New Persuasive Words

New Persuasive Words


Latest Episodes

Episode 160: A Lasting Hope
August 18, 2017

In this episode we consider where to find hope at a time that seems for many so dark in our country right now.

Episode 159: Anxiety and Hope
August 15, 2017

Where do we go from here? That seems to be the question of the moment. We live in a tribal, angry, isolated culture. New York Times columnist David Brooks has some ideas that we like in his most recent column. So we decided to do a little riffing off of h

Episode 158: Bullgeschichte: Horton hears a...?, with Nikki Kelley Kleinberg
August 15, 2017

Our guest for this bullgeschichte episode is Nikki Kelley Kleinberg. She's a United Methodist pastor and a hospital chaplain. We talk about a wide range of things, including the theology of Dr. Seuss.

Episode 157: Charlottesville Reflection Roundtable, hosted by the Crackers and Grape Juice Podcast
August 14, 2017

We were grateful to be invited to participate in a roundtable discussion about the recent events in Charlottesville and what they mean for our country and the church. It was hosted by our friends at the Crackers and Grape Juice podcast.

Episode 156: The Death of Ambition
August 09, 2017

In this episode we discuss ambition, mortality and everything in between. Our conversation was inspired by Bill's recent article in The Mockingbird print magazine.

Episode 155: Bullgeschichte, Friday Night Lights & Law/Gospel, with Adam Morton
August 04, 2017

|n this Bullgeschichte/Friday Night Lights episode we talk with the Prince of Lutherans (according to us), Adam Morton. He and Bill argue the finer points of Luther and Lutheranism. Scott cracks bad jokes.

Episode 154: T.S. Eliot on Revelation
August 03, 2017

In this episode we consider an essay T.S. Eliot wrote as an introduction on the topic of revelation in the modern world in a volume that listed among its contributors renowned theologians like Karl Barth and Gustav Aulen.

Episode 153: We Need Humanism
July 31, 2017

We read a weird article. It looks like the atheist left is getting as crazy as the evangelical right. We're nervous.

Episode 152: The Hermeneutics Episode?
July 28, 2017

We don't talk hermeneutics very often on this podcast. At least explicitly. But Jace Broadhurst got us talking about it. It's Bullgeschichte and Friday Night Lights rolled into one! God help us all.

Episode 151: The Lost Prophecy of Father Joseph Ratzinger
July 26, 2017

In this episode we discuss a 1969 radio address about the future of the church in a secular age. It was delivered by a young priest known as Joseph Ratzinger, the man who would become Pope Benedict XVI.