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Katie Peterson joins us for her third time in the Back Corner. We talk about when to baptise your kid, how to make real friends as an adult, and various things about Fall that are overrated or overhated.

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Hosts Brent and AJ are on their own this week to talk about conspiracies, making deals with the Devil, and how your algorithm is doing a bad job of discipling you.

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A fan favourite is back in the Back Corner this week. Dr Ben MacDonald joins us to talk about swords and how to read the Bible accurately. We also get a surprise phone call from Ben's coworker and friend, Wes Huff!

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We. Are. BACK. Season 3 of the Back Corner is here, and we kick it off the only way we know how. Our friends Anthony Moore and Mike MacNeil join us to talk about the latest news headlines, the difference between soup and stew, and what we did over the summer break.

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Our wives join us today for the season 2 finale! Melanie Ingersoll is the loving wife and sometimes sparring partner of host Brent Ingersoll. She is also a mother of 3, a nurse, a spin-class enthusiast, and a junk-food connoisseur.  Kelly Thomas is the wife of host AJ Thomas and the primary reason he is a more-or-less functional adult human. Kelly is also a mother of 3, serves as pastor of Connection at RiverCross Church in Saint John, loves picking sea glass, and her favourite hobby is learning new hobbies. Join us as we answer some of your questions!

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Our guests in the Back Corner today are no strangers to the dozens. In fact, they hold the distinction of appearing on more episodes of the Back Corner than anyone else in history. They love each other, and you love it when they disagree. They have been friends for 2 decades, co-workers for two years, and co-hosts for 59 Episodes. Your BC hosts, AJ Thomas and Brent Ingersoll, are by themselves as they talk about their favourite podcast memories, different theological perspectives, and give advice to all the lady Dozens that are listening!

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Cory and Jennifer are graduates of Kingswood University and close friends of our host, AJ. They live in Mongolia - yes, that Mongolia. We’ll talk about how they got there and what they are doing, as well as some of the hottest takes we've heard yet.

Find out more information about Cory and Jennifer and support them here.

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Lynsey Foster originally hails from world-famous Lincolnton, North Carolina, but now calls the Saint John area of New Brunswick her home. She has a soothing accent that makes everybody think she likes them, and most of them are right. Lynsey walked away from a glamorous career as a clam harvester to follow the call of Jesus on her life and now serves as the Assistant Pastor of Recovery Ministries here at Kings Church. There may have been a few stops in between those two things. She is the wife of Donne, the mother of Hadley, the wrangler of many a hurt, habit, and hangup.

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Justin and Amy Howard are no strangers to the back corner. They were some of our first guests, and Amy was back for a second visit just over a year ago. Amy is the Executive Director, and Justin is the CFO of Encounter Culture Mission Collaborative - a ministry that is committed to empowering ordinary believers to embody the gospel of the Kingdom. They do some amazing work helping people to find and share all kinds of healing and freedom in Christ. Justin and Amy live in a lovely old home in New Hampshire with lots of boys, animals, and fruit trees, but they are in the back corner with us today.

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Pastors Anthony Moore and Mike MacNiel join us once again to talk about all things in the news, the importance of praying for others, and how much a Christian should make.

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Justin Allen is the pastor of the Salt Mine here in Saint John, NB, and a leader in the Generation of Prayer movement. Since his last visit to the Back Corner, Justin has married his lovely wife, Debbie, and become a dad. He shares with us what he has learned over the past year about God and himself through these experiences.

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Gordie McMillan joins us this week for a wide-ranging, unfiltered conversation that moves from gym habits and life rhythms to deeper questions of purpose, faith, and transformation. Gordie shares how life can quickly go from enjoying the thrills of weekend parties to being in shackles on the way to prison. It's through this experience that he has a powerful encounter with Jesus.

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Jonathan Lewis is an entrepreneur and author of the books More Than Money (2021), on the good stewardship of our time, talent, and purpose; and Deep Water (2018), about his faith journey after witnessing the death of his father when Jonathan was a youth. A devoted husband and father whose own family alienation spurned the founding of Fathers for Fathers, Jonathan volunteers, raises funds, and advocates for charities and community ventures that model strong Christian values locally, nationally, and internationally.

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Pastor Léonce Crump is an author, international speaker, and co-founder, along with his wife Breanna, of United Church in Atlanta. Along with a busy and highly impactful church and speaking ministry, Leonce and Breanna have five kids. Before committing his life to pastoral ministry and civil rights activism, Léonce was a collegiate All-American wrestler, nearly making the World Team, and was also a professional football player. He is a Massai warrior chief, has wrestled Cain Velasquez, and head-butted Brock Lesnar right in the face. But we would like to think none of these incredible experiences compares with the unparalleled joy of having been one of our speakers for XY this year.

