A sermon preached at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Herndon VA on Sunday, February 8. Here’s the scripture text.

AI, the Epstein files, and the Walk for Peace. A little of everything in this one. Thank you for listening.

Pluribus, Season One!

It’s the mark of a good show that we talked for almost an hour, going deep on a number of themes in the show, and somehow didn’t get to some major plot points, like how the Others get their sustenance. I’ll just leave it at that.

But we did talk about the show as commentary on AI, what makes a human a human, and the appeal of complex characters. Plus: how would we preach this show?

Here’s the podcast episode Ed referenced about the Darien Gap.

We have come to the end of our journey (for now) through Middle Earth! After our first week of “Will it Preach?” and our second week of the “BIG Themes of the Stories” we come to “Category Crowns” - discussing a bit more light-hearted topics like:

* Best/Worst change from books to movies

* Which “villain” do you like the most, and which “hero” annoys you?

* Best music cue

* What meal (or scene?) that we witness would you most want to be a part of?

* Best hair acting (This was put in specifically for MaryAnn to comment on Eowyn’s hair)

* No LOTR actors were nominated for Oscars. Who gets best and best supporting?

And some more fun ones too!

We will be leaving the realms of dwarves, elves, hobbits, humans, ents, and wizards and moving back to sci-fi (of a sort) with AppleTV’s series Pluribus. We’ll be talking on this on Monday, February 9 at 12pm ET. We’d love for you to join us live or you can follow here or via your favorite podcast app! Link to join.

Mae govannen!