Podcasts by And Sons
Initiation and the young man’s soul. It’s a young men’s Christian podcast. And it’s a podcast on our cultural moment, post-modernity, the millennial world.
To become a great man, you have to become a good man, one day at a time. And to become a good man, you have to understand your moment. Beauty, adventure, politics, theology, psychology, and the soul, we have conversations with experts in their own terms and dive deep into topics that, if you understand them, will help you change your life. A weekly podcast.
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242 | Finale from 2021-12-28T07:00:02
This is it. The final AndSons podcast. In this profoundly heartfelt conversation, Sam and Blaine look back at how this podcast came to be, what this journey has meant to each of them, and how their...
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241 | The Journey from 2021-12-21T07:00:16
How do you know when it's time to end a good thing? As the AndSons podcast nears its final episode, Sam and Blaine reveal how they knew this was the right moment to bring the series to a close. The...
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BONUS: The Mount Vigil Podcast from 2021-12-16T07:00:20
Blaine Eldredge introduces an episode of his new venture, The Mount Vigil Podcast. www.mountvigil.org
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240 | What's Next from 2021-12-14T16:07:03
The AndSons podcast is drawing to a close but AndSons is NOT ending. In this conversation, Sam and Blaine share what's next for each of them. Sam reveals plans for the future print volumes of the m...
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239 | Sage Advice for Your Twenties from 2021-12-07T07:00:12
The Wild at Heart men's team recently gathered for a new mission—to share insights gleaned from the ups and downs of their twenties. To start the conversation, Sam and Blaine invited the guys over ...
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238 | God's Will? from 2021-11-30T07:00:04
In this listener-requested topic, Sam and Blaine enter the deep waters of how to know the will of God. Most arrive at this question through the problem of pain, the desire to make choices that plea...
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237 | All Good Things from 2021-11-23T07:00:09
This episode features a big announcement about what's ahead for AndSons. You'll want to find some space to be fully present for this recent live stream where Sam and Blaine share what this new seas...
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236 | Do This, Not That from 2021-11-16T07:00:01
After more than 230 AndSons podcasts—that's around 14,000 minutes—on practically every topic imaginable, how could anyone distill it all down to a few main points? That was the herculean challenge ...
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235 | The Second Age of the Sorcerer from 2021-11-09T07:00:04
We live at a crazy moment in human history. The veil of modernity has fallen away and the re-spiritualization of the world is occurring. Once again, people are being drawn to the spiritual side of ...
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234 | Body and Spirit: Christians as Amphibians from 2021-11-02T04:00:14
John Eldredge joins Sam and Blaine for this episode of the recent AndSons live stream. It's no secret that humanity is hard-pressed and beat up. But if we're going to recover from the current globa...
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233 | Sailors and Squirrels from 2021-10-26T06:00:02
What do you do in seasons where the things that once brought great joy no longer seem possible? The desire is still there, but the time or perhaps the money isn't. Through the doorway of sailing an...
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232 | The Sam and Blaine Mixtape from 2021-10-19T05:00:10
Certain songs have the ability to move you like nothing else, bringing you right back to key moments in life. Sometimes you choose the songs; sometimes they choose you. Either way, music's a potent...
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231 | Know Your Own Heart from 2021-10-12T06:00:07
In this recent AndSons livestream, Sam and Blaine explore the high cost of ignoring our hearts. Yes, the heart is messy and complicated, but it's also the epicenter of our emotions, desires, motive...
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230 | Stasi Eldredge: Captivated by Jesus from 2021-10-05T14:22:18
Our souls grow weary from the relentless pace of life filled with non-stop demands for more of us than we have to give. In these times it's hard to remember our treasured times with Jesus...much le...
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229 | Anxious About Everything from 2021-09-28T05:59:59
If you struggle with anxiety, you're not alone. More than 40 million adults struggle with anxiety. It's the most common mental illness in America. But we don't really talk about it, probably becaus...
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228 | Dan Allender: Surviving Depression from 2021-09-21T06:00:06
In this foundational episode, Sam and Blaine are joined by trauma therapist and bestselling author Dan Allender for this candid conversation about depression and suicide. As an entry into this weig...
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227 | Breaking Up is Hard to Do from 2021-09-14T06:00:07
A listener recently wrote in asking for a conversation on breaks-up. He was going through a difficult season after the end of a relationship and thought this topic was one most guys could benefit f...
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226 | Discipline Is Not Enough - Part 2 from 2021-09-07T06:00:06
We tend to measure success by what we get from God. We think our resiliency would improve if we only had what we most wanted. But the only thing that can ever truly satisfy the soul is being with ...
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225 | Discipline Is Not Enough - Part 1 from 2021-08-31T06:00:15
When life requires more of us, we tend to buckle down, work hard, and get things done. But discipline alone can never create the mature, transformed man that God is after. Nor can the other extreme...
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224 | Establishing Boundaries from 2021-08-24T06:00:15
What are the boundaries of your life and kingdom...and how do you protect them in a world that puts no limits on its right to overrule your time, words, and decisions? In this "back to basics" conv...
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223 | Can I Get a Witness? from 2021-08-17T06:00:14
We long to share meaningful experiences with others. It's in those times that we feel most seen and heard. Yet what about when there's no one to witness our victories, struggles, and eternal moment...
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222 | Story 1 or Story 2 from 2021-08-10T06:00:05
God gives you a choice. Do you want to spend your days in Story 1 or Story 2? Unfortunately, most choose Story 1—small stories of low risk, high control and quick answers where comfort is valued mo...
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221 | What Conflict Reveals from 2021-08-03T06:00:04
No sane person enjoys conflict. When things go wrong, we quickly try to make up and move on. While that may work for minor disagreements, it isn't nearly as helpful for long-term conflicts in marri...
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220 | 99% In from 2021-07-27T06:00:01
What is Jesus inviting you to experience more—or less of—in this season? Whatever it is, you'll never fully achieve it being 99% in. Why? Because even just 1% uncertainty leaves the door cracked to...
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219 | High Expectations with Low Reserves from 2021-07-20T06:00
In this second AndSons livestream, Sam Jolman joins Sam and Blaine to discuss how even though life seems to be getting back to normal, we're not doing as well as we think we are. We do something re...
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218 | Summer Strategies from 2021-07-13T14:52:22
Your heart needs a different gear for summer—one that creates space for sabbath, play, and risk. What does that look like? Sam and Blaine offer ways to feed your soul this summer with a mix of expe...
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217 | A Life of Meaning from 2021-07-06T06:00:30
A hyper-vigilant, high-alert life may sound wise, but all it ultimately brings is higher anxiety, depression, and exhaustion. A life of meaning, on the other hand, places a higher value on loving w...
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216 | Captive or Free? from 2021-06-29T06:00
In their second AndSons livestream, Sam and Blaine look at how today's culture encourages people to see themselves as permanent victims. Yet how does that view align with the teachings of Jesus? By...
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215 | Stuck in the Middle 2 from 2021-06-22T06:00:09
Divisive topics tend to divide relationships—but they don't have to. In this series conclusion, Sam and Blaine reveal ways to lead with our hearts in an issues-infatuated culture. We may still be a...
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214 | Stuck in the Middle 1 from 2021-06-15T06:00:23
In such polarizing times, safety comes from being fully in with one side or the other on any given topic. Having your own opinion—rather than falling in line with the loudest voice—can create a sen...
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213 | Inconvenience & Initiation from 2021-06-08T06:00:01
Our culture is obsessed with convenience. Fast and easy sounds great but rarely leads to growth. That's why many have taken the opposite approach, pursuing hard and inconvenient things. But choosin...
