Make Saints
Because (eternal) life is hard. We all need help; with life, work, love, and everything else. Make Saints is a podcast about that side of life. The part that's hard but seems like it's supposed to be easy. And that moment when we realize that none of us is perfect.
Episodes
91 episodes
It's a thousand things
When we think there is only one thing (solution, answer, problem, thing to focus on) we miss exactly what is causing our frustration.Photo by
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Season 9
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Episode 91
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14:10
We see more than fish
In the US, we treat every issue as being in need of simplifying—through this we can uncover an essential truth. We couldn’t be more wrong.Photo by
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Season 5
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Episode 90
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15:52
What it means to be a Christian
In which I talk about the way we talk and define what it means to be Christian and who wants to silence and disappear its diversity.Photo by
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Season 5
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Episode 89
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19:58
Peacemakers
In a bishop’s sermon, the unhinged response, and the completely normal need to make things normal (we’re normal, right?) we might squeeze a glimpse of truth.Photo by
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Season 5
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Episode 88
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8:27
For the welfare of all
In the person of William Temple, we have the example of courage, vision, and the wisdom to shape the world after World War II.The text of the reflection can be
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Season 4
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Episode 87
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9:12
Another All Saints
In the celebration of All Saints Day, we are given the chance to demystify the the life and work of the people we lift up, to see what we too are capable of.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 86
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7:21
"The culture war" is the rhetoric of abuse
When we treat a portion of Christians as speaking for all Christians and their rhetoric is of domination and certainty, we all become its victims.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 85
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12:58
How to misunderstand with great effort
When we misunderstand each other, is it always a mistake? Or something to fix? Sometimes we work hard to keep misunderstanding each other. On purpose.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 84
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22:54
Killing in the name of
When the public is chilled by an assassination attempt, our responses can be reactionary, ill-conceived, and quite dangerous.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 83
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18:17
Revisiting Literalism
The thing about being literal is that we think we’re being accurate, but we’re often being pedantic. And refuse to see it.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 82
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18:22
Active Adaptation
We have to start preparing ourselves to proactively adapt for the future to put less pressure on our future selves.Here’s what I mean about the struggle we have with recognizing
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Season 4
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Episode 81
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11:43
Getting used to it
Our brains have a natural capacity to adapt. But we often use this natural capacity to refuse to learn, or pretend we were always right.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 80
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15:26
Literalism doesn’t mean much anymore
We’re driving the very concept of “literal” to such an extreme that it is becoming meaningless. And we’re all actually avoiding the truth.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 79
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11:49
Magical Thinking
The way we see the world is full of optimism and pessimism. It is also full of blindspots and assumptions for how things will be.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 78
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9:23
Being Different
The long, strange history of the call to being different is now mostly found in chicken-little cries of oppression and demands for hegemonic culture.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 77
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9:10
Protest Again
Many of us have become so disconnected from what it means for the state to respond to protest—for we cannot kill for peace, or for safety.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 76
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9:46
Criticism
When we give so much of our time and attention to evaluating, judging, and rating the stuff in our lives, can we actually like things?Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 75
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9:35
Revelation
Revelation is the most misunderstood and abused book in the Bible. It is frequently used to abuse or to ignore rather than read it as it was intended.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 74
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6:04
Common
What is common? What does it mean to hold things in common? And most importantly, what happens when we prioritize the uncommon?Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 73
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7:50
Generations
We mix up our ideas about generational groupings with the ways we expect people to behave because of the time in their life.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 72
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5:36
Holy Week
Holy Week is a week of special devotion, when we remember the last week of Jesus’s life. How we mark this time says a lot about us and what we care about.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 71
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3:16
You Never Let Me
There are whole worlds we explore of alternative realities in which we got to do the things we would have done—if only…so what’s stopping us now?Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 70
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9:03
Protest
When we encounter an act of protest, our ability to listen is not compromised by the manner of protest but by our own magical thinking.Photo by
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Season 4
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Episode 69
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5:16
