Red Letter Christians Podcast: Recent Episodes
Red Letter Christians
A Christian commentary on the way of Jesus in the world today with Red Letter Christian leaders Dr. Tony Campolo and Shane Claiborne. Red Letter Christians gets its name from the Bibles that highlight the words of Jesus in red and we are aspiring to live “as if Jesus meant the stuff he said.” Some episodes of this podcast have been adapted from the radio show “Across the Pond” which airs on Sunday afternoons in the UK on Premier Radio. Others are from events such as Faith Forums, Book Clubs, and Monthly Morning Prayer.
Shane Claiborne hosts a special Red Letter Christians morning prayer episode featuring leaders from the newly launched National Peacemaker Association. Timed with the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the episode pairs Scripture, prayer, and worship with urgent calls to nonviolence. Guest leaders—including Rev. Jack Sullivan Jr. and Rev. Sharon Risher—share powerful personal testimonies on gun violence prevention, conscientious objection, and the NPA Peacemaker Pledge, inspiring listeners to pair active faith with peacemaking.
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Shane announces the National Peacemaker Association (NPA), a global movement uniting activists against war, gun violence, and state-sanctioned violence. From building out nonviolence certifications and political accountability to the Peacemaker Pledge, discover how NPA is organizing for peace.
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Shane reflects on 50 years of the modern U.S. death penalty, tracing his journey from defender to opponent on moral and Christian grounds. Exposing its roots in poverty, racial bias, and historical lynching, he highlights abolitionist activism—from prayer vigils to powerful stories of exonerees and former wardens haunted by botched executions.
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This week, we talk to Scotty Utz from RAWtools South and discuss transforming firearms into garden tools and designing faith-informed, survivor-centered rituals around gun destruction. We cover RAWTools' efforts to promote nonviolence through certification programs and their Gun Violence Awareness Month events, including the Blacksmith-a-Marathon, which honors all victims of gun violence.
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- Scotty’s site
- RAWTool South
- RAWTools South IG
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We speak with longtime Red Letter Christian supporter and author Terry Webb about her 94 years of life, how she's grown her faith, and her new book, "Christian Citizenship Endangered in America.” A response to Trumpism and the rise of Christian nationalism shaping U.S. policy.
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- Terry on LinkedIn
- email:authorterrywebb@gmail.com
- Terry on X: @TrustingTerry
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- Terry’s site
- Terry’s Substack
- Terry on Facebook
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Originally recorded and published on the RLC Blog on July 3, 2021.
One-hundred and seventy-four years ago, abolitionist, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass gave a speech to the 600 members of the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society entitled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” On July 3, 2021, Christian leaders from around the country gathered virtually with Red Letter Christians to read this powerful piece together.
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In this solo show, Shane Claiborne marks Gun Violence Awareness Month by highlighting Raw Tools' unique mission to transform surrendered weapons into art and garden tools. Specifically, he focuses on their June blacksmith marathon—a powerful initiative memorializing the 40,000 American lives lost annually to gun violence while calling for urgent, commonsense gun reform.
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This week, we chat with Brad Jersak, from Saint Stephen's University, about living a nonviolent, justice-seeking Christianity that resists the “takeover mentality.” Instead, it acts as the church’s prophetic conscience, echoing Dr. King’s view of laws and heart-change as parallel tracks.
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- Brad's site
- Saint Stephen's
- Brad on IG
- Brad on Substack
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This week, we revisit the archive with Doug Pagitt of Vote Common Good. We discuss the major deployment of masked federal ICE agents to Minneapolis, amid the city’s post–George Floyd organizing. We hear about the continual need for citizen action, growing clergy solidarity, and sustaining “joy” through music and art as a humanizing response.
More about Doug
- Vote Common Good
- Common Good Podcast
- VCG on IG
- Doug's site
- Doug on IG
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We talk with Dr. James Bigham about moral courage and practical responses to U.S. gun violence, now described as the leading cause of death for ages 1–19, with over 100 deaths daily. He describes collaborations with gun shops and training healthcare professionals, pastors, and other caregivers to address the epidemic.
More about James
- Dr. Bigham's initiative: Firearm Injury Prevention: Dr. James Bigham Leads Program for Health Care Providers - UW Family Medicine
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This week, we talk with political scientist and civil resistance scholar, Dr. Maria J. Stephan, co-author of Why Civil Resistance Works. We discuss how she was shaped by early community and faith organizing in Vermont, and later by the documentary A Force More Powerful and global nonviolent struggles. Stephan explains research on preventing democratic backsliding and the need for sustained engagement beyond mass protests, through tactics such as boycotts, strikes, walkouts, and noncooperation.
Connect with Maria
- Website: Maria Stephan
- Instagram: @horizonsprjt
- The Horizons Project: The Horizons Project
- Nonviolent Action Resources and Training: Nonviolent Action Resources and Training
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We chat with Tim Shriver—Special Olympics leader, disability rights advocate, and author—who explains how decades with Special Olympics athletes taught him to see people “from the inside out” and recognize dignity as universal, inherent, and not earned.
Connect with Tim
- Website: Tim Shriver
- Instagram: @timothyshriver
- The Dignity Index: The Dignity Index
- Need A Lift? Podcast: Need A Lift? with Tim Shriver - Podcast - Apple Podcasts
- The Special Olympics: Special Olympics
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On this episode, Shane sits down with Kat Armas to talk about how we meet this moment as followers of Jesus, the role of prayer and liturgy, and her new book, Liturgies for Resisting Empire.
Connect with Kat
- Website: Kat Armas
- Instagram: @katarmas
- Substack: Some Things Abuelita | Kat Armas | Substack
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Shane is joined by Pastor Carl Ruby and Viles Dorsainvil from Springfield, OH. They have been leading the way in advocating for Haitian families facing the possibility of deportation, and now have a case before the Supreme Court.
Socials:
- Carl Ruby (@carlrubygoblue)
- Viles Dorsainvil on Instagram
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Jim MurphyShane speaks with longtime friend Jim Murphy, author of the viral bestseller Inner Excellence and newly republished The Best Possible Life. They discuss the importance of viewing Christianity as transformative rather than escapist, and the value of countercultural, gospel-centered living.
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- Website: Inner Excellence | By Jim Murphy
- Instagram: Jim Murphy (@innerexcellencejimmurphy) • Instagram profile @innerexcellencejimmurphy
- Substack: Inner Excellence | Jim Murphy | Substack
- X: Jim Murphy (@innerexcellence) on X @innerexcellence
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/innerexcellence/
- Facebook: Inner Excellence | Lakeland FL
- Buy the book: Inner Excellence
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Shane talks with Terri Hord Owens, General Minister and President of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ in the US and Canada. She is the first Black woman to lead a mainline denomination as Chief Executive, and is a prominent, prophetic voice in the US and beyond.
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- Terri Hord Owens Facebook
- Disciples of Christ Facebook
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
- Terri's books
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Shane talks with Peter Pedemonti, one of the leaders and founders of the New Sanctuary Movement in Philadelphia, and a passionate, faith-rooted organizer working to protect immigrant families.
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- New Sanctuary Movement Philadelphia
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Shane is joined by Rev. Cody Deese, a courageous pastor in Georgia. Recent clips of his sermons have gone viral as he seeks to address the current spiritual crisis in America and pastor a congregation through these turbulent times.
Connect with Cody
• @codydeese
• Cody's website
• Vining Lakes Church
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Shane Claiborne sits down with Marvin Rees, former Bristol mayor and new UK House of Lords member, to discuss how local leaders are tackling global crises like climate change and systemic inequality amidst failing national institutions.
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- @marvinjrees
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Shane speaks with Abeer Shehadeh Nasser, a Palestinian Christian citizen of Israel from Nazareth and co-host of the podcast Across the Divide. She shares how separation among Palestinians fuels identity crises and recounts an early encounter with Christian Zionism that pushed her to connect faith with political reality.
Connect with Abeer
• Across The Divide podcast
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Shane issues a raw plea to protect hope through resilient faith and community. Drawing a direct line from the 1991 Al-Amiriyah shelter bombing to recent strikes on a primary school in Tehran, he discusses the devastating human cost of U.S.-backed violence and reads the names of over 60 children lost to the machinery of war.
He challenges the "apocalyptic theologies" that justify mass death, and calls for a Christianity rooted in the radical nonviolence of Jesus.
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Shane welcomes Rev. Gerlyn Henry, an Anglican priest. They discuss differences, her formation away from “Not of This World” individualism toward neighbor-centered faith, and her deepening solidarity with Palestinians through learning about the Nakba, meeting Palestinians, and traveling in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
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- @rev.gerlynhenry
- @gerlynhenry
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Shane talks with Canadian author and speaker Sarah Bessey. They discuss their friendship with Rachel Held Evans, and a new book Sarah curated to honor Rachel's life: Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning with and Reimagining Faith. They also talk about the importance of Canada's sovereignty... and origami.
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- Sarah's site
- @sarahbessey
- Braving the Truth
- Field Notes substack
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This week we talk about matriarchy, equality, and communal flourishing with author and leader, Tiffany Bluhm.
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• Made For PAX: Made For PAX
• Tiffany's personal site: tiffanybluhm.com
• Tiffany on Instagram: @tiffanybluhm
• Made For PAX on Instagram: @madeforpax
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The Two Prophets
The Two Prophets is fast-paced fiction that asks what it means to tell the truth in a world that punishes dissent. Part spiritual allegory, part political thriller, it reflects the tensions of our present moment while imagining what could come next. Find out why The Two Prophets is making waves today! - link to Amazon
In this special episode, we discuss The Two Prophets with author Jeff Fulmer, learning how his evangelical upbringing in Nashville and his long “journey of faith” shaped his turn toward prophetic, dystopian political fiction.