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212 | Mediocre at Everything from 2021-06-01T06:00:03
In And Sons first livestream, Sam and Blaine talk about the struggle of feeling only adequate at life while others appear to be crushing every goal in sight. It's a time where the verdict starts to...
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211 | How Stories Shape Us from 2021-05-25T06:00
All movies and stories aren't created equal. They tell us about the nature of reality, form how we see the world, and shape our souls in both good and bad ways. Most people embrace one of two extre...
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210 | Seeing Your Blind Spots from 2021-05-18T06:00:06
No one likes to think they have blind spots. But, well, no one is immune. We've all had that moment where we thought we nailed it only to realize we somehow misread the person or situation in front...
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209 | Embracing Negative Space from 2021-05-11T06:00:16
We miss so much in the world around us due to overfamiliarity—from the sound of a nightly train and the smell of our homes to the sky around the stars. In this AndSons MetaDragon episode (see show ...
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208 | James Arnold Taylor: Like Your Own Voice from 2021-05-04T05:38:06
James Arnold Taylor is the man of more than 200 voices—including Obi-Wan Kenobi, Johnny Test, The Flash, and Fred Flintstone. He's also a man who has discovered his own true voice...and enjoys help...
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207 | Running At What We Avoid from 2021-04-27T06:00:01
We want a life of ease and comfort. We need the pain and discomfort of running toward the very things that make us feel incompetent or uncomfortable. Sam and Blaine address this topic through the l...
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206 | Getting All In Your Stuff from 2021-04-20T06:00:19
If we were to walk in your home, what would we conclude matters to you based on what's on your walls or in your garage? In other words, where do you spend your money and time? If that feels a bit p...
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205 | Longing to Belong from 2021-04-13T06:00:06
Regardless of where you grew up, it likely didn't feel like home in some ways. And that's normal. No earthly home can completely satisfy our soul's longing to belong—or compare to the eternal home ...
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204 | Tattoo You from 2021-04-03T06:00:10
For most, the topic of tattoos sparks an immediate reaction. Whether you love 'em or hate 'em, tattoos provide an incredible entry point to the way we see the world and our bodies. It turns out the...
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203 | Castaway vs. Community from 2021-03-30T06:00
We tend to go bad directions when we're isolated. That's because we're meant to live in community rather than as castaways on our own private islands. God designed us to be relational in all areas ...
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202 | 28 Days of Chasing Joy from 2021-03-23T06:00
In the January 26th podcast, Sam and Blaine invited everyone to join them for a radical experiment in joy. If you missed it, go back and listen before jumping into this one. The challenge? Commit t...
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201 | Erasing Words from 2021-03-16T06:00:08
Why is our culture so intent on wiping some words out of existence while bending the meaning of others beyond recognition? Language control is a strategy of power that tries to change the shape of ...
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200 | Sarah Bianchi and Suffering from 2021-03-09T07:00:08
Our 200th podcast is one of our most uniquely profound episodes yet. It's a fusion of story and song; loss and lament. Sarah Bianchi is an incredibly creative poet, photographer, songwriter, and si...
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199 | The Copper Triangle from 2021-03-02T07:00:02
We all need adventure. Something that puts us into a setting that both inspires and tests us. But in the past year, when travel has been so restricted, going and doing almost anything active has be...
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198 | Becoming a King from 2021-02-23T07:00:08
Almost all men in their twenties and thirties long for a sage or two to help with the hard questions and new seasons of life. But where are these older men who have learned the secret to true coura...
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197 | Being Friends With Your Kids from 2021-02-16T07:00:02
One of the best parts of parenting is being a friend to our kids. Yet we can sometimes get so focused on correcting them about everything, we miss the chance to connect with them about anything. Am...
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196 | Giving Birth to Your Dreams from 2021-02-09T16:00:08
Does the pursuit of your dreams feel like the "forever project"—one you can't quit thinking about but never quite happens? Wild at Heart team member Allen Arnold understands how we get stuck in the...
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195 | Black Belt Friendships from 2021-02-02T16:53:22
Have you gotten into a rut with your close friends? Do you tend to just watch sports together, go to the same hang-outs, or re-tell the same high school or college stories? If you want your friends...
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194 | The February Experiment from 2021-01-26T07:00:07
What one practice stirs your heart...yet you're not currently doing it? Maybe you've never believed you had time or the courage to try it. Now, imagine joining a group of like-minded people all com...
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193 | Steven Hanna: Photography and Light from 2021-01-19T06:59:59
The stunning images of two-time, award-winning Northern Ireland photographer Steven Hanna has captured the imagination and praise of countless people...including Sam and Blaine. Fascinated by his u...
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192 | When The Cracks Start Showing from 2021-01-12T07:00:17
We do our best to distance ourselves from our problems. To keep them at bay, we try to go faster. Jump to the next project or friendship. Or explain away our feelings. But eventually the pressure b...
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191 | What We've Been Up To from 2021-01-05T07:00:04
It's the start of a new year...and all-new podcasts with Sam and Blaine. But rather than just dive in, they first share how they spent their furlough. It's a transparent look at naming and addressi...
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190 | Less You and More God from 2020-12-29T07:00:04
2020 is pretty much a wrap. For most, that couldn't happen soon enough. But the changing of years never automatically changes us or our circumstances. If we want to like our lives more, it requires...
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189 | Christmas 2020 from 2020-12-22T07:00:18
Most of us are coming into this Christmas having experienced some mix of loss and disappointment from the strange year known as 2020. But the answer isn't to downgrade your hopes for what's still p...
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188 | The Hope of Advent #2 from 2020-12-15T07:00:10
Picking up where last week's podcast left off, Sam and Blaine talk about Advent promises fulfilled—and those yet to come. The consumerism, stress, and distractions of this season can leave us empty...
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187 | The Hope of Advent #1 from 2020-12-08T07:00:05
It's Advent season. A time of hopeful anticipation. And yet it's hard to even say the word "hope" without simultaneously feeling the pain of deep disappointment, dreams delayed, and real loss of th...
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186 | Storms & Shelter #4: Relationships from 2020-12-01T06:00:22
Some storms are beyond our control. But the ones that hit hardest are often relational storms of our own making. Sam and Blaine reveal how to prevent the turbulence that often sabotages our friends...
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185 | Storms & Shelter #3: Persistence from 2020-11-24T06:00:12
How does adversity impact our bodies and sense of worth? Luke Eldredge joins Blaine in the studio to share his story of long-term injury, the resulting shame, and eventual triumph. Discover why our...
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184 | Storms & Shelter #2: Pain from 2020-11-17T07:00:01
The question isn't whether we have pain. We have plenty. It's where are we taking it and how are we medicating it? But running from the pain never works. Nor does trying to numb it. Sam and Blaine ...
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183 | Storms & Shelter #1: Trauma from 2020-11-10T07:00:08
Life can turn upside down in the blink of an eye. You receive a "mayday" phone call or need to offer help to someone experiencing trauma. Now what? Dan Allender provides simple, practical counsel o...
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182 | Missing the Point in Record Time from 2020-11-03T07:00:14
We live in a culture that demands we react to every issue right now. Answer fast. Beat the buzzer. Get the social media "like". All while we stay on the surface rather than going deep with the pers...
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181 | Overcoming Chaos from 2020-10-27T06:00:16
In the past year, our world has been shaken in almost every conceivable manner. We have been shaken as well—with chaos coming agains our dreams, hopes, and hearts in uniquely personal ways. In thi...
