01: Why We're Here

Show Notes

The Sunday morning gathering that became a symbol of our faith — and why we decided to keep the conversation going.

In this pilot episode, Jacob and Sam tell the origin story of Table Talk: how it began as an anti-event at the church where they both worked, why they kept pulling up chairs long after the church-staff chapter ended, and what they mean when they say faithful curiosity.

Less explaining, more exploring. Pull up a chair.

What we talked about

00:00 Cold open
02:08 Welcome to Table Talk
04:09 How Table Talk began
10:23 Curiosity over answers
13:36 The table becomes a lab
15:49 Jacob’s mystery: prayer
17:24 Sam’s mystery: spiritual beings
20:29 Faithful curiosity as a banner
24:00 Is this deconstruction?
29:30 The quilting metaphor
37:21 Two verses, one framework
46:00 The royal vocation of curiosity
51:44 Pulling up chairs

References

Quotes

“The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again.” Attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Stay in the conversation

Got a question, a story, or a thread you want us to pull on? Email us at hello@tabletalk.fm.

Here’s to faithful curiosity and patchwork spirituality.

Scripture

Galatians 5:6 “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.”
Proverbs 25:2 “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.”
Matthew 5–7 The Sermon on the Mount — the Kingdom Manifesto series the original Table Talk grew out of
Matthew 7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”
Matthew 6 Jesus teaching the disciples to pray
Mark 2:27 “Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."”
Genesis 1 & Psalm 8 Image-bearing and humanity's royal vocation
Job 1–2 The divine council scene

Books Mentioned

Faith After Doubt by Brian McLaren