The Family That Podcasts Together: Recent Episodes

The Hines Family

An inside look into a tight-knit and nerdy family of four navigating post-ministry life in the Bible Belt. New episodes every Sunday.

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It's been a bit. The family discusses where they are.

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Welcome to Family Dinner, Take Two! Another member of the OG youth group joins us tonight.

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It's been three months...let's ketchup.

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The Family discusses dad's new job in a church and their apprehensions to being involved again.

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This episode marks the first of a new series in which the Hineses invite guests to talk about their experiences with church and the role it plays in their life now.

Tonight's guests include a founding member of Mom and Dad's youth ministry and his wife.

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The family checks in on their own journeys -- Where are we at? Where are we going?

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Dad poses the question "Which Star Wars character are you?" and the family runs with it and somehow brings religion into it, so it's kind of on topic, right?

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The family uses the "Let's Get Closer" app to make the newest Hines talk!

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Mom picked the topic this time, starting the discussion with the question, "What is sin?"

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The family discusses Christian movies: their favorites, their least favorites, and what makes a Christian movie good or bad.

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Ethan came with a starting point, which then devolved into rambling and ended with the family's thoughts on revival. 

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The family started with a question, followed by lots of silences, followed by . . . ? 

Bonus points if you make it to the end of the episode.

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Mom had a realization, which leads to the question, "Where is your hope?"

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The family ahem Mom gets honest about their doubts and questions. 

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The family reflects on the podcasts over the last year and looks ahead to 2023.

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The family talks about their favorite Christmas traditions, gifts, movies, and memories.

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The family discusses whether or not they are grieving their time in ministry -- then things get really interesting. If you've ever thought that the family never argues, this episode disproves that. 

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The family discusses their years at "the school" and their thoughts about Christian education now.

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The family outlines the cars they've owned...it's a lot.

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As mentioned in Episode 29, this week the family designs the perfect basic white girl church, then moves on to another conversation entirely. 

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Mom wanted to talk about worship, so the family started there...

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This episode started with Dad saying "I'm no good for church," then kind of went from there...as usual.

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The family talks about tattoos -- what they have, what they want, what they used to think. 

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As predicted, Mom had questions. The family discusses . . . or in Dad's words: rebuts.

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It's just the kids this week! Ethan and Alexia discuss their experiences as PKs and how those experiences have shaped them as adults.

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The family discusses Chapters 19-Epilogue of Gentle & Lowly by Dane Ortlund for the LAST TIME.

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The family discusses Mom's obsession: serial killers. Mild warning for violence and descriptions of bodily harm.

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The family discusses Chapters 15-18 of Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund.

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The family discusses their church pet peeves...from the serious to the downright silly.

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The family discusses Chapters 12-14 of Gently and Lowly by Dane Ortlund.

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The family had great intentions of talking about the good times in church, but, as usual, snowballed pretty quickly into other things. 

"This has been the best podcast ever." - Randy Hines

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The family discusses Chapters 9-11 of Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund.

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The Hineses have lived in a lot of houses! In this episode, they reminisce about all of the places they've called home.

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The family discusses Chapters 6-8 of Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund.

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Ethan finally gets his way: The family discusses music...and it's a long one. 

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The family discusses Chapters 4 and 5 of Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund.

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The family reminisces about some of their some of their favorite road trips.

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The family discusses Chapters 2 and 3 of Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund. 

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The family discusses their top three movies . . . sort of.

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The family discusses the first two chapters of Gentle and Lowly. 

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The family discusses how their Enneagram types played a role in their ministry experiences.

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The family discusses their Enneagram types.

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Family Game Night again! The family answers less questions, but somehow still talks just as long?

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The family discusses their experiences with Purity Culture and their beliefs about it now. 

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It's Family Game Night! The family uses "We're Not Really Strangers" to ask (and avoid) some uncomfortable questions.

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The family lightens things up a bit by discussing their individual nerdy histories and revealing what finally brought Mom to the Dork Side.

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It's another downer (sorry). The family gets real about their personal histories with anxiety and how they deal with stress. 

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Bit of a heavy episode as the family members each answer the question, "Why did you leave the church?"

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An introduction to the Hines family history and what the heck this podcast is gonna be.