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3127 E Lake St, Lower Level, Minneapolis, MN 55406

The Long Obedience
The Long Obedience
ListenEpisodesRead alongLive tapingsListening groupsThe hostsKeep it free

3127 E Lake St, Lower Level, Minneapolis, MN 55406

(555) 014-5120

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Woman pastor reading to a diverse seated congregation

Live tapings

First Tuesdays, in a room full of listeners

Once a month we record in front of an audience at Bethany Hall, three blocks from the studio, and take questions from the floor.

Upcoming

Tapings this season

Nov3

Ep. 516 live: The field at Anathoth

7:30 PM · Bethany Hall, Minneapolis

Jeremiah 32: buying land during a siege. Free tickets open October 13.

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Dec1

Advent taping: A righteous Branch

7:30 PM · Bethany Hall, Minneapolis

Jeremiah 33 and carols at the end. Bring a candle if you like.

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Jan19

On the road: Fargo

7:00 PM · A church fellowship hall in north Fargo

Our first taping outside the Cities, hosted by three Fargo listening groups.

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Feb2

Kitchen Table Questions, live

7:30 PM · Bethany Hall, Minneapolis

Two hours of your questions, no passage. Write them on a card at the door.

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Nothing in that category this month.

What a taping is like

Your evening at Bethany Hall

It's a recording, so we ask for quiet during the reading. The rest of the time, laugh as loud as you want.

Tickets

Free, but booked ahead so we know how many chairs to set. 220 seats.

Parking

Street parking on 31st Ave and the lot behind the hall after 6 PM.

Length

About two hours with the Q&A. The episode itself is around fifty minutes.

Phones

Silent, please. The microphones pick up everything.

Coffee

Decaf and cardamom bread from the bakery upstairs from the studio, from 6:45.

Access

Step-free entrance and an induction loop. Reserved seats near the front for anyone who needs them.

The evening

  1. 6:45

    Doors and coffee

    Find a seat and fill in a question card if you have one.

  2. 7:30

    Recording starts

    The passage is read aloud. This is the quiet part.

  3. 8:25

    Questions from the floor

    Chiamaka reads the cards. Some make it into the episode.

  4. 9:15

    Prayer and goodnight

    Hosts stay to talk while we stack chairs.

E Lake St31st Ave SMinnehaha AveBethany HallN↑400 ft

Getting there

Bethany Hall, three blocks from the studio

3340 E 31st St, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Get directions
Transit
Blue Line to Lake St/Midtown, then route 21 east to 31st Ave. The 21 runs every ten minutes until late.
Parking
Free lot behind the hall after 6 PM, plus street parking.
Access
Step-free entrance on the lot side, induction loop, accessible restrooms.
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Design notes

Why The Long Obedience looks the way it does

The Long Obedience is a weekly podcast that reads one passage of the Bible slowly and carefully, with no ads and no hurry. The site works like a quiet study desk: this week's episode first, then the reading plan, then everything else, so a listener can find their place in under a minute.

Built for
Commuters, night-shift workers, farmers and parents who listen alone and want to read along; small listening groups; and supporters who keep the show free.
Navigation
Left sidebar. A fixed column holds the name, every page and the address, so nothing is ever more than one click away on desktop.
Pages
Listen, Episodes, Read along, Live tapings, Listening groups, The hosts, Keep it free
Hero
livestream-first: the opening screen is the stream itself, with a live or next-stream badge and countdown, a play control, the service chapters and a route to past services, for churches whose online congregation is as real as the room. Variants: a = headline above a large screen with the chapter list in a side panel; b = a full-width cinematic screen with the headline over it and chapters running beneath as a strip; c = headline and a chapter timeline in a left column beside the screen; One impact number is the hero (for example meals served this year), with a line naming the unit, a sentence of context, a row of three supporting figures and one photograph. The number counts up once when it first comes into view. Variants: a = the number spans the full width above the photo and figures; b = photo on the left, number and a ledger of figures on the right; c = the number sits on a coloured panel that overlaps the bottom of a wide photograph

Typography

Piazzolla was designed for small, dense text, which gives it sturdy serifs and an honest, bookish texture even at display size. Set at 600 with a light italic for emphasis, it reads like a heading in a good study Bible. Hanken Grotesk keeps the long show notes calm, and IBM Plex Mono sets every timestamp and reference the way an audio editor sees them.

Color

The oxblood comes from old hymnal covers and the red ON AIR bulb above the studio door. The amber is the warm light of the bakery upstairs at 5 AM when the episode goes out. The neutrals lean slightly green, like birch bark in a Minnesota March. Dark mode is tuned for listeners reading in bed, with a lifted rose instead of the deep red.

Layout and navigation

A fixed sidebar keeps the seven sections in view like the contents page of a book, which suits people who come back every week and go straight to the same place. The content column is narrow and generous, closer to a page than a dashboard.

The hero

The hero is the episode itself: this week's passage, the hosts, a play control and the chapter timeline down the left so a listener can jump to the part they missed in the car. On the first Tuesday of the month it shows the live taping countdown instead.

Calls to action

The sidebar action is Get this week's reading, because reading along is what turns listeners into regulars. Other buttons are equally plain: Find a listening group, Sit in on a taping, Keep it free. The underline button style keeps them quiet next to the text.

Photography

Hands on open Bibles, a microphone in warm light, kitchen tables. The photographs stay close and quiet, like the show, and avoid stage lights. The one wide image is a straight two-lane road across the prairie at dawn, set behind the Nietzsche line the show is named for: a long way, in the same direction.

Accessibility

Every episode has a full transcript linked from the player, chapter times are real text, and the player works by keyboard. Body text is 18px with a long line height for comfortable reading, and both themes meet WCAG AA.

Type system

  • DisplayPiazzollaPiazzolla was drawn for dense, small-print reading, so it carries the feel of a well-used study Bible even when set large.
  • TextHanken GroteskA plain, warm sans that stays out of the way of long show notes and transcripts.
  • AccentIBM Plex MonoTimestamps, episode numbers and references, set the way an audio editor sees them.

Colour and contrast

Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.

Light theme

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Secondary textAa5.7:1AA
LinksAa8.29:1AAA
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Text on dark bandsAa14.26:1AAA
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Text on brand bandsAa9.67:1AAA
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Dark theme

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