the Wikkid podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Exclusive Brethren”

Episode 71: In The Eyes Of God

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Drums recorded in shipping containers. Jonathan Haidt says we're 90% chimps and 10% bees. Laws and rules as weaponized disgust responses. Being a different person with an entirely different set of values, priorities and ethics when part of a group, as opposed to as a private individual. The Doctrine of Separation. Taught overtly or only by example, does your group live as if other Christians are in no way connected to them? Barber Shop Quartet mentors. Eating chocolate, reading murder mysteries and staying up all night.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums
Adam Cavanagh: bass and saxaphone
Debbie Michelin: backing vocal

Episode 70: Not Your Fault

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400

In the penultimate episode: People like blaming young people for stuff, and young people sometimes blame themselves. (For parents divorcing, family vehicles needing repair, and church splits.) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition, and The New King James Revised Standard Amplified Message Version. Geoff literally causes a division before age 20. Church communities as great buckets for hiding candles under. Does this song sound like the theme to TV's The Facts of Life?

Additional Musicians

Evan Sauve: drums
Troy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitars, lead guitar
Mason: vermin killing

Episode 69: The Only Game In Town

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400

In this antepenultimate episode: "Canada Bill" Jones and why he played a poker game he knew was crooked. Have you ever attended a church that openly preached that their group was the only right one, or at least the rightest one by far in the area? (Or did they just live like this was the case?) In Brethren circles, non-membership has its privileges. Sports and poker metaphors. Teaching people they can't simply go to another church intensifies the fighting over everything in the group you've made the only game in town. How many drummers does one man need? A lot of painstaking technical trickery, trying to make a blast from the past blast rather than crash. Closing in prayer as a way of forestalling an open discussion.

Additional Musicians

Troy Tuttle: guitars
Bill Ranger: bass
George Turcotte: drums
Chris Metcalfe: drums

Episode 68: Wasp Tent

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400

This week, the Wikkid Podcast gets NSFW (Not Safe For A Worship Service). Kristian Kitsch. Kristian Krap so crappy you can't decide whether you're too Christian or too cool to own it. Heathen spatulas. Should there be Christian Archie comics? What would a Christian version of The Archies band play like, Sugar, Sugar? Growing up with that sacred/secular line. A discussion of two paintings, on an audio-only podcast. Are The Carpenters too wholesome to comfortably sit on the shelf next to Neil Young and Tom Waits? A juvenile British sense of humour about sex and the body. Obscenity? It's all in your polka dot undies.

Additional Musicians

Evan Sauve: drums

Episode 67: Fade From Sight

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Sometimes, in a lot of church flocks, certain sheep just... vanish, never to be seen again. And sometimes people are kind of glad, especially if they are boring, annoying or discontented sheep. And sometimes that sheep is you.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums
Troy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitar

Episode 66: Champions

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Trying to get to know the Unknowable a bit without claiming to know all the right answers. Growing up with an all-inclusive Universal Belief Package, you tend to walk around acting like you have all of the right thinking about anything much that matters much. Especially eternal stuff. Some of us were champions at that. This is about the process of repenting of unearned certainty of this kind.

Additional Musicians

Evan Sauve: drums

Episode 65: (I Don't Know) What You'd Like

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Reaching some conclusions about worship. Realizing that, given how different various people's preferences are as to worship styles, and how opinionated they are as to what they like, I had no idea what God might or might not like. If worship is for his benefit rather than our own, then surely everything's not equally good? (He didn't much like Cain's bloodless, vegan sacrifice, did he?) Can worship be so much about us and our tribe and providing a curated emotional experience that we've left God out of his own party almost entirely?

Additional Musicians:

Evan Sauve: drums

Episode 64: No One's Right

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Why can't we just get along? Ecclesiastical war. Is all the dividedness actually worse than putting up with some guy you believe is wrong about something? Did the apostles foresee streets lined with unaffiliated churches that have little or nothing to do with one another?

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums
Troy Tuttle: additional rhythm guitars
Bill Ranger: bass guitar and backing vocals

Episode 63: Sunday's Coming

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400

A song presenting the unpopular idea that perhaps, all too often, church attendance is more about making much of Christians rather than much of God. Working on mixing a drum kit without it blasting the whole mix full of low midrange mud. All the different musical approaches to a single religious song. Should the worship team try to outdo Lady Gaga? The vegan, bloodless sacrifice of Cain. The idea that there are basic moods trying to be achieved in modern evangelical churches: feelbad or feelgood services. Happy clappy, or smells 'n bells. That some services are about quiet, inner, meditative silence, and ones that are about jubilant, group exhuberation. And that people argue over how much their church services succeed or fail at helping them feel the way they want to be helped to feel.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums
Bass guitar: Tyler King

Episode 62: Episode 0 : We're Back!

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400

The pre-episode for the upcoming Season 5, which will deal primarily with troubles connecting to church and worship services, and also with church splits/divisions. A bunch of backlogged thought and life updates.

Episode 42: The Talking Dead

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Church zombies. Staff meetings and other endless sermons. Melody, Ruth and Emilee talk about what made these unceasing dronings so tedious. Michael remembers what it was like to speak up in bible study, and talk about talking about talking about the bible. Johann talks about how staff meetings should be run. Kim talks about what being a preacher's daughter was like (spoilers: it sucked) and what her preacher dad was like as a dad (spoilers: he sucked). I talk about the difference between educating people and indoctrinating them. Kim uses bible passages to write a punk song. Excerpt from "The Grunge Song" by The Vestibules.

Additional Musicians

George Turcotte: drums

Episode 40: Beware the Cripple (part 2)

Mike "that Wikkid Person" Moore — Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Recording cello. With fireworks. An in-depth interview with John, raised in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, the extremist offshoot of my own birth culture, which I have no real trouble calling an outright cult. Also much insight into the Mormon experience, from Natalie. South Park. Emailed drums. Spiritual cripples looking to hobble everyone nearby.