Clerical Errors Podcast
The podcast that shows you what‘s behind the collar. | Hosted by Pastor Travis Berg and Pastor Karl Bollhagen | http://clericalerrors.org
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Episodes
Dec 7, 2025
Dec 7, 2025
42 min
Snow, Costco Sweatshirts, and the enduring Word.
Second Sunday in Advent: Mal. 4:1–6, Rom. 15:4–13, Luke 21:25–36
Nov 30, 2025
Nov 30, 2025
35 min
Fortune cookies, Christ's birth as Savior, and Santa Claus rolling through a Christmas parade.
First Sunday in Advent: Jer. 23:5–8, Rom. 13:(8–10) 11–14, Matt. 21:1–9
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025
48 min
Funerals, when not to say "I apologize", the end of the year, being woke, and LeBron is the best NBA player of all time.
Last Sunday of the Church Year: Isaiah 65:17–25, 1 Thess. 5:1–11, Matt. 25:1–13
Nov 16, 2025
Nov 16, 2025
38 min
The Northern Lights, genuine faith over empty works, and forgiving seventy times seven.
Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity: Micah 6:6–8, Phil. 1:3–11, Matt. 18:21–35
Nov 9, 2025
Nov 9, 2025
52 min
NBA Storyline Updates, Creation, faith over proof, and a TikTok from a priest.
Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity: Gen. 1:1–2:3,Eph. 6:10–17, John 4:46–54
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025
52 min
Vicar's Top 12 Cleric Kerfuffle questions (legally distinct), All Saints' Day, and then more questions from Vicar.All Saints' Day, Rev. 7:2–17, 1 John 3:1–3, Matt. 5:1–12
Oct 26, 2025
Oct 26, 2025
36 min
Bollhagen keeps the lights on, and works through the readings for Reformation Day.Reformation Day, Rev. 14:6–7, Rom. 3:19–28, John 8:31–36
Oct 19, 2025
Oct 19, 2025
48 min
The "feeling" of God's call, teaching former God-haters, Paul addresses the Corinthian church, and the LCMS having a "PR problem".
Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity, Deut. 10:12–21, 1 Cor. 1:(1–3)4–9, Matt. 22:34–46
Oct 12, 2025
Oct 12, 2025
37 min
10/10 Lutheran, Eritrean church services, loopholes, and selfless care.
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, Prov. 25:6–14, Eph. 4:1–6, Luke 14:1–11
Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025
51 min
Vicar answers 12 Clergy Combat questions, the widow’s grief, Paul’s prayer from prison, and a Galilean foreshadowing of Easter.
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, 1 Kings 17:17–24, Eph. 3:13–21, Luke 7:11–17