There are many things that we need in life, Maslow's Hierarchy and all that, but some things stand out on their own. Initiati...
January 2, 2018
This episode is not an advertisement. Money and budgeting are usually more complicated than issues of dollars and cents, ther...
January 9, 2018
It's the phone call, the text, the "mayday" from a friend or family member that changes everything. You jump in the car to me...
January 16, 2018
John Eldredge, also known as "Padre" around the And Sons world, joins Sam and Blaine as they begin the conversation around ma...
January 23, 2018
We go a little deep this week, into the roots of why we are the way we are as a social media society, what philosophies got u...
January 30, 2018
This week: a sneak peek into the young men's session at the February 2018 Boot Camp in Colorado. It's the And Sons message al...
February 6, 2018
It's a simple concept, that when we experience seasons or days or hours that make us uncomfortable or are filled with pain of...
February 13, 2018
Michael Cusick is a counselor, lecturer, and the founder of Restoring the Soul, a ministry addressing sexual addiction throug...
February 20, 2018
We needed something lighter this week, so we thought we'd practice the act of conversation. How to ask good questions and whe...
February 27, 2018
"I fear the worst has happened. You are losing heart, may have already lost it altogether." This weeks conversation with Padr...
March 6, 2018
In Part 2, Padre joins Sam and Blaine to finish their conversation on social and personal agreements that are killing millenn...
March 13, 2018
What do two decades of friendship look like? How is it even possible these days, with travel, life changes, and the difficult...
March 20, 2018
Sometimes the easiest sages to miss are the ones already in your life—we work hard to avoid that mistake, and today we sat do...
March 27, 2018
You've probably made some assumptions by the title alone, but this episode is around conversations that we seem to keep havin...
April 3, 2018
From fiction to film to television, cultures across time have been creating a narrative for the public. National identities, ...
April 10, 2018
In this episode, Sam and Blaine revisit fathering a year and a half into the game. It turns out, fathering is like most relat...
April 17, 2018
We’re stoked this week to bring you a conversation with Bart Gavigan. Bart is screenwriter, mentor, Holy Spirit-following fir...
April 24, 2018
If we are willing to see and to engage, we will find that God is always inviting us into the frontier with him. He is constan...
May 1, 2018
Joe Steinke is, in a word, an apostle. As a member of the leadership team of the Boiler Room church network, he oversees a gr...
May 8, 2018
It’s summer. The question is, how do you actually get out more this season? We grabbed Justin and JD from the And Sons team, ...
May 15, 2018
The And Sons introductory playbook on using technology well. From tech calendars to channel-specific goals, it’s all about pr...
May 22, 2018
What can look like, and feel like, soul care may sometimes not be that at all. Too many stories end in broken pieces when fue...
May 30, 2018
Makoto Fujimura is an internationally-renowned artist, writer, and visionary. His work addresses the tension between trauma a...
June 5, 2018
It’s not a secret Blaine likes words. Maybe it’s the history with rhetoric. Maybe it’s the writing genes. But still, there it...
June 12, 2018
If And Sons had an FAQ, one question would top the list: What do I do with what feels like Wasted Time? In this episode, we t...
June 19, 2018
If we could sit our younger selves down from five or 10 years ago, we would have a few suggestions to share about how to bett...
June 26, 2018
This is one of those episodes that will leave you wanting more. And maybe there is a part 2 in store for the future. Wendell ...
July 3, 2018
You remember Jesse Barkalow - the longtime painter, line cook, and world's most prolific reader. Well, he's been at seminary....
July 10, 2018
We'll be honest and say that this episode made a least 1/2 of the And Sons team a little queasy, insofar as it looked like we...
July 17, 2018
The pernicious and crippling feeling of "it's too late" can infiltrate almost every part of our lives, so it should be no sur...
July 24, 2018
Sean Buckles is a coffee shop maven with a long career in the US Army, both as a member of a Special Ops team and as an instr...
July 31, 2018
Why do we keep going back to the same places? What is the value of knowing a land, a rock face, a town, when everything is ab...
August 7, 2018
When Justin Lukasavige began running he didn't imagine going for 100 kilometers let alone down the block. But then Dave Eitem...
August 14, 2018
The summer issue of And Sons is out, and yes, it technically is still summer even though most schools are back in session. In...
August 21, 2018
Laurie Thornton is one part of a husband/wife pastoral team (guess which) with a decade of experience in music ministry, disc...
August 28, 2018
Know what Familiarity breeds? Perceived Familiarity. Perceived Familiarity breeds Unfamiliarity. Which breeds Disinterest, Ap...
September 11, 2018
Dr James practices medicine out of his clinic in Colorado, True Life Medicine, after leaving behind the "traditional Western ...
September 18, 2018
We've got a few books stacked around the office that we like to flip through for inspiration, and Hank Shaw's "Buck, Buck, Mo...
September 25, 2018
Strategy is an abused word for a vital concept. In this episode, we sat down with our friend and longtime pro-strategist Anth...
October 2, 2018
When it comes to our daily rhythms, we tend to drift into paths with less resistance and difficulty than others. Life is hard...
October 9, 2018
We roped in And Sons strategist Jon Dale to riff on a growing concern. It’s education. Problem is, when most folks think of e...
October 16, 2018
Books and seminars and conferences and counselors and lifetimes are spent on this subject, and rightly so. But the truth is, ...
October 23, 2018
Here at And Sons there’s one question we get more than any other: How do I build conversational intimacy with God? Meaning no...
October 30, 2018
Two things are given in human experience. Birth and death. Our culture doesn’t spend much time thinking about either one. And...
November 6, 2018
If the data can be trusted, we’ll all find ourselves job searching, more than once, in our 20s (and 30s too). In this episode...
November 13, 2018
In this episode, we flip the script. Aaron McHugh, of Work Life Play, interviews the And Sons team (Sam and Blaine) to talk a...
November 20, 2018
What are you hoping for? What are you thinking about on a daily basis that brings expectation and anticipation? We all know t...
November 27, 2018
It’s Advent, folks. The beginning of the year. The reorientation to our revolution. Sure, advent is a time of preparation, to...
December 4, 2018
Sam, Blaine, and Luke sit down to tell some stories from their experiences in dating from high school, into college, and even...
December 11, 2018
Wookie is a designer, coffee shop owner, New Hampshire-based motorcycle rider. He’s a fascinating young dude with a penchant ...
December 18, 2018
Our identities are shaped by our stories, by the messages we receive from those around us, and by the scripts we seem doomed ...
December 25, 2018