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180 | Power of Story #3: Hope Versus Dread from 2020-10-17T20:11:01
Whether written, visual, oral, or music, stories serve as mini periscopes that reveal the world around us—and within us. The best movies, novels, and television shows are more like smelling salts t...
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179 | Power of Story #2: Going Off Script from 2020-10-13T06:00:04
This week, we head to Hollywood. It's where a lot of stories are brought to life. And where actor, director, and author Nathan Clarkson spends his days. He takes us behind the scenes to discuss the...
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178 | Power of Story #1: Journey of Discovery from 2020-10-06T06:00:07
We all love a good story. But rarely do we see our lives as a story. In this episode from 2017, Sam and Blaine discuss the DNA of creativity and story with Allen Arnold from the Wild at Heart team....
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177 | Soul Care #4: The Story of Your Soul from 2020-09-29T06:01:04
We wrap our Soul Care series with a look at what we usually try to hide—the state of our soul. Trying to figure out how our soul is doing can feel like an incredibly complicated process. Until you ...
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176 | Soul Care #3: Remembering Who You Are from 2020-09-22T06:00:08
How well do you know yourself? Odds are...not very well if you don't regularly tend to the inner needs of your heart and soul. This pursuit begins with you...but doesn't end there. Because you'll n...
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175 | Soul Care #2: Invitation into the Unseen from 2020-09-15T06:00:18
We live at a time where everyone strives to be seen, celebrated, and productive. Yet what if being hidden in a world where everyone else fights to be noticed is actually...a gift? Sara Hagerty, the...
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174 | Soul Care #1: Simple Practices from 2020-09-08T06:00
Your soul takes plenty of hits each day—and it doesn't just get better on its own. Time alone never heals those kind of wounds. Nor does it automatically happen through outdoor adventures or relaxi...
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173 | The Courage to Pause from 2020-09-01T06:00:17
We rarely give ourselves permission to go any speed but fast. It feels impossible to downshift to a slower rhythm. Not now. Not with so many expectations. So we push on...only to wonder why we have...
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172 | Summer Remix #6: The Unexpected Antidote to Sexual Addiction from 2020-08-25T06:00:07
In this final serving of our Summer Series, Wild at Heart staffer Jamie Goudie throws you back to Episode 44. This one features an interview with Michael Cusick—counselor, lecturer, and founder of ...
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171 | Summer Remix #5: Risk More from 2020-08-18T06:00:05
In this fifth installment of the AndSons Summer Series, Bart Hansen serves up his favorite past episode - #86 with Wookie Jones telling stories about adventure, passion, and risk. Besides having a ...
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170 | Summer Remix #4: The Flip Phone Experiment from 2020-08-11T16:40:03
How would you feel if your high-tech smartphone was suddenly just a...phone? No apps. No Siri. No touch screen anything. Just a device to call people. Is your eye starting to twitch at the thought ...
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169 | Summer Remix #3: The Dating Game from 2020-08-04T18:01:26
The focus turns to dating in this third installment of the And Sons Summer Series. Michelle Patterson from the Wild at Heart team chose Episode 85 as her favorite past And Sons podcast. In it, Sam,...
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168 | Summer Remix #2: Let Go of Control from 2020-07-28T06:00:05
It's summer...and that means outdoor adventure, lots of ice cream, and the And Sons Summer Series. This week, Stacey Burton from the Wild at Heart team shares her favorite past And Sons podcast. Ep...
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167 | Summer Remix #1: What Does It Mean to Be Healthy? from 2020-07-21T06:00
Welcome to the AndSons Summer Series. To mix things up (and to give them some vacation time), Sam and Blaine invited six of the Wild at Heart team to select and introduce their favorite past AndSon...
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166 | The Shaping Forces of Our Time from 2020-07-14T06:00:04
Many of today's emerging social, political, and spiritual movements aren't actually new. Earlier iterations can be found throughout history. Sam and Blaine highlight some specific centuries-old for...
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165 | Life is Hard from 2020-07-07T06:00:01
Why can't most days be easier? We expect the occasional big storms that come. But it's the slow grind of the daily hard that wears on us most over time. Yesterday's leaky pipe. Today's flat tire. T...
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164 | Fathering Sons and Daughters from 2020-06-30T06:00:02
Being the dad of a girl is a radically different experience than fathering a boy. Yes, every child has their own personality. But a boy and girl also provoke the heart of a father in uniquely speci...
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163 | Jonathan Tremaine Thomas: Civil Righteousness from 2020-06-23T06:00:12
Jonathan Tremaine Thomas is an actor, activist, pastor, producer, social entrepreneur, fifth generation “preacher’s kid”, and the grand-nephew of the legendary Civil Rights artist Dr. Nina Simone. ...
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162 | The Challenge of Change from 2020-06-16T06:00:04
We live in a polarizing time of stark opposites. The result is growing tension fueled by an odd swirling of opposition, offense, anger, and withdrawal. Sam and Blaine process what's going on behind...
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161 | Dan Allender: Forgiveness is Freeing from 2020-06-09T06:00:18
161 I Dan Allender: Forgiveness is Freeing
Dan Allender believes forgiveness must be at the forefront of our actions - especially in these fragmented times. Rather than take offense, we're in...
160 | Wendell Moss: Race, Trauma, and Masculinity from 2020-06-02T06:00:27
A few reminders.
The gospel transcends every human identity and tells you a few important things about the world. Like, the fact that the human heart is fallen. It’s the original problem. It i...
159 | A Better Diagnosis from 2020-05-26T06:00:03
We often settle for a simple physical explanation when we're feeling down or off. So when a throbbing headache keeps you from an event of great joy, you assume it must be because you recently cut d...
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158 | Less Zoom. More Dirt. from 2020-05-19T06:00:03
The immaterial practices that fill our days (like those endless Zoom meetings) may be productive but they don't anchor us. Numerous studies show we need regular contact with the real. When we disco...
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157 | You Need a Therapist from 2020-05-12T06:00:14
Why is the decision to see a therapist the last resort for most of us? Sam and Blaine demystify the process by interviewing therapist Stacia Littlefield. She helps people navigate the terrain of th...
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156 | Blessing and Cursing from 2020-05-05T06:00:04
Our words hold immense power. We understand that on a relational level. But spiritually, far more is at play. Throughout scripture, God reveals how your words, thoughts, and actions can either bles...
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155 | Annie Grace: The Alcohol Experiment from 2020-04-28T15:03:17
Our experience with alcohol varies wildly from person to person. For some, it's an occasional beer or celebratory toast. For others, it ranges from a source of relief to a secret addiction they can...
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154 | Share Jesus by Sharing Your Life from 2020-04-21T10:00:13
These strange times provide countless opportunities to talk with others about the Kingdom, but religious language gets in the way. Here's a simple way forward: rather than talking about Jesus from ...
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153 | Compete for the Outcome from 2020-04-14T06:00:15
We're good at doing, but we tend to question the value of pausing. This intentionally brief podcast is about a shift - from saying more to praying more. The world downplays prayer as a legitimate r...
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152 | Celebration Is Essential from 2020-04-07T10:00:13
The celebration of key events happens regularly in childhood. But then we get older and they stop. We hit a milestone dead zone where important things go unacknowledged - whether the start of a job...
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151 | Return to Basics from 2020-03-31T10:00:12
How does the trained professional survive hard times? By simplifying. It is the dominant strategy of the mature through the ages: double down on first principles. But those skills don't just magica...
