The Breakfast Translation: Recent Episodes
SouthBrook Christian Church
The Breakfast Translation with Laura Buffington & Keaton Case. A way to read the Bible that imagines the world around the pages, not just on them. Makes humans out of the people in the stories through the Breakfast question.
Colum McCann on writing and storytelling: “In the end, you should probably know your characters as well as you know yourself. Not only what they had for breakfast this morning, but what they wanted to have for breakfast.”
We’ll use this as a way to talk about the real lives of the people in Scripture.
We finish out this season with a couple of bonus breakfast topics and why it's good for us to regularly revisit the story of Jesus.
We spend resurrection morning with Mary Magdalene and what we know and don't know about her story.
What do we know about the men who Jesus met on his way to the cross and what does it mean that they became friends?
Jesus makes his last meal with his friends as awkward and as meaningful as he possibly can.
Jesus invites himself to a tax collector's house and stirs up trouble and change. Happy tax season everybody!
Jesus tells a couple of stories about the rules around eating together and what it will be like to eat together forever.
We find out whether certain breakfast pastries fulfill their promises. And we read a story about a woman who has never been able to stand up straight.
We get a rare glimpse at Jesus just hanging out with friends in a little domestic scene. And we wonder whether Doing and Being are in a never-ending standoff.
It's a giant meal! We wonder how Jesus can turn a small amount of resources into a buffet.
We work through two extraordinary healings and we wonder how anybody keeps going when it's so much easier to stop.
It's a parable sandwich for breakfast. A story about a wild farmer, some possessed pigs, and another story about a wild love.
Luke 7 gives us one of the most awkward dinner parties on record. What is it about eating together that makes us so vulnerable and how can we offer more forgiveness around tables?
Jesus responds to two very different distressing scenarios with the same healing. What is breakfast like after your life has been restored?
We talk about the early days of Jesus' disciples and his invitation to them to let go of everything and hold on to something new. Also, what's a good breakfast the morning after a good party?
Breakfast may be the most important way to prepare for a busy day but for some reason Jesus skips breakfast for 40 days right before his public debut. We wonder why.
Did John the Baptist really eat locusts? Is "locusts" just a fancy word for pancakes? We answer that and more in today's grossout episode.
Even though they've been the stars of countless movies and songs, nobody else has dared to answer the pressing question of what Joseph and Mary might have had for breakfast. Until now.
This season, we're going through Luke's story of the life of Jesus. We start off with Zechariah and Elizabeth who likely had the same thing every morning for breakfast and weren't quite ready for God's giant surprise.
We reflect on the last season and make sure there isn’t any of yesterday’s pizza still in the fridge.
Paul is at sea, on his way to Rome, and most of breakfast has been thrown overboard. Acts goes out with all kinds of action and “akylutos.”
We look at the highlights of Acts 20-26 where Saul Paul tells his own story several times as a way to amplify the story of Jesus.
We try some fancy sacred donuts and we talk to Claire Brown about her work carrying on the story of Lydia in South Africa. (www.lydiasmission.org)
We meet some more of Paul’s co-workers in Acts 18-19 and we talk about how great it feels to be corrected.
14: Pancakes and hot takes.
We rank our top 5 traveling breakfast spots. And we join Paul on the road in Athens where he figures out how to talk to a crowd about a God they don’t know.
We assign our first pop-tart breakfast. And the gospel goes backpacking through Europe.
This may be one of the most important church meetings in history. And we may need to have another one just like it.
The inclusion of Gentiles into the kingdom of God brings both peace and trouble. Plus a lot of other things happen, including someone shutting the door in SImon Peter’s face. To go along with Acts 12-14.
We explore why it’s holy and sacred to eat bacon. Or to not eat bacon. But more importantly, to eat or not to eat bacon with people who do or don’t eat bacon.
We try Barley Bread! And talk about women and ministry! And reference Paula Gooder’s Phoebe and Frederick Buechner’s Son of Laughter.
Sometimes our names contain prophecies, or at least possibilities. We’re looking at Saul Paul’s conversion story in Acts 9 and how his life changes the whole game.
Acts 8 gives us two complicated conversion stories. We tell our own conversion moments and hope for more of them in the world.
In this episode, an update on coffee and the bible. Plus, we take on the story of the first martyr for the cause of Jesus, a man whose life is about making sure other people have breakfast.
" Carb-loading for Jesus", Laura & Keaton are back for another The Breakfast Translation.