Episode 197: Play Now

In which RJ, Dave, and Sarah talk gracious play, burned out children, burned out workers, burned out clergy, and the hope of unconscious bias training. Also, RJ gets down to some liturgical reggae. Click here (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/magazine/nba-bubble.html) to read Sam Anderson's article on the NBA bubble. Click here (https://mbird.com/2015/05/grace-is-play-our-magazine-interview-with-nimi-wariboko/) to read our interview with theologian Nimi Wariboko. Click here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTg1ES13yLw) to watch the video for The Pioneers' "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah." Click here (https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/09/anne-helen-petersen-burnout-millennial-parenting/616406/) to read Anne Helen Peterson's interview about millennial parenting in The Atlantic. Click here (https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/) to read the excerpt of Anne Helen Peterson's Can't Even in Wired. Click here (https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-contours-of-clergy-burnout) to read Anne Helen Peterson's newsletter about clergy burnout. Click here (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/03/unconscious-bias-training-fad-mps-pc-jesus-sin) to read Peter Ormerod's column on unconcscious bias training in The Guardian.