Amidst all the craziness of 2020, we finally decided to start a podcast here at The Two Cities back in March when the lockdowns were first going into effect in the States. Since then we were able to publish 47 episodes, with more to come in 2021. Here’s a look back at our top ten most played episodes from 2020. If you haven’t checked any of these episodes out, give them a listen! We’d also...
With the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) continuing to spread throughout the world, all around the world we are turning to technology like never before to facilitate our regular lives—our work, our church life, our interpersonal relationships, etc. For some of us, the majority of the people that we typically interact with are now confined to our screens and laptops, mediated through FaceTime, Google Hangouts, Zoom, and Skype. It sort of feels like we’re living in...
Today (April 8, 2020) marks the 30th anniversary of when the classic TV show Twin Peaks first aired. In our previous episode (“Twin Peaks: Why We Love It – Part One”), John Anthony Dunne and Kris Song discussed the cultural phenomenon that is Twin Peaks. In this episode, we discuss further how dreams function within the show as well as the broader work of David Lynch. You can find this new episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor,...
Today (April 8, 2020) marks the 30th anniversary of when the hit TV show Twin Peaks first hit our television sets. Twin Peaks was a major cultural phenomenon in the early 1990s. As an innovative TV show, it was a victim of its own success, being canceled after its second season. TV viewers coming out of the 80s, accustomed to Soaps and episodic storytelling, were simply not ready for a long form narrative spanning multiple...
In this episode we continue our earlier podcast episode on communion, in the light of recent criticism of the broad position for which we generally advocated. You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor, or wherever you get your podcasts. Our earlier conversation was called “Is Virtual Communion Valid?” (posted on March 25th, 2020). You can check out that earlier episode here if you have not heard it already. In that discussion we talked through the...
Our new podcast episode is out! You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor, or wherever you get your podcasts. The sports world is in disarray during this global pandemic. For many, sports are a perennial source of conversation and entertainment. But when there’s no sports to watch, but everyone’s stuck at home, that makes for a sad state of affairs in an already horrible situation. In this episode, John Anthony Dunne...
Our new podcast episode is out! You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor, or wherever you get your podcasts. Check it out, subscribe for weekly episodes every Wednesday, and please give us a rating and review! During this Coronavirus pandemic many of us are practicing social distancing, self-quarantining, and sheltering in place. It’s a stressful time existentially and economically, and as a result, what we eat might not seem like much...
Our new podcast episode is out! You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor, or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode we discuss the difficulty of doing church and being the church in the midst of the present Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). To what extent is virtual communion valid? Given the mandates around the world to practice social distancing, and in some sectors sheltering in place, what does the communion of...
We are thrilled to officially launch The Two Cities Podcast. You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker, Radio Public, and a few other podcast platforms. Please subscribe and write us a review as it helps spread the word! Today we are launching three episodes to kick off the podcast. Here are the short descriptions of each episode. Episode 1 – Parasite (Movie Review) – Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-ho) is a...
We are so thrilled to announce that coming soon in the next few weeks we will be launching The Two Cities podcast! Be on the lookout, and be sure to subscribe and spread the word when the new pod arrives. We began this blog back in the summer of 2011. Back then blogs were very popular; everyone had a blog and everyone blogged about everything. Blogs still exist, of course, but their dominance has been...
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