Calvin tells us that Paul Gaugin asked, "Whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, we don't know about you, but we came from our respective clothes closets, we are a podcast with big plans, and we're going outside for the summ

Dobson - Dare to Discipline - Part 3 (Sexuality)

Jun 21st, 2022 50m 40s

Part 3 of Dobson's Dare to Discipline is essentially a clip show of sexuality-focused prior articles Dobson published in various magazines. Georgia and Melissa delve into the ties between and among a top-down power structure of sexual roles, s

Dobson - Dare to Discipline - Part 2 (Education)

Jun 7th, 2022 37m 42s

Melissa and Georgia discuss the second part of Dobson's Dare to Discipline which contains nascent seeds of significant fundamentalist ideas - and the heresy arising from centering the authority of the system over the humanity and development of

Dobson - Dare to Discipline - Part 1 (Parenting)

Jun 1st, 2022 42m 27s

What is the point of discipline, or of the whole concept of children, really? People you get to steward into their full selves, or adorable cogs in God's money machine? Georgia and Melissa discuss the implications of James Dobson's Dare to Dis

Real Marriage (Mark & Grace Driscoll Pt. 3)

May 25th, 2022 46m 40s

This is our final discussion about Real Marriage. Apologies for the audio. It's not great, and it's 100% Melissa's fault.

Real Marriage (Mark & Grace Driscoll) Part 2

May 10th, 2022 31m 25s

Finally, some faint praise! Georgia and Melissa tackle the then-controversial sex sections of this book, which have some pretty good advice for folks (especially relative to the pack)!

Real Marriage (Mark & Grace Driscoll) - Part 1

May 3rd, 2022 40m 28s

Melissa takes Georgia step by step through the biographical chapters of Real Marriage, as part one of three total parts discussing this Evangelical marriage/sex textbook. We learn how very many citations are needed for the claims in the book,

Spirit-Controlled Temperament

Apr 26th, 2022 45m 7s

Tim LaHaye - a man out of time, caught between the bizarrely cardboard future of the End Times and the should-have-died-with-Plato old school humours theory of Aristotelian "temperaments." Georgia and Melissa tackle the temperaments, the conce

The Five Love Languages

Apr 19th, 2022 41m 47s

Georgia and Melissa tackle Gary Chapman's book The Five Love Languages, with emphasis on its inherently better counterpart (much more strongly rooted in Biblical notions) of the Five Hate Languages (don't steal this idea, Chapman!!), personal h

Prayer of Jabez - Part 2

Apr 12th, 2022 35m 43s

Melissa and Georgia take on the second part of the Prayer of Jabez. Much discussion ensues regarding the ethics of the prayer itself, including the request seeking power and the description of money and business success as something God wants

The Prayer of Jabez (Part 1)

Apr 5th, 2022 44m 29s

Georgia and Melissa dive into The Prayer of Jabez, a short, prosperity gospel text. The only relevant Bible verses are 1 Chronicles 4:9-10:His mother had named him Jabez, saying, "I gave birth to him in pain." 10 Jabez cried out to the God of I