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Summary

Tou Thao was raised in a Hmong Christian home in Minnesota, walked away from church at fourteen, and spent eleven years as a Minneapolis police officer. On May 25, 2020, he was Derek Chauvin's partner at 38th and Chicago. Within a day he was fired. Within days he was charged. He walked into a jail cell calling himself a "part-time Christian," picked a Bible off the book rack, and hoped it would get him out.

It did not get him out. It got him saved.

In this episode Thao tells the story: a brother who asked whether his life matched his profession, a stranger's letter about the book of Job, a deputy who walked into his cell and opened the Bible to Job 1–2, and the moment a man who did not cry at his own father's funeral wept and repented. He describes the years that followed: an attempt on his life his first day in federal prison, a ministry to sick inmates in the hospital ward, a plea offer he refused because he believed signing it would be a lie and a sin, and a sentencing hearing where he preached the trials of Jesus to the judge.

Thao also gives his own account of the day George Floyd died, the training he says the officers followed, and why he maintains his innocence after state and federal convictions. He closes with a word to the church from John 7:24 and Ephesians 5: judge with right judgment, and do not confuse silence with faithfulness.

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Summary

Why can't Christian families do the basic things Scripture commands of them? Chase sits down with Adam Madden, pastor in Brigham City, Utah, father of nine, and author of The Productive Household , for a conversation about the household as an economy. Adam moved his family to one of the least reached regions in the country, spent twenty-five years in pastoral ministry on the envelope system, and then bought a dog boarding business with no money down and leased a trout farm his kids could work. Along the way he came to a conviction: when a man goes to the Word and gathers up his duties as a husband and father, he does not need less time with his family. He needs more. They talk through Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6 on leveraging content and context, the objective standard of 1 Timothy 3:4, why "family integrated" is a tool and not the goal, what baby steps actually look like for a two-income family that can't buy a farm, and Baxter's claim that there is no general reformation of the church without a reformation of the household.

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C.R. Wiley, The Household and the War for the Cosmos (Canon Press) https://canonpress.com/products/the-household-and-the-war-for-the-cosmos

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Summary

Can a machine be sentient without being conscious? Should a pastor ever let AI touch his sermon? And what does a fourth-century hermit who lived to 105 in the Egyptian desert have to say about Ray Kurzweil? Chase sits down for a third time with C.R. Wiley, pastor, novelist, and author of the new Canon Press book Manmade: Saint Anthony's Guide to Surviving the AI Apocalypse, to work through what AI actually is and what it is doing to us. They cover Harari's claim that humans are hackable animals, the golem legends of Prague as the better metaphor for what we've built, why embodiment and vulnerability are the ground of moral intelligence, where the line falls between therapeutic and vanity uses of technology, and the hard pastoral question of whether AI belongs anywhere near the work of preaching. Wiley is neither a doomer nor a booster. He wants you to use the thing without being used by it.

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