Two Fat Guys Talking Theology

Wes bought me breakfast at Dave’s then-- to produce a sample tape recording for Donald’s podcasting project – for a couple of hours we sat smoking our pipes and talking about practical applications of Christianity in real-life situations:

We discussed the sorrow of a teenager whose dad had to put his grandfather into a nursing facility and then had to sell the family home to keep the old man there.

We discussed the plight of a lady whose husband deserted her taking all the proceeds of a business they owned and she’s fallen in with some preacher who says all her troubles are the result of a generational curse.

We discussed the dilemma of couple and their adopted sons this week when yesterday the husband was discovered to have been screwing another woman for the past five or six years --and the wife has a shotgun in the kitchen.

What do Christians have to offer folks suffering in such horrendous situations?

The tape we ended up with runs about an hour and a half. It contains lots of questions and few answers. And we used a lot of airtime laughing our heads off at inane jokes (Wes’s) and cultured, refined jokes (mine).

For years now, every week or ten days, Wes comes over to buy me breakfast, after which we smoke our pipes and talk about theology and practical Christian living. Donald asked us to record some of these conversations for podcasting; this was our first try at it.

At first, the conversation felt stilted but soon we forgot about the tape machine so I think the end result is fairly typical of our normal conversations – but with less profanity because of the tape machine.

Ginny went for her job interview today. We’ll see.