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150 | The Only Safe Place to Take Shelter from 2020-03-24T06:00:20
We live in unprecedented times where scarcity and fear strike in the middle of the day and the dead of night. Yet God promises to provide and sustain us. How can we hold to the belief that God is g...
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149 | What Does a Mature Man Do In a Crisis? from 2020-03-17T10:00:38
When hard times hit the fan, how shaky is your foundation? The pull is often to gain control...or at least more information. But doing so causes us to miss the deeper initiation. With God, we are f...
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148 | Sabbath is Play, not Rest from 2020-03-10T13:25:45
What did God mean when he meant Sabbath? Most of us have no clue. Culture and tradition have made it boring and burdensome. So we shrug and settle for a nap or a beer. But something's been lost. Wh...
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147 | Sara Hagerty - Adoring God In The Middle Of The Mess from 2020-03-03T15:58:52
How do you avoid losing hope? For better or worse, it's an everyday question. Answer? It may mean doing the hard thing, which is adoring God in the middle of the mess. Problem is, you can't adore a...
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146 | Brad Beck: Astronauts, Emergency Medicine, and Your Calling from 2020-02-25T14:01:50
Where to start? Brad Beck has flown T-38s, worked at NASA, traveled the world, been an ER doc, and that’s only half the story. And even so, he’s still great to work with. We sat down for a conversa...
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145 | Allen Arnold: Dismissal, Diminishment, and the Urge to Hide from 2020-02-18T14:00:10
It is, unfortunately, a common experience: you enter a room, and everyone else seems to belong there. But not you - you're the outsider. And then comes the impulse to get out, check out, hide. In t...
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144 | Everyone Else Has it Easier, Right? from 2020-02-11T16:00:10
144 | Everyone Else Has it Easier, Right? by And Sons
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143 | The Age of Criticism from 2020-02-04T16:00:10
What do we do when, not if, we face criticism? Often the critique has truth in it, but the internal messages that go along with it aren't the most accurate. Our culture has become a dehumanizing an...
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142 | Cost to Joy Ratio from 2020-01-28T16:00:10
An elegant tool, from a more civilized time. Wait, that's not right. A simple tool, for a cluttered time? Better.
Pursuing joy and life can feel like uphill and difficult choices in every ...
141 | Dreaming, Hope, and God’s Sharing of His Heart with Humanity from 2020-01-21T17:35:23
Dreams (and we mean aspirations) are difficult. They are, on the one hand, a way God tells you about your future. They are, on the other, vulnerable, sabotaged, and often unrealized. In this episod...
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139 | Framing the Season from 2020-01-07T15:59:59
FRAMING THE SEASON
1. What are you doing, Jesus, in me in this season?
2. What’s the theme of this season?
3. What do I need to know about my role in your larger mission for this ...
138 | Body and Soul (Human Nature Pt. 4) from 2019-12-31T16:00:23
Referenced in the show:
Space, Time, and Incarnation Thomas F. Torrance
Deus Caritas Est by Pope Benedict
Fill These Hearts by Christopher West
For Sigmund Freud, nephew Edward Bern...
Merry Christmas from And Sons from 2019-12-24T16:00:53
Merry Christmas from And Sons by And Sons
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137 | No Smartphones for a Month from 2019-12-17T20:07:49
In an effort to fight the creeping, medicating, overextended presence of our smartphones, the And Sons team and four Ransomed Heart team members gave up their smartphones for a month to see what wo...
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136 | Advent, Hope, and Longing from 2019-12-10T16:00:53
The season of advent is evoking a lot of longing for us this year. It seems you can't say the word hope without feeling the pain of all the things not yet realized. There's joy to be sure, but the ...
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135 | Using the Fruit to Find the Root from 2019-12-03T16:00:33
"You will know them by their fruits" Matt 7:16
It's a litmus test Jesus gave us for false prophets, and yet it extends deeper than just teachings. The fruit of an action, the fruit of a tr...
134 | Deep with a Few or Shallow with Many from 2019-11-26T16:17:11
Friendships are one of the deepest places of pain for just about everyone these days, it seems. How do we become the kind of men who have friendships going back 30 years? What are the rhythms that ...
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133 | The Image of God (Human Nature Pt. 3) from 2019-11-19T14:00:23
Put on your Hebrew hat, it’s time to tackle one of the most productive concepts in the Bible. The Image of God. No single podcast can capture all that’s intended by that phrase, so in this episode,...
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132 | There Are No Rational Autonomous Selves or Social Animals (Human Nature Pt. 2) from 2019-11-12T13:56:40
In this episode, Blaine and And Sons team member Justin Lukasavige explore our idea environment as part of a continuing conversation on human nature. The team first unpacks what it means for an ide...
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131 | Worldview 101 - Learning to See, Anthropology, and the Centrality of Human Nature (Pt. 1) from 2019-11-05T15:00:02
131 | Worldview 101 - Learning to See, Anthropology, and the Centrality of Human Nature (Pt. 1) by And Sons
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130 | Morgan Snyder: Mentoring and What You're Actually Asking For from 2019-10-29T14:00:02
This one feels like the title is the description. So, there you go.
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129 | Dan Allender: The Glory We Bare from 2019-10-22T15:00:21
It's too easy to focus on the damage of our story. Too easy to focus on what needs healing, or whats been stolen. We all have an innate glory in the image of God that we bare, which on its own shou...
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128 | Holding on to the Epic from 2019-10-15T15:00:18
It's a common experience: we have a breakthrough moment with God, we see miracles, we get a taste of the life we wanted, and the next week, it's gone. In this episode, Sam and Blaine unpack practic...
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127 | The Books inside Vol 2 from 2019-10-08T15:08:31
Inside the covers of the print magazine are things that we believe are important and somehow connected to the masculine journey, if sometimes loosely. The books inside Volume 2 are a little more ob...
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126 | Loneliness & Community from 2019-10-01T15:00:04
We're betting you are lonely. It's something we can assume is the case for pretty much everyone on the planet, but even more so for someone trying to walk with maturity in their 20's. What do we do...
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125 | John Mark Lohner: Shame and The Gospel from 2019-09-24T15:00:06
"Do Not Be Ashamed" by Wendell Berry
You will be walking some night
in the comfortable dark of your yard
and suddenly a great light will shine
round about you, and behind you
124 | State of the Soul from 2019-09-17T14:52:04
Back in the studio, Blaine and Sam talk about soul care these days. What are we doing to care for ourselves, and what do we think about to orient our story?
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123 | Why We're Back Next Week from 2019-09-10T14:00:15
123 | Why We're Back Next Week by And Sons
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122 | Nathan Clarkson - Hollywood and The World of Storytelling from 2019-09-03T15:51:52
Nathan Clarkson has spent his 20's in the world of Hollywood and has a few things to say about it. As an actor, director, and published author, Clarkson lives in the worlds of the creative and stor...
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121 | Lament - Bringing Your Heart to God from 2019-08-27T14:28:40
In the pursuit of inner growth we can slip into a way of thinking that justifies all pain and disappointment as initiation. And while some of the time that is just fine, the Bible is filled with ex...
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120 | Dave Small - Uranium, Burma, and the Father from 2019-08-20T14:49:27
Dave Small has spent several years in the jungles of Burma and Thailand in cooperation with the Free Burma Rangers, a group dedicated to training young men in Burma to be first responders in the co...
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119 | Jumping Ship from 2019-08-13T16:08:42
Leaving a town, a job, a small group can feel like freedom or failure depending on the circumstances. It'd feel a lot easier if we knew God was calling us into a new season and out from the one we'...
