Best Episcopalchurch Podcasts (2024)

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May 10, 2021 20:47

3y ago20:47

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Geoff and Jimmy get together for a quick episode of Two Priests in a Pod. They discuss the time required for proper dental hygiene, the books they're reading this year, and Jimmy shares a story from the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. And of course, a Hail Thee, Festival Day! Contact them at twopriestsinapod@gmail.com…

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April 26, 2021 46:12

3y ago46:12

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Geoff and Jimmy are back to talk about the great anthropological divide that is the question, "what would you have done?" Then they read and discuss an email from a listener about original sin ("Do Episcopalians believe in original sin?" "We practice it every day.") After that Jimmy quizzes Geoff on the history of the Episcopal Church and they end …

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March 22, 2021 44:59

3+ y ago44:59

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Geoff and Jimmy are back with a new episode of Two Priests in a Pod. Jimmy shares some of his Sunday woes while Geoff talks about Karl Barth. We want to hear from you! twopriestsinapod@gmail.com

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February 1, 2021 36:03

3+ y ago36:03

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Geoff and Jimmy talk about Paul's letter to Philemon, using that to explore the meaning of community, slavery, and reconciliation. We'd love to hear from you! Send us an email at twopriestsinapod@gmail.com

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January 18, 2021 37:52

3+ y ago37:52

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Jimmy and Geoff start off with a bit of conversation about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Then, Geoff shares his reflections on "Silence" by Shusaku Endo. Finally, they read an email from one of the PIPS (Priests in Pod Supporters) and share their "Hail Thee, Festival Day" moments. You can send them an email at twopriestsinapod@gmail.com.…

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January 4, 2021 32:45

3+ y ago32:45

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Geoff and Jimmy share their favorite music, podcasts, television shows, and books from 2020. Do you have any recommendations for Two Priests in a Pod? Send them to twopriestsinapod@gmail.com

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November 8, 2020 34:09

3+ y ago34:09

34:09

Geoff and Jimmy come together to talk about the eight lessons for leadership they took from the hit TV show, "Ted Lasso."

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October 26, 2020 32:53

3+ y ago32:53

32:53

Today Geoff and Jimmy open with an update on the status of Jimmy's burned finger and Geoff's "me time" in Chattanooga. Then they talk about their favorite speeches from holy scriptures and end with everybody's favorite segment, Hail Thee Festival Day. Geoff picked Peter's sermon on Pentecost (Acts 2), Paul before the Areopagus (Acts 17), and Paul b…

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October 12, 2020 30:41

4y ago30:41

30:41

Geoff and Jimmy reflect on the Crusades and its impact on the second millennium of Christianity. Join us for this serious conversations and some laughs along the way. twopriestsinapod@gmail.com

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August 20, 2020 41:51

4y ago41:51

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Geoff and Jimmy share some thoughts on the books they have been reading over the summer. Plus, lots of listener email! The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

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July 19, 2020 32:13

4y ago32:13

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This podcast was recorded at the end of July, but thanks to our suboptimal abilities it is being published at the beginning of August!

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June 25, 2020 34:47

4y ago34:47

34:47

In the newest Two Priests in a Pod Geoff and Jimmy reflect on the nature of prayer. Plus, we send greetings to our Italian fans!

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June 15, 2020 26:50

4y ago26:50

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Geoff and Jimmy share some of their reflections about ministry and family life during this pandemic. Send us some of your thoughts, too! twopriestsinapod@gmail.com

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A Church in Exile Part 4 - Rethinking Faith Formation 43:26

4y ago43:26

43:26

Melissa Rau joins us for the fourth part of our coronavirus pandemic miniseries to discuss faith formation. We discuss rethinking faith formation now and beyond the pandemic. Melissa Rau is Director of Partnerships and New Initiatives for Episcopal Church Foundation. Melissa joined the ECF staff in April 2018. Prior to joining ECF, she served churc…

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May 17, 2020 30:49

4y ago30:49

30:49

Geoff and Jimmy are back with their usual nonsense. This time, they reflect on Holy Communion in a time of quarantine.

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A Church in Exile Part 3 - Incarnational Perspectives on Online Church 58:42

4y ago58:42

58:42

In part three of our coronavirus pandemic miniseries we're joined by Kyle Oliver to discuss incarnational perspectives on online church. Kyle Matthew Oliver is an educational media producer and researcher, a fellow of the Episcopal Church Foundation, and a priest of the Diocese of California. He currently serves as communications and marketing mana…

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A Church in Exile Part 2 - Virtual Communion with Joshua Wise 58:13

4y ago58:13

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Wondering whether to celebrate the Holy Eucharist with your congregation online during the coronavirus pandemic? Dr. Joshua Wise joins us to discuss sacramental theology and an orthodox, Trinitarian, Incarnational perspective on online worship for our congregations. Joshua Wise is the author of No Avatars Allowed: Theological Reflections on Video G…

