It's Not an Allegory: Recent Episodes
Pam & Eryn
It's not an allegory... it's life. Coffee, Art, Music and Jesus between a couple goofs who think that the world could benefit from just a little more hilarity.
Eryn and guests Jacinda, Luke, Shawn, and Tyrone go through “hits and pits” of their time at Millar! We’re drinking tea late at night and chatting about our year(s) at Millar! Friendship and fellowship prevail as we laugh about all the things we’ve done here. Warning: this episode contains much chaos.
Eryn and Pam talk about how the famous "Proverbs 31 Woman" is not about women and pam just... Goes off ...
Pam and Eryn reveal the story behind the title, and reveal just how nerdy they are about Lord of the Rings
Pam and Eryn go over Pam's dreams, and then dive right into the hot topic of deconstruction. Content warning: this covers abuse and deconstructing. Please practice, wisdom, discernment, and self care as you listen.
Pam and Eryn recap some of the books that have influenced them over the past year, and pam explains why the hunger games was brilliant in her mind
Pam interviews a special guest and friend about art as worship and how pam is actually 65
Eryn and Pam talk about birds, Lord of The Rings, winter, and Pam's favorite passage in Scripture. TRIGGER WARNING! WE DISCUSS MENTAL HEALTH, WITH A BRIEF MENTION OF ABUSE, AND STRUGGLING WITH THESE THINGS. PLEASE BE SAFE AND BE CAUTIOUS!
Pam and Eryn flip the narrative from the Christmas episode and Pam goes off about the history of Halloween, the implications, and they discuss off Christians should participate. Warning: this episode does describe a little bit of pagan practice, so if that is uncomfy or if you have kiddos around, we won't mind if you skip!
Eryn and Pamsit down with their professor and sponsor, Travis Johnston, to talk about his thesis on Song of Solomon
Eryn and Pam invite their friend Shawn for a lighthearted and slightly scattered talk on how God has shaped them the last few years
Where Eryn and Pam discuss what Lord of the Rings character they would be, where they would travel to for coffee, and why the Gospel is so beautiful and so much more than an allegory
Pam and Eryn talk about their summers, coffee, and the importance of digging into the Word for the individual Christian. Disclaimer: this was recorded at least a month ago and it turns out pam has terrible memory and time management skills and forgot to post till now. Disclaimer #2: we are trying out a new way of recording in this episode so sorry for any weird audio. Shout out to Ben for helping us record and assemble this episode!
Pam and Eryn talk about why Easter is so important, and what they have learned this far in their second year of Bible school, and how making coffee is an analogy for atonement.
Pam and Eryn talk about they're favourite songs, how coffee roasting works, and how allegories find their way into the music scene.
Eryn explains her exegetical and Pam makes a lot of "hmmm" noises and explains why she is a bit discombobulated this week.
Pam and Eryn talk about Pam's weird childhood, ramble a bit about how weird they both are, Pam reveals the embarrassing truth about her intellectual abilities, and they discuss the lies that Christians often believe.
Eryn and Pam talk about how youth ministry is chaos, the church is important, and why Pam will never play Tic Tac Toe ever again... Pam desperately tried to make a pun of fellowship of the ring for the title but it was too hard..
Where Eryn and Pam talk personality tests, which pop tarts Pam is, and why we don't like enneagram or zodiac.
Where Pam and Eryn discuss Pixar movies, how great they are, and how Soul is an artistically brilliant movie that shares the gospel of anything but Christ.
Eryn and Pam talk about Pam's dream job, some of the best and worst redemption arcs, how reflecting the image of God is shown in story telling, and general revelation.
Where we talk about how cryptids are real, mothman needs the gospel, Eryn defends why aliens definitely exist, and we talk about one of our favorite things about theology, grace
The one in which Eryn gets mad at the poetry books that Pam collects and we talk about humanism within art and how Christians should approach art. Eryn may have gotten up and almost left a couple times.
Where we explore why Pam is the Grinch and Eryn is definitely Buddy The Elf, as much as she hated to admit it!
Eryn and Pam talk Pam's dream cup of coffee, Pam gets embarrassed a lot, the most influential theology books, and why theology is so important
Pam & Eryn discuss compassion and empathy from a humanist vs Christian worldview, how the Christian should approach these terms, and the fact that Pam only really reads four authors ever, while enjoying a morning coffee.
Coffee, art, books, and why e-books are insufficient as we discuss why we started a podcast. A brief glance at the madness that is definitely not an allegory, it's life.