The Happy Rant

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Why is porn the only sin men talk about any more?
2. Why reformed people often struggle to talk about heart stuff
3. How we avoid the vulnerable stuff by silence and by talking
4. Our outlook on life by decade - 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s

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In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety ion topics:

1. What new things do we still try to keep up with?
2. The performative aspects of keeping up with new things
3. Fullbacks and casseroles
4. Extricating ourselves from awkward conversations
5. Names that will not work for theologians

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In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Pastors and Apple Watches (and John Piper's mishap)
2. Preaching motions, gesticulations, and mobility
3. How pastoral fashion affects pastoral output
4. What it looks like for pastors to dress their age
5. Becoming "dad" instead of "a guy"
6. Doing the Daddest things

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. What New Year's resolutions are the best for being pretentious and superior?
2. A draft of the best movie plot and character devices and why we love them

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Ted has a big confession and needs help litigating it from Ronnie and Barnabas
2. What does one do when one has NO CHRISTMAS TREE
3. Piper Family Christmas decorations

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. How year-end book lists are planned and put together (make it about me, posture a bit, be well-rounded, etc.)
2. Incorporating theology, history, Wendell Berry, biographies, and more
3. Barnabas and Ronnie's year-end book list line-up from 1-9

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. The outrage and controversy over churches meeting on Christmas
2. Deviating from a sermon series for Advent
3. Variations in Church Christmas decorations
4. Christmas pastor attire
Santa as a type of Christ

For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter All That Much (and a Few That Really Do) at https://thehappyrant.com/book/

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In this episode of The Happy Rant, Ted and Ronnie wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

1. Pastor voices
2. How does a pastor come across authentically from the pulpit?
3. Fake intellectual pastors and theological verbiage
4. Wanting to be liked vs. wanting to appear smart

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas do something a little different. Instead of wandering to and fro they offer up three free chapters from the audiobook of The Happy Rant.

Chapter 1: Evangelical Fame (We do weird stuff with Christian celebrity.)
Chapter 8: Evangelical Money Guilt (Why are Christians so weird about money?)
Chapter 14: Manly Men (What is manhood? What makes a good man?)

For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter All That Much (and a Few That Really Do) at https://thehappyrant.com/book/

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In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:
1) The big three for men in the church (according to a tweeter): Money, Sex, and Fitness
2) Are men actually leaving the church?
3) What men actually need in church
4) Learning leadership right

For more ranting, conversation, and cultural analysis check out our book, The Happy Rant: Wandering To and Fro Through Some Things That Don’t Matter All That Much (and a Few That Really Do) at https://thehappyrant.com/book/

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