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 […]
Here we are isolated from one another in our homes and apartments in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19. Naturally, there’s been lots of questions back and forth of how to stem the virus and what should remain open and what should be closed until a later date. Then comes the questions of what to do with our worship services. Do the services keep going (similar to the times of the plague in […]
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 […]
I was able to preach a sermon at Mill City Church (in Northeast Minneapolis), which is the church I call home. My sermon was part of a series on the Minor Prophets called The Books We Don’t Read, referring to the fact that many people in our churches don’t hardly read the minor prophets. My sermon in the series was on the prophet of Amos, specifically looking at the way that injustice is viewed as […]
If there’s one unifying factor for our divided planet, it’s that people all around the world love celebrations of joy. People in every nation love to join in celebrating so many joyous occasions. We love births, weddings, graduations, promotions, anniversaries – basically any reason to celebrate our life achievements in great joy and togetherness. What ALL people equally dislike is bad news. And Ash Wednesday is bad news for too many people. Rather than celebrating a […]
Bethel Seminary, where I have the privilege to serve as assistant professor of New Testament, recently started a brand new podcast called Whole & Holy. The podcast is primarily intended to serve the church, especially pastors and alumni of Bethel Seminary. So far there have been a number of interesting episodes about hiring and firing, children’s ministry, disability ministry, political involvement, Christian leadership, and more. If you’re keen to subscribe, you can find it wherever […]
Here is a recording of a sermon I gave at Bethel University’s chapel during a series on The Very Good Gospel. I focused on how in the gospel we receive God through the person of the Spirit who is our gift and guide in ordinary time. Bethel University Chapel 2019 – John Dunne from Bethel University Chapel on Vimeo.
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