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118 | Volume 3 Behind the Scenes from 2019-08-06T14:50:48
With the next print of And Sons in the works, Sam and Blaine reflect on the process as it's happening.
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117 | Jan Meyers Proett - Being the Face of God from 2019-07-30T15:00:05
Jan Meyers Proett has spent her life listening to others tell their stories. Over the years she has learned practices that make such work sustainable, powerful, and hopeful.
We may not al...
116 | That Joy is Scalable from 2019-07-23T14:45:46
"I know everybody says
Money can't buy happiness
But it could buy me a boat, it could buy me a truck to pull it
It could buy me a Yeti 110 iced down with some silver bullets
Yeah, a...
115 | Tinkering and Ebenezer from 2019-07-16T15:00:09
Today's episode was born out of a conversation with a young man. We found the conversation was lingering on a few questions that we've asked ourselves as well:
When have we done enough hea...
114 | Josh Imhoff: Aquaponics, Business as Mission, and The Things Jesus Tells You to Say from 2019-07-09T14:53:45
Josh Imhoff is the founder of YWAM Emerge, an organization that builds food systems around the world to reduce poverty. What that means is that Josh and his team have figured out how to build aquap...
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113 | How to Stop Reacting and Missing the Point and Ask Questions Instead from 2019-07-02T15:45
We say the Holy Spirit is our teacher. If that’s the case, it should radically inform our practices. Unfortunately, we live in a culture that trains us to react: answer the question, make a fast de...
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112 | Yadda Yadda Yadda - Tips and Strategies for Reading the Bible from 2019-06-25T15:00:04
It started with an email: how did you guys learn to engage ancient languages and texts? That set us off on a treasure hunt. From OT to Hebrew scholars, pastors and our own lives, this is a toolkit ...
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111 | James Baxter: There is a Way to Live from 2019-06-18T12:59:59
Want to like your life more? Here’s a guidebook to prayer, fasting, and self-denial. James Baxter is the Executive Director of Exodus 90, an organization that instructs men in a lifestyle that lead...
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110 | How Writers Make Writing from 2019-06-11T13:00:05
It's said painters like painting, and writers like having written. That tends to be true. From Zadie Smith to Flannery O'Connor, Steven Pressfield to John Gardner, Annie Dillard et alia, writers kn...
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109 | (Un)common Emotions from 2019-06-04T14:31:41
There’s no scientific consensus as to what emotions are. Depending on who you ask, there could be 8 basic emotions (Dr. Robert Plutchik), 6 (Dr. Paul Ekman) or more than 127 (Dr. Tiffany Watt Smith...
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108 | The Video Game Dreamers - Chris Skaggs and John Bergquist from 2019-05-28T14:50:24
Chris Skaggs and John Bergquist have been collaborators for more than a decade. They've built companies, led folks into the heart, and built culture. With Soma games, they've started a video game c...
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107 | How We Avoid Wasting Our Summer (Or Any Season) from 2019-05-21T14:00:07
I mean, does this really need a description? We all can worry about an anticipated season passing by without all the hoped-for pieces being realized. Sam and Blaine dive into postures that can help.
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106 | Roger Thompson - Sage of the West from 2019-05-14T14:49:53
Roger W Thompson is a writer, surfer, entrepreneur and overall outdoorsman. He’s a dad, and he’s got a mobile office in a van. We reached out to Roger because his writing reveals an unusual intimac...
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105 | Heroism and Immortality from 2019-05-07T12:00:09
Well, we saw Avengers Endgame. So this podcast's got spoilers, but it gives us the opportunity to talk about heroes, heroism, and what our cultural moment is doing with the two. Buckle up for arche...
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104 | Chaos, Initiation, and Atmosphere from 2019-04-30T15:52:55
Allen Arnold joins Sam and Blaine in the studio this week to talk about the presence of Chaos in our lives, and the ways that God approaches it.
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103 | Dr. Tremper Longman III - Old Testament Controversies from 2019-04-23T13:46:06
Dr. Tremper Longman III is the man when it comes to ancient Near Eastern studies. Meaning, he’s written more than 30 books on the Old Testament and its world, he’s one of the main translators of th...
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102 | Understanding Escape from 2019-04-16T14:39:28
It’s rankled the And Sons team a while: it seems like VR presents a real threat of escaping reality, in a negative sense, but haven’t folks found ways to escape reality anyway? Sports, books, hobbi...
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101 | Dr. Charles Stone: Holy Noticing : Christian Mindfulness and How to Love Your Life More from 2019-04-09T12:00:12
Dr. Charles Stone has been a student of the brain for a dog’s age and written on neuroscience across fields. It turns out, understanding human nature, physiology included, outlines a path into prac...
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100 | Decade by Decade by Decade from 2019-04-02T14:01:15
For our 100th episode and Sam's 30th birthday, we reflect back on what small, daily, choices made in the days can look like over time. And the reverse: to not look at a single moment and miss all t...
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99 | Stasi Eldredge: On the Mother Heart of God and Mercy from 2019-03-26T15:00:09
What better way to explore the mother heart of God than through the eyes and experience of a mother? Whether you are a mother, had a great mother of your own, or missed everything that was intended...
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98 | Making Choices for the Year while Living in the Day from 2019-03-19T15:00:29
Our lives are more than just the moment we are living in. They are the accumulation of billions of small moments, they are filled with weeks, months, years, decades. When we live in "the now" and f...
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97 | A Playful Jesus? from 2019-03-12T15:00:18
We've been reading "Beautiful Outlaw" again and it's been surfacing some wonderful things. What is Jesus' personality like? Yes, he is kind and merciful and all those other over-used but totally tr...
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96 | A Profanity-Free Podcast on Swearing (aside from the intro) from 2019-03-05T16:00:28
Aside from the intro, of course.
So we’re not going to do a series on drinking, swearing and smoking, but we are interested in talking about right action—how do we decide what to do? The w...
95 | Developing a Family Culture of Readers from 2019-02-26T16:00:16
This podcast episode began percolating when we received several emails from different listeners, all of whom were asking the same question: how do you create a family culture that loves reading?
94 | Generosity: Embodying the Plenty of God from 2019-02-19T16:00:25
We want more of God. More intimacy. More miracles. More clarity. More play. More joy. It turns out Jesus has outlined disciplines as avenues into the life we want. Generosity—regular, radical givin...
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93 | The Cost of Following God from 2019-02-05T17:34:19
Many of our conversations with friends have been around the subject of the cost of "really" following God. There is a sort of understanding that we are not completely there yet, and to take the lea...
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92 | The Conservationist Bowhunter from 2019-01-29T16:00:03
Brian Dreher is one of four Senior Terrestrial Biologist's in the state of Colorado. He got his masters studying bears. He's also an avid bowhunter. Enough said, right?
Brian and Morgan ha...
91 | Greg Winters - The Soul of the Craftsman from 2019-01-22T16:00:13
Back in the fall I (Blaine here) started building a mini barn in my backyard. Doing so dismantled a great many misconceptions I held about building and craftsmanship, like how good I was at it, and...
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90 | The Proverbs and Power - How to Want Things Worth Wanting from 2019-01-15T16:00:15
“Two things I ask of you, Lord; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.”
Yup. The Proverbs...
89 | Bart Hansen - Maturing Adventure [Explicit] from 2019-01-08T15:38
“If your life with God doesn’t have a regular dose of adventure,” Padre says, “It’s not going to sustain the masculine soul.”
That’s all well and good, but what if you live in the city? ...
