You may know Randall Goodgame as a purveyor of children’s music. His new project is for people of all ages. In the Scripture Hymnal, Randall has written and arranged music for 106 word-for-word Bible passages, for congregational singing. In addition to the hymnal, Randall and friends have recorded all 106 hymns with full instrumentation and rich pr…

This week's guest is Kathleen Norris. Her best known books include Acedia and Me, The Cloister Walk, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, and Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. A Benedictine oblate, she practices the Benedictines’ commitment to good order and deep hospitality her writing. Kathleen Norris’s new book she co-authored with Gareth Higgins.…

The twisty and shocking finale of Agatha All Along has come and gone. What are your thoughts on these last two episodes? How well did they land the plane? Don't forget to check OrganicPricedBooks.com for all of your comic book needs. Be sure to use our promo code: FRIENDSFROMWORK for even deeper discounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me…

With a MASSIVE 2025 on the horizon, it's officially time for Robby and I (Kyle) to reorganize how Friends From Work and Friends From Work+ is structured. We're so excited for what 2025 will bring for not only the Marvel Cinematic Universe but also for this podcast. Stay tuned over the coming months as we dial in some exciting additions for us in 20…

With only two episodes to go, Agatha All Along episode 7 brought us back to the witches road trials and focused on Lilia and her backstory. What do you think lies at the end of the witches road? How do you think next week's episodes will wrap the entire series? Don't forget to check OrganicPricedBooks.com for all of your comic book needs. Be sure t…

Russ Ramsey is a gifted storyteller and a trusted guide in the world of art. His new book is Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About The Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive. In this episode, Russ and Jonathan Rogers talk about sunflowers, the sublime, and the connection between suffering and wonder. Support the show: https://therabbit…

Agatha All Along episode 6 explores the Billy Maximoff backstory, and overall delivered the MCU another huge win. In today's episode, we discuss the cultural shift around TV, and everything that happened in episode 6. PLUS, we have a special 10 minute chat with legendary songwriters, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (WandaVision, Agatha All …

Stephanie Duncan Smith is a senior editor for HarperOne. She has spent her career developing award-winning and bestselling authors. She is the creator of Slant Letter, a Substack email newsletter for writers who want to deepen their craft and do it in style. She is also the author of Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risk…

What an episode!! We're so stoked to talk about this one. Get in here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Kyle Schonewill and Robby Earle

Steven James has written and published about twenty books in the last couple of decades. Most of his novels and been thrillers. But with his new novel, Rift, he’s doing something completely new: young adult Appalachian folktale horror. Steven has lived in the southern Appalachians since the 1990s. The part of East Tennessee where Rift is set was hi…

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Carolyn Leiloglou is the author of the middle grade fantasy series The Restorationists. Book Two of that series, Between Flowers and Bones, has been recently released. In this episode, Carolyn and I talk about writing about family, balancing motherhood with creative pursuits, and the ways that interacting with visual art enriches writing. Here's a …

We kick off today's episode with a massive discussion about the brand new Thunderbolts* trailer. And then we close out things by breaking down all of the events from Agatha All Along episode 3. Right now, OrganicPricedBooks.com is running a massive overstock sale (25% off) on some incredible comic books. Go check them out. ⁠ https://organicpricedbo…

John Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of many books. His award-winning illustrations have also appeared on book jackets, newspapers, and magazines all over the world. The Society of Illustrators named John the Distinguished Educator in the Arts for 2024. He is the Kenneth E. Hudson Professor of Art and the founding Cha…

After over a half a year, we FINALLY have a brand new Marvel Television show! The first two episodes of "Agatha All Along" and its star-studded cast have arrived and we're here to break it all down in today's podcast episode. Join us on this spooky Halloween journey as we get a little witchy. Organic Priced Books is the official comics partner of F…

Daniel Silliman is senior news editor for Christianity Today. He earned a doctorate in American studies from Heidelberg University in Germany and has taught US history and humanities at Heidelberg, the University of Notre Dame, Valparaiso University, and Milligan University. His new book is One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation. From …

Kyle and Robby are back from their summer adventures and they have finished their X-Men journey. Now, it's time to shift gears into witch / fall / Halloween mode with "Agatha All Along" kicking off on Disney+ on September 18. Oh, and don't forget that juicy Spider-Man 4 news. Tune in for what should be an exciting autumn! 0:00 - Catching Up 12:00 -…

