ep115 pastors poor prayers, church friends?, Why college?, ash wednesday

Yeah, just what you need, another podcast. You have been listening to someone read wikepedia. You have been learning latin. You have heard yet another story about a lesbian mom and daughter love story set in the bible belt on NPR. Take a break. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Enjoy! 1517.org thejaggedword.com ringsidepreachers.com topics: 1. Pastors can really suck at praying. Bad experiences? Do pastors get annoyed when people ask them to pray? Why the mood music in the background of the emotionally hip pastor dude? Does God need to be coaxed into answering? 2. Can you have real friends at church? Paul thinks men don't have enough good friends. A tear jerking episode about male friendship. not 3. Going to college and wondering why you are there. Henry Hess takes us in existential journey that deals with a young who wants to everything now while sitting in a classroom 4. Ash Wednesday - What are you doing? What do the Ashes mean? Why is it good? Do you have to celebrate it? 5. Jesus in the wilderness - Luke 4. What's he doing there? What does that have to do with me? read: C.S. Lewis -the 4 loves, Also Sprach Zarathustra - Nietzsche, Ash Wednesday - T.S. Eliot, Wolves of Vinland - Jack Donovan, music: Dead Bees REcords, Joel Allen Hess (on sound cloud)