Month: August 2025

The Rest Is (More Than) History: how a wildly popular podcast can help a pastor, but not enough

By Chris Green on 18/08/2025

The Rest Is History is a wonderful resource, as well as hugely fun, but we need to process it before it pops into the sermon.

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