Etcetera - 08.05.08 - Plugtacular

Erik August 6th, 2008

Every once in a while we do what we're supposed to do on Etcetera, that being promote the snot out of Steve Brown Etc. On this podcast we plug fast and hard. Use one of the options below for a spectacular display of our pimping skills.

Here are some links that came up in this show…

- BradSucks.net - Thanks for the music Mr. Sucks! Get some tunes and support this guy.

- Kevin Kelly - Go to kk.org and visit The Technium for the piece, A Trillion Hours

- Carol Kent on SBE

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A New Kind of Normal - Carol Kent on SBE

Erik August 1st, 2008

Carol Kent was living a model Christian life as a successful author and conference speaker. Her only child graduated from Annapolis and went on to become a lieutenant in the Navy with an impeccable military record. Then the phone rang in the middle of the night and everything changed.

The voice on the other end of the line said her son had been arrested for murdering his wife's ex-husband.

Use one of the options below to hear Steve Brown and Carol talk about her gut-wrenching story and … (Read More)

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Etcetera - 07.29.08 - Miles to Go?

Erik July 30th, 2008

Sara Miles is the author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion, a book that tells the story of how eating Jesus' flesh and drinking His blood changed her life.

The recent SBE program with Sara has the emails and comments flying. So, on this edition of Etcetera we talk about Sara's radical conversion and how, for some, it's not radical enough.

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Here are some links that came up in this show…

- Sara Miles on SBE

- Michael Spencer (Th … (Read More)

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Take This Bread - Sara Miles on SBE

Erik July 25th, 2008

Sara Miles was a passionate atheist, but early one morning curiosity got the best of her and she walked into the open doors of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in San Francisco. She was offered a piece of bread and some wine, she took it and walked out of the church a Christian.

Use one of the options below to hear Sara and Steve talk about her radical conversion and what happened next.

Sara is a journalist who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Out, The Progressi … (Read More)

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The Church & Politics - Tony Campolo on SBE

Erik July 18th, 2008

Our Favorite Lib., Tony Campolo, joins us on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. to give us the latest on his efforts to represent pro-lifers “to the highest members of the Democratic Party.” Use one of the options below to listen.

Mr. Campolo has been appointed to the Democratic Party's platform committee and he says Democratic officials are open to hearing his argument that abortion is a human rights issue. We talk about that and the need for Christians to "speak truth to power& … (Read More)

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An Evangelical Manifesto - Guinness & Smith on SBE

Erik July 11th, 2008

Join us on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss An Evangelical Manifesto with one of its primary authors, Os Guinness, and one of its more vocal critics, Warren Smith.

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The culture wars have created a lot of confusion and consternation around the term "Evangelical." So, a group of Christian leaders have come together to clear things up with An Evangelical Manifesto. Os Guinness and the other authors of the manifesto hope to, "ma … (Read More)

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