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- Jeff’s website
- His latest book, The Two Prophets
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This week, we talk to Ben Norquist and discuss the ongoing global atrocities and Christian activism, focusing on ICE raids, Gaza, and the work of the Red Letter Christians movement. They explore the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice and emphasize the importance of learning from Palestinian theologians and engaging directly with those affected by state repression in the U.S. and Palestine.
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- BIPJ
- Every Somewhere Sacred - IVP
- Ben on Facebook
- Ben on @bennorquist
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Shane talks with his friend, the ice-cream-man, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, about their common vision for a sweeter world -- a world with less violence and more ice cream.
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- @yobencohen
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We talk with Jonathan "Pastah J” Brooks from Lawndale Community Church in Chicago. J shares the strategies and motivations behind the Faith Over Fear movement, which aims to support and protect vulnerable migrants in the city.
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- Website
- Lawndale Community Church
- Lawnsdale Instagram
- Pastah J on Instagram
“Chicago Made Me” by Corey Mix featuring Pastah J, and Presyce, produced and arranged by Phil Gates at Highpower Studios
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Shane does a little looking back at 2025 and looking forward to 2026.
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Shane talks with author, speaker, and activist Jonathan Walton about rest, resistance, and restoration. Jonathan's books include Twelve Lies that Hold America Captive and Beauty and Resistance.
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- Jonathan’s new book
- His website
- Substack: https://substack.com/@jonathanwalton
- Instagram: @jonathanpwalton
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Shane talks with Julio Hernandez and Reverend Joel Simpson about their subversive friendship and the massive mobilizing work they have been doing around ICE raids in Charlotte, NC, and around the country.
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- Joel’s Substack - https://joelsimpson.substack.com/
- Congregational Action Network: https://www.congregationactionnetwork.org/
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Shane talks with Pastor Carl Ruby and Viles Dorsainvil about the targeted attack on Springfield, Ohio's Haitian Community. Thousands of families face the possibility of deportation... but the community has come together in solidarity and compassion. Connect
- Pastor Ruby’s congregation: https://www.ccspringfield.org
- The Haitian Support Center: https://haitiansupportcenter.org/
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Shane speaks with the legendary speaker, advocate, and educator Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu. They talk about joy and resistance, what it was like to live through Apartheid in South Africa, and how that informs what we should be doing right now.
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- Naomi's site: Website
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Shane talks with Chanté Griffin, a journalist, activist, and author, about the intersection of faith, love, and social justice. They discuss the importance of love as a foundation for faith, the challenges of deconstructing harmful theologies, and the role of humility and prayer in fostering genuine relationships.
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- Chante’s site: yougochante.com
- Chanté on Instagram: @yougochante
- Chanté on X: @kinky_coily_comedy
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Shane is joined by Diana Oestreich in this episode. Diana is a war veteran who became a peacemaker, convinced that violence cannot lead to peace. She's the author of Waging Peace, and recently has been collaborating with Shane to amplify the voices of "conscientious objectors," folks who refuse to kill because of their faith and conscience.
Connect with Diana
- Diana's site: Link
- Waging Peace - Book: Link
- Diana on Instagram: @dianaoestreich
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Connect with Handmade Palestine
- Handmade Palestine: https://handmadepalestine.com
- Instagram: @handmadepalestine
Shane talks with Fares Abraham, founder of Levant Ministries. Fares is a church-planter and leader, born in Bethlehem. He also graduated with a PHD from Liberty University. He has become a key leader as we navigate ongoing tensions in the Middle East and what it looks like for Christians to respond with compassion and faithfulness to Christ.
Connect with Fares
- Fares Abraham: https://faresabraham.com/
- Instagram: @faresabraham
- Levant Ministries: https://levantministries.org/
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Shane talks with Morgan Totah, a Christian living in Palestine. Morgan leads Handmade Palestine, a collective of artists in the West Bank who are creating incredible, life-giving products. Beyond the inspiring, missional, microbusiness... making art together has been a way of surviving and supporting one another amid the escalating violence in Gaza and the West Bank. They've been partnering with Red Letter Christians and the God Loves Gaza campaign.
Connect with Handmade Palestine
- Handmade Palestine: Website
- Instagram: @handmadepalestine
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In this episode, Shane reflects on the recent No Kings protests and discusses the significance of nonviolent action and the importance of standing against fascism, authoritarianism, and fear. Drawing on Christian teachings, particularly the principle of 'No King but Jesus,' Shane highlights the need for public faith and conspicuous acts of love.
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Shane talks with Steve Schallert about the innovative work he is doing with Saint Stephen's University to institutionalize peacemaking and nonviolence, creating certifications and degrees in movement organizing.
Connect with Steve Schallert
• St. Stephen's: St. Stephen's U
• Iziko Lamaqabane: Site
• Steve on Instagram: @steveschallert
• Peace Catalyst International: Peace Catalyst International
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This week, we speak with Meghan Good from the Jesus Collective to discuss the movement's origins and mission. We reflect on the challenges faced by Christians disillusioned with conventional church practices and those seeking a more authentic, Jesus-centered faith.
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• Site: Jesus Collective
• Instagram: @jesuscollective
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We talk with Joash Thomas about his new book, 'The Justice of Jesus.' The conversation touches on Thomas’ upbringing, his critique of the Western church, his work on decolonizing faith, and the need to rebuild a more just version of Christianity.
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• The Justice of Jesus: The Justice of Jesus – Baker Book House
• Instagram: @joashpthomas
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We speak with Lane Terzieff, founder of UNIT+E, an organization that conducts specialized operations to provide aid and combat human trafficking in crisis zones. We discuss past missions, emphasizing the need for action and the responsibility of leveraging privilege to help others.
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Shane talks with Rev. Jen Butler and Pastor Doug Pagitt about the new Executive Order of Donald Trump loosening restrictions on faith-based nonprofits when it comes to political endorsements and funding. The US has prided itself on the "separation of Church and State," but this could be a historic shift in what that looks like.
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• Rev. Butler's site: Website
• Books: Link
• @revjenbutler
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• Doug's site: Doug Pagitt - Author, Activist, Pastor
• Vote For Common Good: Vote Common Good
• @dougpagitt
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This week, we're excited to talk with Los Angeles Pastor, Stephen "Cue" Jn-Marie, leader of the Church Without Walls on Skid Row. We discuss activism and faith in the current socio-political climate and delve into the emboldening of white supremacy, ICE raids, and the militarization of the state under the Trump administration. We also reflect on the spiritual and economic implications of modern-day Babylon, emphasizing the importance of non-violent resistance, moral courage, and community empowerment.
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• Church Without Walls: The Row Church
• On Instagram: @therowla_
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Shane announces the new God Loves Gaza campaign and shares his experience at 'Church at the Crossroads,' the inaugural, historic gathering of Christians standing in solidarity with Palestine. Shane highlights the need for Christians to stand against violence, the importance of good theology, and calls for actions rooted in love and compassion.
Take Action:
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- Sign the CATX Declaration
- Visit the God Loves Gaza site and sign the pledge.
- Order a Peace Communion set.
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In this episode, we talk with Zach Lambert, lead pastor of Restore Church in Austin, Texas. We discuss the complexities of interpreting the Bible and the ways it can be misused or misunderstood. Lambert outlines his new book, 'Better Ways to Read the Bible,' which identifies harmful interpretive lenses—Literalism, Apocalypse, Moralism, and Hierarchy—and proposes alternatives—Jesus, Context, Flourishing, and Fruitfulness. He emphasizes that the Bible should promote healing and justice rather than violence and oppression. The conversation also examines how these interpretations are applied in social and political contexts, highlighting the significance of faith-based activism and community engagement.
Zach will be joining us to discuss his book on this month's RLC book club, which you can register to watch for free: September Book Club
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• Better Ways to Read the Bible: Better Ways to Read the Bible – Baker Book House
• Zach on Instagram: @zachwlambert
• Restore Austine: RESTORE AUSTIN | Join Our Community Today
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We talk with podcaster, author, and comedian, John Fugelsang about his new book, 'Separation of Church and Hate.' We discuss the manipulation of religion by the Christian far-right, Fugelsang's unique upbringing with parents deeply involved in religious service, and the distinctions between true Christ followers and those who use Christianity for ulterior motives.
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This week, we talk with musician and filmmaker Steve Taylor. We explore the intersection of faith and art, examining how Christian music can both challenge and inspire. Steve talks about his influences, including punk rock and Rich Mullins, and touches on the importance of authenticity in the Christian community. Steve reflects on the power of art to speak truth and reflects on the challenges and rewards of maintaining integrity in the music industry.
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• Steve's latest film project: SKETCH (2025) | Official Website | Now Streaming on Angel
• Dead Sea Squirrels: Dead Sea Squirrels - Minno Kids
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This week, we talk with author and bridge builder, Latasha Morrison, about her new book 'Brown Faces in White Spaces.' We discuss reconciling and healing within the church, and explore the spiritual crisis mirrored in the political arena. This heartfelt conversation seeks to propel the mission of justice, love, and truthful theology forward.
