S3E38 - Hospitality Is The Language Of The Gospel: A Conversation With Jared Williams
Release Date: 09/17/2025
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Topics Mentioned In This Episode Include: The Chick-Fil-A Core Four, Being A Math Major, Visiting Mexico, Mongolian Yodeling, Cynthia Erivo, Wicked, Jamiroquai, Abortion, Gun Control, Hunting, California Gun Modifications, Gamey Meat, The Uncanny Valley, Assimilation, The Problems With Growing Up In The Church, God’s Star Chart, Random Chance, The Evidence For Christianity, The Pidgin Translation, Spiritual Gifts, & Speaking In Tongues. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976) AC/DC – For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) (1981) Def Leppard –...
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Items Discussed In This Episode Include: Panic Attacks, Grunge, Punk Rock, Belle & Sebastian, The Grateful Dead, Songwriting, Bands Changing Members Yet Keeping The Same Name, Immigration, ICE, Assimilation, Social Services, Public Funding, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Unruly Kids, Twenty Somethings, The Living Wage, Gravity Falls, Growing Up In The Church, Agnostic Atheism, Intelligent Design Theory, Where Does Morality Come From?, Slavery, & Psychological Egoism. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Against Me! – Baby, I’m An Anarchist! (2002) Against Me! – Don’t Lose Touch (2005) Against...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: Northridge, College Life, Coffee, Matcha, Mean Professors, Ice Cube, The Maria’s, 23andMe, Bad Influences Of Music, The California Accent, ICE, Conflicting News Sources, Police Brutality, Climate Change, Food Insecurity, Climate Denial, The Gender Wage Gap, Lent, Mormons, The All-Knowing All-Powerful God, Not Having All The Answers, The But-Jesus Club, The End Times, The Left Behind Series, The Circle Trilogy, And Being Unequally Yoked. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Alicia Keys – If I Ain’t Got You (2003) Alicia Keys – No One (2007) Alicia Keys – You...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode Include: Being A Newspaper Carrier, Staying In Your Lane, Being Happy To Be 50, Hick-Hop, Neuro-Fighters, Not Liking Movies, Prop 50, Trump’s Cabinet, Epstein’s Island, The Covid Vaccine, Police Presence, A Soft Society, Illegal Immigration, RFK Jr., Church Hurt, Hell, Ghosts, & Angels. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Amy Grant – Breath Of Heaven (1992) Amy Grant – Father’s Eyes (1979) Amy Grant – Grown-Up Christmas List (1992) The Beatles – Hey Jude (1968) Big & Rich – Comin’ To Your City (2005) Big & Rich – Lost In This Moment...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: Christian Contemporary Music, RadioU, Jiu-Jitsu, The Gracie’s, Indie Music, BMG, Hating America, Slavery, 23andMe, Deportations, Trump, Prop 50, Public Education, Homosexual Content In Children’s Books, Being Sensitive To Spiritual Things, Water Baptism, The Age Of Accountability, Meeting Michael Jackson, And Choosing God. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: ABBA – Lay All Your Love One Me (1980) ABBA – The Winner Takes It All (1980) Artie Shaw – Begin The Beguine (1938) Artie Shaw – Stardust (1941) Ben Bohmer – Beyond Beliefs (2021) Ben Bohmer – Home...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: The Beach Boys, Tool, Evanescence, K-Love, K-Life, The Fish, Christian Screamo, K-Pop, Falling Down The Rabbit Hole Of Korean Entertainment, BTS, Spiders, Public Education, Christian Rap, Forrest Frank, Love Languages, MAGA White Supremacy, Universal Healthcare, School Funding, Single Income Families, The Proverbs 31 Woman, Guns, Good Looking Mormons, Almost Getting Pulled Into A Cult, Living In Israel, Lent, Biblical Submission, Dating Profiles, & The Lord Of The Rings. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Aaron Shust – Ever Be (2017) Aaron Shust – My...
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Topics Discussed In This Episode: The Telepathy Tapes, Being A Red-Letter Christian, Tertullian, Who Was The Serpent?, Who Was Yahweh?, Common Origin Stories, Elohim, Israel’s Polytheism, El Elyon, God’s Of War, Sky People, Paleocontact, Ancient Astronaut, Visitations, And Practicing Remote Viewing. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: At The Drive-In – Proxima Centauri (1999) The B-52’s – Mesopotamia (1980)
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Topics discussed in this episode include: Growing Up In Arkansas, Inverted Appendixes, Dangerous Childhood Games, Saving Up To Buy A Sailboat, The Harrowing Sea Adventure, Always Closing The Toilet Seat, Which Way The Toilet Paper Is Supposed To Go, The Puking Fest, Ax-Throwing To Break The Ice, Clopening, Political Morality, Subjective Reality, Charlie Kirk, The Queen James Bible, The Aether, Teaching Kids How To Play Minecraft, Saturn’s Titan, Tomorrowland, Genetic Enhancements, And Cloning.
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Things discussed in this episode: Training With Patricia Boyd, Ethnic Cleansing, Public Housing, The War On Drugs, Neo-Liberal Economics, Bullying, Pronouns, Chumash And The Gender Unicorn, Mental Health, Gun Violence, Paul Verhoeven Films, The Less-Dead, Unity Church, Intelligent Design, The New Atheists, Evolution, And Agnostic Atheism. PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE: Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant Massacree (1967) Arlo Guthrie – Coming Into Los Angeles (1969) The Beatles – All You Need Is Love (1967) The Beatles – In My Life (1965) The Beatles – Michelle (1965) The Beatles –...
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PLAYLIST FOR THIS EPISODE:
Angry Samoans – Gas Chamber (1982)
Angry Samoans – Lights Out (1982)
Angry Samoans – My Old Man’s A Fatso (1982)
Angry Samoans – Not Of This Earth (1982)
Aretha Franklin – Amazing Grace (1972)
Audioslave – Show Me How To Live (2002)
Bad Religion – Infected (1994)
Bad Religion – My Head Is Full Of Ghosts (2013)
Bad Religion – Robin Hood In Reverse (2013)
Bad Religion – Sorrow (2002)
Bad Religion – Supersonic (2002)
Bad Religion – True North (2013)
Bad Religion – 21st Century Digital Boy (1990)
The Beach Boys – God Only Knows (1966)
The Beach Boys – Little Saint Nick (1964)
Beyonce – Crazy In Love (2003)
Beyonce – Formation (2016)
Beyonce – Sorry (2016)
Blindside – All Of Us (2004)
Blindside – Sleepwalking (2002)
Bone Thugs ‘N’ Harmony – Crossroad (1995)
Casting Crowns – If We Are The Body (2003)
Chanticleer – Ave Maria (1989)
The Clash – Brand New Cadillac (1979)
Craig’s Brother – Going Blind (1998)
Craig’s Brother – Insult To Injury (1998)
Craig’s Brother – Losing My Religion (2001)
Craig’s Brother – Lullaby (2001)
The Cranberries – Linger (1993)
The Cranberries – Ode To My Family (1994)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The Corner (1969)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son (1969)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (1970)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary (1969)
Crimpshrine – Butterflies (1989)
Crimpshrine – Inspiration (1989)
Crimpshrine – Pretty Mess (1989)
Crimpshrine – Safely Wasting Away (1989)
Crimpshrine – Trying Too Hard (1988)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Unsquare Dance (1961)
Dave Matthews Band – Little Thing (Live At Luther College Version) (1999)
Death Cab For Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003)
Depeche Mode – Stripped (1986)
Descendents – ‘Merican (2004)
Dogwood – All Hands On Deck (1997)
Dogwood – Feel The Burn (1999)
Dogwood – More Than Conquerors (1999)
Dogwood – Never Die (1999)
Dogwood – Suffer (1999)
Dropkick Murphys – I’m Shipping Up To Boston (2005)
Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling In Love (1961)
Explosions In The Sky – Your Hand In Mine (2003)
Fifteen – Emancipation Proclamation (1995)
Fifteen – Grow Up (1995)
Fifteen – Perfection (1992)
Fifteen – Petroleum Distillation (1992)
Fifteen – Violation (1994)
Five Iron Frenzy – Blue Comb ’78 (1997)
