Reid and Jesse celebrate the first year of The Gospel Underground sharing their favorite episodes, look to the future and introducing RANTology
Episode 24 - O' Smartphone Where Art Thou
Show Notes
Links Featured
The No Smartphone Tweet by Pastor Bob Thune
Right Age for a Smartphone? by Terri Coles
Young Americans Having Less Sex by By W. Bradford Wilcox and Samuel Sturgeon
Creating a Family Tech Charging Station by Reid S. Monaghan
Snap Chat Dysmorphia? by CBS News Report by Ashley Welch
Book Recommendations
The Tech Wise Family by Andy Crouch
Reviewish
eero and eero plus Wifi system and security Forbes review by Anthony Karcz
iOS 12 Parental Controls - 9to5 Mac article by Michael Potuck
Relevant Scripture
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 t“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:1-4
Episode 23 - Man Up! Is there a Crisis with Young Men?
Reid and Jesse discuss the current state of boys and young men in our culture and how we might encourage one another in our pursuit of manhood.
Show Notes
Books Cited
Manning Up, The Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys by Kay S. Hymowitz
Boys Adrift - The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
Guyland The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men by Michael Kimmel
Quarterlife Crisis, The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
Man Interrupted - Why Young Men are Struggling and What we can do about it by Philip Zimbardo, Nikita D. Coulombe
Links Referenced
The End of Men by Hanah Rosin
The Demise of Guys by Philip Zimbardo
Blog and Links for Discussion of The Demise of Guys
Your Brain on Porn. NOTE - this is not a site for children
Episode 22 - Don’t Know Much About History?
Reid discusses the importance and joy of historical reflection
Show Notes
Books and Authors Reviewish
Podcast Reviewish
Relevant Scripture
26 Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:26, 27
22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,[c] 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
Acts 17:22-28
Episode 21 - Soccer Sucketh? The Glory of the World Cup and the Glory of God
Reid and Jesse discuss the beautiful game of global football, its growth in America and how the glory of our games can be idolatrous or beautiful in the hearts of people.
Show Notes
Links Referenced
Nielson Sports - Global Interest in Football
NBC News - Global Soccer Numbers
Forbes - Soccer Soon to be America’s Third Favorite Spectator Sport
How We Watch Soccer Now by Leo Robson
NY Times - NBC Maintains Rights to the Premier League
Scripture Referenced
Acts 17:16-23
Psalm 19:1,2
1 Corinthians 10:30,31
Podcasts and Soccer Shows Recommended
SiriusXM FC - Great satellite channel hosting The Football Show and Grumpy Pundits
The Manchester United Redcast from Playback Media
Episode 20 - DAD Up!!!
Reid discusses the importance and calling of being a Father in our world today and how we need to encourage these men.
Show Notes
Scripture Referenced
Links Referenced and Mentioned
Book Referenced
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Dr. Meg Meeker
Episode 19 - It's a Track Meet Boys and Girls
Reid and Jesse discuss biological males and females competing against one another in sanctioned athletic events when one identifies as transgender.
Show Notes
Cool or Not Cool
Not cool to Have politicians speak
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/truth-power-pence-sbc/
Main Topic
Connecticut Track Meet - http://usatodayhss.com/2018/connecticut-parents-ban-transgender-track-athletes
NY Times on Transgender Athletes -https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/sports/transgender-athletes.html
Current International Olympic Committee (IOC) Standards -https://stillmed.olympic.org/Documents/Commissions_PDFfiles/Medical_commission/2015-11_ioc_consensus_meeting_on_sex_reassignment_and_hyperandrogenism-en.pdf
The Benefits for Girls in Sports - http://www.momsteam.com/successful-parenting/sports-benefit-girls-in-many-ways
Take Em to Church
Book Recommendation - God and the Transgender Debate by Andrew T. Walker
Episode 18 - Watch Your Mouth
Reid and Jesse discuss the use of language in light of the teaching of Scripture in various social and cultural settings. And a little discussion of Steph Curry's Mom exhorting her son about dropping bombs in the heat of battle.
SHOW NOTES
Various Articles
Steph Curry Rebuked by his Mom After Game 3 - A little news on the recent Shimmy Steph situation and the grace of a maternal rebuke.
Why we don’t need both three bombs and f-bombs by Ed. Uszynski - A take on the recent F-bomb dropping in the Warriors vs. Rockets playoff series in 2018.
Watch Your Mouth by Reid S. Monaghan - An article on how we use our words and speech in light of Scripture, theology and culture.
Scripture Related to Speech
Ephesians 4:25-29 - how we are to use our speech
Various texts on sinful speech
Lying Tongues (Psalm 5:9; Psalm 120:1,2; Proverbs 6:16-19, John 8:44)
Slander, Gossip and Tearing Up People (Psalm 50:19, 20; Romans 1:28-32; 1 Timothy 5:13)
Profanity and Obscenity (Proverbs 30:7-9; Ephesians 5:4)
Cursing Folk (James 3)
Blaspheming God (Exodus 20:7)
Episode 17 - Why Not Ask Why?