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- Be The Bridge organization: https://bethebridge.com/
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Shane interviews Rev. Dr. Sally Mann, a pastor, professor, and co-director of Red Letter Christians UK, about her recent arrest (along with 500 other people) under the UK Anti-Terrorism Act for peacefully protesting the violence in Gaza. They discuss the moral implications of the protest, the importance of nonviolent action inspired by faith, and the broader context of the Palestinian crisis. The conversation also touches on the role of Palestinian Christians, the disproportionate consequences faced by protesters, and how genuine faith calls for action against injustice.
Connect with Sally* RLC UK: https://redletterchristians.org.uk/ * Sally on Facebook: Sally Mann * RLC UK on Facebook: RLCUK * Recent Article on Sally's arrest: Independent
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Shane Claiborne interviews Daniel Bannoura, a Palestinian theologian, about his background, recent completion of his PhD, and his work on the Qur'an. They discuss misconceptions about Islam, interfaith relations, and the importance of loving one's neighbors. Bannoura also highlights the impact of the Gaza conflict on his personal life and calls for Western Christians to engage with issues around justice and theology, particularly concerning Palestine and Israel. The conversation also touches on the upcoming Church at the Crossroads conference, which aims to educate and mobilize Christians for peacemaking.
Connect with Daniel* Daniel's site and writing: https://danielbannoura.com/ * Across The Divide podcast: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/across-the-divide-podcast * A detailed list of resources to help understand and engage with the situation in Palestine and Israel: resources * Instagram: @danielbannoura
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Shane talks with one of the world's great theologians and ethicists, Stanley Hauerwas, who Time magazine has called "America's theologian. Shane and Stanley talk about power, empire, and what it means to be the holy, countercultural, peculiar people of God.
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SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE | Shane speaks with Ariel Gold about her recent trip to Israel, as she was stranded and had to seek safety in a bomb shelter. She used her time in Israel to connect with young people who are refusing to serve in the Israel military, and are going to jail for refusing to kill. Ariel is the Executive Director of Fellowship for Reconciliation.
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Shane talks with Rev. Charles "Chaz" Howard. He is the chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania, where Elon Musk and Donald Trump when to college. Chaz is the chaplain at UPenn and talks about his work pastoring young people in this turbulent times. He has has a new book out "Uncovering Your Path." (he and Shane have also been arrested together a time or two for the good trouble).
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Shane talks with his friend Jim Murphy, bestselling author of the legendary book Inner Excellence that went viral when football players from the Philadelphia Eagles took it to the Superbowl as their "secret playbook." Jim is a former professional baseball player, and is now moving to Kensington to join Shane and The Simple Way in Philadelphia.
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Shane talks with Judy Henderson who spent 35 years in jail for a crime she did not commit. Her faith helped get her through -- they talk about her life and her new book "When the Light Finds Us" -- and of course about grace, healing, and the sweet Lord Jesus.
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Shane talks with Pastor Carl Ruby about the urgent struggle to protect immigrant families against ICE raids and deportation. Pastor Ruby is a pastor in Springfield, OH, where Haitian families have been under threat of deportation after VP Vance and President Trump claimed they ate people's pets, a false claim and racist trope that has led to real death threats in Springfield. Hear how the church is rising up to protect the lives of vulnerable neighbors.
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Shane talks with bestselling author John Eldredge about his past, and about his new book -- "Experience. Jesus. Really."
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Shane talks with Hannah Martin, a pastor and educator, who has helped shape the movement of RAWtools which turns guns into garden tools and has just co-authored a children's book "Sparking Peace."
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Shane talks with Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream about their recent arrests for protesting the proposed budget of Trump that cuts resources to the most vulnerable and increases military spending to over 1 Trillion dollars. Shane and Ben have been friends for over 10 years now, and share a vision for a sweeter world, with less war and more ice cream.
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Shane talks with Steve Chalke about the legacy of Tony Campolo, as well as Steve's newest project to rethink criminal justice as restorative justice in a new youth facility in the UK.
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Shane talks with Pastor Robb Ryerse about his new project "The Gospel According to Donald Trump" which shows the contrast between the Gospel of Jesus and the policies and rhetoric of President Trump.
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BONUS EPISODE: Shane talks with Rev. Erich Kussman whose church has created a sanctuary space for vulnerable families and has been organizing to protect immigrant neighbors from deportation. He was also present when the Mayor of Newark was arrested by federal agents.
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June 17 is the 10th anniversary of the mass shooting in Emanuel AME church which killed 9 people. June is also Gun Violence Awareness Month. Shane talks with Rev. Sharon Risher whose mother, Ethel Lance, was killed in Emanuel AME and who has become one of the most prominent leaders in the movement to end gun violence, and the death penalty, in the US.
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Shane talks with law professor and death penalty expert Corinna Lain about her new book Secrets of the Killing State which exposes the untold story of lethal injection in America. It also helps us understand why states are now using the electric chair and firing squad for executions. * Help sustain the work of RLC: www.redletterchristians.org/donate/ * To check out what RLC is up to, please visit us www.redletterchristians.org * Follow us on Twitter: @RedLetterXians * Instagram: @RedLetterXians * Follow Shane on Instagram: @shane.claiborne * Twitter: @ShaneClaiborne
Stay tuned until the end of the episode for a special song by Paul Demer, titled "Do Not Pray to Politicians (Psalm 146)" -
In this episode, Shane Claiborne hosts Rich Morales, a seasoned attorney and faith-based organizer, to discuss the critical issue of immigration in the United States. They delve into the moral imperatives of welcoming immigrants, policies under the current administration, and the power of grassroots and legal organizing. Rich shares his personal journey and professional work, highlighting the role of faith communities in advocating for the most vulnerable. The conversation also covers practical steps for local action, resources for support, and the spiritual and moral dimensions of immigration reform.
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Shane talks with his friend Greg Boyd, author of The Myth of the Christian Nation. They talk about Jesus, and empires, and what it means to be people who would rather die than kill.
- Get the book: https://reknew.org/book/myth-of-a-christian-nation-how-the-quest-for-political-power/
- Music: Psalters "Dumpster Divers"
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Special episode w/Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Read more here: https://redletterchristians.org/2025/04/29/we-must-arrest-the-attention-of-the-nation/
Stay tuned at the end of the episode for a special song by Common Hymnal - "Truth Waivers Not"
In this episode, Shane Claiborne talks with Reverend William H. Lamar IV about the state of the American empire and the deep principalities and powers at play. They delve into the targeted racial terror against Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church by the Proud Boys and the subsequent legal battle that resulted in the church owning the Proud Boys trademark. Reverend Lamar shares the historical context of racial violence, the role of ancestors and courage in combating systemic injustice, and the ongoing struggle against modern-day fascism and authoritarianism. They also discuss the importance of maintaining joy and fighting for a better world. Tune in for an insightful conversation on faith, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of justice.
- Learn more: https://faithandleadership.com/authors/william-h-lamar-iv
- Music: https:/https://commonhymnal.com/
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Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a special song "Good Good trouble" by Joel David Weir.
In this episode, Shane Claiborne hosts Tim Whitaker, founder of The New Evangelicals, for an engaging discussion on the intersection of faith, activism, and Christian nationalism. They delve into the challenges facing modern Christianity, the importance of not just promising heaven but addressing present-day 'hells,' and the need for vibrant faith that fuels social justice. The conversation covers Tim's experiences attending Turning Point USA's America Fest, the evolving landscape of The New Evangelicals, and practical steps for believers to engage in meaningful activism. Additionally, they share insights on building digital and physical communities that reflect the teachings of Jesus.
- Learn more: https://www.thenewevangelicals.com/
- Music: https://joeldavidweir.com/
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Closing Song: "All Fire" by Carolyn Arends
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In this episode, Shane Claiborne engages in an enlightening conversation with accomplished singer-songwriter Carolyn Arends. They discuss her musical journey, the resonant impact of her songs, and her deep-rooted faith. The episode also delves into Carolyn's involvement with Renovaré, an organization focused on spiritual renewal, and her personal connections with influential musician Rich Mullins. Through stories and reflections, they explore the intersection of music, faith, and social justice, offering insights into maintaining integrity and transparency in Christian ministry.
- Find out more about Carolyn Arends here: https://www.carolynarends.com/
- Learn more about Renovare - https://renovare.org/
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Shane speaks with Khristi Lauren Adams, author of Womanish Theology: Discovering God through the Lens of Black Girlhood.
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In this special episode, podcast manager Vanessa Gomez steps in front of the microphone to interview Father Bill W., a significant influence on her recovery journey. Father Bill W. delves into his journey, the impactful practice of Two-Way Prayer, and the origins of the Oxford Group which heavily influenced Alcoholics Anonymous and later became a peacemaking community. This episode aims to shed light on how these spiritual and practical tools can benefit anyone struggling with addiction or seeking a deeper connection with their higher power.
- For more information on Two Way Prayer, visit: https://www.twowayprayer.org/
- To follow along on Vanessa's sober and spiritual journey, visit: www.youtube.com/@vanessawhatever_
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Outro song is "Be Love" by Common Hymnal: https://commonhymnal.com/
Shane speaks with Amethyst Rodriguez about transforming philanthropy.
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Recorded on February 25th (what would have been Tony's 90th birthday), this special podcast episode is dedicated to the remarkable journey and enduring influence of Tony Campolo. From anecdotes to spiritual insights, join us in commemorating a life well-lived.
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President Trump's address to the nation came on the eve of Ash Wednesday and Lent. In light of that, Shane reflects on the State of the Union in America and the state of the church. He invites us to think of this season as a time of repentance, reflection, and emptying ourselves to be filled with God.