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A Church in Exile Part 1 - Pandemic Pastoring feat. Storm Swain 57:28

4y ago57:28

57:28

Priest Pulse is back with a coronavirus pandemic miniseries looking at pastoral care, communications, sacramental theology, formation, and justice and reconciliation ministry while we're experience church in exile. Part one features the Rev. Dr. Storm Swain author of Trauma and Transformation at Ground Zero: A Pastoral Theology from Fortress Press.…

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May 3, 2020 30:33

4y ago30:33

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Join Geoff & Jimmy for a bookish conversation on all that they are reading. Geoff is reading John Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion" Jimmy is reading Tod Bolsinger's "Canoeing the Mountains"

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April 17, 2020 33:34

4+ y ago33:34

33:34

Geoff and Jimmy are back to talk through some hilarity! Listen in for an opportunity to meet with them for the first ever TPIAP social hour!

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Friday, April 3, 2020 31:58

4+ y ago31:58

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Important announcement! You are invited to a Two Priests in a Pod Social Hour on Wednesday, April 15 at 5:00 PM Central. Send us an email - twopriestsinapod@gmail.com - and we'll send you the invitation. Enjoy the pod!

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St. Patrick's Day, COVID-19, & Morning Prayer 28:56

4+ y ago28:56

28:56

Join Geoff & Jimmy at a safe social distance as they talk about everything from St. Patrick's Day, COVID-19, & Morning Prayer.

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Athanasius 32:14

4+ y ago32:14

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Senior Wardens, part 2 23:46

4+ y ago23:46

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Senior Wardens 32:04

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January 24, 2020 30:34

4+ y ago30:34

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August 2019 20:25

5y ago20:25

20:25

Geoff and Jimmy reflect on Jimmy's summer travels to Northern Ireland and the Open Championship. Plus, they wax poetic on the mustachioed!

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Crushed It - Season 4 Episode 11 feat. Anna Fitch Courie and David W. Peters 57:32

5y ago57:32

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After an unexpected hiatus we return with Anna Courie and David Peters, authors of Christ Walk Crushed: a 40-Day Journey Toward Reconciliation available from Church Publishing Inc. In this interview we discuss contrition, healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation, as well as what its like to leave the beautiful state of Hawaii for the mainland. Chec…

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June 2019 31:04

5y ago31:04

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Another episode of Two Priests in a Pod!

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May 2019 42:41

5y ago42:41

42:41

John Daly! Karl Barth! Star(?) Jasmine! Two Priests in a Pod are back with #content and email from around the world! Music by The Black Keys, "Everlasting Light" on the album, "Brothers."

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April 2019 31:36

5y ago31:36

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After a self-imposed technological exile, Geoff and Jimmy are back! Thanks to Jake Xerxes Fussell for the introduction music - "Jump for Joy" from his album, "What in the Natural World."

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Failure is Success - Season 4 Episode 10 feat. the Rev. Lorenzo Lebrija of TryTank 1:03:01

5+ y ago1:03:01

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The Rev. Lorenzo Lebrija joins us to talk about his ministry with TryTank, a joint partnership between the General Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary. TryTank is a learning lab to experiment in church growth and innovation. In this episode we talk about the boldness to experiment in ministry, and how failure can lead to true suc…

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We're still here...really 2:04

5+ y ago2:04

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Two Priests in a Pod is still here. We're like that stack of old 1928 Prayer Books collecting dust in the corner of your parish library, though you haven't heard from us we're still here. So fear not! Two Priests in a Pod will return!

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Two MORE Fantastic Forma Guests - Season 4 Episode 9 feat. Jerusalem Greer and Callie Swanlund 1:19:50

5+ y ago1:19:50

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On this week’s Priest Pulse, Colin and Fr. Laurence fly solo as they key up two MORE interviews from the FORMA conference in January. While in Indy, Fr. Ben and Colin sat down with Jerusalem Greer, who is currently (but was not yet at the time) staff officer for evangelism on the Presiding Bishop’s staff, to hear about the many projects she has goi…

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On Discernment and Vocation - Season 4 Episode 8 feat. Greg Millikin and Sarah Stonesifer 1:36:57

5+ y ago1:36:57

1:36:57

On this episode we're joined by author Greg Millikin of the book "Being Called, Being Gay" from Church Publishing available now, as well as returning guest Sarah Stonesifer. We discuss issues around discernment, vocation, and call to lay and ordained ministry, and engage issues of age, gender, sexual orientation, and more as they relate to discernm…

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A Baptism Day - S4 E7 featuring Anna V. Ostenso Moore: Red Church Door Podcast Special 43:20

5+ y ago43:20

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Colin and Ben discuss the brand new Red Church Door Podcast at www.redchurchdoor.org and share this wonderful content. At the 2019 Forma conference, Colin interviewed author Anna V. Ostenso Moore about her book "Today is a Baptism Day" available now from Church Publishing. Special thanks to the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta's youth ministry podcast …

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Formed to Proclaim - S4 E6 2019 Forma Conference Wrap Up 1:09:02

5+ y ago1:09:02

1:09:02

Ben and Laurence unpack their experience at the Formed to Proclaim 2019 Forma Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. We discuss the conference and then we hear from conference goers of their impressions. Over the next several weeks we'll be releasing our Forma interviews and live episode.

