This is why I love my job. Yesterday I had conversations with members of our church about the following topics:

• Gun control
• Darrelle Revis and spiritual warfare
• The widespread feeling of xenophobia that grips us
• Ironic T-shirts
• Family systems theory
• The sacred / secular myth
• Kendrick Lamar as an avatar of our racially divided culture
• Why Amazon Prime is the greatest thing in the world
• Matthew 2 as an affirmation that Jesus was a refugee
• The theological implications of resurrection on “The Walking Dead”
• Christmas music
• Acceptable fashion trends for men over the age of 40
• The creation narrative in Scripture as a teaching on the necessity of boundary making
• Greenland’s misleading position on the global map
• The new Coldplay
• Missiology

And those are just the conversations I can remember. I love what God lets me do every day.