88 | When Information Becomes Action from 2019-01-01T16:00:05
We've touched on learning before, and this isn't a repeat episode. Recently a young man asked us how we learn things, as in, how we gain skills or information that actually effects our daily lives....
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87 | "I Trust You" from 2018-12-25T16:00:05
Our identities are shaped by our stories, by the messages we receive from those around us, and by the scripts we seem doomed to live out. But out identity as we know it may not be who we really, tr...
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86 | Wookie Jones: Risk and risk and risk... the freelance life from 2018-12-18T16:00:15
Wookie is a designer, coffee shop owner, New Hampshire-based motorcycle rider. He’s a fascinating young dude with a penchant for risk and plenty of insight into which scooter to buy. We roped him i...
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85 | Dating; Our Stories not Our Posture from 2018-12-11T16:00
Sam, Blaine, and Luke sit down to tell some stories from their experiences in dating from high school, into college, and eventually into marriage. This is not meant to be the official posture of An...
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84 | Advent, Folks, or, The Final Words of Prophet Jeremiah from 2018-12-04T15:46:49
It’s Advent, folks. The beginning of the year. The reorientation to our revolution. Sure, advent is a time of preparation, too, but it’s also a time of doubling down on our story, of circling up to...
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83 | A New (and Old... and Daily) Hope from 2018-11-27T15:59:09
What are you hoping for? What are you thinking about on a daily basis that brings expectation and anticipation? We all know the story of the Christian hope, it's on t-shirts and tattoos and hallmar...
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82 | Work Life Play - The Creative Habits of And Sons from 2018-11-20T16:00:08
In this episode, we flip the script. Aaron McHugh, of Work Life Play, interviews the And Sons team (Sam and Blaine) to talk about creative work. How does And Sons keep moving dreams down the field ...
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81 | How to Search for a Job (and Meaning) - Mega-tactical with Luke from 2018-11-13T14:00:08
If the data can be trusted, we’ll all find ourselves job searching, more than once, in our 20s (and 30s too). In this episode, we brought in Luke from a long-term undercover assignment job-searchin...
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80 | Kim Woodard Osterholzer: Birth, Dudes from 2018-11-06T14:00:18
Two things are given in human experience. Birth and death. Our culture doesn’t spend much time thinking about either one. And neither, to be honest, do we. Not until we have to. Which is a problem....
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79 | The Everyday Voice of God from 2018-10-30T16:54:07
Here at And Sons there’s one question we get more than any other: How do I build conversational intimacy with God? Meaning normal, practical, chatty relationship. Hearing God is the basis for the r...
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78 | Simple Practices for Soul Care from 2018-10-23T15:00:13
Books and seminars and conferences and counselors and lifetimes are spent on this subject, and rightly so. But the truth is, knowing that we need to care for our souls, to seek stillness, and to be...
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77 | Quit Learning, Start Learning from 2018-10-16T16:27:42
We roped in And Sons strategist Jon Dale to riff on a growing concern. It’s education. Problem is, when most folks think of education, they think of mining textbooks for answers other people alread...
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76 | Choose Difficult Things from 2018-10-09T15:00:19
When it comes to our daily rhythms, we tend to drift into paths with less resistance and difficulty than others. Life is hard enough as it is, so why wouldn't we choose to ease off where we can? Th...
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75 | Anthony Ashley: Strategy, The Way of the General from 2018-10-02T13:00:09
Strategy is an abused word for a vital concept. In this episode, we sat down with our friend and longtime pro-strategist Anthony Ashley to get to the root of the discipline: what is strategy, what’...
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74 | Hank Shaw: Wild Game Gourmet from 2018-09-25T15:00:19
We've got a few books stacked around the office that we like to flip through for inspiration, and Hank Shaw's "Buck, Buck, Moose" has had a spot on our desk for a while now. Shaw is a forager, angl...
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73 | Dr Randolph James: The Doctor who says "Die" from 2018-09-18T15:00:06
Dr James practices medicine out of his clinic in Colorado, True Life Medicine, after leaving behind the "traditional Western model" of healthcare. By addressing symptoms alone, Dr James claims that...
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72 | Reorientation: The Worldview of Jesus from 2018-09-11T13:00:26
Know what Familiarity breeds? Perceived Familiarity. Perceived Familiarity breeds Unfamiliarity. Which breeds Disinterest, Apathy, and, yup, Contempt. This is one of the most important facts about ...
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71 | Laurie Thornton: Leading Leaders from 2018-08-28T15:01:07
Laurie Thornton is one part of a husband/wife pastoral team (guess which) with a decade of experience in music ministry, discipleship, missions, retreat-leading, all that. She has a dynamite relati...
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70 | The Summer Issue from 2018-08-21T14:58:17
The summer issue of And Sons is out, and yes, it technically is still summer even though most schools are back in session. In this episode Blaine and Sam flesh out some of the articles on super rea...
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69 | Ultrarunning: The Suffering Master and Apprentice from 2018-08-14T16:34:07
When Justin Lukasavige began running he didn't imagine going for 100 kilometers let alone down the block. But then Dave Eitemiller came along and offered his guidance, and an ultrarunning partnersh...
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68 | The River from 2018-08-07T15:00:04
Why do we keep going back to the same places? What is the value of knowing a land, a rock face, a town, when everything is about "what's next"? John (Padre) writes, "Each year we return lays down a...
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67 | Sean Buckles: When Starting a Business is Scarier than Jumping Out of Airplanes from 2018-07-31T15:00:03
Sean Buckles is a coffee shop maven with a long career in the US Army, both as a member of a Special Ops team and as an instructor. He’s one of those people you like more every new thing you learn,...
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66 | Summer Hacks or It's Not Too Late from 2018-07-24T15:00:24
The pernicious and crippling feeling of "it's too late" can infiltrate almost every part of our lives, so it should be no surprise that we are already feeling it in regards to our summer and all th...
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65 | Study Poetry. Really from 2018-07-17T15:00:14
We'll be honest and say that this episode made a least 1/2 of the And Sons team a little queasy, insofar as it looked like we'd have to buy typewriters and write outside in Oxfords, no socks. This ...
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64 | The Seminarian Question from 2018-07-10T14:43:53
You remember Jesse Barkalow - the longtime painter, line cook, and world's most prolific reader. Well, he's been at seminary. Usually, that makes us concerned for a person's well being. But Jesse h...
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63 | Wendell Moss: Race, Masculinity, and Courage from 2018-07-03T14:55:49
This is one of those episodes that will leave you wanting more. And maybe there is a part 2 in store for the future. Wendell Moss is a counselor based in Seattle, WA, who specializes in trauma and ...
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62 | Keys to Relating from 2018-06-26T14:43:20
If we could sit our younger selves down from five or 10 years ago, we would have a few suggestions to share about how to better navigate the realm of friendships and relationships. People are never...
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61 | No Wasted Time from 2018-06-19T14:43:09
If And Sons had an FAQ, one question would top the list: What do I do with what feels like Wasted Time? In this episode, we try to reframe the issue, describing wasted time in terms of the desert, ...
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60 | The Meanings(s) of Life (and Time, Economy, Community) from 2018-06-12T13:00:14
It’s not a secret Blaine likes words. Maybe it’s the history with rhetoric. Maybe it’s the writing genes. But still, there it is: words are a repository of human experience. Words reveal the world....
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59 | Mako Fujimura: Art, "Seeing," and the Creative Wastefulness of God from 2018-06-05T17:27
Makoto Fujimura is an internationally-renowned artist, writer, and visionary. His work addresses the tension between trauma and creativity, culture creation, and the extravagant wastefulness of God...
