The Bastard Pastor’s Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jason Wilcoxon
We stutter started a little bit about our restart, but here's another go at it. Let's see how this goes!
We decided, for whatever reason, to re-start Bastard Pastors! Come here Jason and Justin talk about...whatever they talk about.
Today we catch up with Matt and Mitch - good friends and two of the funniest folks at our church. It was fun catching up with them and getting to hear their story!
Brian and Marcella started hanging around our church before Covid hit, but we were just starting to get to know them! Hear their story of coming to Cincy, loving good bbq, musicals and a host of other topics that we pop-corn around on!
Dave and Anita have been church leaders in Cincy for years, and key members of the hugely influential Vineyard Cincinnati Church. Through their organization Elemental Churches, Dave and his partners helped our church go through an assessment program, and they have been great friends to us ever since! Their wisdom and experience with churches is a huge gift to us, and we're thankful for a great time talking to them!
The Laines started attending our church about 3 weeks before the world ended - so their experience with us has been almost entirely digital. Let's check in with them and see what they think about church during quarantine.
For this season, we thought it might be interesting to check in with folks around our church and see how they're doing. Our good friend, volunteer worship-leader, and all around awesome person Stephanie Cable is gonna kick off our conversations about church in quarantine, what we're learning and doing, and whatever else comes to mind.
I really thought we'd get back to doing this multiple times over the last year. Then quarantine hit and I was SURE we'd start again. Then Justin chopped his foot off, so obviously we'll have time. But, it took until June and the new covid surge to get this party started! But we're back! The worst podcast in Christendom!
Hanging out with our good friend Mandy, this morning, from University Christian Church in Cincy. She has a cool idea for a festival we wanna talk about!
Our friend Shawn, from Cincy Stories stops by to...tell stories. Shawn's been involved in some cool stuff in the Cincy neighborhood of OTR, and runs in a lot of the same circles we run in.
Today we talk with our friend Josh Broughton, from the Church Project in Lebanon (a northern suburb of Cincy). We just decided to talk about everything.
This morning, we're joined by our friend Josh from New City Presbyterian in Norwood. Josh has been a good friend of ours since we started, pastoring in a pretty similary context that we are. Today we talk about a little bit of everything, from communion to liturgy to spiritual development.
This week, we're joined by our friend Jane Gerdsen, who works with the Anglican church in researching and developing new expressions and communities of worship - she has tons of insight on how churches are growing and shrinking and living and dying and has been a good friend to us for a long time.
Our friend Tom swings by this morning to talk about life in general - from managing a huge dairy industry organization, to leading at a church, to busting people who are high at work, Tom's been through a ton of things, and we loved talking to him!
This morning we get to sit with Renee, pastor at the Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship in Oakley. She has been a great friend of ours, and someone we've really valued getting to work with in both issues relevant to Oakley and worship services, bringing together diverse communities.
Join us for, maybe surprisingly, our most theological podcast to date - where we catch up with our friend Ali, who is about to be ordained through a reformed Jewish seminary, and discuss heaven, hell, and the nature of God's mission for us in the world.
We asked Professor/Doctor/Bishop N.T. Wright to be on our podcast. And he said yes. If I were him, I might have vetted my time a little better to see who i associate with. Lucky for us he didn't!
Seriously, though, join us for a short conversation with one of the leading New Testament scholars and Christian thinkers in the world today, as we think and talk about an applied theology - how to take what Wright says about the historical Jesus and deal with it in our modern world.
Planning out an entire sermon series is rough. How do you take a 6000 year old book and boil it down to 6 weeks?
One of the cool things about our gig in Oakley is that we get to meet an amazingly diverse group of folks. Our friend Mark stops by to chat about life and religion and political agitating
Our church was approached by some folks who wanted to do some coaching and consulting work with us, but we were REALLY busy playing Breath of the Wild....
If I was a lot more creative, I'd have added clip-episode sound effects to this podcast, a sort of place holder episode as we talk about a really good idea that we had that fell apart.
all of our good ideas fall apart.
Today, we try something completely different, and talk with a person who goes to our church about her amazing life experiences, and things she has seen across multiple countries and decades and marriages and everything else!
This morning we were joined by Terry Lee, pastor at Oakley's newest church plant, the Oaks at Cincinnati. We talk about what it means to find folks to invest into us and think about how we do ministry as young guys in uncertain jobs.
This week, we have a 3-part podcast from a good friend and HUGE influence on our lives - Dr. Tom Thatcher, professor of New Testament Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University. Tom has been a huge influence on both of us, and a really good friend to us throughout our ministry careers. This podcast was all over the place (which is one of the reasons we love him so much!), and we hope you enjoy it!
This week, we have a 3-part podcast from a good friend and HUGE influence on our lives - Dr. Tom Thatcher, professor of New Testament Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University. Tom has been a huge influence on both of us, and a really good friend to us throughout our ministry careers. This podcast was all over the place (which is one of the reasons we love him so much!), and we hope you enjoy it!
This week, we have a 3-part podcast from a good friend and HUGE influence on our lives - Tom Thatcher, professor of New Testament Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University. Tom has been a huge influence on both of us, and a really good friend to us throughout our ministry careers. This podcast was all over the place (which is one of the reasons we love him so much!), and we hope you enjoy it!
This week, we catch up with our friend Jana, pastor at Knox Presbyterian Church, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jana has some fascinating stories of her time spent at Iona on pilgrimage and thoughts about spiritual growth!
This week, we meet with our friend and constant encourager, Matt Massey, pastor at Northstar Church in Loveland, OH. Matt was the first and for a long time ONLY pastor who believed in us and what we were doing, and has seen every aspect of the church for the past 20 years - from youth ministry in basements to mega church stages and everything in between. Matt helps us think today about insecurities and fears and work and what exactly all of us are doing.
This week, we have the amazing privilege of sitting down with Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann - one of the most influential bible scholars of our time. Dr. Brueggemann is professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, and the author of hundreds of books and articles, including "The Prophetic Imagination," one of the most important Christian books that I have ever read. His thought greatly influences ours and has for some time, and we're delighted to sit down and talk with him about the future of ministry and what it looks like to be involved in social justice issues in our time.
This morning we talk with a pastor who has been a friend and mentor to us, Mandy Smith, pastor of University Christian Church in Cincinnati, about the pressures of being a pastor, and particularly a female pastor, and sitting at the edge of some things new going on in the Church.
Today, we start a new set of conversations, in which we get to talk to our friends in ministry all around Cincinnati (and some beyond!) Today we're going to look talk to our friend Brian Ferry, Pastor at New City Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, OH. We're going to think about how ministry was changed, and how it's different than we thought it was going to be.
How do we come up with the BRILLIANT sermons that we do every week? How many hours go into such amazing work?
Pastors are normally so well put together, and calm and collected. We suck at that part of this. Today we open up the conversation of some of the things that make us insecure, worried, jealous and wonder whether or not we're cut out for a gig like this.
For most of our lifetime, the entire idea behind churches has been to make bigger and better churches - massive churches, with lots of folks, and programs and budgets. And stress. We didn't do that - today we walk through why not, and why we think Slow church or small church might be really healthy.
What does it look like when neither person takes charge? How does a community react to equals working together in the church?
We explore the main thing we did wrong by being church planters. I mean, the first thing. Of all the things. So many things.