Back Corner
Welcome to the Back Corner! Join hosts AJ Thomas and Brent Ingersoll as they dive into conversations that matter and some that don't matter at all. From the absurd to the transcendent, this podcast is your platform for raw, real, and unpolished discussions that will make you laugh or cry, encourage you, challenge your thinking or make you scratch your head in wonder. Whether you're looking for meaningful insights or simply good company while you're going about your day, come hang out with us in the back corner.
Episodes
54 episodes
53 BC - Smelling Good, Doing Bad, and Finding Jesus on Black River Road with Gordie McMillan
Gordie McMillan joins us this week for a wide-ranging, unfiltered conversation that moves from gym habits and life rhythms to deeper questions of purpose, faith, and transformation. Gordie shares how life can quickly go from enjoying the thrill...
52 BC - Floor Crossers, Fire Starters, and Angelic Scuba Divers with Jonathan Lewis
Jonathan Lewis is an entrepreneur and author of the books More Than Money (2021), on the good stewardship of our time, talent, and purpose; and Deep Water (2018), about his faith journey after witnessing the death of his father when Jonathan wa...
51 BC - MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, The Economy of Race, The Trump Dr, and The Importance of Using a Wash Cloth with Léonce Crump
Pastor Léonce Crump is an author, international speaker, and co-founder, along with his wife Breanna, of United Church in Atlanta. Along with a busy and highly impactful church and speaking ministry, Leonce and Breanna have five kids. Before co...
50 BC - Weather Control, WW3, and Prayer with Dan Lamos
Pastor Dan Lamos has been serving Jesus in the Saint John region and at Kings Church for a long time. He currently serves Kings as a Sr. Associate Pastor, but he’s done pretty much every job here between that and janitor, though not in the sequ...
49 BC - Eating Steak, Living on the Moon, and Leaving the LGBTQ Community with Sarah Kingston
Sarah Kingston is not just a former employee of the legendary Gateway Meat Market in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Sarah is just about to finish her first year at Kingswood University, where she is studying Pastoral Ministry. Sarah’s journey to Jesus...
48 BC - Prophecy, Hate Speech, and A Kingdom That Will Not Be Shaken with Kirk Smith
Kirk Smith is the assistant pastor for Kingdom Life at Kings Church. Before joining this team, Kirk served in various contexts, including most recently as the leader of the Eastgate House of Prayer here in the Saint John region. The prophetic h...
47 BC - Hollywood Pretence, Predatory Cats, Evolution and Side Hill Gougers with James Cann
James Cann is a zookeeper at the Magnetic Hill Zoo in Moncton, NB, which is Atlantic Canada’s leading zoo, educating and inspiring conservation action. The zoo is home to all kinds of animals from all over the world, but most importantly, it is...
46 BC - Muscles, Miracles, and the Call to Ministry with Marc Kennedy
Marc Kennedy is one of the people in your neighbourhood. A mailman, to be specific. He’s also one of the people in your gym and probably the buffest guy I know. But beyond that, he’s also a guy who came to faith later in life and has been doing...
45 BC - Sacred Space, The Apocrypha, And Sola Scriptura with Dr Ben MacDonald
At this point, Dr Ben MacDonald doesn't need an introduction. In the back corner for his fourth time, Ben joins us to talk in depth about sacred spaces, catering our worship services to cultural moments, and how to actually read the Bible. ...
44 BC - Poverty, Pastoring, And A God Who Can Redeem Anything with Kari Broad
Kari Broad is the Associate Pastor of Ministries here at Kings Church. That means she oversees a whole lot of stuff from Kids and Youth ministries to Alpha and Home Church. She is that rare combination of an organisation and operational w...
43 BC - 6th Sense, Half-Time Shows, and Revival with Jon Thompson
For the second time, Jon Thompson is with us in the back corner to talk about revival. Pastor Jon Thompson serves as Senior Pastor of Sanctus Church, a vibrant multi-site congregation in the Greater Toronto Area, where he has served in leadersh...