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58 | The Danger of the Self-Arranging Life from 2018-05-30T17:53:26
What can look like, and feel like, soul care may sometimes not be that at all. Too many stories end in broken pieces when fueled by the phrase "No one is looking out for me, I am on my own in findi...
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57 | Stress, Productivity, Connection - Media Rules With Blaine from 2018-05-22T13:00:02
The And Sons introductory playbook on using technology well. From tech calendars to channel-specific goals, it’s all about practical steps to mastering the technology you employ.
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56 | Summertime Tactical: Justin and JD on the Season, Schedules, and the Habits of Adventure from 2018-05-15T14:32:03
It’s summer. The question is, how do you actually get out more this season? We grabbed Justin and JD from the And Sons team, two men who have ridden motorcycles across the state, mountain biked all...
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55 | Joe Steinke: Vision, Trial, Doubt, Recovery, Walking Out the Growth Cycle of a Community from 2018-05-08T14:51:33
Joe Steinke is, in a word, an apostle. As a member of the leadership team of the Boiler Room church network, he oversees a growing network of house churches; as a leader of the Antioch School, he’s...
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54 | What God has been Exposing Lately from 2018-05-01T15:29:11
If we are willing to see and to engage, we will find that God is always inviting us into the frontier with him. He is constantly exposing ways that we need to grow or change, but often we don't wan...
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53 | Bart Gavigan: How to See Miracles and Keep your Day Job from 2018-04-24T14:55:42
We’re stoked this week to bring you a conversation with Bart Gavigan. Bart is screenwriter, mentor, Holy Spirit-following firebrand. One week, Bart might be hanging with the higher-ups of the BBC, ...
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52 | Fathering and Patience from 2018-04-17T14:47:58
In this episode, Sam and Blaine revisit fathering a year and a half into the game. It turns out, fathering is like most relationships, only more so. It requires a few skills everyone should have, l...
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51 | The Stories Our Culture is Telling, and What That Reveals from 2018-04-10T14:31:38
From fiction to film to television, cultures across time have been creating a narrative for the public. National identities, hopes and dreams for the future, ways of placing ourselves in history, a...
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50 | Income, Wealth, and Contentment from 2018-04-03T14:31:25
You've probably made some assumptions by the title alone, but this episode is around conversations that we seem to keep having. "If only I made a little more... then I would be happy" seems to be a...
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49 | Sam Ainslie: The Soul at Work from 2018-03-27T15:43:04
Sometimes the easiest sages to miss are the ones already in your life—we work hard to avoid that mistake, and today we sat down with Sam Ainslie of the RH staff to talk about work. A career, specif...
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48 | Male Friendship: In the Studio with Alex and Morgan from 2018-03-20T14:40:20
What do two decades of friendship look like? How is it even possible these days, with travel, life changes, and the difficulties of keeping in touch with friends? Alex Burton and Morgan Snyder join...
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47 | Five Agreements that are Killing Millennials (Part 2) from 2018-03-13T14:40:26
In Part 2, Padre joins Sam and Blaine to finish their conversation on social and personal agreements that are killing millennials, and what is possible by breaking them.
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46 | Five Agreements that are Killing Millennials (Part 1) from 2018-03-06T15:30:54
"I fear the worst has happened. You are losing heart, may have already lost it altogether." This weeks conversation with Padre centers around one of the articles written in the Winter '18 issue of ...
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45 | Thirty (ish) Minutes of Questions from 2018-02-27T15:47:53
We needed something lighter this week, so we thought we'd practice the act of conversation. How to ask good questions and where we go with the answers can separate a bland interaction from a profou...
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44 | Michael John Cusick: Sex, the Soul, Addiction, and Longing for God from 2018-02-20T17:36
Michael Cusick is a counselor, lecturer, and the founder of Restoring the Soul, a ministry addressing sexual addiction through deep, whole-hearted restoration. His work (including two books) center...
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43 | Don't Waste Your Pain from 2018-02-13T15:50:01
It's a simple concept, that when we experience seasons or days or hours that make us uncomfortable or are filled with pain of some kind we have two choices: we can run and medicate, or we can press...
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42 | WAH Bootcamp: The Young Men's Session from 2018-02-06T15:45:41
This week: a sneak peek into the young men's session at the February 2018 Boot Camp in Colorado. It's the And Sons message all in one place: naming things about our world and experience, offering s...
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41 | The Brain, Experience, and Screens from 2018-01-30T16:51:31
We go a little deep this week, into the roots of why we are the way we are as a social media society, what philosophies got us there, and how our world is effecting us. Inspired by Matthew Crawford...
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40 | Why Spirituality is so Difficult for Men from 2018-01-23T15:52:17
John Eldredge, also known as "Padre" around the And Sons world, joins Sam and Blaine as they begin the conversation around masculine spirituality. Why are so many men struggling with the typical "c...
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39 | How to Respond to Trauma from 2018-01-16T16:55:24
It's the phone call, the text, the "mayday" from a friend or family member that changes everything. You jump in the car to meet them, or sit down to talk on the phone and wonder, "What do I do now?...
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38 | You Need A Budget: Jesse Mecham from 2018-01-09T15:51:12
This episode is not an advertisement. Money and budgeting are usually more complicated than issues of dollars and cents, there's often shame and personal growth right in the middle. In our conversa...
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37 | Morgan Snyder and the Possibility of Initiation from 2018-01-02T15:53:31
There are many things that we need in life, Maslow's Hierarchy and all that, but some things stand out on their own. Initiation is one of the big ones. It's something that probably most of us haven...
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36 | Living Embodied : Shame, Opposition, and the Call to Risk from 2017-12-05T16:15:04
After the triathlon nerd-out episode, we realized nobody's story of adventure and exercise begins at the starting line. For most of us, stepping out into adventure means working through sometimes d...
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35 | Tov: What it Means to be Good, with Mandy Nelson and Scott Morin from 2017-11-28T15:39:27
There’s an old line in Tozer we’ve come to appreciate a great deal. It’s this: “God is speaking. He is, by His nature, continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice.” But the ...
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34 | Allen Arnold and the Power of Story from 2017-11-21T17:52:32
There’s nothing like the guys on your own team—Allen Arnold founding the fiction division at Thomas Nelson Publishing, published between 500 and 600 novels as VP of that division, and has a better ...
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33 | Mark Evans Round Two from 2017-11-14T14:16:53
And Sons had Mark Evans on for and interview several months ago to talk about his leather-craft art, his journey as a creative, and what fuels him. We know you loved it, and we certainly did, so Sa...
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32 | Four Life Lessons from Combat Writing from 2017-11-07T17:05:39
It's no secret that around the And Sons office we love to read and learn from men and women who have gone before us, and that's certainly true of the men and women who step into and out of combat s...
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31 | Hunting Stories: A Vehicle for Initiation and Presence from 2017-10-31T14:55:34
Sam and Blaine reflect on their journey into the world of hunting, how most of the men in their world are first-generation hunters, and how initiation and intention effect our world. Through the le...
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30 | Know Thyself from 2017-10-24T14:45:57
In this episode, Blaine and Sam take up the issue of self-knowledge. You’re never going to treat anyone’s heart better than you treat your own, and you’re never going to know anyone’s heart better ...
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29 | Brett Davis: Surfing Evangelist to Evangelist Surfer from 2017-10-18T01:06:58
Brett Davis is the founder of Christian Surfers International, and has quite the story to go along with it. As part of the continuing goal to hear from the sages in our world, Blaine and Sam get to...
