The Bastard Pastor’s Podcast

This week, we have a 3-part podcast from a good friend and HUGE influence on our lives - Dr. Tom Thatcher, professor of New Testament Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University.  Tom has been a huge influence on both of us, and a really good friend to us throughout our ministry careers.  This podcast was all over the place (which is one of the reasons we love him so much!), and we hope you enjoy it!

This week, we have a 3-part podcast from a good friend and HUGE influence on our lives - Tom Thatcher, professor of New Testament Biblical Studies at Cincinnati Christian University.  Tom has been a huge influence on both of us, and a really good friend to us throughout our ministry careers.  This podcast was all over the place (which is one of the reasons we love him so much!), and we hope you enjoy it!

This week, we catch up with our friend Jana, pastor at Knox Presbyterian Church, in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Jana has some fascinating stories of her time spent at Iona on pilgrimage and thoughts about spiritual growth!

This week, we meet with our friend and constant encourager, Matt Massey, pastor at Northstar Church in Loveland, OH.  Matt was the first and for a long time ONLY pastor who believed in us and what we were doing, and has seen every aspect of the church for the past 20 years - from youth ministry in basements to mega church stages and everything in between.  Matt helps us think today about insecurities and fears and work and what exactly all of us are doing.  

This week, we have the amazing privilege of sitting down with Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann - one of the most influential bible scholars of our time.  Dr. Brueggemann is professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, and the author of hundreds of books and articles, including "The Prophetic Imagination," one of the most important Christian books that I have ever read. His thought greatly influences ours and has for some time, and we're delighted to sit down and talk with him about the future of ministry and what it looks like to be involved in social justice issues in our time.  

This morning we talk with a pastor who has been a friend and mentor to us, Mandy Smith, pastor of University Christian Church in Cincinnati, about the pressures of being a pastor, and particularly a female pastor, and sitting at the edge of some things new going on in the Church. 

Today, we start a new set of conversations, in which we get to talk to our friends in ministry all around Cincinnati (and some beyond!) Today we're going to look talk to our friend Brian Ferry, Pastor at New City Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, OH.  We're going to think about how ministry was changed, and how it's different than we thought it was going to be.  

Today we think kind of loosely about our thoughts and how they get influenced. 

How do we come up with the BRILLIANT sermons that we do every week? How many hours go into such amazing work?

Pastors are normally so well put together, and calm and collected. We suck at that part of this. Today we open up the conversation of some of the things that make us insecure, worried, jealous and wonder whether or not we're cut out for a gig like this.