42 BC - False Prophets, Former Police, and Current Pastors with Pete Stubbs
With us today in the back corner is our friend Pete Stubbs. Pete is a former law enforcement officer with the RCMP and now serves as the Lead Pastor of Kings St Stephen. He'd rather be alone in the woods with his chainsaw, but we asked him to j...
41 BC - Security, Longevity, and The Billy Graham Rule with Dr L.D. Buckingham
Our guest today is a living legend in local church leadership in Atlantic Canada. Pastor B led the Wesleyan Church in Moncton, NB (now called Tidal Church) for over 40 years and transformed it from a typical small church into a growing, vibrant...
40 BC - The Pope, Sacramentals, and a Real Live Catholic with Father James Mallon
Father James Mallon is a Roman Catholic Priest in the Diocese of Halifax-Yarmouth and serves as the pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Fr James founded Divine Renovation - a worldwide ministry (with national offic...
39 BC - Headlines, Heart Attacks and Haunted Cars with Anthony Moore and Mike MacNeil
Our guests today are no strangers to the Back Corner. Our friends Anthony Moore and Mike MacNeil return in our mid-season premiere to catch up on various things in the news, crazy conspiracies, and Mike's recent health scare.
38 BC - The Back Corner Christmas Special
Before we take a break for the holiday season, we have to have a very special Back Corner Christmas episode. We get a little festive in this episode with some Christmas cryptids, karaoke, a Mountainous Top 4 of Mountainous Top 4s, and a very sp...
37 BC - Ogopogo, Advent, and Christmas Productions with Jason Ballard
Jason Ballard joins us in the back corner this week to talk about West Coast cryptids, church productions, Advent, and the exciting things he is seeing in churches across Canada. Jason is quickly becoming one of the most influential...
36 BC - Mele Kalikimaka, 3rd Man Syndrome, and Overcoming the Powers of Darkness with Jon Thompson
35 BC - Bets, Debts, and the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays with Neil Horner
Our good friend Neil Horner is with us in the back corner to talk about sports betting, credit cards, the insane Toronto Blue Jays run, and what it looks like to become free from the burden of finances. Neil is a pastor at Woodstock Wesleyan Ch...
BONUS: What It's Like Being A Pastor's Kid and How To Treat Them
On this quick bonus episode of the Back Corner Podcast, we talk with Spencer Conway about his experience as a pastor's kid and offer some advice on how to support and care for pastor's kids in your church.
34 BC - Wearing Suits, Suicide, and The Mark of The Beast with Spencer Conway
Spencer Conway returns to the back corner to talk about dressing up, wearing plaid, and what exactly is the mark of the beast. Spencer also goes deeper into his upbringing, how suicide has affected his family, and how to process things like sui...
33 BC - Missionaries, Nazis and Nuclear Bombs with Dr HC Wilson
Back by popular demand, Dr HC Wilson is in the back corner for his second time. Not only do we ask this sage a lightning round of questions, but we also cover lighthearted topics such as the proper way to eat soup, if Hitler really died in the ...
32 BC - The Rapture, Church Splits, Nationalism and Movies That Make You Cry with Dr Ben MacDonald
Dr Ben MacDonald is no stranger to the back corner. For his debut in season 2, we talk about everything from the rapture to church splits to movies that would make you shed a tear.
31 BC - Forrest Frank’s Halloween Hot Take, Spiritual Warfare, and Great Reasons for Hope with Amy Howard
Amy Howard is back in the back corner this week to talk in more detail about spiritual warfare and why we can have hope as Christians. Amy is a doctoral candidate and leader of the Encounter Culture Mission Collaborative.You can find out...
30 BC - Martians, Mushrooms and Mental Health with Dr Claude Botha
Dr Claude Botha joins us again in the Back Corner to talk about nerdy things and some very relevant topics in today's culture. With a background in neuroscience, Dr Botha brings a unique perspective on topics such as loneliness, anxiety, and ho...