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Pastor Dan Lamos has been serving Jesus in the Saint John region and at Kings Church for a long time. He currently serves Kings as a Sr. Associate Pastor, but he’s done pretty much every job here between that and janitor, though not in the sequence you might suspect. In addition to his faithful service here, he has been a significant influence on generations of Christians in general and on pastors. Dan’s ministry is marked by faithfulness, humility, gentleness, a hunger for revival, sensitivity to the Spirit, and, perhaps most of all, prayer.

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Sarah Kingston is not just a former employee of the legendary Gateway Meat Market in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Sarah is just about to finish her first year at Kingswood University, where she is studying Pastoral Ministry. Sarah’s journey to Jesus and to pursuing His call on her life has been pretty atypical all around and is full of conviction and inspiration for us all.

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Kirk Smith is the assistant pastor for Kingdom Life at Kings Church. Before joining this team, Kirk served in various contexts, including most recently as the leader of the Eastgate House of Prayer here in the Saint John region. The prophetic has been a huge part of his ministry for many years now.

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James Cann is a zookeeper at the Magnetic Hill Zoo in Moncton, NB, which is Atlantic Canada’s leading zoo, educating and inspiring conservation action. The zoo is home to all kinds of animals from all over the world, but most importantly, it is home to tiny monkeys. He is also a seasoned Dozen, having listened to every single episode all the way back to 1 BC.

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Marc Kennedy is one of the people in your neighbourhood. A mailman, to be specific. He’s also one of the people in your gym and probably the buffest guy I know. But beyond that, he’s also a guy who came to faith later in life and has been doing a pastoral residency with us here at Kings as he has been processing a call to pastoral ministry.

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At this point, Dr Ben MacDonald doesn't need an introduction. In the back corner for his fourth time, Ben joins us to talk in depth about sacred spaces, catering our worship services to cultural moments, and how to actually read the Bible. 

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Kari Broad is the Associate Pastor of Ministries here at Kings Church. That means she oversees a whole lot of stuff from Kids and Youth ministries to Alpha and Home Church.  She is that rare combination of an organisation and operational wiz who has deep compassion for people and a true shepherd's heart. She has a pretty amazing story of healing, redemption, and God's guidance and provision.

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For the second time, Jon Thompson is with us in the back corner to talk about revival. Pastor Jon Thompson serves as Senior Pastor of Sanctus Church, a vibrant multi-site congregation in the Greater Toronto Area, where he has served in leadership for over 25 years.  Jon spent his early childhood in Ecuador as the son of missionaries, and today is a leading voice in the Church in Canada. Jon is a sought-after international speaker and author, with academic credentials including a Master of Theological Studies from Tyndale University College & Seminary and a Doctor of Missiology from Fuller Theological Seminary. 

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With us today in the back corner is our friend Pete Stubbs. Pete is a former law enforcement officer with the RCMP and now serves as the Lead Pastor of Kings St Stephen. He'd rather be alone in the woods with his chainsaw, but we asked him to join us to talk about the latest news in the church world and his big decision to leave the RCMP to follow God's call on his life.

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Our guest today is a living legend in local church leadership in Atlantic Canada. Pastor B led the Wesleyan Church in Moncton, NB (now called Tidal Church) for over 40 years and transformed it from a typical small church into a growing, vibrant, evangelistically effective congregation that, for many years, was the largest in the region. Since his retirement from leading that congregation, he has dedicated his life to serving other churches and leaders by helping them believe in what God can do through them and to have the security to pursue it. He is chronically encouraging, pathologically positive, endlessly energetic, and every day is the best day he’s ever had.

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Father James Mallon is a Roman Catholic Priest in the Diocese of Halifax-Yarmouth and serves as the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Fr James founded Divine Renovation - a worldwide ministry (with national offices in Canada, the UK, the US, Australia, and Germany) focused on parish renewal by helping parishes move from maintenance to mission. He has served on the world board of Alpha and has been a trailblazer in the Alpha in the Catholic Context movement. He is an in-demand speaker worldwide. If you are an evangelical pastor and have never heard of him, I guarantee you you have heard of leaders with whom he is friends and who come to him for wisdom, guidance, and inspiration. He is the author of multiple books, a proud kilt wearer, a haggis aficionado, and a leader and friend we are honoured to have join us in the Back Corner!

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Our guests today are no strangers to the Back Corner. Our friends Anthony Moore and Mike MacNeil return in our mid-season premiere to catch up on various things in the news, crazy conspiracies, and Mike's recent health scare. 

