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37 | Morgan Snyder and the Possibility of Initiation
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
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38 | You Need A Budget: Jesse Mecham
This episode is not an advertisement. Money and budgeting are usually more complicated than issues of dollars and cents, ther...
January 9, 2018
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39 | How to Respond to Trauma
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
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40 | Why Spirituality is so Difficult for Men
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
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41 | The Brain, Experience, and Screens
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
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42 | WAH Bootcamp: The Young Men's Session
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
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43 | Don't Waste Your Pain
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
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44 | Michael John Cusick: Sex, the Soul, Addiction, and Longing for God
Michael Cusick is a counselor, lecturer, and the founder of Restoring the Soul, a ministry addressing sexual addiction throug...
February 20, 2018
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45 | Thirty (ish) Minutes of Questions
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
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46 | Five Agreements that are Killing Millennials (Part 1)
"I fear the worst has happened. You are losing heart, may have already lost it altogether." This weeks conversation with Padr...
March 6, 2018
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47 | Five Agreements that are Killing Millennials (Part 2)
In Part 2, Padre joins Sam and Blaine to finish their conversation on social and personal agreements that are killing millenn...
March 13, 2018
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48 | Male Friendship: In the Studio with Alex and Morgan
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
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49 | Sam Ainslie: The Soul at Work
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
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50 | Income, Wealth, and Contentment
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
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51 | The Stories Our Culture is Telling, and What That Reveals
From fiction to film to television, cultures across time have been creating a narrative for the public. National identities, ...
April 10, 2018
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52 | Fathering and Patience
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
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53 | Bart Gavigan: How to See Miracles and Keep your Day Job
We’re stoked this week to bring you a conversation with Bart Gavigan. Bart is screenwriter, mentor, Holy Spirit-following fir...
April 24, 2018
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54 | What God has been Exposing Lately
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
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55 | Joe Steinke: Vision, Trial, Doubt, Recovery, Walking Out the Growth Cycle of a Community
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
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56 | Summertime Tactical: Justin and JD on the Season, Schedules, and the Habits of Adventure
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
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57 | Stress, Productivity, Connection - Media Rules With Blaine
The And Sons introductory playbook on using technology well. From tech calendars to channel-specific goals, it’s all about pr...
May 22, 2018
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58 | The Danger of the Self-Arranging Life
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
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59 | Mako Fujimura: Art, "Seeing," and the Creative Wastefulness of God
Makoto Fujimura is an internationally-renowned artist, writer, and visionary. His work addresses the tension between trauma a...
June 5, 2018
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60 | The Meanings(s) of Life (and Time, Economy, Community)
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
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61 | No Wasted Time
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
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62 | Keys to Relating
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
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63 | Wendell Moss: Race, Masculinity, and Courage
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
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64 | The Seminarian Question
You remember Jesse Barkalow - the longtime painter, line cook, and world's most prolific reader. Well, he's been at seminary....
July 10, 2018
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65 | Study Poetry. Really
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
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66 | Summer Hacks or It's Not Too Late
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
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67 | Sean Buckles: When Starting a Business is Scarier than Jumping Out of Airplanes
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
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68 | The River
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
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69 | Ultrarunning: The Suffering Master and Apprentice
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
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70 | The Summer Issue
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
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71 | Laurie Thornton: Leading Leaders
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
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72 | Reorientation: The Worldview of Jesus
Know what Familiarity breeds? Perceived Familiarity. Perceived Familiarity breeds Unfamiliarity. Which breeds Disinterest, Ap...
September 11, 2018
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73 | Dr Randolph James: The Doctor who says "Die"
Dr James practices medicine out of his clinic in Colorado, True Life Medicine, after leaving behind the "traditional Western ...
September 18, 2018
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74 | Hank Shaw: Wild Game Gourmet
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
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75 | Anthony Ashley: Strategy, The Way of the General
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
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76 | Choose Difficult Things
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
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77 | Quit Learning, Start Learning
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
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78 | Simple Practices for Soul Care
Books and seminars and conferences and counselors and lifetimes are spent on this subject, and rightly so. But the truth is, ...
October 23, 2018
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79 | The Everyday Voice of God
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
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80 | Kim Woodard Osterholzer: Birth, Dudes
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
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81 | How to Search for a Job (and Meaning) - Mega-tactical with Luke
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
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82 | Work Life Play - The Creative Habits of And Sons
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
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83 | A New (and Old... and Daily) Hope
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
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84 | Advent, Folks, or, The Final Words of Prophet Jeremiah
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
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85 | Dating; Our Stories not Our Posture
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
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86 | Wookie Jones: Risk and risk and risk... the freelance life
Wookie is a designer, coffee shop owner, New Hampshire-based motorcycle rider. He’s a fascinating young dude with a penchant ...
December 18, 2018
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87 | "I Trust You"
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