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Episode 60: We Have Some Healing To Do (Rewind)
On this special Thanksgiving episode, Dennis reaches back to an episode from March where he talks about the need for common ground.Original Description: Like all good ...
Episode 58: Two Aspergers and A Microphone
In this episode, Dennis chats with a colleague, Dwight Welch. Welch is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and like Dennis is on the autism spectrum. ...
Episode 57: The Last of the Lutherans?
When the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was created in 1988 as the result of a merger, it had 5 million on the rolls. According to a 2019 article, if projectio...
Episode 56: Michael Kruse on What Christians Don‘t Get About Economics
If you know anything about economics, it has to be the concept of scarcity. This is the gap between a limited resource and unlimited wants. Scarcity means making dec...
Episode 55: Marian Edmonds Allen on the Utah Compromise
Maybe one of the biggest debates of the early 21st century was the debate about expanding marriage rights to include same-sex couples. From the minute I got married t...
Episode 54: Yael Ossowski On What‘s So Bad About Facebook?
Remember around 2009 or 2010 when everyone seemed to love Facebook? As a pastor, I was told about all the wonderful virtues of social media, especially Facebook. Mar...
Episode 53: What Does Communion Have to Do With Racial Justice?
This is a special episode where I got to talk to one of my mentors. Doug Skinner is a retired pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the same denominat...
Episode 52: What Is Christian Democracy with William Fleming
The United States stands alone among major democracies in having just two parties. For many years that was okay; because the Democrats and Republicans were actually t...
Episode 50: When Is Inclusion a Bad Thing?
Support the podcast: enroutepodcast.org/donateOne of the biggest gifts Mainline Protestantism has given to many people is the work of inclusion. It’s the belief that ...
Bonus: Who Killed Sears and Kmart?
For over a century, Sears was one of this nation’s leading retailers. In the 1920s, you could literally buy a house from Sears. The postwar years saw Sears moving in...
Episode 49: Ariel Hill-Davis on Republican Women for Progress
Late last week, we got the news that Anthony Gonzalez a second-term GOP congressman from Ohio decided to not seek a third term in 2022. He gave the usual reason of wan...
Episode 46: Josh Lewis on the Future of Conservatism
What is conservatism? What is the Republican Party? In the years since Donald Trump headed down that golden escalator, American conservatism has suffered an identity c...
Little Jaunts: Michael Siegel on the Coronavirus
This is the first episode of what I hope will be a microcast called "Little Jaunts" (sticking with the travel theme). Little Jaunts will showcase shorter versions of ...
The Blue, the Black and the Grey: Chris Mackowski on the American Civil War
The Civil War is a pivotal event in the history of the United States. Fought between 1861 and 1865 is a story of a sundered nation, a battle of justice for African Ame...
Episode 40: Rob Sanders on the Interstate Highway System (Rewind)
Why does the Interstate Highway System matter? What made it so amazing? Why is it so unappreciated today? How is it learning from its past mistakes?In this Rewind E...
The Final Frontier: Michael Siegel on Space Exploration
It’s time to strap in as we get ready to blast off into a discussion on Space Exploration with astronomer Michael Siegel. We also talk about the Arecibo radio telesco...
Mainline Medley
It’s another medley episode on a number of topics. We first talk about the future of Mainline Protestantism (sort of an epilogue to last week’s interview), then we ta...
Episode 37: Geoff Mitchell on Mainline Protestantism
In the 1950s, Mainline Protestants were the largest group of Protestants in the United States. Since then, the churches have seen decline and their footprint in Ameri...
Episode 36: Justice, Reconciliation and the Civil War
In this episode, Dennis talks about the changing narrative of the Civil War, from the Dukes of Hazzard to the removal of statues. He notes there are two concepts that...
Church in the Time of COVID #1: Rev. Joe Tognetti
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all sectors of society and the church wasn't immune. In this interview, we interview Joe Tognetti, a Methodist pastor in the Rio Gr...
Statler and Waldorf Meet Donald Trump
As the Fourth of July passes us by, Dennis thinks about the missed opportunities the anti-Trump/NeverTrump movement is making and what that means for American democrac...
Give Me Jesus
After a few amazing interviews, Dennis is solo again and talks about his recent experience in the (hopefully) post-COVID church, why mainline Protestantism needs to b...
The Second Trailer
There have been enough changes in the podcast to warrant a second trailer. What is En Route? Listen to find out.La Vie En Route Support this Podcast: https://ko-fi.com...
Read All About It: Kevin D. Hendricks on Hyperlocal News
With local newspapers cutting staff, and other closing, local news is in peril. We talk to communications professional Kevin Hendricks who started his own online loca...
When History Rhymes: Andrew Donaldson on the SBC
What happened in the Southern Baptist Convention this week? We talk to Andrew Donaldson about how the largest Protestant denomination in the US handled an ongoing bat...
Wiederaufbau
Dennis decides to keep sharing German words this week as he talks about what it means to rebuild or reconstruct the fabric of American life, including how all us can t...
Götterdämmerung
Is America facing a coming collapse? Is it facing a coup? There is talk and fear about our democracy. Donald Trump ‘s hold on the GOP is tighter than ever and he pl...
La Vie En Route
Big changes are happening to the podcast. Dennis talks about why the changes are happening (again) and the direction of the podcast moving forward.Be sure to rate us ...
The Price of Power: Napp Nazworth on Evangelicalism and Trump
The steadfastness of the white evangelical vote for former President Donald Trump is old news by now. However it still leaves people scratching their heads: how does s...
Doing Time on the Mainline
Dennis looks back at 30 years as part of Mainline Protestantism, what bugs him, why he stays, and why this part of Christianity matters.Jonathan Edwards vs. Charles Fi...
