Two Pour Spirits
by Rev. Dr. Kyle David Bennett & Dr. Christopher Cimorelli
How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Embrace Boredom and Boss Better
About this podcast
Two Pour Spirits is where signature cocktails meet spirited conversations for the sake of the Church and the common good.
It is co-hosted by Rev. Dr. Kyle David Bennett, and Dr. Chris Cimorelli, Co-Founders of Project : Neighbor.
Project : Neighbor educates, equips, and empowers the whole Church to image her Creator and love all creatures, including her enemies, in public places with particular practices. From soil to sky, crib to casket.
Visit https://www.projectneighbor.org/ to learn more.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 61 episodes
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Embrace Boredom and Boss Better · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 16Can you sit still for more than an hour or do you get antsy? When your boss interrupts you, does it make you want to rip out your hair? Do you ever have the unction to…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Be a Better Colleague · 49 min · Season 4 Episode 15Do you hate it when they leave splattered marinara sauce in the microwave? Do you hesitate to pass the ball to them because you don’t believe they’ll make the shot? How many…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Don't Make Your Boss God and Your Kids Swag · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 14Do you dream of becoming a Wolf on Wall Street? Is having a library dedicated to you on your bucket list? Are you prepping all your kids to become President because you never…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: See Your Failures as Blessings · 53 min · Season 4 Episode 13You excoriated a colleague. You locked in but left the faucet on for a week. You were on full grindset but forgot to pay the bills. Have you ever made a mistake at work? Or…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Have Another Beer (Part 2) · 45 min · Season 4 Episode 12As the monks tend their barley fields and ferment their yeast, they remind us that stewardship is not abstract theology but a daily, delectable act of worship—bringing creation…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Drink More Beer (Part 1) · 51 min · Season 4 Episode 11As the ancient Israelites advanced toward Canaan, during the latter phase of the exodus, be'er (בְּאֵר) served as a pivotal staging point where the people rested and received…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Stop Trying to Be Alone · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 10Being alone will give you vertigo. You'll get lost in your own head and your eyes will cease to cooperate with reality's demand. You'll probably start to enjoy blurriness. Like…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Take Care of Your Homestead · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 9Why don't cats ever smile? Shouldn't eggs last longer than a month? How come turkeys don't know camping etiquette? Have you ever sat there—delighting in a sip on your coffee—only…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Confess—Just Not Everything · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 8Wouldn't it be ideal and idyllic to live in a society in which we don't have any secrets? Any and all information would just float out there in the ether for the taking—even by…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Feel More than Sorry · 1 h 5 min · Season 4 Episode 7There's the reply guy who believes it’s innocuous but is totally being extra. And the baddie who accepted the promposal and made all the chaperones shake their heads. And the…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Don't View People As Objects · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 6What are eyes for? Not side eyes or Gen Z stares. What should people be doing when they’re convalescing? Definitely not online aura farming or mukbanging. What sins and vices are…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Figure Out Your Calling in Life · 51 min · Season 4 Episode 5Maybe we're all here just figuring it out based on curiosity and piquancy. I could have been an NBA star but chose to be a writer instead. You could have been a model but got…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Give Them a Another Chance · 53 min · Season 4 Episode 4"What they did to you—that? That deserves to be buried for the entirety of your life. For eternity, in fact. God was definitely absent. You have to flush those memories down the…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Accept Your Mortality · 53 min · Season 4 Episode 3How do you practice patience when it seems like everything is in flux? How can you believe in control when you only experience the rush of life? Can relationships actually be…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: Stop Complaining · 39 min · Season 4 Episode 2What does a Christian do with loss, change, and failure? When it seems like permanence is fleeting and the stability of your efforts is slipping through your finger tips, what do…
- How to Be a More Hopeful Neighbor: See Grace Everywhere · 45 min · Season 4 Episode 1We talk like Thrasos but we deserve to be treated like hooligans–the miscreants we have become. And yet He’s gracious. And kind. All the time. His generosity is undeserved, and…
- Don't You Want to Be Naked? How We Hide from Communion · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 14We all want to be naked. We want to stand before our spouses, parents, strangers, enemies, and our God and not feel guilt or shame. To be nepheshly exposed, and find comfort in…
- Don't Be a Debbie Downer: Christian Demeanor for Democratic Living · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 13How you sit, stand, lay, jump, and walk in public spaces and buildings is significant. We know this. And those feigned smiles and side eyes aren't salubrious. You know that, too…
- Too Much Skin? Stewarding Our Bodies and Clothing · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 12Half-dressed girls on billboards. Low-rise jeans on models at Abercrombie and Fitch. Nude beaches still around. There's no doubt about it—there's a lot of skin being shown these…
- Tribalism and Talebearing: Two Vices of the Day · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 11Don't deny it—we all do it. We exaggerate the sins of our enemies. We overbear their faults and unnecessarily seek to discover any and every infirmity that they possess. And then…







