Wipe the Seat When You're Done: The Christian Art of Using Public Restrooms

Mothers give the talk beforehand ("don't touch a n y t h i n g"). When inside, we tiptoe. We're shocked when we walk into one that isn't reprehensibly hideous. We're surprised when it smells good. But we avoid the ones at the park like the plague, and for good reason: No doubt about it, there's an arachnid setting up shop behind that porcelain. They are pockets of hell on earth—absent of God and absolutely revulsive.

In this episode, Chris and Kyle talk about public restrooms and all of the ways that we "negatively neighbor" others in our usage of them. By not wiping the seat or picking up the paper towel we dropped. By not flushing or cleaning the flung soap off the mirror. Public restrooms are a nasty wilderness, but we don't have to be indecent (Deuteronomy 23:12-14). They can be redeemed. They can be holy places.

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Welcome to another episode of Two Pour Spirits.

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Two Pour Spirits is a podcast of Project : Neighbor. Project : Neighbor is a theological think tank and spiritual training ground for the Church and the common good. We think theologically about everything from soil to sky, and disciple believers from crib to casket. We draw widely from the catholic Christian tradition, are ecumenically-oriented, and practically-minded.

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