Knowing God

Guests: Jim Palmer & Bean and Bailey

In this episode of Faith Café, Scott welcomes author Jim Palmer, who brings with him the stories of divine nobodies, everyday people from his life experiences who showed him the true nature of God. Check out the show, these divine nobodies might just be someone you know. We also welcome Bean and Bailey back to the main stage at Faith Café for more comedic mayhem.

Jim Palmer | http://www.myspace.com/divinenobodies

Jim Palmer has a passion for finding relevant, authentic ways of dialoging and building community around a relationship with Christ. This journey of challenges and successes included such opportunities as two years of pastoral ministry at Willow Creek Community Church and now starting an emergent church in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jim Palmer offers guidance as a pastor, speaker, writer, blogger, and conversationalist to people seeking to know God in deeper and more expansive ways. He is the founder of the Pilgrimage Project, an initiative encouraging the freedom to imagine, dialogue, live, and express new possibilities for being an authentic Christian. Jim lives in Nashville with his wife Pam and daughter Jessica.

Bean and Bailey | www.beanandbailey.com

Now approaching their 5th year of professional comedy, Bean and Bailey have taken their laughter act all across America. From California to Maine, and Florida to New Mexico (not to mention a few states in between), Bean and Bailey are being enthusiastically received as a refreshing alternative in today's field of comedy.

Bradley Bean (a former elementary school teacher) and Jackson Bailey (a former youth minister) began performing together in 1966 while students at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN. At Carson-Newman, Bean was just beginning to learn guitar and to sing in front of small audiences, while Bailey was landing roles in campus theater productions. Dormitory life, thus, gave the two an opportune setting for laying the foundation of their musical comedy act.

Their shows include a song about finding love at Wal-Mart, a lament to the atrocities of roadkill, and a song warning of the evils of spandex just to name a few. Most recently they have received warm responses to their Christmas medley (sung in and out of season), in which Jackson comes up with quite a controversial theory on the real identity of Santa. Recently audiences are also enjoying their new song highlighting the awkward silence of men's public restrooms. Of course the consistent defining element of their show is the verbal sparring between Bean, the "straight" man, and Bailey, the "cut-up."