Episode 74: 74 Their Modern Testament
Catching Foxes
Luke and Gomer
4.8 • 769 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Luke and I interview Brad and Kellie Farley, founders of www.ModernTestament.org and a couple in the midst of fighting to save their marriage from alcoholism and infidelity. They drew strength by hearing other people's nightmares, and how they made it out alive. Inspired by their stories of brokenness, hurt, and recovery, they began to fashion a website for people to do the same thing on a new kind of website. The Modern Testament is how you describe the Holy Spirit working in the midst of your brokenness. I'll let Brad tell it from his post on Medium:
“For me, 2016 was getting fired for the first time, coming to the realization that I was a piece of shit person whose arrogance and selfishness put those around me in bad spots, dealing with a failing marriage, coming clean about 7 years of secrets and lies, and my wife’s first-hidden then public alcohol abuse.
Religion was my turning point. Always a casual Christian, I dove deep and found the inspiration to make real, substantial change. That’s not everyone’s driver though, but a simple fact remains: when we are vulnerable and honest with each other, pretensions fall and real connections can be made.
I have shared my testimony with many people and it has fostered much deeper relationships than I ever had before. So that’s what we want to do; connect people together through humility and vulnerability. We’re creating our own platform for it at www.moderntestament.org, but Medium is also a great vehicle too.
So, we want to publish stories of people being REAL — not just social-media-perfection-real, but really real with their struggles, pains, hopes, and saving graces. Let’s unite for good on the Internet, finally. Let’s connect those who need help to those who can.”
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| 0:00.0 | probably have this up on Friday Gomer. |
| 0:03.1 | That's the dream. |
| 0:10.5 | Well, can you just give me an example of, like, what you mean by your Catholic bubble? |
| 0:15.3 | I mean, I know we all... |
| 0:16.6 | Literally our friends from college. |
| 0:18.5 | Well, I get that, but, like, how would something that we say be, I mean, I guess maybe... |
| 0:25.2 | I don't expect to get too offensive, but is there anything... |
| 0:27.3 | No, I mean, I won't be... |
| 0:28.8 | I mean, I'm really not easily offended anymore, so... |
| 0:33.0 | No, like, what... I mean by that is just... it tends to be the same people over and over again talking about the same things. |
| 0:43.7 | And so. |
| 0:44.4 | Well, buckle up, guys. |
| 0:46.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.7 | So I think it's good. |
| 0:48.5 | Like, you've got to any of, you know, any Catholic conference now, any, like, really big event. |
| 0:55.9 | It's kind of the same group. |
| 0:57.7 | Now, it's a pretty big group, but it's still, it's that, like, same group of people. |
| 1:02.2 | And so, and it can kind of become a bit of an echo chamber. |
| 1:07.8 | So I'm just, so I'm always pumped when we have people on the podcast. It really aren't connected into our like little part of the world. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah. If that makes sense. Okay. Cool. All right. We're ready. Cool. Do you want to start us off, Gomer? |
| 1:26.5 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this episode of Catching Foxes. |
| 1:29.7 | Today we do something interesting. |
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