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28 | Technology (but it's not what you think) from 2017-10-10T14:14:39
To better grasp how technology effects us today, we need to understand where the idea came from and what the purpose of technology was originally intended to be, and how it's changed and stayed the...
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27 | Admiration and Emulation from 2017-10-04T14:03:29
Blaine and Sam are joined by Jon Dale and Justin Lukasavige from the team to share stories about who we admire. It's a practice that we don't always think to do, but that can be surprising and help...
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26 | Sara Hagerty: Unseen and the Hidden Places of Our Lives from 2017-09-26T15:59:21
Sara Hagerty is the author of Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a World That Loves to Be Noticed, and together with Blaine and Sam she talks about her journey with the church, burnout, discoverin...
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25 | Tim Thornton: Creativity and Crisis from 2017-09-19T14:19:20
Welcome back to Season 3 of the And Sons podcast. To kick things off, Sam and Blaine sat down with Tim Thornton, a friend, mentor, and artist, to talk about the creative process, how it mirrors the...
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24 | Rhythm: Season 2 Finale from 2017-08-22T22:09:20
In time for the finale of Season 2 of the And Sons podcast, Sam and Blaine talk about rhythm, balance, and how they are (or more often are not) cultivating a life intentionally. The And Sons Podcas...
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23 | Jon Dale: Business, Growth, and Thinking Outside the Box from 2017-08-15T15:01:26
Jon Dale is a member of the Ransomed Heart and And Sons teams, and while his work these days revolves around bringing the kingdom his journey didn't start there. Dale began early as an entrepreneur...
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22 | Feminism Part 2: The 3 Waves in Snapshots from 2017-08-08T17:02:04
In part 2 of the feminism series, Sam and Blaine jump into the history of feminism in the US. Starting with ancient Athens (of course), on through the Blackstone Commentaries and early American leg...
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21 | Feminism Part 1: Hegemony from 2017-08-01T17:46:55
In this two-part series, Blaine and Sam dive into the history of feminism. But before they can do that, they dive into the history of history - the ancient Greek world, Xenophon, the Battle of Cuna...
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20 | Justin Rizzo: Worship, Calling, and IHOP from 2017-07-26T15:17:25
We love hearing about the creative journey here at And Sons, something that each of us acts out in our own unique ways. How someone chooses to pursue a calling, what choices they make, and how they...
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19 | The Body: Why Exercise Matters and Why We Tri from 2017-07-18T14:34:03
A longer episode with two parts within it: The first is an exploration of why the body matters, and why it should not be neglected, the second is why Sam and Blaine choose triathlon and lessons the...
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18 | Adversity and Persistence: Padre, Interpretation, and How Do You Tell When God is Calling You from 2017-07-11T13:46:04
We use terms like "God opened a door" or "closed the door" retrospectively all the time, but how do you tell in the moment if you are being invited into something or if God's not in it? How do you ...
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17 | The Mid-Mission Recording from 2017-07-04T11:53:37
While filming for the latest And Sons project the team sat around in the truck on a cold night to debrief where they were and what what going on, internally and externally. What followed was an hon...
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16 | Dan Allender: On Learning to Listen, Presence, and Wholehearted Quitting from 2017-06-27T16:40:57
Dan Allender is no stranger in the And Sons world, nor is he a stranger to listening to people's stories. Rather than give the quick steps to better remember names and influence people, the process...
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15 | Brian Hardin of Daily Audio Bible: Art, Vocation, and the Introvert Podcaster from 2017-06-20T15:10:12
How does an introvert in the music industry end up creating and hosting a podcast that gets over 55 million downloads? That's Brian Hardin's story, and it was never one that he would have anticipat...
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14 | A Young Man's Story: Jesse Barkalow, The Classics, and Cooking from 2017-06-13T09:14:44
This episode is an experiment. What happens when you sit three young(er) men around the table and start riffing on life? What stories feel important, what motivators rise to the surface, is it enco...
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13 | Bo Zivcak: Clandestine Church and Rebuilding Community after Communism from 2017-06-06T14:51:37
Kicking off Season Two, Bo Zivcak joins Sam and Blaine via the workings of technology from Slovakia, wherein he tells his story of growing up behind the Iron Curtain and his journey after its fall....
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12 | Season One Finale and Padre's Thoughts about It from 2017-05-02T14:38:28
Bringing the season to a close, Padre joins Sam and Blaine to talk about the mission of the podcast, what episodes they loved, and where we go from here. The And Sons Podcast will return with Seaso...
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11 | Post-Graduation: The Body Slam and Where Expectation and Our Response Meet from 2017-04-25T14:57:04
With Luke in town, the three brothers talk about the experience of life in the wake of college and all of the spoken and unspoken expectations of what it will be like. It's rare that our visions of...
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10 | Jeff Vanderstelt: The Gospel, Vulnerability, and Community in Covenant from 2017-04-18T15:51:23
This week, Blaine and Sam sat down with Jeff Vanderstelt, a longtime apostle/teacher/church-equipper. We know that for many young men, it’s a big and often tricky jump from living a life with Jesus...
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09 | Postmodern Drama: Where the Ideas Came From, and How to Engage With Them from 2017-04-11T14:38:36
In this conversation, Blaine and Sam nerd out on the history of Postmodern ideas, which like people or places have very specific stories that help inform where they came from and what they really a...
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08 | Money: What Men Have Learned and What They Wish They Knew in Their 20's from 2017-04-04T15:38:20
Ever heard that the same convictions that help you handle scarcity also help you handle plenty? Turns out it’s true. In this episode, we sat down with two men on our team, Bart Hansen and Jon Dale ...
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07 | Sam Jolman: Sex and the Heart of the Romantic from 2017-03-28T14:51:19
Sam Jolman is a councilor who in the last issue of And Sons Magazine explained that men need romance, not just sex. That was worth following up on, and in this conversation, Sam and Blaine dove in ...
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06 | Three Choice Challenge: What Can You Do to Change Your World? from 2017-03-21T14:37:37
Sam and Blaine challenge each other to make three choices this week that will effect change in their worlds. It's easy to want to change big things, or to get crippled by the pressure to do somethi...
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05 | Young Marriage: Learning to Love Our Wives and Better Understand Restoration from 2017-03-14T14:32:51
These days getting married in your 20's is considered strange, with plenty of social and financial reasons to hold off. Whether you're one of the folks to take the leap, you're dating someone and w...
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04 | Craig DeMartino: Pain, Ability, and Overcoming the Unexpected from 2017-03-07T17:47:36
Craig DeMartino is a record-holding adaptive rock climber with a powerful story. In this interview, we dive into his journey through trauma and suffering and ultimately back into doing what he love...
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03 | Becoming a Father: Soul Care, Love, and the Process of Becoming Stable from 2017-02-28T15:24:24
It turns out, becoming a dad shows you which way you're headed as a man. Sam and Blaine talk about rhythms that sustain your heart, prioritizing the core elements of your calling when your time is ...
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02 | Mark Evans: Risk, Craftsmanship, and Tips for the Visionary from 2017-02-20T23:30:16
Mark Evans is an internationally-renowned artist and a pioneer in the craft of leather microsculpting. In this interview, we tease out his thoughts on the role of the visionary, the need for God in...
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01 | A Young Man’s Success: Competency, Virtue and the “Bitch Goddess” of William James from 2017-02-20T23:30:05
If we haven’t defined success for ourselves, the world will define it for us, and a misunderstanding of success can cripple a young man. Too often, we think of success as achievement, applause, and...
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