Nerds At Church

Dec 16 2024 210 ep. 59 mins 17
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Nerds At Church connects faith with all things nerdery! A new way to connect to scripture, your faith, your life, and the world.

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Post-Election Minisode

Dec 16 2024 38 mins  
Pastor Emily (they) and Pastor Kay (she) take some time to check-in, process, and look ahead since the election. This episode was originally recorded the week after the elections in the united states, but due to family emergencies and life, captions didn't get finalized until now, so it's a bit later than we'd hoped for. Now that we are into December and have had some time to pro

Season 5 Episode 07: John Brown

Nov 06 2024 67 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to dive into John Brown, Paul in his letter to Philemon, and Kira Nerys for our 7th episode in our Nerds At Church Superhero Spectacular Season! The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. The biblical hero, Paul’s letter to Philemon, comes up in the lectionary for Proper 18 or Lectionary 23 in Year C,

Season 5 Episode 06: Weather Underground & Earth Liberation Front

Oct 10 2024 68 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to dive into our Villain Era! We’ve got the Weather Underground and the Earth Liberation Front, Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze, and Adam and Eve for our 6th episode in our Nerds At Church Superhero Spectacular Season! The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. The biblical heroes, Adam and Eve, come up in t

Season 5 Episode 05: Malala Yousafzai

Sep 25 2024 52 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Lamya H (she/they), author of Hijab Butch Blues, to dive into Malala Yousafzai, Kamala Khan (AKA: Ms. Marvel), and Esther and Asiya for episode 5 in our Nerds At Church Superhero Spectacular Season! The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. The biblical hero, Esther doesn't really

Season 5 Episode 04: Spider-Man

Sep 14 2024 55 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to dive into Spider-Man, Daniel, and Njinga Mbandi for episode 4 in our Nerds At Church Superhero Spectacular Season! The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. Find out more about Njinga Mbandi and other Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade. Also, check out the PBS video about Njinga Mbandi and the mov

Season 5 Episode 03: Jesus!

Sep 01 2024 75 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to dive into Jesus (biblical, historical, and pop cultural!) for episode 3 in our Nerds At Church Superhero Spectacular Season! The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. Although the story of Jesus comes up in the Lectionary on every day except Pentecost (but also kind of even then), we’re linking to

Season 5 Episode 02: Daughters of Zelophehad

Aug 22 2024 40 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to dive into the Daughters of Zelophehad (Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah), Wilma Mankiller, Echo, and collective power for our 2nd episode in our Nerds At Church Superhero Spectacular season! The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. For more about Wilma Mankiller, check out The Mankiller Docu

Season 5 Episode 01: Superman

Aug 17 2024 74 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Pace Warfield (they or none) to dive into Superman, Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, Ruth, and the impact of immigrants and their families on communities for our 1st episode in our Nerds At Church Superhero Spectacular season! Find Pace on FB and on Bluesky! The scripture we refer to for this episode can

Season 5 Intro

Aug 01 2024 35 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to dive into Season 5: Superhero Spectacular, and all that we've got in store for you! We'll be releasing on Wednesdays here and wherever you catch your podcasts! Dig into our grounding scripture for this season here. Tune into our caption and stimming YouTube versions of the whole season. To support Nerds At Chu

Season 4 Episode 11: Book Talk

Apr 10 2024 49 mins  
Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to dive into books for our final episode in our Nerds At Church season of Epiphany! The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. We talked about all of our episodes this season, which you can find wherever you catch your podcasts! You can find the vast majority of the books that we talked about in our bo