Five Iron Frenzy – Dandelions (1998)
Five Iron Frenzy – A Flowery Song (1996)
Five Iron Frenzy – One Girl Army (1998)
Five Iron Frenzy – These Are Not My Pants (1998)
Five Iron Frenzy – The Untimely Death Of Brad (1998)
The Fugees – Killing Them Softly (1996)
Green Day – Basket Case (1994)
Green Day – Longview (1994)
Green Day – When I Come Around (1994)
Incubus – Megalomaniac (2004)
Incubus – The Warmth (1999)
Jars Of Clay – Flood (1995)
Jars Of Clay – Like A Child (1995)
Jars Of Clay – World’s Apart (1995)
Jay-Z – D.O.A. (2009)
Jay-Z – Run This Town (2009)
Jay-Z – Thank You (2009)
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Live In Chicago) (1995)
Jimmy Eat World – Kill (2004)
John Coltrane – Giant Steps (1960)
Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue (1969)
Johnny Cash – Hurt (2002)
Joy Electric – Burgundy Years (1996)
Joy Electric – Children Of The Lord (1999)
Joy Electric – Monosynth (1997)
Joy Electric – Shepherds Of The Northern Pasture (2001)
Joy Electric – Unicornucopia (2001)
Justin Bieber – Baby (2010)
Kendrick Lamar – Humble (2017)
The Killers – When You Were Young (2006)
Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing) (1998)
Lauryn Hill – His Eye Is On The Sparrow (1993)
Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song (1970)
Lifehouse – We’ll Never Know (2005)
LL Cool J – I Need Love (1987)
LL Cool J – I’m Bad (1987)
Lupe Fiasco – Daydreamin’ (Featuring Jill Scott) (2006)
Mariah Carey – O Holy Night (1994)
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – End Of The Road (2003)
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – Favorite Things (1999)
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – Only The Good Die Young (2008)
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – Over The Rainbow (1999)
Miles Davis – Milestones (1958)
Miles Davis – So What (1959)
Millencolin – Bullion (1995)
Millencolin – Mr. Clean (1994)
Muse – Apocalypse Please (2003)
Muse – Sing For Absolution (2003)
Muse – Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist (2003)
Muse – Time Is Running Out (2003)
MxPx – Bad Hair Day (1994)
MxPx – Do Your Feet Hurt? (1996)
MxPx – Middlename (1996)
MxPx – Punk Rawk Show (1995)
MxPx – Want Ad (1994)
Nas – Get Down (2002)
Ninety Pound Wuss – A.S.D. (1996)
Ninety Pound Wuss – Act Up (1996)
Ninety Pound Wuss – Daylight Savings Man (1996)
Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize (1997)
The O.C. Supertones – Adonai (1996)
Oasis – Champaigne Supernova (1995)
The Offspring – The Kid’s Aren’t Alright (1998)
The Offspring – Self Esteem (1994)
P.O.D. – Set Your Eyes To Zion (1999)
P.O.D. – Southtown (1999)
P.O.D. – Youth Of The Nation (2001)
Pearl Jam – Corduroy (1994)
Pearl Jam – Jeremy (1991)
Pearl Jam – Just Breathe (2009)
Pearl Jam – River Cross (2020)
Pearl Jam – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (2003)
Pennywise – Live While You Can (2018)
The Pharcyde – Passin’ Me By (1992)
The Pharcyde – Pharcyde (1995)
The Pharcyde – Runnin’ (1995)
The Pharcyde – Ya Mama (1992)
Pinhead Gunpowder – Future Daydream (1992)
Portishead – All Mine (1997)
The Postal Service – Such Great Heights (2003)
Project 86 – Pipedream (1998)
Project 86 – Stalemate (1998)
Project 86 – Stein’s Theme (2000)
Project 86 – When Darkness Reigns (1998)
Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees (1995)
The Ramones – Baby, I Love You (1980)
The Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated (1978)
Rancid – Roots Radicals (1995)
Reverend Horton Heat – Galaxy 500 (2002)
The Ricochets – Crazy Dream (1982)
The Ricochets – Hey, Girl (1982)
The Ricochets – I’m A Loser (1982)
The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses (1971)
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog (1969)
Suicidal Tendencies – Born To Be Cyco (1987)
Suicidal Tendencies – War Inside My Head (1987)
T-Bone – Lyrical Assassin (1993)
T-Bone – Ride Wit Me (2001)
T-Bone – Welcome 2 California (2002)
Toad The Wet Sprocket – Walk On The Ocean (1991)
Weezer – Africa (2019)
Weezer – My Name Is Jonas (1994)
The Who – The Kids Are Alright (1965)
The Who – Pictures Of Lily (1967)
2pac – Dear Mama (1995)