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Episode 3: Witnessing the Blob: Christian Summer Camp
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Get out your marshmallows, graham crackers, and repressed feelings of queerness, ‘cause it’s time for summer camp—Christian style. Kathy and Ian listen with glee as MK recounts his stories of several different church related camps he attended while “selling out for Jesus.” From witnessing, to being flung off a balloon into a lake, it’s all fun and games until the preaching competition goes sideways—oops! At least he'll always have those saxophone dates in the woods.
Links
The Blob at Springhill in 2018 - It’s still a thing!
Related Tech Cherub Facts™:
- The Blob appears to be a thing at a LOT of Christian Camps! Who knew!
- $800 in 1993 is the equivalent of $1,741.40 in 2024
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Jesus That's Weird is a podcast about our relationship with religion and just how frickin' weird it is sometimes. Former evangelical Christian MK explains his upbringing for his heathen husband Ian and their religiously disinclined friend Kathy, in the spirit of learning, laughs, and releasing trauma with a great deal of obscenity. Amen.
Chapters
1. Cold open (00:00:00)
2. Intro (00:00:32)
3. Our shared (and not) experience of summer sleepaway camp (00:01:13)
4. MK gives us an overview (00:06:10)
5. Dunking for Jesus: Basketball Camp (00:07:13)
6. Getting your "Saved" punchcard and Eternal Security (00:09:28)
7. Vocab Break: What is a Devotional? (00:12:57)
8. Ian and Kathy discover THE BLOB (00:14:33)
9. The (Almost) Forbidden Methodist Camp with Brian and Dennis (00:19:47)
10. Pitching Pop Music Camp to the Parents (00:25:51)
11. Vocab Break 2: What is Witnessing? (00:27:12)
12. Campfire cautionary tales that sound very inviting (00:28:56)
13. The life of a camp counselor is a stinky one (00:36:52)
14. Tech Cherub Fact: The origins and stats of Christian summer camps (00:41:13)
15. MK competes in "America's Got Faith" (not the real name) (00:44:58)
16. A boring camp in upstate NY is not a good prize (00:50:53)
17. The tale of two wah wah pedals (00:52:33)
18. Outro (00:53:42)
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