{"id":55,"date":"2005-07-02T17:42:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T00:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2005-07-05T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T16:10:42","slug":"wired-jesus-podcast-13-life-bytes-and-no-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Wired Jesus Podcast #13 – Life Bytes and No Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a few weeks of vacation, I’m back with no other long vacations in sight, should be back to weekly podcasts. For lucky podcast 13, I’m highlighting the new podcast My Life Bytes<\/a> and the podsafe band the Mountain Goats. In this episode I’m reflecting on the “dark side” of postmoderns – not Star Wars or Goth clothing – but our general pessimistic outlook on our future and our determination to still find meaning in it. The cool thing about My Life Bytes <\/a>and what makes it a throughly postmodern and spiritual thing, is the intent to share stories of woe and dread as community and maybe find some consolation in a community of the mutually miserable. Well, its not as bad as all that but it is something we call in the church “the mutual consolation of the saints” – a churchy way of saying when life sucks and you feel alone, the people of the church are there to love you unconditionally like Jesus. My Life Bytes<\/a> is not an spiritual or religious site but there is a search going on for meaning in the midst of bad times and failing that, a measure of comfort of knowing that you are not alone – sounds like the spiritual journey to me. <\/p>\n

The Mountain Goats<\/a> are a great podsafe band with some good tunes at their website but No Children is my favorite so far. The only embarassing part is that when I received the mp3 from the Podsafe Music Podcast, it came with a label “No Chicken” – which is what I called it when I recorded my podcast. My bad, still a great song – children makes more sense but I liked chicken. With determined sarcastic grimness, No Children goes to much the same place as Simple Plan’s Welcome to My Life and Green Days Boulevard of Broken Dreams, just with much less optimism. No Children is satisfied to sing of the paradox of in the search for meaning and community, you can find that even when with those you hate and when life seems to be just a slide into darkness. A regular tune for listening on my ipod right now. Hope you enjoy it and check out their web site<\/a>. \"mountain<\/p>\n

Despair.com<\/a> is just a brilliant idea I wish I had had – a wonderfully warped take on Boomer motivational thought and pop culture, their calendars and art have an honored place in my office at church. Be sure to check out their delightful merchandise and De-Motivators. \"Motivation\"<\/p>\n

Click here to download the podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/podcast\/wjp-20050702.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

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