Weekly Rhythms
What to Expect from Marrowcast
Beginning in July, we want Marrowcast to move with a more deliberate weekly rhythm.
The goal is not to create random content or several disconnected streams that all have to be fed separately. The goal is much simpler than that. Each week, we want to take one main theological or pastoral idea and carry it across several fronts so that readers and listeners can discover it, hear it, learn it, read it, and respond to it.
That means one central idea will shape the weeks between and leading up to the podcast drops, and the theme will be tied to the section of the Marrow that we find ourselves in.
On Monday, we will tease the week’s question.
This will usually be a short post that introduces the issue we are going to be thinking through. The purpose is to frame the conversation and help people see why the question matters.
We want Monday to set the table for the week, not by saying everything, but by raising the kind of question that people actually ask.
On Tuesday, we will release the main podcast episode on podcast weeks.
Those episodes will continue walking through The Marrow of Modern Divinity and the theological issues that surround it. The podcast will remain the front door of the work because it allows us to work through the material conversationally, pastorally, and at a pace that is easy to follow.
On the off weeks, Tuesday will still have a place in the rhythm. Instead of a full episode, we plan to use shorter clips, brief teaching segments, or what we have called A Little Extra Nos to keep the conversation moving and point people back to the larger work.
On Wednesday, we will publish a teaching post.
This may be a short explainer, a theology Q&A, a doctrinal clarification, or a practical application.
The point of Wednesday is to help people learn the categories that make the conversation clearer. Sometimes that will mean defining a term; other times, it will mean answering an objection, etc.
On Thursday, we will publish the main article.
This will be the most substantial written piece of the week and the main contribution to the long-term archive.
The podcast may introduce a subject, and the shorter posts may help frame it, but the Thursday article is where we want to do the more careful work of explaining, applying, and preserving the material in a way people can return to later.
Where regular contributions will still be found in the Marrow Woke section of the site, this article will be added to the Marrowcast feed.
On Friday, we will send the summary and invite a response.
The summary is not meant to be a pile of links. We want it to gather up the week’s theme, connect the pieces, press the issue home pastorally, and give readers and listeners a way to respond.
So the weekly rhythm is fairly simple.
Discover.
Listen.
Learn.
Read.
Respond.