In this back-to-school episode Jonathan Rogers speaks with Rachel Griffis and Rachel De Smith Roberts about their book, Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age. Dr. Griffis is a professor of English at Spring Arbor University in Michigan, and Dr. Roberts is an associate professor of English at …

Our Fox-Verse journey sadly concludes today with our coverage of "Logan." Now that you've gone back through the entire X-Men saga, have your opinions on the franchise changed? Is Logan the high point of this whole journey? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Kyle Schonewill and Robby Earle

"The New Mutants" released in 2020 and is our penultimate episode in our X-Men journey. Will this be a diet version of our reaction to "Dark Phoenix?" Come listen to us reflect on the journey as a whole (while recording at midnight) as well as break down what worked and what didn't work from this film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph…

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Jared C. Wilson is an author of over twenty books and a popular speaker at churches and conferences around the world. He serves as Pastor for Preaching and the Director of the Pastoral Training Center at Liberty Baptist Church in Liberty, Missouri. He is also an Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Author in Residence at Midwestern Baptist …

Always the same, and now all this. No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords. No more weapons! No more systems! No more! No more superpowers... So much faith in their tools, in their machines. You can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel, but you can never strike god! (Apocalypse). Oh boy… Here we go. Learn more about your …

The 7th film in our Fox-Verse rewatch journey is "X-Men: Days of Future Past" from 2014. This film sees Bryan Singer return as director as well as combining both the old and new X-Men cast. And man are you all in for a treat. "Days of Future Past" is about as good as the X-Men universe can get. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho…

As of last week, all three books of Jonathan Rogers's Wilderking Trilogy, 20th Anniversary Deluxe Hardback edition, have been released into the wild. The Bark of the Bog Owl released in June. And now The Secret of the Swamp King and The Way of the Wilderking are available wherever you buy books. These new editions have gorgeous new covers by Stephe…

Our Fox-Verse journey continues with 2013's epilogue to the original trilogy, "The Wolverine." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Kyle Schonewill and Robby Earle

Our Fox-Verse rewatch journey is hitting some speed bumps with Origins: Wolverine and now The Last Stand. It hasn’t yet come to a screeching halt, but it’s getting close. Let’s dive into this unfortunate misstep of the X-Men franchise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Kyle Schonewill and Robby Earle

Besides being an award-winning teacher and professor of theology & ethics at Lipscomb University, Lee Camp hosts No Small Endeavor, a podcast that asks What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits, practices, and dispositions that facilitate human flourishing? Lee Camp explores these and similar questions with …

You know what this is. This film speaks for itself. The only thing we will add here is that we finally got to experience the joy of watching this movie together. This episode was recorded in the Earle Sanctum Sanctorum, live in Austin, TX. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Ohhhhh boy. The third stop on our Fox-Verse journey is the first film that brings a little bit of dissension! Disagreements between Kyle and Robby AND disagreements between FFW and the general X-Men community. After rewatching the movie, do you feel more like Robby, Kyle or the overall community? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm…

In what many people consider to be the greatest X-Men film of all time, "X-2: United" from 2003 still holds up to this day. Relive the joy you felt by living vicariously through Kyle's amazement of essentially seeing this film for the first time. And then let's discuss all the aspects of this movie that keep it being so great all these years later.…

Lanta Davis is a professor of humanities and literature in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. Her new book is Becoming by Beholding: The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation. In this episode, Dr. Davis and Jonathan Rogers talk about the perhaps counterintuitive truth that neglecting to engage our imagination m…

Here. We. Go. Our journey through the Fox Universe begins with the classic film, X-Men. This was such a fun episode for us to record, and it's hopefully a glimpse into what we expect to be a spectacularly fun journey through the Fox universe. We hope you enjoy marching through these as much as we did. We'll hit X2 in next and we encourage you to wa…

What a 10 day stretch for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Was it perhaps the biggest news stretch in the MCU in 5 years? Well, we're here to get you caught up on all of it, but more importantly, to weigh the pros and cons of the biggest news of the weekend (Robert Downey Jr.'s return). Come listen and become a part of the discussion. And don't forge…

Joel Miller has been an editor, a publisher, and an author. He is currently working on a book on the history of the book. He also writes an excellent twice-a-week Substack newsletter called Miller’s Book Review. In this episode, Joel and Jonathan Rogers discuss Joel's journey toward publication—and how Joel gets so much reading and writing done whi…