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Hops, Malt, Water, Yeast, Jesus - LIVE from the Diocese of Pennsylvania feat. Kirk Berlenbach 59:15

5+ y ago59:15

59:15

It's tough to find a name for an episode about beer that doesn't offend or violate intellectual property! For the third year in a row we are LIVE at the Diocese of Pennsylvania clergy conference in Cape May, NJ. The Rev. Kirk Berlenbach, Canon for Growth and Support of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, joins the show to discuss beer ministry - do's and …

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A Magnificent Evangelist and Where to Find Her - S04E04 feat. Patricia Lyons 50:01

5+ y ago50:01

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The Rev. Patricia (Tricia) Lyons is the Evangelism and Community Engagement in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington DC, administrator of the Episcopal Evangelist network on Facebook, and author of Teaching Faith with Harry Potter: A Guidebook for Parents and Educators for Multigenerational Faith Formation. Tricia has also served on the Presiding Bis…

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November 2018 31:32

5+ y ago31:32

31:32

Geoff and Jimmy sit down to talk about everybody's favorite subject in the church - money!

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Is The Sky Falling - S4 E3 feat. Dr. Jeremy Bonner 51:28

5+ y ago51:28

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Dr. Jeremy Bonner is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University and contributor to the book, "Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present". You can read more about Dr. Bonner's work here: https://livingchurch.org/covenant/2018/08/30/facing-more-episcopal-church-decline/…

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Hacking Methodism - S4 E2 feat. Jeremy Smith 1:03:04

6y ago1:03:04

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Episode two of season four is here! Ben and Colin are joined by the Rev. Jeremy Smith of Hacking Christianity. Rev. Jeremy Smith is a United Methodist Elder serving as Senior Pastor at First United Methodist Church in Seattle, Washington (USA). He blogs about faith, young clergy issues, technology, internet theory, and geeky topics at HackingChrist…

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October 5, 2018 53:26

6y ago53:26

53:26

Geoff and Jimmy pick celebrity Episcopalians to plant churches. Plus! Mailbag from our Priest in Pod Supporters!

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Two Scary Words (Digital and Evangelism) - S4 E1 feat. Jeremy Tackett 56:12

6y ago56:12

56:12

Four years and now four seasons kicks off with Jeremy Tackett, Digital Evangelist for the Episcopal Church. We discuss working for Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, exciting new projects for TEC, and those two scary words "digital" and "evangelism." Bonus interview: Colin asks Ben all about his new Kickstarter for the All Ports Open Network launching…

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Monday Morning Sermonback Extra - Placing a Stumbling Block In Front of the Margins 6:55

6y ago6:55

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This week, Jesus has some pretty strong words for the privileged who, because of their tribes, try to keep some in and some out. Reading: http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp21_RCL.html#gsp1

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Monday Morning Sermonback Extra - Proper 20 Year B 5:13

6y ago5:13

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Mark Nepo writes that sacred moments wait for us like the very pulse of life that waits like a kind mother at the edge of exhaustion. As we seek to ease our anxiety not on early things but on things heavenly, what would it look like if we made God the foundation for our stability? Reading: http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp20_R…

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Monday Morning Sermonback Extra - Proper 19 Year B 7:31

6y ago7:31

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When exactly did we ever all just get along? Colin explores last Sunday's Gospel where we are met with one of the earliest divisions in the church. Gospel Reading: http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp19_RCL.html#gsp1

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Monday Morning Sermonback Extra - Proper 16 Year B 10:05

6y ago10:05

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We are trying something different here at Priest Pulse. I (Colin) have been recording the audio from my sermon for years and I'm finding it less effective as a tool to share the gospel. Sermons on Sunday are visual mediums and the audio is not capturing the entire presentation. What I want to try is to take the content from the Sunday Sermon, and o…

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September 14, 2018 32:59

6y ago32:59

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Geoff and Jimmy are back with Season 3 Episode 1 of Two Priests in a Pod. They rehash the "Summer of Sport" and all that's been going on at Holy Trinity and Holy Comforter. Listen in!

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Creative Common Evangelism - S3 E18 feat. Kyle Oliver 45:33

6y ago45:33

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This week, we welcome back the Rev. Kyle Oliver (Creative Commons Prayer) to talk about what he's been up to since his last time on Priest Pulse, his Doctoral work at Columbia, and even more exciting - his recent Holy Eucharist Illuminated Cards project. Ben, Colin, and Kyle talk about new trends in the church and the continuing rise in what they s…

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