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atypical:: Mike Erre [ep. 2]

This week we talk with Mike Erre about all sorts of things including politics, sexuality & failure. Mike is a voice calling the church to be a place where folks can work out their brokenness instead of being made to feel as though they must hide it.

Here’s the video I referenced of Mike speaking about his son, Seth.

Mike is a pastor, teacher, and author of several books. He is voice behind the VOX Podcast and the founding pastor of VOX Christian Community. He also helps lead OC United...

the atypical podcast:: episode 2

This week we talk with Mike Erre about all sorts of things including politics, sexuality & failure. Mike is a voice calling the church to be a place where folks can work out their brokenness instead of being made to feel as though they must hide it.

Here’s the video I referenced of Mike speaking about his son, Seth.

Mike is a pastor, teacher, and author of several books. He is voice behind the VOX Podcast and the founding pastor of VOX Christian Community. He also helps lead OC United, a...

atypical:: Lindsey Nobles [ep. 1]

We’re kicking off with a series entitled unmentionables– a few interviews with folks discussing issues & topics not often heard within the walls of the church.

Join us for the first podcast as I, Matt Mooney, interview Lindsey Nobles on the topic of being single in the church. If I sound a bit lethargic, have mercy…I was sick (better now). If I sound like I don’t know what I am doing- fair enough. If you like it, please help spread the word. If you don’t, please remain silent.

Here’s some...

the atypical podcast:: episode 1

We’re kicking off with a series entitled unmentionables– a few interviews with folks discussing issues & topics not often heard within the walls of the church.

Join us for the first podcast as I, Matt Mooney, interview Lindsey Nobles on the topic of being single in the church. If I sound a bit lethargic, have mercy…I was sick (better now). If I sound like I don’t know what I am doing- fair enough. If you like it, please help spread the word. If you don’t, please remain silent.

Here’s some add...

summer

Summer is here. At 5, 6 and 8 we got rascals riding bikes and swimming at a skill level whereby we are not in constant stress. I told Ginny sometime some summer not long ago that I was done going to pools. With 3 that cannot swim alone, I can only act like I’m listening to whatever adult is talking to me, my head drawing a repeated triangle from locating the 3 bobbing heads while I simultaneously feign my best impression of the laid back dad & try not to tell this person what an idiot they ar...

weekends with rascals

I’ve worked hard to develop a new habit of carving out Monday mornings to sit and think and pray and grasp for some semblance of sanity before I cannonball into the week that will eat my lunch if I let it. It’s a rebellious act of counter-intuition as weekends are supposed to be the very thing that serves us this way. Now, I love my weekends at home and all- but it’s not a peaceful-cup-of-coffee-type of experience currently. If I had to measure, I would say it packs about the same rest as bei...

The Surface Dialogue Guidebook

We’ve reached that point in these beloved Ozarks where we’re just all waiting around for the good weather. We get all four seasons here; just enough of winter to know we don’t want to move north; which we needed no help knowin’. Being bone-tired of Ole Man Winter being a hanger-on is all you’re allowed to talk about- other than the razorback basketball revival- in these parts; whether it be the gal sacking your groceries or the college hipster handing you $4 coffee, so goes the surface dialog...

shifting gears

I often look at my backside in the mirror.

I move quickly past the place that you imagined I was seeking and find the splotchy spot just above the bend of my right leg. It’s my biggest scar- remnants of days I spent riding my Honda 80 dirt bike for hours on end along the hill behind my house where within a 3-minute ride Arkansas turned into Oklahoma.

Often times I would lug the unstarted motorcycle to the top of a certain steep drop off in order to mount the red machine, point it downhill and c...

striving for a secret

Check it out, Ginny & Lena are in the current edition of National Geographic. A while back, a wonderful photographer followed our family around for a few days in order to capture photos illustrative of an article on brain development…fascinating article and wonderful pictures (we think).

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If you have been around me much, it does not take long to learn of certain things that come along as a part of the package- tethered to the molecules that combine to make m...

from Fergie to Ferguson

Against my better judgment, Ginny convinced me last Monday to sit beside her and watch the American Music Awards. I begrudgingly complied- mainly due to the fact that I love her and if she invites me to sit close to her, I do it- every time. I’m a sucker that way, but that doesn’t mean I don’t moan on and on about the drivel that she makes me watch.

Ginny admittedly loves television. She loves awards shows. Loves reality tv. She once made me watch the Bachelor; she seemed happy. I put my foot...