This #HolyWeek we throw it back to an old Hashcast episode (back when we were Thoughtcast), recorded in 2024 and yet just as relevant today.
Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/wh2q75z – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.
Jason and Tracy are back for their final episode. Faith in Focus has come to a close – and, as always, we mark the end with the Academy Awards. For better or worse. ;)
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Sometimes telling the truth can cost us, and pretending can look a lot easier. But the truth matters. God meets us in honesty and gives courage.
Watch our attendant children's story here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9K-...
#SanctuaryIsAVerb
#TellingTheTruth
#Lent3
Tracy and Jason are back for the penultimate episode of Faith in Focus – and, appropriately enough, we welcome back fellow cinephile and Friend of the Pod™, the brilliant @derricklweston.bsky.social to talk about Kevin Smith's 1999 classic: Dogma.
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Faith in Focus continues its last season, immersed in all things 1999. Next up, the topsy-turvy timeless tale of the Talented Mr. Ripley.
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The First Sunday in Lent looks to Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan. We're pairing that with Jacqueline Woodson's lovely "The Day You Begin."
You can watch it read here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLl...
Sanctuary is a verb.
#welcoming
#Lent
We cannot reach anything resembling enlightenment by imagining a universe that makes us feel good, but is divorced from reality.
How do you see enlightenment? What does it mean to you?
Faith in Focus is in its last season!
Tracy and Jason look at the first of their trendsetting movies from 1999: the eminently quotable Office Space. Take a listen, and re-live (or learn about for the first time) this absolute classic.
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[Throwback] Thursdays
The author of Dune has some good points here.
#tbt
"We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it."
W.G. Sebald with the mic drop. Woof.
#tbt
[Throwback] Thursdays
Arundhati Roy has a way of cutting to the heart of things.
#tbt
Tracy and Jason are back for the final season of Faith in Focus. Next up from the Year 1999, the start of our prophetic series: the rambunctious, rollicking EDtv.
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Dorothy Day (1897-1980) cutting to the heart of the matter: "You really only love God as much as you love the person you love the least."
#tbt
"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
Kurt Vonnegut's wisdom has outlasted the man himself (1922-2007), and we are all the better for it.
#tbt
Tracy and Jason are back to discuss The Sixth Sense, wrapping up the Unique section of our season dedicated to the Best Year in Film: 1999.
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The love of neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.
George MacDonald
May Harvey Milk never be forgotten.
May the hope he demonstrated continue to inspire us.
#tbt
How can we be a church which allows itself to be made restless by history? To be affected by that which has come before? To be anxious to write a new chapter in the future?
May we become a leaven of harmony, indeed.
#tbt
Tracy and Jason are back in their final season of Faith in Focus, traveling back in time to 1999. Next up: the culture-shifting, genre-making Blair Witch Project.
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Religious people are often much more concerned with having the Answer™ than in kneeling down before the all-encompassing Mystery.
God isn't an answer on a pop quiz – she's something we can never fully comprehend.
And that's the point.
Faith in Focus is back for its final season!
Join Tracy and Jason as we turn off the lights and party like it's 1999 – the best year in film. First up: Being John Malkovich. Buckle up.
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In this classic resurrection story where Thomas normally gets his (bad) rap, we see the importance of seeing and honoring each other's wounds.
youtu.be/HST2hxnrLcY
#Easter2
#John20
Something that is often missed when it comes to God's Word (as spoken through their prophets) is how much God *doesn't* want judgment to prevail. The Holy One seeks justice before judgment.
#Lent
#Ezekiel22
#FAFO
#FAFO has a flip side – and it's beautiful.
#Jeremiah7
#Lent
The prophet Zephaniah is not as well known (the curse of most of the "lesser" biblical prophets), but his #fafo message from God could not be any clearer – or more prescient to today's realities.
Power corrupts; the lions are roaring in the halls.
#Zephaniah3
For each prophet we study, we'll suggest actions you can take based on their words. #Isaiah58 has plenty of ideas: we focused on a couple.
#FAFO #lent
The prophet Isaiah cried out with the very voice of God, warning against the repercussions of not caring for and standing with the marginalized. This will become a theme.
This isn't the "woke agenda" – it's the Bible.
#Isaiah58 #lent #FAFO
Faith in Focus is back to start its final year! And as always, we start that year with the Academy Awards. Join us for an engaging recap of the 97th ceremony, as we prepare to party like it's 1999.
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This season we are invited to go deeper.
To learn the ways of the prophets who came before us.
To sit with their words, consider their warnings.
This season, let us consider the biblical version of f*ck around and find out.