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Join us for a heartfelt conversation as Shane Claiborne and Julio Hernandez tackle immigration, radical hospitality, and the power of community action. Discover how faith and love can shape our response to pressing global issues.
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Struggling to understand the dynamics of faith, politics, and identity in today's world? Join Shane Claiborne with special guest Doug Pagitt, from Vote Common Good, as they delve deep into the complexities of the recent U.S. election, faith-driven political activism, and the need for open dialogue.
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Shane Claiborne introduces his guest, Philip Farah, from the Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace. They discuss issues related to the death penalty, gun violence, and the importance of building a better world. Farah shares his personal story of being a Palestinian Christian born in Jerusalem. They also explore the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the role of Christianity in advocating for peace and justice, and how Western Christian communities can better support Palestinian Christians. The conversation highlights the need for deeper theological reflection and active engagement in social justice.
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Special guests Rev. Ashley Guthas and Kirk Lyman-Barner join from Georgia, where they are part of a historic church and community, the home church of President Jimmy Carter, birthplace of Koinonia Farm and Habitat for Humanity. We discuss the complexities of pastoring a church in politically divided times.
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A fresh conversation on grace, and disagreeing well with each other... with pastor and author Jay Bakker, son of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
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Stay tuned until the end of the episode for special song by John Francis O'Mara called "Kill The Dreamer" www.johnfrancisomara.com
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Shane reflects on the historic collision of Trump's inauguration and Martin Luther King Day. The inauguration of Donald Trump's happens to Jan. 20, which is also the national holiday celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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As we kick off 2024, Shane reflects on some of the significant moments of 2024 and some things he's looking forward to in 2025.
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On the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol (Jan. 6, 2021), Shane reflects on the danger of Christian nationalism and the heresy of "America First."
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Special guest, circus-performer, comedian, and nature lover... and Shane's wife -- the legendary Katie Jo Brotherton. Recorded on the floor of the laundry room while the baby is sleeping.
Interwoven with humor and deep reflections, the couple also shares about their Advent devotional inspired by Palestinian Christians and their hope in a world filled with struggle. Whether you’re here for the lighthearted tangents or the profound moments of faith and hope, this episode is a delightful journey you won’t want to miss.
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Join Shane Claiborne for this special Christmas edition of the podcast, where we dive deep into the true meaning of the season. Amid the hustle and bustle of shopping, decorating, and gift-giving, Shane challenges us to step back and reflect on the radical love and solidarity of Jesus—born as a homeless baby into a world of violence and suffering.
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From December 23, 2023: "This Advent, while global Christians prepare to commemorate the arrival of the Prince of Peace, our Palestinian kin in Gaza suffer unthinkable violence. Their cries for deliverance, echoing those of two millennia ago, seem to be falling unheard in the United States. To see their pain and hear their cries, US Christians must move beyond information to transformation...from webinar to worship. Listen in on the live-streamed worship gathering guided by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac and his team at Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem on 23 December 2023. Central to this liturgy of lament is the prophetic message that if Jesus was born today, he would be born "under the rubble." [Co-organized by Global Immersion, Christ at the Checkpoint Conference, Bethlehem Bible College, Churches for Middle East Peace and Evangelicals for Justice; supported and sponsored by kindred organizations]"
Dave Gibbons shares about his recently released book, “The Shape of my Eyes,” on why he wrote his story, on why all of our histories matter, and why they deserve to be told.
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"It’s easier to get a gun in America than it is to get rid of a gun.
Even gun buybacks and incentivized gun surrender events can be problematic, because law enforcement agencies have a record of putting the guns right back on the market. Just as it is unthinkable for police to sell back heroin from a drug bust, we have to insist that law enforcement agencies stop selling weapons. It is a violation of their pledge to serve and protect. We’ve all heard of the black market, but it has become clear that there is an entire underground “blue market” of cops selling guns.
In a bombshell report, a recent study revealed that more than 52,000 guns used in crimes over a sixteen-year period can be tracked back to police. At least 145 law enforcement agencies have sold firearms, which have later been used in thousands of shootings all over the country." - Shane Claiborne, Buying Guns on the Blue Market
READ MORE: https://redletterchristians.org/2024/07/19/buying-guns-on-the-blue-market/
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Join us as we dive into the critical response led by Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz and local activist Sally Mann in Newham, a diverse London borough facing challenges from recent riots and threats of white supremacist activity. Mayor Fiaz, a powerful advocate for equality and inclusivity, along with Sally Mann, a prominent community leader, work tirelessly to promote unity and security in Newham. This episode uncovers their strategic initiatives and collaborative approaches to maintain peace, empower marginalized voices, and resist hate-driven agendas.
Explore the powerful resilience of Newham’s leaders as they implement anti-racism measures and amplify community-led responses to uphold justice and safety. Learn more about Mayor Fiaz's work on the official Newham website, and follow local initiatives through resources like Newham London’s Community Safety and updates on Newham’s anti-racism efforts.
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https://redletterchristians.org/2024/11/20/tony-campolo-sociologist-and-famed-red-letter-christian-has-died/
We are deeply saddened to share that co-founder of Red Letter Christians, Tony Campolo, has passed away on November 19, 2024. Tony was a highly impactful spiritual figure and Shane reflects on his connection to Tony and the work they've done. God bless.
Tony's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Letter-Christians-Citizens-Politics/dp/0830745297
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We are excited to have October's featured guest Eliza Griswold talking about her latest book, "Circle of Hope: A Reckoning of Love, Power and Justice in an American Church" with Shane Claiborne and Katie Jo Brotherton. About the Book: "Circle of Hope" is an intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis. “The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.” Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus. This is the story of one such “radical outpost of Jesus followers” dedicated to service, the Sermon on the Mount, and working toward justice for all in this life, not just salvation for some in the next. Part of a little-known yet influential movement at the edge of American evangelicalism, Philadelphia’s Circle of Hope grew for forty years, planted four congregations, and then found itself in crisis. The story that follows is an American allegory full of questions with urgent relevance for so many of us, not just the faithful: How do we commit to one another and our better selves in a fracturing world? Where does power live? Can it be shared? How do we make “the least of these” welcome? Building on years of deep reporting, the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold has crafted an intimate, immersive, tenderhearted portrait of a community, as well as a riveting chronicle of its transformation, bearing witness to the ways a deeply committed membership and their team of devoted pastors are striving toward change that might help their church survive. Through generational rifts, an increasingly politicized religious landscape, a pandemic that prevented gathering to worship, and a rise in foundation-shaking activism, Circle of Hope tells a propulsive, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. It is a soaring, searing examination of what it means for us to love, to grow, and to disagree. About the Author: Eliza Griswold is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. She writes for The New Yorker, is the Ferris Professor and Director of the Program in Journalism at Princeton University, and lives in New Jersey with her husband and son.
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Rev. Amy Cantrell is a passionate advocate based in BeLoved Asheville, an intentional community focused on providing care and support for those facing homelessness, poverty, and systemic racism. At BeLoved, a diverse, intersectional community, members from all walks of life work together to create sustainable solutions to social injustices through shared love and mutual support. For more about BeLoved’s mission and impact, visit BeLoved Asheville’s official website.
Ponkho Bermejo, a dedicated indigenous and Latinx community organizer, serves as a Co-Director at BeLoved Asheville and is renowned for his innovative approaches to advocacy. He leads efforts to foster cultural pride and connection to heritage by empowering community members, especially youth, to embrace and celebrate their roots. His passion for photography, art, and music fuels his work in promoting racial equity and social justice. Recognized by the Asheville Area Arts Council and CoThinkk, Ponkho’s commitment to equity has earned him awards, including the title of Peacemaker of the Year in Western North Carolina. For more on Ponkho’s initiatives and contributions, you can explore resources like the Asheville Area Arts Council and CoThinkk.
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Shane Claiborne speaks about placing our hope not in a person, politician or political party but to place our hope in Christ alone. Our hope lies not in the donkey of the Democrats or the elephant of the GOP - it lays firmly instead on the lamb, on Jesus.
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Learn more about David Gushee: https://www.davidpgushee.com/
Get his book: https://www.davidpgushee.com/book/the-moral-teachings-of-jesus/
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Buy The Ballot and the Bible by Kaitlyn Schiess
From RLC's Book Club on August 27, 2024 - We are excited to have our dear friend Kaitlyn Schiess as the featured book club author for the month of August where we will be spotlighting her book, "The Ballot and the Bible." The book asks: How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America's history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views differ from our own? In "The Ballot and the Bible" Kaitlyn Schiess explores these questions and more. She unpacks examples of how Americans have connected the Bible to politics in the past, highlighting times it was applied well and times it was egregiously misused. Schiess combines American political history and biblical interpretation to help readers faithfully read Scripture, talk with others about it, and apply it to contemporary political issues--and to their lives. Rather than prescribing what readers should think about specific hot-button issues, Schiess outlines core biblical themes around power, allegiance, national identity, and more. Readers will be encouraged to pursue a biblical basis for their political engagement with compassion and confidence. Kaitlyn Schiess of course needs no introduction. She is an author, speaker, and perpetual theology student. She is the author of The Ballot and the Bible (Brazos, 2023) and The Liturgy of Politics (IVP, 2020), and her writing has appeared in Christianity Today, The New York Times, Christ and Pop Culture, RELEVANT, and Sojourner. She is a co-host and Senior Editor of the Holy Post podcast, and the host of Curiously, Kaitlyn. She has a ThM in systematic theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and is currently a doctoral student in theology at Duke Divinity School.
