I love it.

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makes what would yours be?

I love it.

Well, can I take it? Because my approach with this, I like what y'all just said then of let's take it further because I want to take it the furthest right now to where I think we can go.

So I actually spent some time creating a formula for how to create the most descriptive title for your significant other that I think will be very helpful for Clara.

Okay.

Think of this like a descriptive title, Mad Libs, if you will, for how to name your significant other.

Okay, so it has three components to this.

The first is going to be the name of a character in your couple's comfort show or movie, okay? So like whatever show you're watching, put a name in there.

That It feels like a pretty good

And on this episode we're going to be discussing Tim Tebow is in trouble, Pete Hegseth's new Office of Religious Affairs, and a round of Jesus products smash or pass.

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Yeah.

On this episode, we are opening up the Faith Adjacent Vault and stepping into a time machine to present one of our favorite Bible binge classic episodes, All About Esther.

So back in the Old Testament days of Faith Adjacent, when we were known as the Bible Binge, Knox and Jamie would do full recaps of stories from the Bible as if they were a movie or TV show.

Then Erin would come in at the end to provide her trademark gentle rebukes.

There's one season that many point to.

as the beginning of their deconstruction journey, Jamie included, and that is our Esther season.

So today we're presenting the first episode of that season, which is a full introduction to the book of Esther.

And I'll tell y'all, I just re-listened to this episode and you can hear the threads unraveling.

That's

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I feel like I've been a distant admirer of quints for a while now.

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Okay, Evan, what do you have to wrap us up today?

He really was doing that.

I feel like I've been a distant admirer of quints for a while now.

I've seen people rave about them.

I've admired their stuff from afar.

And somehow it took me until recently to actually try them out for myself.

And honestly, I'm a little disappointed that I waited this long, but better late than never.

Here's what I love about quints.

Because I

Why don't you read it for us?

Yeah.

So this first one's going to be from Mary Martin underscore MM.

And as I was reading this, I was like, Mary Martin, as in Peter Pan, Mary Martin.

And that's how I'm going to choose to believe.

Okay, great.

I love that.

lose all of its meaning.

Great freaking title.

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That's

a good welcome basket.

That's a good welcome basket there.

I think so too.

I think so too.

Every summer, I end up having the same argument with myself.

Do I want to save money on the electric bill, or do I want to actually sleep? Because there's nothing worse than waking up tangled in sweaty sheets, flipping your pillow over every 10 minutes, and contemplating turning the thermostat down to 65 degrees just to survive the night.

Both of those things are true.

Okay.

So I'm in good company.

Okay.

So for my first pick and for our first pick of this entire episode, I'm going to go with an artist who disappeared from the Christian music scene as quickly as she appeared, but she does still fall under this CCM category here.

She just had one studio album, but that does not mean that this person has not made an impact.

And that is going to be the artist, Katie Hudson, who you may now know as Katie Perry.

Okay.

and

little.

Right.

Just a little.

But this one, it was absolutely... breathtaking and there i i could spend hours and hours unpacking why each character pointed me to jesus in some sort of way or impacted my faith i feel like this this musical truly is unreal but but one of the characters that really stood out to me in this viewing was mother's younger brother also those names that those character names that we've got there i love it But this was...

Ben Levi Ross was playing this character, and he just brought this mother's younger brother to life in the wildest way for me.

Because as a white guy sitting in the audience of the production, I feel like his journey, like this character's journey, is...

In part, one of the ways that I get invited into the story and one of the ways that I need to be convicted in this story, you know, because he has this song that he's singing with Emma Goldman and Cole House Walker, the song he wanted to say.

Yeah, it's at least one

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think if you have a gospel gun, it's a nuanced concept.

take a shill pill.

You are literally going to die, you know, but here's that part.

And they, they're on there.

I thought this was about to turn into an open door scene because they are like sitting on his bed.

I realize he's kind of dying and he's not, he hasn't eaten in a month, you know, but their faces get so close together.

I'm like, are y'all about to start making out? Is that what's happening here right now? And so that's where I'm like, There could be some fanfic.

Oh, I don't know.

OK, do you have any general rebukes?

okay.

And I worked guest relations there at the time.

And so anytime anything opens up at Disney, it's very exciting.

You know, there's all kinds of buildup.

hullabaloo.

We know that the guests are going to be losing their mind in good ways and bad.

You get it all.

It was a tough one in a mega world.

helpful way,

you know, like in an actually productive way.

And I even went to, they did a virtual seminar that I went to that was fascinating to me.

And because I...

I still don't know what I fully agreed with or not with it.

But one of the things that was really helpful, which I do also think that this is what Pope Leo is doing here, he's doing it in a much more intense way.

The seminar that I was going to was much more in a, we're in the AI world and we want to figure out how this blends with our lives.

Evan, you're up next.

On this episode, we are going to be unpacking the pilot episode of 1994's hit series Touched by an Angel.

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We're very chill with that.

But the reference verses for guardian angels, we've got Matthew 18:10 which says, "See that you do not despise one of these little ones.

For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven." Then we've got Hebrews 1:14, "Are not all angels ministering spirits that serve to those who will inherit salvation?" Those are kind of our reference verses for guardian angels.

On this episode, we are talking the no's of church in the summer.

But before we get started, y'all, it is almost time for our quarterly live fellowship hall gathering over at the Faith Adjacent Seminary.

Now, this is always a good time, and we'll be doing our usual AUA where you can ask us anything.

But you super-duper do not want to miss this one, because my prayer has been answered, and we're going to be doing a live taste test of Christian-branded treats.

Y'all, that's right.

I have sent some items to Jamie and Aaron that we're all gonna try live on screen, and you don't wanna miss this.

Mm-hmm.

So you've got those activities.