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Two Methodist pastors and guests work through forgiveness, control, and grief in scripture.
The Cutting Room Floor treats ordinary pain as worth slow attention. Across long conversations with Chris Eden, Eddie Adams, Bob Garvey, and Dave Smith, the show moves between scripture, memory, self-worth, grief, and the hard work of receiving grace.
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The Cutting Room Floor is a two-host interview and panel show built around sustained conversation rather than sermon delivery, produced out of Memorial Church in Coralville, Iowa. Hosts Chris Eden and Eddie Adams open episodes with personal anecdotes — a move to Pennsylvania, a father's medical emergency, first-episode nerves — before turning to a single biblical text and theological question for the rest of the runtime. Recurring topics include forgiveness and self-forgiveness, losing control, grief and theodicy, and the fear of failure in creative or pastoral work, each explored through named frameworks like Worthington's REACH model, Richard Foster's writing on submission, and John Wesley's Covenant Prayer. Guests are drawn from the hosts' own pastoral and academic circles: Bob Garvey of West Willow United Methodist Church appears across a multi-episode arc on forgiveness, and Dave Smith, a Bible professor at Indiana Wesleyan University, joins for a dedicated forgiveness episode. The tone throughout is philosophical and unhurried, mixing Greek exegesis of New Testament passages with plain-language description of anger, bitterness, and self-doubt. Episodes reference specific texts closely, including John 11 (Lazarus, Mary and Martha), John 18 (Jesus's arrest), and the Yom Kippur regulations in Leviticus. The show is aimed at listeners already inside or adjacent to Christian ministry rather than a general audience, and it reads more like an extended pastoral conversation than a produced media product. Production is minimal — two hosts and a guest talking, with no evident scripted segments or sound design. Listeners who want scripture discussed alongside psychology, neuroscience references (Andrew Huberman), and pastoral vulnerability will find the closest fit here.
Made for: Christians, pastors, and seminary-adjacent listeners interested in long-form theological conversation grounded in biblical exegesis.
What sets it apart: Combines verse-level Greek exegesis with unscripted pastoral vulnerability about anger, failure, and grief, rather than a sermon format or a self-help framing.
The Cutting Room Floor is a Podcast that provides commentary on the human experience. Chris and Eddie are two people who have come from different experiences, different backgrounds, different places, and even different faiths. Join the conversation on the shared, yet vastly different experience that we all live through each day.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Chris Eden and Eddie Adams connect biblical reflection to the felt realities of grief, resentment, failure and lost control.
Chris Eden and Eddie Adams begin with ordinary pressure, then bring scripture close enough to test against it. Suffering, forgiveness, failure and the loss of control become sustained conversations rather than sermon themes.
Martha gets theology; Mary gets a different response, and you get faith talk fitted to the person.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A plainspoken conversation about failure, shame, and the discipline of showing up.
Bob Garvey and Chris Eden keep the talk rooted in the awkwardness of trying, missing, and trying again. It stays close to the sting of putting something out in public and hearing nothing back, along with the shame and smallness that can follow.
A measured faith conversation that makes forgiveness feel immediate and practical.
This conversation treats forgiveness as something lived in the body, not just talked about. It keeps circling back to anger in the jaw or stomach, resentment, and the way bitterness can harden a person.
A calm look at what happens when control slips away.
The episode looks at losing control as something that shows up in family life, ministry, and scripture, not as one dramatic break. Eddie opens with the move to Pennsylvania, the loss of familiar roles, and the strain of trying to keep a household steady while jobs, kids, and…
A warm, searching first outing on suffering that favors lived faith over tidy answers.
Two pastors open a first conversation about human experience, suffering, and scripture, and grief stays in clear view. What gives it weight is the back-and-forth itself: the talk feels ordinary and grounded, willing to move past tidy answers without losing its pastoral center.
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Two hosts revisit one film, show, or book a week, plus long personal tangents.
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Chris Eden and returning guest Bob Garvey continue their forgiveness series with the question of forgiving yourself.
Failure starts with crickets.
Forgiveness starts in the body.
Control is the question on the table.
Two pastors open with laughter, names, and a podcast still finding its legs.