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Tony Deik is a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem, Palestine. For the last thirteen years, he has lived and ministered in different contexts, including in the Philippines, Hong Kong, England, Palestine, and Bolivia.
Tony is a member of the Networking Team and Board of Directors of the International Fellowship for Mission as Transformation, Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Bethlehem Bible College, Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence, and a member of the organizing committee of Christ at the Checkpoint.
He is a PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen, researching biblical and Graeco-Roman conceptions of justice. Formerly, Tony directed the online education program at Bethlehem Bible College, served with Operation Mobilization onboard MV Logos Hope, and worked for the Centro de Capacitación Misionera in La Paz, Bolivia. In a previous career in computer science, he worked on large-scale research projects in semantic web and e-government interoperability for Birzeit University and the Palestinian government. In addition to his publications in computer science, he contributed to several edited volumes in theology and biblical studies, including Reading Ecclesiastes from Asia and Pasifika (SBL Press, 2020), The Religious Other (Carlisle: Langham, 2020), and Between Religion and Politics (Dar Manhal al Hayat, 2022 [Arabic]). [https://christatthecheckpoint.bethbc.edu/speakers-2/]
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Dr. Peter Enns (PhD, Harvard University) is a frequent contributor to journals and encyclopedias, and is the author of several books, including, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It (HarperOne), The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously (with Marc Brettler and Daniel Harrington, Oxford University Press), Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and The Problem of the Old Testament (Baker), and The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say about Human Origins (Baker).
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Follow Pastor Michael McBride - https://linktr.ee/Impastormike_
"Pastor Mike majored in Addiction Studies and Counseling at Bethany College before completing seminary at Duke University where he earned a Master of Divinity. God led him back to the Bay Area where he planted The Way Christian Center in 2005. He immersed himself in the local community: directing Black Campus Ministries at Cal and heading student support services at B-Tech continuation high school in Berkeley. In March 2012, he became the Director the LIVE FREE Campaign with the Faith In Action national network, a campaign led by hundreds of faith congregations throughout the United States committed to addressing gun violence and mass incarceration of young people of color. He has supported the implementation of Gun violence reduction strategies in over a dozen cities which have achieved 30-40% reductions in gun related shootings and homicides.
Regarded as a national faith leader, active in the Ferguson uprisings and many subsequent uprisings, he helps bridge, train and support millennials and religious institutions working on racial justice and black liberation." [https://www.thewayberkeley.com/connect/our-leadership/]
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"I wrote this book because people need to be reminded that they are not alone in their struggle against racism. A great cloud of witnesses from our past courageously confronted racism in their time, often under even harsher circumstances than we face now, and their lives offer a historical testimony to racial justice." - Jemar Tisby
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In this special bonus episode, Pastor Carl Ruby responds to the hatred and racism in Springfield, OH spurred by political current events.
"Carl is very involved in the community as a spokesperson on a variety of issues of social justice, and is particulary passionate about welcoming immigrants to our community. Prior to becoming pastor [at Central Christian], Carl was part of the Evangelical Immigration Table, a group advocating for comprehensive immigration reform that respected the human dignity of immigrants." (https://www.ccspringfield.org/team/carl-ruby)
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Originally streamed live on Aug 15, 2024 - Join a group of conscientious objectors including former fighters from Palestine and Israel, plus active duty U.S. G.I.s as they urge U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen, to tell Congress to stop funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza, calling for nothing short of an immediate ceasefire.
Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFJiP-WTJPc
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'An invaluable guide. . . I wish I had been able to read this book twenty years ago!'
Ruth Valerio
All around us there are signs of a broken world, situations that are just not right. Where do we begin? Sometimes we simply don't know what to do. Or maybe you are busy 'doing' and it's tough, even bringing you close to burn out.
Whether you are new to activism or already on the road, this book will (re)kindle your hope and illuminate the way ahead.
Featuring contributions from Shane Claiborne, Lisa Sharon Harper, Krish Kandiah, Sam Wells and many more, The Hopeful Activist is full of fresh wisdom and practical advice to help you play your part in bringing God's justice and restoration to the world around you." [AMAZON]
PURCHASE: https://www.amazon.com/Hopeful-Activist-Discovering-vital-change/dp/0281088241
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Rev. Kevin Burns (KB)
Growing up in a large family meant there was always something to do and always someone to play with. But sometimes I wanted to be left alone. During those times, I went to my bedroom and lay on the bed and thought about life. I thought about decisions people make, why people do what they do, and why bad things happen to good people. You know, things that a lot of people think about.
Rev. Dr. Kevin Riggs (KR)
It all started with an article in my local newspaper. The article stated that over the next thirteen months Tennessee would carry out ten executions It had been more than a decade since an execution. Now, in a relatively short time, Tennessee would murder 13 percent of the total population of men and women on death row. Not long after I read the article, I heard the Spirit say, "Go to death row." At the time I did not know where death row was in Tennessee. Knowing I heard God speak, I did some research, made some phone calls, and by the end of that summer, made my first visit to Unit Two at
Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the home of Tennessee's death row. That was over ten years ago. While ten executions over thirteen months never happened, during the past five years, there have been seven executions. I've said goodbye to seven friends, all of which were image bearers of the Divine.
Check out the blog here: https://floodsofjustice.wordpress.com/about/
Floods of Justice Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/floods-of-justice/id1498987546
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"How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America's history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views differ from our own?
In The Ballot and the Bible, Kaitlyn Schiess explores these questions and more. She unpacks examples of how Americans have connected the Bible to politics in the past, highlighting times it was applied well and times it was egregiously misused.
Schiess combines American political history and biblical interpretation to help readers faithfully read Scripture, talk with others about it, and apply it to contemporary political issues--and to their lives. Rather than prescribing what readers should think about specific hot-button issues, Schiess outlines core biblical themes around power, allegiance, national identity, and more.
Readers will be encouraged to pursue a biblical basis for their political engagement with compassion and confidence." [https://www.amazon.com/Ballot-Bible-Scripture-American-Politics/dp/1587435969]
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Daniel Yang is the National Director of Churches of Welcome at World Relief. Previously he served as the director of the Church Multiplication Institute at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, a think tank for evangelism and church planting. He has pastored and helped plant churches in Detroit, Dallas-Fort Worth, Toronto, and Chicago. He earned an MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a BS in computer science from the University of Michigan, and is currently a PhD student in intercultural studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
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June's RLC Book Club with Chuck Mingo and Troy Jackson to learn about their book, "Living Undivided: Loving Courageously for Racial Healing and Justice." About the Book: As the church and as a country, we've often neglected and avoided addressing the impact and ongoing reality of racism. We've been more focused on order than justice, more concerned with social media posturing than solidarity, more committed to judgment than repentance. But God's people are called to more. We need to lead the way to true racial healing, solidarity, and justice. Through enlightening history and eye-opening personal stories, Living Undivided will equip and empower you with the biblical, transformative tools you need to move from just hoping and wishing for racial justice to actionable change that makes a difference in your life and the lives of churches, neighborhoods, and cities. About the Authors - CHUCK MINGO: Chuck is the Founder and CEO of UNDIVIDED, a nonprofit organization built to unite and ignite people for racial justice through programming that takes participants through life-changing moments of racial healing. Through his passion for justice and racial reconciliation, Chuck has transformed a congregational training into a national movement with hub cities emerging throughout the country. Chuck’s leadership through UNDIVIDED has inspired and mobilized thousands from diverse backgrounds around the nation. In addition to leading UNDIVIDED, Chuck teaches and consults for churches and organizations around the country on a variety of topics related to race relations and racial justice. For nearly two decades, Chuck has served as a teaching pastor at one of the largest churches in America, Crossroads Church. Prior to being a pastor, Chuck spent nine years in the corporate world at Procter & Gamble. He earned his Bachelors in Business Administration at Duquesne University. Chuck is married with three children and calls Cincinnati, Ohio home. About the Authors - TROY JACKSON: Troy Jackson is a co-founder of UNDIVIDED and the Chief Strategies Officer. Former senior pastor of University Christian Church in Cincinnati, he loves moving people into action to advance racial justice and has spent the last decade doing faith-based community organizing. He has an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in United States History from the University of Kentucky. After raising three children,Troy and his wife Amanda moved to their dream home–a cabin in the woods outside Cincinnati, Ohio.
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The Rev. Dr. Allison J. Tanner is a pastor, educator and organizer working for justice and healing in her community. She is the Stephen McNeil Fellow at AFSC, where she organizes the Apartheid-Free Communities platform. She is also the Pastor of Public Witness at Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland, California. [https://afsc.org/profile/allison-tanner]
"The Apartheid-Free network is a coalition of communities who pledge to work together to end Israeli apartheid. This coalition formed in 2022, following the emerging consensus among the international human rights community that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people amounts to the Crime of Apartheid. Originally created by faith groups in North America, the network currently includes congregations, faith communities, solidarity organizations, non-profits, campus groups, businesses, and more. Centered in North America, we encourage communities throughout the world to join the network.
The Apartheid-Free network asks ourselves and our communities to take a renewed public pledge against all forms of racism, bigotry, and oppression, including against racist discrimination, islamophobia, antisemitism, and xenophobia in our own communities. We seek to educate ourselves and our communities about the devastation of Palestinian lives under military occupation, settler colonialism, and apartheid, and about the connections between settler colonialism, racist oppression, and the cult of security in Palestine/Israel, in North America, and throughout the world.
