So the day is finally upon me. I’m not going to say much for now. I’ll just let you listen. I fixed the glitches I could and am left with a whole bunch of other glitches that I’ll have to fix on the next episodes (with any luck #2 is coming next month).
I hope you enjoy and share it. And if you don’t, I hope you take the time to let me know why you didn’t. I’m open to talk.
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A Couple Thank Yous
- Eric from Tip Tap Tip — Many thanks to Eric who took a couple hours to sit down with me last year and talk me through Audacity and creating my first podcast.
- Thanks to my parents for buying me a kickass pair of headphones for my birthday that really helped in editing
- Thanks to Allison Crowe for making her music so beautiful and open. Her song definitely helped to smooth out some rocky spots in the podcast.
- And thanks to Rob for being brave enough to do this first episode with me.
- There’s so many people to thank, but I need to add 2 more—Mark and Kevin—for their inspiration and help.
This is an adult conversation.
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Great episode, Rhett. I don’t really have the Christian “baggage,” so I probably didn’t get the full impact, but it was definitely an interesting listen.
Thanks Adam. I hoped that you wouldn’t need the “baggage” to enjoy.
At first, I struggled with whether or not I needed to explain Bonhoeffer (not that I actually could) and so on, but ultimately this was about the changes in my thinking and not about wading knee deep into theology that very few would care about.
I was (vaguely) familiar with Bonhoeffer, so that wasn’t an issue for me. And I think that if people care, they’ll look him up for more context. An explanation isn’t necessary, so I think leaving one out was a wise choice.
And, the baggage definitely wasn’t need to enjoy the podcast. But I had experienced a similar experience to you, I’d probably have more affected by the whole thing. It has got me thinking back to my, um, “experiments” with Christianity. That’s another story, though.
Soooo good, Rhett. Thank you for sharing your finding-of-voice. Having recently gone through a similar process of shedding (but not quite) my Christianity, I identified with a lot of what you talked about. Right down to the detail of wearing my hair the way I want. But also, the still celebrating parts of Christianity, the privileged self-absorption (I mean that in a good way), the nihilism, the horror of saying the words aloud. I’ve fallen on the other side of God-existing matter, but I’m not sure that is the bulk of what’s important in all this. It’s so comforting and (to use the Christianese) edifying to know that there are others out there going through the same things.
Wow, thank you Kari. I knew, in an abstract way, that there were others out there, but thank you for taking the time to concretely let me know. And you even live in the same city!
I could say more, but all that keeps coming out is—thanks. I’m thrilled my first try at podcasting is resonating and it’s motivating to keep pushing down this road.