How do you practice patience when it seems like everything is in flux? How can you believe in control when you only experience the rush of life? Can relationships actually be patched together and made whole again, or is it all merely psychological bandaging? Is there a silver lining to things, or are we all just doping ourselves with false hope? And what does all this mean for our interactions with others?

In this third episode of season four, Chris and Kyle continue their five-part analysis of various tracks from the band, First Aid Kit. This episode they discuss their song "Silver Lining." They take Christian perseverance amid adversity head-on. Life is a pilgrimage; acknowledge this reality. Your ways have been ordered; adopt your calling. The wages of sin is death; accept your mortality.

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Welcome to another season of Two Pour Spirits!

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Two Pour Spirits is a podcast of Project : Neighbor. Project : Neighbor is a theological think tank and spiritual training ground for the Church and the common good. We think theologically about everything from soil to sky, and disciple believers from crib to casket. We draw widely from the catholic Christian tradition, are ecumenically-oriented, and practically-minded.

Project : Neighbor is co-directed by Rev. Dr. Kyle David Bennett and Dr. Christopher Cimorelli.

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What does a Christian do with loss, change, and failure? How should you emotionally respond in moments when you acutely realize your finitude, brokenness, and mortality? When it seems like permanence is fleeting and the stability of your efforts is slipping through your finger tips, where do you go? Or when the veneer of everything glamorous is either rotting or getting rusty, what do you say? What do you do when grey seems like the new gold?

In this second episode of season four, on Common Grace and Communion in Culture, Chris and Kyle inaugurate a five-part analysis of various tracks from the band, First Aid Kit. The episode they discuss their song "Stay Gold." They talk about aesthetics to be appreciated, our status as creatures, and how to have hope despite loss and broken relationships. Also, when you keep the Sabbath, the grey starts to look more and more like gold.

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Welcome to another season of Two Pour Spirits!

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Two Pour Spirits is a podcast of Project : Neighbor. Project : Neighbor is a theological think tank and spiritual training ground for the Church and the common good. We think theologically about everything from soil to sky, and disciple believers from crib to casket. We draw widely from the catholic Christian tradition, are ecumenically-oriented, and practically-minded.

Project : Neighbor is co-directed by Rev. Dr. Kyle David Bennett and Dr. Christopher Cimorelli.

Support the show

https://www.projectneighbor.org/ | https://x.com/proneighbor |

We talk like Thrasos but we deserve to be treated like hooligans–the miscreants we have become. And yet He’s gracious. And kind. All the time. His generosity is undeserved, and yet we see it everywhere. It’s in the little things like oxygen, idyllic landscapes, and a baby’s smile. It’s also in the big stuff like protecting us from meteor showers and restraining the zombie apocalypse.

In this first episode of season four, Chris and Kyle sketch the season. It’s all about common grace in culture. They discuss the artists, films, shows, and novels that they’ll be examining this season and how they hint, nod, point, and wink to God and His goodness. Our triune God sneaks His grace into everything. Even pagan paintings. As providence has it, Chris and Kyle have a knack for mining gold and grace.

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Welcome to another season of Two Pour Spirits!

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Two Pour Spirits is a podcast of Project : Neighbor. Project : Neighbor is a theological think tank and spiritual training ground for the Church and the common good. We think theologically about everything from soil to sky, and disciple believers from crib to casket. We draw widely from the catholic Christian tradition, are ecumenically-oriented, and practically-minded.

Project : Neighbor is co-directed by Rev. Dr. Kyle David Bennett and Dr. Christopher Cimorelli.

Support the show

https://www.projectneighbor.org/ | https://x.com/proneighbor |