Inspired by the anti-Apartheid movement that toppled the Apartheid regime in South Africa, we are building a new anti-apartheid movement and encourage faith communities and all communities of conscience to step away from any and all support to Israeli apartheid, occupation, and settler colonialism.
This coalition is convened by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and has a steering committee that consists of organizations and individuals that includes:
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Alliance of Baptists
Black Christians for Palestine (BC4P)
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT)
Episcopal Peace Fellowship – Palestine Israel Network (EPF PIN)
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)
Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (IPMN)
Mennonite Palestine Israel Network (MennoPIN)
Quaker Palestine Israel Network (QPIN)
United Church of Christ (UCC)
United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR)
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME)
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"An award-winning author, speaker, and co-host of the Holy Post Podcast, Skye has written more than a dozen books and served as an editor and executive at Christianity Today for more than a decade. Raised in a religiously and ethnically diverse family, his curiosity about faith led him to study comparative religion before entering seminary and pastoral ministry. With a unique ability to connect Christian thought and contemporary culture, his voice has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post, and he’s spoken to audiences throughout the world as diverse as the U.S. Naval Academy, The Chautauqua Institution, and the Lausanne Movement." [https://www.withgoddaily.com/about/]
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Dr. Hillary L. McBride joins us in conversation with Divya Rosaline David to discuss her latest book, “Practices for Embodied Living: Experiencing the Wisdom of Your Body.”
Practices for Embodied Living offers an experiential guide-centered on prompts, activities, and opportunities for reflection-to support readers who want to practice embodiment. This approachable, visually stimulating book helps individuals and groups resist cultural myths about ideal bodies, get in touch with the goodness of their bodies, and more fully inhabit themselves.
Topics include disembodiment, stress and trauma, sexuality, body image, pain and illness, oppression, and more. Each topic includes various exercises to help readers restore the mind-body connection.
Author Hillary McBride, PhD, is a Registered Psychologist, researcher, podcastor, and author, but underneath all of that she is a human, who loves asking questions about what it means to be human, how we heal and grow, and what it means to be a body. She publishes written works for community and academic audiences about embodiment, trauma, eating disorders, mental health and spirituality; her bestselling book The Wisdom Of Your Body was released in 2021, Practices for Embodied Living was released in early 2024, and her next book Holy Hurt: understanding and healing from spiritual trauma will be released in spring 2025.
Her award winning CBC podcast Other People’s Problems was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times as essential listening, and she is on faculty with the Psychedelic Somatic Institute, and the co-developer of Katalyst Mental Health Ketamine Assisted Therapy program. What makes her feel alive is her daughter’s laugh, her love for her partner and close friends, asking unanswerable questions, and spending time in or near the ocean.
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Recording from June 2024 Morning Prayer. June's Monthly Morning Prayer with Mike Martin and our friends at RAWtools. We'll be praying and reflecting upon the urgent need for peace, and to turn weapons of all kinds into tools of nonviolence and love.
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Register here: https://www.cbeinternational.org/event/mimi-haddad-will-lead-a-workshop-at-cbes-denver-conference-tell-her-story-women-in-scripture-and-history/
"Dr. Mimi Haddad serves as president and CEO of CBE International. She has taught as an adjunct associate professor of historical theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Olivet University and has taught for institutes and organizations worldwide....
Mimi is an award-winning author and has written more than one hundred fifty academic, popular, and blog articles for Ashland Theological Journal; The Campbellsville Review, Catalyst, Christian Ethics Today, Christianity Today, Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief; Her.menuetics; Sojourners; and the William Carey Development Journal, and CBE’s journals, Mutuality and Priscilla Papers." [https://www.cbeinternational.org/person/mimi-haddad/]
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Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Spangled-Jesus-Leaving-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1546006680
"April Ajoy is a content creator and podcast host who uses humor to shine light on harmful, toxic, and sometimes just weird traits of American Evangelicalism. After growing up an evangelist’s kid entrenched in Christian Nationalism and later working in conservative Christian media, she saw the harm caused firsthand. Still a Christian, she uses her platform to expose the dangers of Christian Nationalism while promoting a more inclusive faith."
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You may have seen her hosting some of your favorite RLC Book Clubs and now she's here to share more about her story. One of RLC's very own, we are so excited for you to learn more about the very gifted Divya David!
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Jonathan Brenneman, a Palestinian Mennonite and one of the authors of Mennonite Church USA’s “Seeking Peace in Israel and Palestine: A Resolution for Mennonite Church USA,” discusses organizing for peace and activism at the Capitol.
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"Greg is the author of two books. His book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods (Fortress Press), has won wide acclaim for its lucid storytelling and new research. He has written widely, including for Sojourners, The Bitter Southerner, and The Charlotte Observer. Greg is a regular contributor at Baptist News Global. He frequently speaks, teaches, and preaches on place, race, and faith.
Greg is a cultural organizer with QC Family Tree in the Enderly Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. He works with words and music to impact housing and neighborhood justice issues. Jarrell writes about theology and history and co-leads Carolina Social Music Club, a popular jazz band. He and his wife, Helms, are ordained ministers and are raising two sons. " [https://www.gregjarrell.com]
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May's Monthly Morning Prayer recorded May 1) with our featured guest and dear friend, Carlos A. Rodriguez. Carlos is a passionate speaker who leads the Happy Non-Profit and The Happy Givers. He is the author of Simply Sonship, Drop The Stones, and the upcoming Flip The Tables. His main passions are leading The Happy NPO and spending time with his wife, Catherine and their 3 adorable children. Oh yeah, he also wants everyone to know that he’s a Puerto Rican (living in Puerto Rico) and he can’t wait to host you there! Come on through to pray and reflect with Carlos A. Rodriguez in conversation with Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.
"A 3rd Generation Chinese/Filipino, armchair sociologist, and technology enthusiast Bruce speaks and teaches on faith, race, parenting, and technology in a variety contexts from seminaries to conferences to congregations to pre-schools. While he speaks to both religious and secular audiences, he is committed to living and expressing a Christian faith that is beautifully complex, unimaginably just, and excruciatingly gracious." [https://www.redletterchristians.org/]
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"Jenny Dyer is the Founder of The 2030 Collaborative. As such, she directs the Faith-Based Coalition for Global Nutrition with support from the Eleanor Crook Foundation. She also directs the Faith-Based Coalition for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in partnership with Friends of the Global Fight." [https://www.2030collaborative.com/staff]
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Reverend Dr. Sarah Thomas Baldwin serves as the Vice President of Student Life at Asbury University in central Kentucky. Sarah shares her experiences behind the scenes of the Asbury Revival that broke out at in February 2023 and the lessons that God taught her through that experience.
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"Katherine Stewart has been covering religious nationalism and the assault on American democracy for over 15 years. Her latest book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, was awarded first place for Excellence in Nonfiction Books by the Religion News Association as well as a Morris D. Forkosch award. Her previous book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children covered the religious right’s efforts to infiltrate and undermine public education.
Stewart writes for The New York Times opinion, New Republic and many others, and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. In 2020 The Power Worshippers was acquired by producers Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner, who subsequently based their documentary feature film, God & Country, on the book. Stewart’s forthcoming book will be published by Bloomsbury in January 2025. You may follow her on X @kathsstewart. " [https://katherinestewart.me]
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This special episode comes to you in partnership with Freedom Road. [https://freedomroad.us/]
As ethnic cleansing and plausible genocide grip Gaza, we ask, “What’s going on? And how did we get here?” Our guest for this episode is Dr. Rashid Khalidi. He is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He has also served as editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of almost a dozen books, the latest one being The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 which we will be talking with him about today.
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Lisa Sharon Harper, author of Fortune and host of The Freedom Road Podcast, joins Shane Claiborne to discuss deconstruction and the desecration of God's image.
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"Everyone who claims to be 'Christian' or else claims to be upset by 'Christianity' needs to read this book, especially politicians using people's supposed faith for their own ends." —Margaret E. Atwood
"Jim Wallis calls the nation to grow up and he calls us all to fight the love battle to save the soul of America." —From the Foreword by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
A major new work by the New York Times bestselling author, arguing that the answer to bad religion is true faith that will help refound democracy
It is time says Jim Wallis, to call out genuine faith—specifically the “Christian” in White Christian Nationalism—inviting all who can be persuaded to reject and help dismantle a false gospel that propagates white supremacy and autocracy. We need–to raise up the faith of all of us, and help those who are oblivious, stuck, and captive to the ideology and idolatry of White Christian Nationalism that is leading us to such great danger. Wallis turns our attention to six iconic texts at the heart of what genuine biblical faith means and what Jesus, in the gospels, has called us to do. It is time to ask anew: do we believe these teachings or not?
This book isn’t only for Christians but for all faith traditions, and even those with no faith at all. When we see a civic promotion of fear, hate, and violence for the trajectory of our politics, we need a civic faith of love, healing, and hope to defeat it. And that must involve all of us–religious or not. Learning to practice a politics of neighbor love will be central to the future of democracy in America. And more than ever, the words of Jesus ring, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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Join Cole Arthur Riley in conversation with Divya Rosaline David to discuss “Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human.”
For years, Cole Arthur Riley was desperate for a spirituality she could trust. Amid ongoing national racial violence, the isolation of the pandemic, and a surge of anti-Black rhetoric in many Christian spaces, she began dreaming of a more human, more liberating expression of faith. She went on to create Black Liturgies, a digital project that connects spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black memory, and the Black body.