SHOW NOTES
RUTS and BUTS
Kevonstage - commenting on the beautifully ridiculous with a comedic flare. Instagram - Web
MAIN TOPIC - Why not ask Why?
Finding God in Our Questions sermon series from Jacob's Well NJ
An Introduction to Apologetics by Reid S. Monaghan
SCRIPTURE
John 14:1-6, John 17, John 8:31, 32
REVIEWISH
Fantastic Carry-ons and other baggage at from AwayTravel
The Professional Slim Jr. Backpack and other bags from EBags
Episode 16 - Suffering: We all have to Deal...
Reid and Jesse discuss the reality of suffering, how all people have to deal with this and how Jesus unites God, Humanity in and through suffering.
Show Notes
Some Thoughts on Suffering by Reid S. Monaghan
Scripture - 1 Peter 1:3-9
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Episode 15 - A Hope that Does not Disappoint
Reid and Jesse discuss the foundations for hope in light of culture and scripture.
Show Notes
Reviewish
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry https://www.amazon.com/Jayber-Crow-Wendell-Berry/dp/1582431604
Bottle Breachers - http://bottlebreacher.com
Lost in Space on Netflix https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232792/
Hope that Does Not Disappoint
Sysiphus - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
Stats on Suicide https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
Augustine’s Confessions https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-Augustine/dp/0199537828
Scripture on Hope
Romans 5:1-3
Romans 8:18-25
Hebrews 6:13-20
1 Peter 1:3-9
Episode 14 - Whose god is God anyway?
Reid and Jesse discuss contemporary religious pluralism, interfaith witness, and truth claims
Show Notes
Links Cited
The Pope and Hell https://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2018/03/pope-and-hell
NCAA Women’s Basketball Final and Rico the Buzzer Beater https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/01/sports/notre-dame-wins-ncaa-title.html
The Greatest Showman http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1485796/
The Blind Men and the Elephant https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_poems_of_John_Godfrey_Saxe/The_Blind_Men_and_the_Elephant
Thoughts on Plurality by Reid S. Monaghan http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2009/2/13/thoughts-on-plurality.htm
Pluralism and the Gospel by Reid S. Monaghan http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2018/2/5/pluralism-and-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ
Books Referenced
Four View on Salvation in a Pluralistic World edited by Okholm and Phillips https://www.amazon.com/Four-Views-Salvation-Pluralistic-World/dp/0310212766/
See also Ch. 9 “Defeaters? Pluralism” in Knowledge and Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Christian-Belief-Alvin-Plantinga/dp/0802872042/
Episode 13 - Booze, Parades, Pinching and Wearing Green
Reid and Jesse discuss the cultural trappings of St. Patrick's Day, the lack of a Resee's Shamrock, and the real man behind the day.
Show Notes
RUTs and BUTs
Measure of “Luck” https://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/so-youre-smart-but-youre-not-rich-this-eye-opening-new-scientific-study-tells-you-why.html
Here Comes Diggins! http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/incredible-call-perfectly-captures-randall-diggins-historic-moment
Radford Basketball Wins!
St. Patrick of Ireland By Reid S Monaghan
http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2010/3/13/patrick-of-ireland.html
Books and Links Referenced
Stuff White People Like http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/16/89-saint-patricks-da
Philip Freeman, St. Patrick of Ireland—A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005http://www.amazon.com/St-Patrick-Ireland-Philip-Freeman/dp/0743256344/
Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization (New York: Anchor Books, 1995) http://www.amazon.com/Irish-Saved-Civilization-Hinges-History/dp/0385418493/
Patrick, Confession of St. Patrick, Christian Classics Ethereal Library — http://www.ccel.org/ccel/patrick/confession.iv.html, accessed 3/12/2010.
George Hunter, The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West…Again (Abington Press, 2000). https://www.amazon.com/Celtic-Way-Evangelism-Tenth-Anniversary/dp/1426711379
On the Block by Doug Logan https://www.amazon.com/Block-Developing-Biblical-Missional-Engagement/dp/0802414729
Episode 12 - Fake News and Truth in the Epistemic Wilderness
Reid, Jesse and Wireless Mike discuss truth, fake news and how we navigate our current epistemic wilderness
Show Notes
Links Referenced
Recent change in policy by Facebook concerning “news” in the newsfeed
A long, long treatment of the Correspondence Theory of Truth
Post-Truth - 2016 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary
“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true” - Aristotle
Books Referenced
A Sensible Metaphysical Realism by William Alston.
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
On Truth by Harry G. Frankfurt
How to Think by Alan Jacobs
Love God with All your Mind by JP Moreland
Love Alone is Credible by Hans Urs von Balthasar
Scripture References
Episode 11 - Leaning into Lament
Jesse Furey interviews Dr. Rhys Bezzant of Ridley College in Melbourne Australia
Show Notes
Rhys Bezzant
https://www.ridley.edu.au/about-ridley/ridley-people/faculty/rhys-bezzant/
CS Lewis’ Introduction to Athanasius’ On The Incarnation
http://silouanthompson.net/library/early-church/on-the-incarnation/introduction/
Psalm 77
Songs of Lament
https://www.reformedworship.org/article/june-2010/my-god-my-god-why
Episode 10 - A Christmas Tradition
Reid shares a family tradition to connect with your kids and point them to Jesus around the holidays.
