BD-008 - BD Struggles With His Faith
March 15, 2007
Bad Dad has accepted the responsibility of laying the groundwork for his children’s spiritual journey. He tries to give them all the information they need and set a good example for them.
But BD has struggled with his faith his entire adult life. Twelve years of Catholic school and frustrations with the Church itself has pushed him away to form the opinion that the Catholic Church is Seriously Broken and fails to adapt to the fast changing culture of the 21st century.
Still holding on to his core Christian beliefs, BD is impressed that the Reformed Church has taken more obvious steps to reduce dwindling attendance, keep members engaged and interested, create an inviting environment for new recruits and even look to the youth congregation for guidance as to how to make service less boring.
Please listen and let me know if you have similar opinions or experiences!
-BD
Time Index:
[00:00:25] Deciding to include religion and spirituality in your child’s life.
[00:04:00] My experience with Catholic Elementary and Catholic High School.
[00:16:00] The Catholic Church is Broken.
[00:22:00] The process of finding a new Church to join.
[00:28:30] The Reformed Church seems to adapt for the future.
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A feed issue- I tried both of your buttons for feeds, and neither worked. I noticed you are using a redirect for your feeds. Might I suggest that you use the Feedburner feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/BadDad) as your link (add the itpc:// for the iTunes feed) and then change the feed that Feedburner accesses if you want to move the feed. iTunes gets pissy when you redirect, as far as I can see, so it wants a link to the actual feed. Feedburner basically grabs your feed and makes it appear at that address.
Don’t know if that makes sense, but the only way I could get the feed was to open it in my browser and steal the address from the address bar. One click too many for anyone but a geek.
I only say this because I love the show, and want it to grow. Loved the discussion of your struggle with faith. I may do a podcast in response, because I have been through similar issues. If nothing else, I want to do an audio response, because you’ve shouted out for them, and you mentioned my podcast. I owe ya!
Thank you for reporting that bug. Of course, I couldn’t reproduce it. (LOL) As much as I try to cross platform and browser test, there always seems to be something buggy with Internet Explorer vs Firefox vs Safari.
I’m typically a fan of redirects, but I’ve had a few problems with making my Feedburner redirects work with a few podcatchers/directories. So I’ve thrown in the towel and ditched the redirects in favor of using the Feedburner URL. Nice thought - doesn’t work consistently - lesson learned.
Also, I really appreciate the positive support. I truly enjoy your podcast and blog as well. I’ll be sure to return the favor.
Thanks!
Yowza! New feeds rock my world on the Windows-based laptop. iTunes launched and subscribed in one click. Bloglines recognized the rss feed in one click as well.
I know it’s hard to imagine a world with PC’s and Macs. Sometimes you have to pitch to the lowest common denominator. Leave it to me to be THAT guy.
Glad I could be of service.
Love the podcast, mate. I’ve had an evangelical protestant and pentecostal expereience with church and religion. I even got to the point of becoming a pastor. My family and I have lots of different stories to yours because of the tradition we experienced but a lot of the feelings are the same.
We still make Christ our primary allegience. We still follow his teachings on grace, high standards, compassion etc. We still believe the Bible, but we like millions of other followers of Jesus have left institutional church to embrace an earthier form of “church” and Christianity.
However, I applaud your commitment to giving your kids a solid foundation. Without it, their life will reflect our culture’s loss of connectedness, purpose and boundaries.
You’re not that bad a Dad! :)
Pete,
Thanks for the note and sharing your experience. I love that line of thinking:
“We still make Christ our primary allegience.”
It’s a good mantra.
Take care!
-Roland