furey leads us in a discussion of the sacredness of vocation in the design and purposes of God. Also, he presses Reid with some fun “in or out” questions to kick off the episode.
Jesse Furey has written an essay to go along with this episode of the underground. You can find that on the Bonhoeffer Haus Blog here:
Some good additional reading and resources referenced on the state of work, faith and theology
https://acton.org/pub/commentary/2016/03/30/martin-luther-vocation-and-serving-our-neighbors
https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/new-research-shows-what-employees-are-most-unhappy.html
http://malyonworkplace.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Why-Work-Dorothy-Sayers-Essay.pdf
Keller “Every Good Endeavor”
Miroslav Volf “Public Faith in Action” - “Work in the Spirit”
Andy Crouch “Culture Making”
Kyle Bennett “Practices of Love: Spiritual Disciplines for the Life of the World”
Cal Newport “Deep Work”
Wendell Berry “Christianity and the Survival of Creation”
Bonhoeffer “Christ, Reality, and Good”
Walter Strickland and Benjamin Quinn “Every Waking Hour”
Gene Veith “God at Work”
Amy Sherman “Kingdom Calling”
Bob Benne “Ordinary Saints"
1 Corinthians 7:20, 10:31
Colossians 3:23, 24
Genesis 1-3
