00:00 - Introduction 05:55 - Free for All (What food did you like as a kid that you think is gross now?) 15:03 - Main Topic (Why America Is Losing Its Mind: The American Population Is Getting Dumber) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY Wade and Mike team up again. This is the sixth episode in our series entitled "Why America Is Losing Its Mind." The guys explore whether the American population is getting dumber, what that means, and why they think it is so. We hope you will enjoy it. We are gratefu...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 150
In the THIRTY-NINTH episode of our Wingin' It series on the Life of Luther, Wade and Mike discuss the Catechisms, two of Luther's greatest gifts to the church. We hope that you will enjoy this discussion. Let the Bird Fly! is supported by the 1517 Podcast Network, which is part of 1517.org. If you haven't done so yet, stop over there and check out the other great podcasts in the network, as well as all of the other excellent content they offer. And as always, please subscribe, rate, and review u...
Jan 14, 2021•45 min
00:00 - Introduction 14:20 - Main Topic (Why America Is Losing Its Mind: Online Engagement Has Undermined Personal Interaction) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE Wade and Mike team up again. This is the fifth episode in our series entitled "Why America Is Losing Its Mind." The guys explore the challenges of online engagement undermining personal interaction. We hope you will enjoy it. We are grateful to the 1517 podcasting network. If you haven't done so yet, make sure to go check out all of...
Jan 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 149
In the THIRTY-EIGHTH episode of our Wingin' It series on the Life of Luther, Wade and Mike discuss the Saxon Visitations, an important early step in organizing and strengthening Lutheran churches (as they would be called later). We hope that you will enjoy this discussion. Let the Bird Fly! is supported by the 1517 Podcast Network, which is part of 1517.org. If you haven't done so yet, stop over there and check out the other great podcasts in the network, as well as all of the other excellent co...
Jan 07, 2021•31 min
00:00 - Introduction 07:42 - Free for All 25:09 - Main Topic (Why America Is Losing Its Mind: Partisanship) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT Wade and Mike team up again. This is the fourth episode in our series entitled "Why America Is Losing Its Mind." The guys explore the challenges of information overload and soundbite engagement. We hope you will enjoy it. We are grateful to the 1517 podcasting network. If you haven't done so yet, make sure to go check out all of the great podcasts the...
Jan 05, 2021•59 min•Ep. 148
In the THIRTY-SEVENTH episode of our Wingin' It series on the Life of Luther, Wade and Mike discuss the first Diet of Speyer. Although not as famous as some of the other diets of this time, Speyer had a lasting impact. We hope that you will enjoy this brief survey of the Diet of Speyer and its legacy. Let the Bird Fly! is supported by the 1517 Podcast Network, which is part of 1517.org. If you haven't done so yet, stop over there and check out the other great podcasts in the network, as well as ...
Dec 31, 2020•47 min
00:00 - Introduction 10:50- Main Topic (Why America Is Losing Its Mind: Partisanship) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN Wade and Mike team up again. Three times in a row! This is the third episode in our series entitled "Why America Is Losing Its Mind." The guys explore partisanship, past and present, and the challenges it presents today. We hope you will enjoy it. We are grateful to the 1517 podcasting network. If you haven't done so yet, make sure to go check out all of the great podcasts...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 147
00:00 - Introduction 7:32 - Main Topic (Why America Is Losing Its Mind: We've Forgotten History, or Never Learned It) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX Wade and Mike team up...again...after their first time recording in a long time last episode. This is the second episode in what might become a ten or eleven episode series, supposing Wade shows up again, entitled "Why America Is Losing Its Mind." The guys explore why history matters and the problems that arise when we forget it, or if we neve...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 146
00:00 - Introduction 12:46 - Main Topic (Why America Is Losing Its Mind: We're Not Liberal, and We Should Be) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE Wade and Mike team up again for the first time in a long time. This is the first episode in what might become a series, supposing Wade shows up again, entitled "Why America Is Losing Its Mind." Basically Wade put together an eleven point rant and Mike decided to go along because he is just happy Wade decided to participate in the podcast again. The f...
Dec 24, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 145
00:00 - Introduction 03:05 - Free-for-All (Defunct stadiums you wish you could visit) 12:07 - Main Topic (On Being Single and Christian) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR Mike welcomes Rev. Dr. Phil Huebner (Dr. Phil) from Wisconsin Lutheran High School onto the podcast to talk about singleness and Christianity. Has the church ignored single people or taken them for granted? The two, yes married, professors talk about how the church has viewed singleness and how the church can minister to, u...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 144
00:00 - Introduction 06:53 - Free-for-All (What would you change if you could go back?) 19:27 - Main Topic (Brewing and the Reformation) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE Mike welcomes pastor and award winning brewer, Rev. Jeremy Glowicki of St. Paul’s Lutheran in Jordan, MN, to talk about home brewing, Martin Luther, Katie Luther, and the Reformation. The two pastors open with a free-for-all on things they would change if they could go back to beginning of their ministries before sitting b...