A Christmas Tradition
Reid erroneously quoted Snow Miser as being from the animated film “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” when he is, in fact, from “The Year without a Santa Claus." Christmas TV show purists please accept our deepest and sincere apologies.
The Year without a Santa Clause http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072424/
Snow Miser Song - The Year without a Santa Claus https://youtu.be/dPrbccEdI5o
Heat Miser Song - The Year without a Santa Claus https://youtu.be/wbfgVEk-mxQ
Malachi 4:4-6
4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. 5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
The What and Why of Christmas Letter - CACC
Connect - be human, in their world/story, have fun
Affirm - what they are doing well, character traits/fruits of the Spirit I see
Challenge - what are the challenges in their life, character areas that need to be called up, future things ahead they need to see
Call forward in the Lord - call them to their future, call them to Christ and - vocare, primary calling to Christ/ son ship, secondary calling in his world and mission...vocational calling
Reviewish Segment
LEGO Movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/
LEGO Batman - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4116284/
LEGO Ninjago - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3014284/
Credits
Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song
The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus.
Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org.
We are a dialogue taking place in the borderlands between the church and culture and we hope to see you there.
Episode 9 - Words for White Christians
Some words of encouragement and counsel for white Christians in the west.
Show Notes
Planting Multiethnic Transcultural Churches by Reid S. Monaghan
http://www.acts29.com/planting-multiethnic-transcultural-churches/
Resources for Multiethnic and Transcultural Leadership
Note: Each of these works and authors brings a particular perspective, terminology and approach to ministry. Read them for their unique perspective and help as you humbly learn and hope for ministry in a new way.
Divided by Faith, by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race, by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey, Karen Chai Kim
The High Definition Leader: Building Multiethnic Churches in a Multiethnic World, by Derwin Gray
Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are, by Leonce Crump
Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church, by Mark DeYmaz
Episode 8 - Talking with Wireless Mike
Reid and Jesse interview Dr. R. Michael Buehrer for his thoughts on technology and faith
Show Notes
RUTs and BUTs
Taking the pee out of physics: how boys are getting a leg-up:https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/taking-pee-out-physics-how-boys-are-getting-a-leg
Luther - A Spiritual Biography by By Herman Selderhuis, https://www.crossway.org/books/martin-luther-hcj/
Technology and Christian - An Interview with Dr. Michael Buehrer
Dr. R. Michael Buehrer, Director of Wireless @ Virginia Tech, Personal web site http://www.buehrer.ece.vt.edu
Recent A.I. Discussions
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/technology/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence-ai.html
Eternal Life through Tech?
https://qz.com/1123164/seeking-eternal-life-silicon-valley-is-solving-for-death/
The Chinese Room Problem - John Searle’s analogy about syntax vs knowing properly explained https://youtu.be/D0MD4sRHj1M
John Searle on Consciousness, https://youtu.be/j_OPQgPIdKg
David Chalmers, http://consc.net
Ray Kurzweil, http://www.kurzweilai.net
Some DUALISM resources - http://www.newdualism.org/websites.htm
Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song
The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus.
Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org.
Episode 7 - Between Rock Candy and a Hard Place - Engaging Halloween
Reid and Jesse briefly discuss the history of Halloween and give some five fingered guidance for engaging the holiday today.
Show Notes
In or Out
Mischief Night - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_Night It’s a Jersey thing
Halloween Stats
Man, that's a lot of money spent!
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/wait-americans-spend-how-much-on-halloween/381631/
Review-ish
Halloween - From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers, Oxford press, 2002. https://www.amazon.com/Halloween-Pagan-Ritual-Party-Night/dp/0195168968
Last call: The rise and fall of prohibition by Daniel Okrent, Scribner, 2010. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Call-Rise-Fall-Prohibition/dp/0743277023/
The Brazyn Life Morph collapsible foam roller on Shark Tank!
http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/episode-guide/season-09/6-episode-6
Episode 6 - To Kneel or not to Kneel?
A discussion of NFL protests and our engagement together
To Kneel or Not to Kneel
What you might be missing in the kneeling debate by Ed Uzynski
https://athletesinaction.org/underreview/what-you-might-be-missing-in-the-kneeling-debate
Reviewish
Book - Good and Bad Thinking about Politics and Religion
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Think-about-Religion-Politics/dp/0802863647
The Brazyn Life Morph Collapsible Foam Roller
http://www.brazyn.com
THANKs and GRATITUDEs
Thanks to Sugar and the Hi Lows for allowing us to license the song "see it for yourself" for our theme song. The Gospel Underground is a joint production of Power of Change and the Bonhoeffer Haus.
Send your comments, feedback and or questions that you might want us to take up here on the underground to info@gospelunderground.org. We are a dialogue taking place in the borderlands between the church and culture and we hope to see you there.
