The Counter Position Episode 37: On Brisket, The Beautiful Sobering Nature of Families, and Literary Inspiration to Use the Tools of the Mission Ad Gentes in Our Own Backyard.

In this episode Andrew reflects on a long day of cooking Texas style brisket with Chris Stefanick and on being sobered by the amount of work family takes. Then, he muses on The Sparrow and the characters’ use of anthropological, linguistic, and cultural observational tools to decode an alien civilization and wonders whether some of those same tools from the mission Ad Gentes could be helpful in understanding the unchurched and dechurched in our country.