Dec 18, 2017
Michael DeFazio, Chad Ragsdale, and Doug Welch say goodbye to 2017 in their last podcast episode of the year. In many ways, 2017 was an unsettling year, but we still learned a thing or two. In this episode, the ETC guys review what they watched, what they read, what they heard, and what they learned in 2017. The Every...
Nov 30, 2017
We're preparing for the holidays here at ETC, and our first gift to you is a round of "Ask Ourselves Anything," where Michael, Chad, and Doug ask a series of random questions, both silly and serious, to one another. Silly questions include: what are our favorite Christmas movies (and is DieHard a Christmas movie?) and...
Nov 16, 2017
In an appearance on Meet the Press in 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that 11:00am on Sunday morning is the "most segregated hour in America." Things have not gotten appreciably better in 57 years. In this episode, Chad Ragsdale and Doug Welch sit down with Matthew McBirth, Director of Diversity at Ozark...
Nov 2, 2017
What do we do when we learn that one of our ministry or theological heroes has clay feet? Should we reject every good thing that a "fallen hero" has done in the past? In this episode, Michael DeFazio, Chad Ragsdale, and Doug Welch discuss the danger of putting Christian leaders and thinkers on pedestals, and give advice...
Oct 19, 2017
In this episode, Michael DeFazio, Chad Ragsdale, and Doug Welch talk about the value that our culture gives to "authenticity" and the desire to not be "hypocrites." The guys discuss whether or not the desire for holiness leads you to such a thing as "good hypocrisy. Oh, and also they talk about which one of them is...