- What is a female bear called?
The full cast plays Secular vs Solomon: a host reads proverbs and players guess Biblical (Solomon) or secular with a country of origin. Rounds include the Turkish coffee proverb, 'a man who is kind benefits himself' (Proverbs 11), 'a she bear robbed of her cubs' (Proverbs 17, spawning the running joke that a female bear is an 'Eliza'), 'bald people can always find a comb' (secular Thailand), 'the earth does not shake when the flea coughs' (secular Austria), 'whoever walks in integrity' (Proverbs 10), 'the life of his beast' (Proverbs 12), the elephant-and-buffalo proverb, and 'the greatest love is a mother's' (secular Poland). A host's 'thrift store priest' (TSP) alter ego participates; final scores land deep in negative points.
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Pope style, full: the man mistaken for the Pope on childlike curiosity
- Did dinosaurs exist, and can science and faith be held together?
Framing gag: a man in Minneapolis (sketching the 'pope' in downtown Des Moines) mistook Boova for the pontiff and demanded 'paper wisdom' — Boova refused to sign his Bible but agreed to the wisdom.
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Solomon: eight marks of a sluggard
For the Solomon round, the hosts read an article listing eight marks of the sluggard from Proverbs: he will not start things, will not finish things, will not face hard things…
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Ask the Pastor: why is Proverbs in the Bible?
- Why is the book of Proverbs in the Bible?
- Should we be looking for Jesus in every Old Testament text?
A host asks why Proverbs belongs in Scripture, launching a wide answer: Proverbs is a curated collection, and the Bible preserves the whole range of the human experience with God,…
From No. 505 · Because of Fussy and Fuzzy
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Secular vs Solomon: drowning men, monkeys, and Proverbs 11:9
- A drowning man is not troubled by rain — secular or Solomon?
- A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly — secular or Solomon?
Secular vs Solomon begins with the Ben Franklin rule that 'God helps those who help themselves' is not biblical.
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