In this book, she brings together hundreds of new prayers, along with letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures, and the writings of Black literary ancestors to offer forty-three liturgies that can be practiced individually or as a community. Inviting readers to reflect on their shared experiences of wonder, rest, rage, and repair, and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth, Arthur Riley writes with a poet’s touch and a sensitivity that has made her one of the most important spiritual voices at work today.
For anyone healing from communities that were more violent than loving; for anyone who has escaped the trauma of white Christian nationalism, religious homophobia, or transphobia; for anyone asking what it means to be human in a world of both beauty and terror, Black Liturgies is a work of healing and empowerment, and a vision for might be.
About the author:
Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and poet. She is the NYT bestselling author of This Here Flesh and Black Liturgies. Her writing has been featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post.
Cole is also the creator of Black Liturgies, a space that integrates spiritual practice with Black emotion, Black literature, and the Black body; and a project of The Center for Dignity and Contemplation where she serves as Curator.
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Dr. Mark Shrime, a surgeon with Mercy Ships, author of "Solving for Why: A Surgeon’s Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose" discusses more about the work with Mercy Ships.
Please visit https://www.mercyships.org/ for more information.
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Find Yale Divinity School events here: https://www.theologyandpolicy.yale.edu/launch
"Following over 30 years of ongoing public ministry, Bishop William J. Barber II, DMin, joined the faculty at Yale Divinity School and created the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. From April 2 - April 6, 2023 the Center collaborated with partners across Yale to host a series of powerful events to mark and launch this historic work. On April 5, 2023, students, scholars, advocates, activists, economists, lawyers, and the community, convened at Yale Divinity School to learn more about the Center's mission and upcoming work. Bishop Barber moderated a roundtable discussion between scholars, economists, and impacted people - they examined the public policy issues of living wages and healthcare and offered a moral framework as a guide for cultivating solutions to these issues.
Mr. Wilson-Hartgrove is an author, preacher, and community-builder who has worked with faith-rooted movements for social change for more than two decades. He is the founder of School for Conversion, a popular education center in Durham, North Carolina, and co-founder of the Rutba House, a house of hospitality in Durham’s Walltown neighborhood.
Mr. Wilson-Hartgrove is the author of more than a dozen books, including the daily prayer guide, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, New Monasticism, The Wisdom of Stability, Reconstructing the Gospel, and Revolution of Values. He is a regular preacher and teacher in churches across the US and Canada and a member of the Red Letter Christian Communicators network."
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Ariel Gold is the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She was the national co-director of the antiwar group CODEPINK, where she specialized in campaigns for Palestinian rights. She is a member of Congregation Tikkun v’Or in Ithaca, New York where she resides and has been a longtime active member of Jewish Voice for Peace.
James Joseph Zogby (from Arabic: زغبي, Zuġbīy) (born 1945) is the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.–based organization that serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab-American community. He is Managing Director of Zogby Research Services, LLC, specializing in research and communications and undertaking polling across the Arab world.
Rev. Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel is Founder and Executive Director of the Atlanta Ministry with International Students Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born in Kafr Yasif, in the Galilee, of Christian Palestinian parents. He was ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church USA in 1978 and has served on the mission staff of the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta. Rev Fahed was instrumental for mission trips to Kenya, Haiti, Brazil, Egypt, Israel, and Palestine.* To help sustain our work, you can donate here * To check out what RLC is up to, please visit us www.redletterchristians.org * Follow us on Twitter: @RedLetterXians * Instagram: @RedLetterXians * Follow Shane on Instagram: @shane.claiborne * Twitter: @ShaneClaiborne * Common Hymnal information: https://commonhymnal.com/
We only need 38 more signatures to reach the next goal - can you help?
https://www.ceasefiresong.com/
We are religious leaders, nonprofits, and activists, nurses, doctors, dads, teachers and mothers united in this moment of moral reckoning to affirm the sanctity of all human life. https://www.change.org/p/save-children-s-lives-duluth-demands-a-ceasefire-now
We call on the Duluth City Council to save Palestinian and Israeli Children’s lives by demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
We unequivocally condemn attacks on all innocent civilians, including the October 7th Hamas-led attacks in Israel, which killed 1200 Israelis and saw 240 people taken hostage. We condemn the Israeli Army’s siege and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza, where U.S.-made weapons have contributed to the loss of more than 25,105 Palestinian lives and left more than 62,681wounded or dying without hospitals to stop the bleeding.
Children are experiencing the suffering and consequences from decisions made by Adults. We cannot allow them to suffer for the horrific decisions they did not make.
We as Duluthians are standing up to Protect innocent childrens lives.
Children make up over 47% of the population of Gaza according to UNICEF.
Its estimated 3 children are being killed every day by the Israeli Army.
Bombs, disease and starvation in addition to having their parents killed is the triple threat facing them according to UNICEF every day we allow this to continue
Two abducted Israeli children must be unconditionally and safely released.
“With every passing day, children and families in the Gaza Strip face increased risk of death from the sky, disease from lack of safe water, and deprivation from lack of food. And for the two remaining Israeli children still held hostage in Gaza, their nightmare that began on 7 October continues.”
It is our moral obligation to leverage our collective power to end the escalation of death and ongoing humanitarian crises. We have three demands.
We demand an immediate, permanent ceasefire and the immediate release of all Israeli and Palestinian hostages.
We urge the Duluth City Council and US to facilitate unimpeded UN-supervised humanitarian aid in Gaza. This includes but is not limited to the immediate delivery of lifesaving aid, the reconstruction, restabilization, and return of Palestinians displaced from their homes and neighborhoods.
We urge the Duluth City Council and the US to condition funding to Israel on its adherence to humanitarian law just as is required for every other nation that receives our citizens tax dollars through US aid and funding.
United in shared humanity, we collectively urge the Duluth City Council to leverage its power to end the genocide in Gaza. A ceasefire is just the beginning. The staggering civilian casualties and rising global hate crimes highlight a fundamental truth: there is no military resolution to this invasion. We understand the safety and security of Israelis and Palestinians to be inextricably intertwined, a safety predicated on a long-term diplomatic solution. Further, we condemn weaponization of this violence to justify anti-semetic and anti-Arab, especially anti-Palestinian, attacks and abuse and intimidation across Duluth and the nation.
We stand on our faiths, our conscience and human and civic responsibility to speak up for children and preserve the sanctity of human life here in Duluth and across the world in Gaza. In the words of Rev. Jesse Jackson in Lebanon in 1979, “we do not seek to exchange sufferers but rather to stop suffering.”
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Father Adam Bucko in conversation with RLC’S Mary Grace Puszka to discuss “Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation” (Orbis Books, 2022). Written against the backdrop of the pandemic and America’s reckoning with growing poverty, injustice and systemic racism, this book is uniquely positioned to accompany us through the disillusionment and violence of trying times. It offers reflections, stories, and insights from Adam Bucko’s years of prayer and activism, including in the streets with homeless and LGBTQ youth, in new monastic communities across the world, and as an Episcopal priest in an engaged contemplative community.
Indeed, Father Adam Bucko has been a committed voice in the movement for the renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality and the growing New Monastic movement. He has taught engaged contemplative spirituality in Europe and the United States and has authored “Let Your Heartbreak be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation” and co-authored “Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation” and “The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living.”
Committed to an integration of contemplation and just practice, he cofounded an award-winning non-profit, the Reciprocity Foundation, where he spent 15 years working with homeless youth living on the streets of New York City, providing spiritual care, developing programs to end youth homelessness, and articulating a vision for spiritual mentoring in a post-religious world. He currently serves as a director of The Center for Spiritual Imagination at the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York, and is a member of “The Community of the Incarnation,” a ‘new monastic’ community dedicated to democratizing the gifts of monastic spirituality and teaching contemplative spirituality, in the context of hearing and responding to the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth.
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We are humbled to be joined by Angela Tucker as our book club guest in conversation with Diana Oestreich.
Tucker wears many hats: she is the CEO of the Adoptee Mentoring Society, cultural commentator, filmmaker, podcast host, inspiring speaker, and author. Tucker is a transracial adoptee and is the Founder of The Adopted Life and the Adoptee Mentoring Society where she is challenging dominant adoption paradigms by centering adoptee voices in the mainstream. Tucker lives in Seattle Washington with her husband, Bryan Tucker.
Her new book, You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity and Transracial Adoption is the subject of the documentary Closure, chronicling the search for Tucker’s biological family. The book centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, it is comprised of well-researched history and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees through sharing deeply personal stories, well-researched history and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging.
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Shane Claiborne speaks with Dr. Jeff Hood about redemption, grace, and justice. Dr. Hood was the spiritual advisor to death row inmate Kenneth Smith who was killed Thursday, January 25, 2024, with the experimental execution method of nitrogen gas by the state of Alabama.
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Streamed live on Aug 27, 2023Bishop Mark M. Beckwith was the tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. He currently serves as the Bishop Liaison for Bishops United Against Gun Violence, a network of 100 bishops he co-founded after the Newtown, Ct. killings in 2012. He is also the co-founder of Faith Leaders for Ending Gun Violence, a national ecumenical group of diverse religious leaders. He has been part of the leadership team for Braver Angels, a national movement that seeks to depolarize America. Beckwith's book, "Seeing the Unseen: Beyond Prejudices, Paradigms and Party Lines" (Morehouse Publishing, 2022) offers a way forward from opposing viewpoints. Instead of dismissing those whose views and experiences are different from our own, he argues that we must look directly at them and see the goodness that is inherent in all things. From the language we use to the imperative to understand and include, we have a duty to work through opposition and build community. Bishop Beckwith describes "Seeing the Unseen" this way: “We are trained to think, yet the cultural emphasis on thinking has not be applied to our ability to see . . . We are not as well trained in seeing the world’s fullness―pain and joy, compassion and cruelty. We regularly receive glimpses of pain and joy, but they are often presented in such a way as to reinforce our thinking.”
