2021-01-06T14:53:49-04:00

Last updated on: January 6, 2021 at 2:53 pm   By

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description: Our guest on this episode of the Reintegrate Podcast is Sam Van Eman, author of Disruptive Discipleship: The Power of Breaking Routine to Kickstart Your Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2017). As a specialist with the CCO’s Experiential Designs team, Sam creates disruptive and transformational experiences that are designed to jolt us and reorient people so that they can grow in discipleship to Jesus Christ. In the... Read more

2021-07-04T12:14:08-04:00

Last updated on: July 4, 2021 at 12:14 pm   By

Warning: SPOILER REVIEW (see NON-SPOILER review HERE) So, having done my non-spoiler review, let’s now discuss some of the deep things that “Soul” does and expresses. Joe (voiced by Jamie Foxx) is a talented Jazz pianist (piano stylings by John Batiste) who feels stuck teaching middle-school band. He is convinced that his grand purpose is to be a Jazz musician, but his mother (Phylicia Rashad) wants him to be realistic and take to offer to be a full-time teacher. His... Read more

2020-12-29T15:15:50-04:00

Last updated on: December 29, 2020 at 3:15 pm   By

NON-SPOILER REVIEW (see SPOILER review TOMORROW). With all the hype from HBO Max and Warner Brothers about the release of “Wonder Woman 1984” on Christmas Day, I fear that many might have missed the much better movie released on the same day. My family watched WW84 Christmas night. It was, well, okay. It was your standard superhero movie, with an over-the-top bad guy and plenty of fight scenes. After the remarkable first movie featuring Gal Godot’s hero, it was kind... Read more

2020-12-23T10:19:45-04:00

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 10:19 am   By

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description: We are blessed to have Sam Van Eman on for two episodes. Here, right before Christmas, Sam shares with Bob and Brendan ways we can ignite Christmas hope in the midst of hardship. How can hope be defined by adaptability so that our days are full of Christmas wonder? Sam sparks our imaginations as to how we can do things out of the ordinary for... Read more

2020-12-23T10:20:11-04:00

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 10:20 am   By

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description: God’s invitation for us to join his mission in our every-day lives What are we saved for? God’s inviting us to join his mission to reconcile all things back to himself. JR Rozko helps Bob and Brendan understand the connections between salvation, discipleship, and mission. Salvation is the embodied experience of participating in what God is now doing in the world. “Discipleship is less about... Read more

2020-12-23T10:20:35-04:00

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 10:20 am   By

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description: Stephanie Summers discusses with Bob and Brendan ideas for civic engagement that faithfully seeks to further public justice in both our nation but also our local contexts. They discuss how to actively discuss public policy and candidates with others without the trappings of political punditry, which seems to end with everyone hating each other. Christians wanting holistic approaches to political engagement have not been given... Read more

2020-10-20T16:28:46-04:00

Last updated on: October 20, 2020 at 4:28 pm   By

How to serve our neighbors as citizens, as members of the political community. by Stephanie Summers Chief Executive Officer, The Center for Public Justice, Washington D.C. A US Senator had finished his remarks and was taking questions from a group of college students who were visiting Capitol Hill. I was the next speaker and was rapidly revising my talk to respectfully address some troubling aspects of the Senator’s comments. The Senator stated, “The most important thing for Christians to know... Read more

2020-12-23T10:21:02-04:00

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 10:21 am   By

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description: How have the various political ideologies become idolatries? We have David Koyzis on to guide us through the strengths and weaknesses of each of them – Liberalism, Conservatism, Nationalism, Democracy, and Socialism. This is a crash-course in political science during the election season from one of our generation’s best thinkers on the subject. David T. Koyzis earned his Ph.D. in government and international studies from... Read more

2020-12-23T10:21:33-04:00

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 10:21 am   By

 Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube:   Episode Description: 2020 has been an incredible year of turmoil. It is the first year of a decade that promises to have lots of challenges. Tom Sine and Dwight Friesen are the authors of a fresh new book, 2020s Foresight: Three Vital Practices for Thriving in a Decade of Accelerated Change. Brendan and Bob discuss with them how these three vital practices can prepare young... Read more

2020-12-23T10:22:17-04:00

Last updated on: December 23, 2020 at 10:22 am   By

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube:   Episode Description: We are experiencing disunity in ever-increasing ways. We are feeling it especially in 2020. How did we get here? According to Genesis, God created an integrated world, where we could live in harmony. But sin has dis-integrated everything. Sin breaks these loving relationships. Therefore, what is the grand plan of God? “To unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth!”... Read more

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