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.
3127 E Lake St, Lower Level, Minneapolis, MN 55406
(555) 014-5120
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Live tapings
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
Nov3
7:30 PM · Bethany Hall, Minneapolis
Jeremiah 32: buying land during a siege. Free tickets open October 13.
Dec1
7:30 PM · Bethany Hall, Minneapolis
Jeremiah 33 and carols at the end. Bring a candle if you like.
Jan19
7:00 PM · A church fellowship hall in north Fargo
Our first taping outside the Cities, hosted by three Fargo listening groups.
Feb2
7:30 PM · Bethany Hall, Minneapolis
Two hours of your questions, no passage. Write them on a card at the door.
Nothing in that category this month.
What a taping is like
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
Find a seat and fill in a question card if you have one.
The passage is read aloud. This is the quiet part.
Chiamaka reads the cards. Some make it into the episode.
Hosts stay to talk while we stack chairs.
Getting there
Design notes
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.26:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 15.62:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.7:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 8.29:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.67:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 7.28:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 14.26:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.6:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.67:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 6.17:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.23:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.67:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.74:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 8.35:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 8.54:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 10.13:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 16.15:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.13:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 8.54:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.29:1 | AA |
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