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Before we take a break for the holiday season, we have to have a very special Back Corner Christmas episode. We get a little festive in this episode with some Christmas cryptids, karaoke, a Mountainous Top 4 of Mountainous Top 4s, and a very special Christmas reading. So grab a chair, a warm beverage, and a tasty treat, and join us as we celebrate Christmas in the Back Corner.

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Jason Ballard joins us in the back corner this week to talk about West Coast cryptids, church productions, Advent, and the exciting things he is seeing in churches across Canada. 

Jason is quickly becoming one of the most influential voices in the Canadian church. He is a pastor, a communicator, a church-planter, and honestly, one of the best thinkers on renewal and discipleship in our generation. He’s the co-founder of The Way Church in Vancouver, a podcaster, leader of the Pastorate, a writer and contributor to a plethora of discipleship materials and formation resources. Jason is a former leader with Alpha and was the face and mind behind the original youth Alpha series.

You can find out more about The Way College here: https://thewaycollege.ca/

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Our good friend Neil Horner is with us in the back corner to talk about sports betting, credit cards, the insane Toronto Blue Jays run, and what it looks like to become free from the burden of finances. Neil is a pastor at Woodstock Wesleyan Church and a financial coach who helps people overcome the burdens of debt and feel more comfortable with their finances. 

You can find out more about Neil's financial coaching here: https://www.facebook.com/neilhornerfinancialcoaching

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On this quick bonus episode of the Back Corner Podcast, we talk with Spencer Conway about his experience as a pastor's kid and offer some advice on how to support and care for pastor's kids in your church.

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Spencer Conway returns to the back corner to talk about dressing up, wearing plaid, and what exactly is the mark of the beast. Spencer also goes deeper into his upbringing, how suicide has affected his family, and how to process things like suicide and suicidal ideation.

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Back by popular demand, Dr HC Wilson is in the back corner for his second time. Not only do we ask this sage a lightning round of questions, but we also cover lighthearted topics such as the proper way to eat soup, if Hitler really died in the bunker, if we should support missionaries, and whether or not we would have dropped the atomic bomb.

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Dr Ben MacDonald is no stranger to the back corner. For his debut in season 2, we talk about everything from the rapture to church splits to movies that would make you shed a tear. 

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Amy Howard is back in the back corner this week to talk in more detail about spiritual warfare and why we can have hope as Christians. Amy is a doctoral candidate and leader of the Encounter Culture Mission Collaborative.

You can find out more about ECMC here: https://www.encounterculturene.com/

Amy and Justin's podcast, Between Heaven and Earth, is available wherever you get your podcasts!

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Dr Claude Botha joins us again in the Back Corner to talk about nerdy things and some very relevant topics in today's culture. With a background in neuroscience, Dr Botha brings a unique perspective on topics such as loneliness, anxiety, and how we process everyday experiences.

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Pastors Adam and Julie Brewer join us in the back corner to share their story about addiction and the hardships of battling cancer. The way God has moved in them and through them is incredibly inspiring. 

Adam and Julie are pastors at the Kings Church West location. 

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 This week in the back corner, we have Bryan Elliott to talk about how God has radically changed his life. He is an engineer, entrepreneur, CEO and author, who has seen God work miraculously through the struggles and challenges he has faced. His story of redemption and testimony of the faithfulness of God is inspiring and faith-building.

You can find out more about M46 Ministries here: https://m46ministries.com/

You can buy Bryan Elliott's books on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.ca/stores/Bryan-Elliott/author/B0BYP94ZXC

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Dr. Geoff Cook joins us in the back corner to share about music, his path to becoming a plastic surgeon, and how God’s hand guided him, plus practical wisdom on health and fitness.

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Season 2 kicks off the way it all began with friends Anthony Moore and Mike MacNiel. We talk about summer adventures, demons in AI, the elusive Epstein files, and what God has been saying to us over the past few months.

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We've got Dr. Claude Both in the Back Corner today! We're talking conspiracies and the psychology of how they affect the mind, as well as what part religion and prayer play in psychology.

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We've got our friend David O'Leary in the back corner today! We're talking about personal finance, generosity, and purpose.

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All your favorite segments today on the pod, and deep conversations with Rev. Don Ingersoll as he shares his story of grief and loss.

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Our testosterone levels skyrocket this week as we welcome our Ukrainian friends, Bogdan Goncharov and Maks Fatkin, to the back corner. We discuss conspiracy theories, what it's like to be on the front lines of the war, and what we should know about the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

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