Inappropriate Conversations

"Once I get them to tell me about the God they don't believe in, it turns out I don't believe in that God either."
Susan Russell

John 21:1-14 (after His death and resurrection, after appearing to Mary and others, Jesus surprises his fisherman followers when he stops for a seaside breakfast meeting)

Christianity 201: Time for Solid Food 

#IC 131: Christianity 301 (10/22/13)

Rob Bell - Love Wins

Rev. Susan Russell

"The door is only as open as the mind inside the office."
The Author

Luke 24:13-35 (Jesus met some of his followers, probably not inner circle but believers, as they walked from Jerusalem to Emmaus; they didn’t recognize him)

#IC 92: Open Door Policy with the Boss (6/23/12)

#IC 146: The Idea of Christ (7/6/14)

I honestly could describe this as a re-blogging, or re-broadcasting, of someone else's podcast.
Except for the occasional clip in compilation shows, I've never done this before. My friend Tom (The Ramble Redhead) died this month. Cancer took him quickly, and it was a shock to those who knew him and loved him. Wanting to hear his voice again and knowing his podcast was no longer available online, I went to my personal archives. 

Past Ramble Redhead shows included interviews with Taylor from Pod Is My Copilot, Christina from Greetings From Nowhere, Toppie from The Smellcast, Margaret Cho, and more -- including me. The majority of this Inappropriate Conversations podcast is sharing Tom's interview with me from September 2015. 
Those of us who knew Tom will never forget the redhead from Indiana who loved us all.

Different Drummer: Thomas Kiel

“People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.”
John Wesley

John 20:19-31 (the demand of Thomas for proof and evidence gives us the name Doubting Thomas, along with the meme “He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”!)

#IC 47: Hypocrisy and Intensity (2/28/11)

"I remember the time that you told me, you said, 'Love is touching souls.' Well, surely you touched mine because part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time."
Joni Mitchell

John 4:1-30 (despite what most evangelicals today would describe as “living in sin” when she met Jesus at a well, He sent this Samaritan woman off to share the Gospel, telling people in her town Whom she had just met … and He didn’t order her first to move out of her living arrangement or “sin no more”)

#IC 113: Raised on Robbery (2/15/13)

#IC 150: Opening the Scriptures (9/23/14)

Joni Mitchell - Blue

"Old James Dean Monroe hands out flowers at the Shop-N-Go, hopes for money but all he gets is fear. And the wind blows up his coat, and this he scribbles on a perfume note: 'If I'm not here, then you're not here.'"
Sheryl Crow

Matthew 28:11-15 (the right amount of bribery can hide/ignore almost anything)

#IC 196: The Sound of Protest (4/23/17)

Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow

"I rope-a-dope with righteous bobbin' and weavin', and let the good get even."
Chuck D. (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour)

Mark 15:16-20 (abuses of power included assault, spitting, mocking, and more)

#IC 17: Majority Rule and Minority Experience (6/30/10)

Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet