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This week, Tricia and Steven dive into issues of representation, both in terms of gender and race, and how it affects church leadership. Is it critical for the leadership of your spiritual community to be reflective of the demographic? How does token-ism affect it? Find out why what you may be looking for goes beyond seeing someone who looks like you up on stage behind the pulpit.

After a couple weeks off as Steven traveled, they finally return to talk about everything from the immigration crisis, and how it reflects our modern theology of who's in and who's out of heaven and hell. They also talk about what it looks like actually build something positive in their lives, rather than simply living in reaction to terrible leadership that they've seen before.

This week, Tricia and Steven field questions from Instagram, covering everything from how to navigate changing beliefs in a community that might be resistant, to how to be someone who mends fences in our fractured culture, all the way to what should one consider before marriage.  

This week, Tricia and Steven dive into dream interpretation, and some basic steps to begin parsing out what our dreams are trying to say. Are they ourselves? Are they messages from the Lord? Are they prophecies? Are they demonic? Tricia and Steven lay out some practical guidelines to help open us all up to what God might be trying to say to us in our sleep.

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about their experiences loving their own physical bodies, and how often we seem to ask ourselves to do almost impossible physical tasks. How do we move away from a spirituality that despises the physical and instead embraces what God has given us? If you're wondering, this episode is for you!

This episode, Tricia and Steven talk about abortion, pro-life vs pro-choice, as well as the strange tactics evangelical churches seem to embrace when it comes to educating their adolescents in the debate.  Then they spend time talking about why resistance seems to get greatest as we get towards the finish line of our goals, and how to overcome it.

This week, Tricia and Steven spend their time mostly debriefing about their encounters with a one Jeffrey Fazl, and how he came to Sunday Dinner and rocked their worlds.  They discuss what God spoke through Faz, as well as where they're headed forward.  They also try to dissect, why do some churches expect people to serve as an immediate part of their recovery from addiction or trauma?

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about the very particular experience in churches of getting called into an office "for a talk."  They discuss how to manage your internal emotions, as well as what steps to take in order to make sure that you feel safe and secure enough to have a productive conversation, as well as what your actual rights are as a church member in these meetings.

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about what it means to actually have our minds changed, and why it's so difficult for us to be convinced that we might have something wrong.  They talk about how having an open mind is actually one of the most important markers of spiritual maturity, and how the more we mature, the more we actually learn just how much we don't know at all.

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about the discipline of celebration in their lives, and why it's been difficult for them to do freely.  Also, they discuss why churches and spiritual communities oftentimes neglect this important spiritual discipline, and how to build it into our lives in a more intentional manner.  

This week, Tricia and Steven discuss the recent spate of content that seems to be gathering momentum based solely around knocking down certain spiritual enterprises that exist, such as being against missions work or organized churches.  How do we remain committed to the Capital-C Church, while still dealing with very real hurts, pains, and disappointments within lower-case-c churches?  They talk about how to navigate the narrow road in between two worlds, while challenging us to fight for constructive solutions.

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about what it would look like to play it big in our lives.  So often, we play things smaller than we ought to, out of fear or anxiety, but what would it look like to have things be properly aligned to allow ourselves to take the risks we need?  They also talk about what it looks like to sometimes allow certain parts of our lives to downsize in order to let the right things grow.

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about the difficulties of leading a community today.  From being called a "cult leader," to how to encourage people to get involved, they discuss facing challenges, as well as how to pursue what seems to be the greatest miracle of all these days: getting people to look beyond themselves, for a greater good.

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about saying goodbye and processing recent loss in their community.  How do you grieve in a healthy way, and how can we be there for others in their grief as well?  They discuss the myriad of ways to be a good friend in the midst of loss, as well as discuss the strangeness of hearing a pastor of a large church say a racially-insensitive remark to Steven in front of Tricia.

This episode, Tricia and Steven get into a troublesome passage in a book on marriage that ignites a far-ranging conversation that delves into oppression, empathy, and the hit movie Black Panther.  They discuss why 1 Corinthians 7 gets so commonly misused in particular types of church cultures, and what to do about it if you find yourself in a context that seems to use passages selectively and oppressively.  

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about what it means to push through the moments in our lives where we feel like we have nothing left to give.  They discuss what it's looked like in their own lives, what's gotten them through, and why those moments are actually vital to living a full life.  You don't want to miss this episode!

This week, Tricia and Steven talk about vulnerability, and how to actually show up and be part of a community.  Some of the deepest issues facing the church today stem from disconnection, so Tricia and Steven talk about how to foster true connection in the context of smaller gatherings and actually allow ourselves to be seen for who we are.

This week, Tricia and Steven dissect what it means to be at peace while everything is shifting and changing around you.  Is peace possible when you are also trying to pursue your dreams? They also discuss recent events as it seems God is accelerating things around each of their lives, and what it means to come to terms with God making things actually happen.

This week, Tricia and Steven dive into what kind of church will serve people well moving forward into 2018 - ones that are driving change, transformation, and connection.  They also talk about what kind of leadership is required in these types of churches and share stories of their own experiences leading and shepherding others.

This week's episode, Tricia and Steven talk about how to deal with the not-so-great parts of ourselves. How do we come to a place of acceptance, where we can differentiate between ourselves and our actions? How do we see that which we formerly saw as sinful parts of ourselves as opportunities for growth?