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Cultivated: A podcast about faith and work

Vito Aiuto

Cultivated: A podcast about faith and work

Cultivated Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.7657 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Vito Aiuto is one half of the indie band Welcome Wagon, along with his wife Monique. He’s also the pastor of a church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. On this episode, we talk about the parallel journeys he’s taken as an artist and a pastor, about working with Sufjan Stevens, and about a variety of challenges that pastors and Christians face in our world today. Cultivated is a production of the Narrativo Group and Harbor Media Produced by Mike Cosper Edited by TJ Hester Mixed by Mark Owens Our music on this episode is by Welcome Wagon Our theme song is by Roman Candle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.

0:11.1

Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.

0:14.5

Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at Apologeticsky.com.

0:25.6

Music Michael Del Rosario at Apologeticsguy.com. Vito Ayudo is one half of the indie band, the welcome wagon, along with his wife, Monique.

0:31.2

He's also the pastor of a Presbyterian church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

0:34.7

I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses and the voice I hear calling on my year. The son of God discloses.

1:00.4

I am from Tuscumsee, Michigan, which is this little rural town outside of Ann Arbor.

1:05.0

I didn't grow up really in the church. I found out about, I don't know, seven or eight years ago,

1:08.8

I always knew that I had been baptized in this Presbyterian church.

1:11.4

Neither of my parents were really very church, and we didn't go to church growing up.

1:14.3

But there was this picture of me being baptized in a Presbyterian church.

1:17.7

And then about seven or eight years ago, my mom just says offhand, you know, we baptized you before that.

1:24.0

And I said, what?

1:25.1

And she was a Roman Catholic.

1:26.8

She still is.

1:27.6

And she said, well, you know, I was with your Uncle Mike.

1:32.0

And we were scared that you would go to limbo or purgatory or somewhere.

1:35.9

And she says, we baptized you in the sink when you're a couple weeks old.

1:39.6

You know, if you ever looked at a Roman Catholic missile and in the beginning it says,

1:42.6

if there is an emergency, anybody can baptize and here's how you do it. Wow. And my mom's emergency was that she had married

1:48.8

my very wild father and they had me and they baptized me in the sink. Wow. That's fascinating.

1:55.2

So I've actually been baptized twice. Usually when people have been baptized twice, it's because they

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