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64. Should Churches Have Choirs?

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Choir

Andy, Conni, and Jonathan discuss the importance of church choirs from their Biblical support and historical role in the Church.  Jonathan Aigner’s blog post, “9 Reasons to Keep the Church Choir Alive”  serves as a guide for the discussion topic too.  As always on Reconnect, the church choir theme is tied to sharing the Gospel.

Show Links:

“9 Reasons to Keep the Church Choir Alive” by Jonathan Aigner

Conni’s first appearance on Episode 7

Reconnect Episode 30 – “Who is Serving in your Service?”

Conni and Jonathan’s church’s website sermon page, Faith Lutheran Capo Beach

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62. Shortest Episode Ever!

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This episode is short.  It’s an update for the state of the podcast.  Andy’s taking two months off from releasing any new episodes.

In the meantime, he hopes to finish a process of being a called Theology teacher in the LC-MS and get some Sunday School curriculum made that will be available on the Contradict Movement website.

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60. Of Apes and Men

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Cecil Planet of Apes - Shotgun

A gorilla was recently killed at the Cincinnati Zoo to save the life of a toddler that had fallen into the gorilla cage.

The result was a social media uproar!  There was immense outrage that the gorilla was shot.  Many suggested that the child should be the one to have died or that the parents should be charged with the death of the gorilla.  At stake in such backlash to the zoo’s decision to kill the gorilla to save the child is the value of human life in comparison to that of animals.  Is all life equally valuable?  Are some species more valuable than others?  Is human life more valuable than the life of all other species?  Would the zoo have killed 10,000 gorillas to save the life of one toddler?  Where is the value of life derived?  Where does human value find its grounding?

Wes, Ben, and Andy discuss all of these questions from a Christian worldview, while trying to get inside the inner workings of some other belief systems.

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