Dr. Shirley Mullen is President Emerita of Houghton College in New York State and the author of Claiming the Courageous Middle: Daring to Live and Work Together for a More Hopeful Future. In this episode, Dr. Mullen and Jonathan Rogers discuss the idea that, in an era of such dangerous polarization, the “courageous middle” is not a place of bland a…

So. You've now seen the highly anticipated film "Deadpool & Wolverine" and all of the surprises, cameos and spoilers that go with it. Come join in the discussion that we were having just minutes after walking out of the theater. You do not want to miss what the MCU is cooking up over the next few years and we would love to have you along for the ri…

Today is a perfect time to catch up on all of this MCU craziness before Deadpool & Wolverine releases publicly this week. Because today's episode is extremely compartmentalized, please see timestamps below for navigation purposes. 3:00 - The Russo Brothers Directing Secret Wars?? 29:30 - Agatha All Along Trailer 42:38 - Captain America: Brave New W…

Dr. Junius Johnson is an independent scholar and teacher and a public intellectual who devotes his time to thinking and writing about whatever is noble and excellent, and how to bring those things to bear to nurture meaningful lives. You can find out more about his classes at JuniusJohnson.com. In this episode, Junius and Jonathan Rogers talk about…

Wow. Come listen to us discuss why we think Deadpool 2 is a pretty significant step up over Deadpool 1. This is a "must listen" episode. Organic Priced Books is the official comics partner of Friends From Work ⁠https://organicpricedbooks.com/?ref=friendsfromwork%E2%81%A0⁠ Use promo code: FRIENDSFROMWORK Nerd Riot is the official merchandise provide…

Karen Stiller writes about the intersections between faith and the world, social issues, matters of justice and doing better. Her most recent book is Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life. In this episode, Karen and Jonathan Rogers talk about holiness as a matter of loving people well as opposed to telling them ho…

In this interview, recorded in front of a live audience at The Habit Summer Writers Weekend in June 2024, Doug McKelvey discusses the ups and downs of a muti-faceted writing career. Doug is the author of the Every Moment Holy books. Support the show: https://therabbitroom.givingfuel.com/member See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

At long last... it's KYLE'S FIRST TIME WATCHING DEADPOOL!! Here we go. It's time for some thoughts, concerns, questions and reactions. Organic Priced Books is the official comics partner of Friends From Work ⁠https://organicpricedbooks.com/?ref=friendsfromwork%E2%81%A0⁠ Use promo code: FRIENDSFROMWORK Nerd Riot is the official merchandise provider …

It's finally time for us to kick off our Deadpool & Wolverine month! Join us for a very special interview with legendary Deadpool scribe Joe Kelly. From kicking off the Merc with a Mouth’s first ongoing series in 1997 to exploring the complicated relationship between Marvel’s deadliest mutants in this summer’s Deadpool & Wolverine: WW3, Joe knows W…

Elizabeth Oldfield hosts The Sacred, a podcast about our deepest values, the stories that shape us, and how we can build empathy and understanding between people who are very different. She has a regular column for UnHerd and has appeared on BBC One, Radio 5Live, Radio 4, and The World Service. Her work has appeared in The Financial Times, Prospect…

The 20th-Anniversary Deluxe Hardback Edition of The Bark of the Bog Owl is now available. It has a new cover by Stephen Crotts, new interior illustrations by Joe Hox, and bonus material (poems, songs, riddles) by Jonathan Rogers. To celebrate the Bog Owl's twentieth birthday, Jonathan reads an excerpt in this bonus episode. You can get your own cop…

Our Phase 4 MCU rewatch concludes today with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. We discuss why we feel this movie didn't fully get a fair shake and how it actually ages fairly well on a rewatch. Next week kicks off one month of Deadpool coverage including a watch through of both Deadpool 1 and Deadpool 2. You won't want to miss it! Learn …

In this episode of The Habit Podcast, Read Aloud Revival's Sarah MacKenzie sits in the host's chair to interview Jonathan Rogers about The Bark of the Bog Owl, 20th Anniversary Edition, which releases this week. Support the show: https://therabbitroom.givingfuel.com/member See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

With only one more Phase 4 project to go in our rewatch journey, today we take a look back at the controversial Disney+ show, "She-Hulk." What worked in this project and what didn't work? We examine. Thanks for being the best community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Kyle Schonewill and Robby Earle

Wesley Vander Lugt is a pastor, theologian, writer, teacher, nonprofit leader, and arts advocate with a passion for beauty, slowness, cultivation, and kinship. He currently works as the Acting Director of the Leighton Ford Center for Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness and is Adjunct Professor of Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary i…