Oct 23, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 143
00:00 - Introduction 02:37 - Free-for-All (Last Meals) 09:45 - Main Topic (Preaching on Social Issues) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO Wade and Mike discuss the difficulty of preaching the law and on social issues in particular. How can a preacher maintain the prominence of the gospel and still speak about sanctification? How can a preacher leave the listener with the precious gospel and still speak about the world in which the Christian lives? We hope you will enjoy this discussion on how ...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 142
In the THIRTY-SIXTH episode of our Wingin' It series on the Life of Luther, Wade and Mike highlight the life and work of John the Steadfast. Although not as famous as his brother, Frederick the Wise, or as large a personality as his son, John Frederick the Magnanimous, John is an important figure of the Reformation. As Elector of Saxony, John was instrumental in the formation of the Schmalkaldic League, “protested at the Second Diet of Speyer, and was a signer of the Augsburg Confession. We hope...
Oct 08, 2020•29 min
00:00 - Introduction 02:26 - Main Topic (Cultural Liturgies) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE Mike invites back Rev. Justin Cloute to talk more James K.A. Smith. This time they are joined by Benj Lawrenz for a discussion on Smith’s Cultural Liturgies series. Smith makes the case that humans are, at their core, lovers. He takes it one step further and declares humans liturgical animals. Everybody worships. We are formed (and malformed) by secular liturgies which surround us every day. Justin,...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 141
00:00 - Introduction 04:07 - Free-for-All (Positive life changes from the COVID-19 shutdowns) 16:13 - Main Topic (On the Road with St. Augustine) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY Mike and Wade are joined by Rev. Justin Cloute from St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Watertown, WI. Rev. Cloute joins to discuss James K.A. Smith's book On the Road with St. Augustine. This episode was recorded a few months before it was released, due to the COVID-19 shutdown of 2020, so it's a bit out of order here, but w...
Sep 27, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 140
00:00 - Introduction 08:30 - Free-for-All (If you couldn't teach in your discipline, what discipline would you want to teach in?) 16:08 - Main Topic (John Milton) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE Mike and Wade are joined by Dr. Amy Hermanson to discuss the life and works of John Milton. This episode was recorded a few months before it was released, due to the COVID-19 shutdown of 2020, so it's a bit out of order here, but we trust our listeners will still enjoy the conversation. A big than...
Aug 02, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 139
00:00 - Introduction 05:31 - Free-for-All (Most feared or most likely dystopian reality we might experience) 33:22 - Main Topic (Does Ignorance = Science?) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT Mike and Peter are joined by returning guest, and local physicist at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Dr. Kerry Kuehn. On this episode the three sit down to discuss Stuart Firestein's book Ignorance: How It Drives Science. At the end of the episode, Dr. Kuehn and Mike discuss the summer apologetics academy t...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 138
00:00 - Introduction 03:37 - Free-for-All (Most exciting thing during the lockdown Best forms of dueling) 11:43 - Main Topic (The Human Touch) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN Mike and Peter return to the studio to discuss The Atlantic article entitled: 30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact. (I think it was that uplifting title that caught Mike's attention.) Before discussing the importance of human contact (especially in the early developmental stages), the ...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 137
00:00 - Introduction 03:37 - Free-for-All (Most romantic means of transportation) 11:43 - Main Topic (How about Liturgical Worship?) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX Mike is joined by Peter to discuss the role that liturgical worship may serve to answer some of modernity's crises and why the draw to the historic liturgy crosses time and denominations. They take as their springboard the opinion piece penned by Tara Isabella Burton in the May 8, 2020 edition of the New York Times, entitled Ch...
May 13, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 136
Mike and Wade discuss Hammer of God by Bo Giertz.
May 02, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Mike reviews the New Testament Epistles.
May 01, 2020•37 min
Mike and Wade discuss Lutheran identity crises that broke out after Luther's death in light of the second (and third) part of Wade's book, An Uncompromising Gospel.
Apr 30, 2020•51 min
Mike and Wade discuss Luther's Heidelberg Disputation and Bondage of the Will in light of the first part of Wade's book, An Uncompromising Gospel.
Apr 29, 2020•38 min
Wade discusses confessionalization and legacies of the Reformations in light of the fifteenth chapter of Lindberg's The European Reformations.
Apr 27, 2020•23 min
Wade discusses Trent, both the council and the concept, in light of John W. O'Malley's Trent: What Happened at the Council, focusing especially on the epilogue.
Apr 26, 2020•22 min
Mike and Wade discuss "The Grand Inquisitor" from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
Apr 25, 2020•31 min
Wade discusses what we should call the Catholic Reformation (Counter-Reformation, etc.) in light of the conclusion to John W. O'Malley's Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era.
Apr 24, 2020•15 min
Mike and Wade discuss research involving embryos, sickness, and health in the light of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of Meilaender's Bioethics: A Primer for Christians.
Apr 23, 2020•24 min
Mike and Wade discuss organ donation and human experimentation in the light of the ninth and tenth chapters of Meilaender's Bioethics: A Primer for Christians.
Apr 22, 2020•18 min
Mike and Wade discuss bioethics in the light of the seventh and eighth chapters of Meilaender's Bioethics: A Primer for Christians.
Apr 18, 2020•24 min