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Yousef identifies himself as a Christian Arab Palestinian. He was born in Gaza to a Christian family that has a long heritage of serving in the priesthood of the Greek Orthodox Church. He is married to Merna and they live in Bethlehem, Palestine. Yousef has written several poems in Arabic. In 2007, he published his first poetry collection under the title “You are Not My Beloved.” In addition to teaching at BethBC and lecturing to international groups on the Palestinian Israeli conflict, Yousef is also involved in Christ at the Checkpoint. [https://bethbc.edu/Faculty/yousef-alkhouri/]
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From December 2023, a second conversation with iconographer and artist, Kelly Latimore.
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Red Letter Christians partnered with artist Kelly Latimore of @kellylatimoreicons to create this new icon, "Christ in the Rubble," which illustrates the prophetic message that if Jesus was born today, he would be born "under the rubble."
Kelly wants his art to be a ‘holy pondering’ - a process that potentially brings about a new way of seeing.
Our hope is that this icon, "Christ in the Rubble" will create more dialogue among Christians in the United States during this holy season about the ways our beliefs and actions - or lack thereof - contribute to the violence we're currently witnessing in Gaza. How can we shape a culture of Christianity where love truly has no boundaries? How do we create a world where our poor, homeless, refugee, Palestinian Savior - born to a teenage mother and later condemned to death - would be cherished had he been born today.
🚨🚨 Right now, when you give $100 or more on the Red Letter Christians website, you’ll receive a professional print of “Christ in the Rubble” SIGNED by Kelly Latimore. These special prints will be limited to the first 500 gifts made. ‼️All the donations Red Letter Christians collects from the sale of these prints will be donated to trusted Red Letter Christians partners working for peace on the ground in Gaza‼️
All people, churches, organizations, etc are warmly welcomed and encouraged to share the digital version of this icon on social media and on their websites, particularly during the Christmas season.
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Reverend Dr. Mae Elise Cannon (https://www.maecannon.com) joins Shane for an important conversation about peacebuilding and Churches for Middle East Peace.
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Special guests and authors of God's Resistance (Brad Christerson , Alexia Salvatierra, Nancy Wang Yuen [not present] and Robert Chao Romero) discuss their experience of enabling the power of faith to mobilize resistance to anti-immigration policies.
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In this special bonus episode, Shane shares about the ongoing war and heartbreak in Israel and Palestine. He breaks down the idea of war, collective punishment, and retribution and what the Bible says.
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RLC Book Club with Andrew Whitehead
Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey andreveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church.
Whitehead shows how Christians harm their neighbors when they embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence. He uses two key examples – racism and xenophobia – to demonstrate that these idols violate core Christian beliefs. Through stories, he illuminates expressions of Christianity that confront Christian nationalism and offer a faithful path forward.
Andrew Whitehead’s latest book “American Idolatry” published by Brazos Press, encourages further conversation about what Christian nationalism threatens, how to face it, and why it is vitally important to do so. It will help identify Christian nationalism and build a framework that makes sense of the relationship between faith and the current political and cultural context.
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Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about how the disvaluing of some lives over others is actually a denial of the image of God in others.
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Shane discusses his book Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person and the importance of Christians to be pro-life and what that means "from the womb to the tomb."
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Shane discusses the violence and death the US perpetuates under the guise of justice and the Christian's call to be the peacemakers and advocates for life.
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“An invitation into a deep, expansive, and healing way of encountering Scripture”
In this 40-day devotional, Cuban American writer Kat Armas shows us that reading the Bible with fresh eyes allows us to experience God in new and liberating ways.
Highlighting biblical passages that point toward decolonized themes centered on creation, wisdom, spirit, the body, and the feminine, Armas helps us see how Scripture directs us to live a liberated faith–a faith where we belong to God, the earth, and one another.
“What a delicious book. We are invited to taste and see biblical narratives with a new palate that decenters and decolonizes and disrupts limited ways of knowing.” -Rev. Dr. Jacqui J. Lewis, senior minister, Middle Church; author of Fierce Love
About our Author Guest
Kat Armas (MDiv and MAT, Fuller Theological Seminary), a Cuban American writer and speaker, hosts The Protagonistas podcast, where she highlights stories of everyday women of color, including writers, pastors, church leaders, and theologians. She is the author of Abuelita Faith and has written for Christianity Today, Sojourners, Relevant, Christians for Biblical Equality, Fuller Youth Institute, Fathom magazine, and Missio Alliance. Armas speaks regularly at conferences on race and justice and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about what it means when we say Black Lives Matter, what the value of life is, who determines it, and examines racism in Christianity.
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See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship, challenging Christ-followers everywhere to live as hopeful agents of resistance and transformation.
The last book of the Bible frustrates and frightens many people with its imagery and apocalyptic tone. Popular interpretations rely on fear and politicization and often lead to pride and alienation of others. Is this really how we were intended to read John’s Revelation?
In Revelation for the Rest of Us, Scot McKnight with Cody Matchett explore the key message of Revelation and how it:
- Calls us to be faithful and hopeful witnesses to Jesus.
- Stimulates our imagination to see the world through the eyes of God and excite our faith.
- Challenges us to stand against the militarism, economic exploitation, oppression, and injustice of worldly authorities.
McKnight addresses the popular misconceptions about the book, explaining what John means in his use of the images of dragons, lambs, and beasts; and how the symbolism of Revelation spoke in the days of Rome and still speaks powerfully to the present day—though not in the way most people think.
You’ll learn to see the Book of Revelation in a fresh and hopeful new way. Drawing from the latest scholarship, the authors present an understanding of Revelation for anyone interested in deepening their personal study of the Bible and strengthening their faith as dissident disciples who can discern the presence of "Babylon" in our world and learn to speak up, speak out, and walk in the way of the Lamb.
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Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about how Evangelical Christianity theologized hate.
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STOP THE EXECUTION OF ANTHONY SANCHEZ
URGENT: Scheduled execution is September 21, 2023 - RLC fam, please help and visit the website to find out how you can be part of saving Anthony's life.
Anthony Sanchez, a member of the Choctaw Nation, is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on September 21, 2023 for the 1996 murder of Juli Busken. The question: IS ANTHONY SANCHEZ INNOCENT? Watch the film: "Evidence Unraveled: The Fight to Free Anthony Sanchez."
Please sign this petition to add the request to Governor Stitt to grant a 60 day reprieve so that Anthony Sanchez's brand new legal team has time to review newly uncovered evidence in the case.
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Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about Constantine and how we exchanged the cross for the sword.
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Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about The Early Church as a Force for Life.
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How do we effectively confront racial injustice? We need to move beyond talking about racism and start equipping ourselves to fight against it.
In this follow-up to the New York Times Bestseller The Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby offers an array of actionable items to confront racism. How to Fight Racism introduces a simple framework—the A.R.C. Of Racial Justice—that teaches readers to consistently interrogate their own actions and maintain a consistent posture of anti-racist behavior.
The A.R.C. Of Racial Justice is a clear model for how to think about race in productive ways:
Awareness: educate yourself by studying history, exploring your personal narrative, and grasping what God says about the dignity of the human person.
Relationships: understand the spiritual dimension of race relations and how authentic connections make reconciliation real and motivate you to act.
Commitment: consistently fight systemic racism and work for racial justice by orienting your life to it.
Tisby offers practical tools for following this model and suggests that by applying these principles, we can help dismantle a social hierarchy long stratified by skin color. He encourages rejection passivity and active participation in the struggle for human dignity. There is hope for transforming our nation and the world, and you can be part of the solution.
Jemar Tisby is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the Church’s Complicity in Racism, How to Fight Racism, and How to Fight Racism: Young Reader’s Edition. He is also a Professor of History at Simmons College of Kentucky in Louisville. Jemar has been a co-host of the “Pass the Mic” podcast since its inception seven years ago. His writing has been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the New York Times among others. He is a frequent commentator on outlets such as NPR and CNN’s New Day program. He speaks nationwide on the topics of racial justice, U.S. history and Christianity. Jemar earned his PhD in history and he studies race, religion, and social movements in the 20th century. You can follow his work through his newsletter, Footnotes, and on social media at @JemarTisby.
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From June's Book Club - Shane Claiborne speaks with author Terence Lester (PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, Union Institute and University) is a minister, speaker, community activist, author, and founder of Love Beyond Walls, a not-for-profit organization focused on poverty awareness and community mobilization. His campaigns on behalf of the poor, including #LoveSinksIn, have been featured in USA Today, Black Enterprise Essence, and Reader’s Digest. They have been viewed by millions of people globally on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS News, NBC, Upworthy, and “The Bright Side” with Katie Couric. His books include When We Stand, I See You, Getting Past Stuck, Simple Prayers for Hurting People, and Identity Theft.
In 2018, Terence led the March Against Poverty as he walked from Atlanta to Memphis (386 miles). He finished the march and spoke at the historic Lorraine Motel for the 50th Anniversary of MLK’s assassination. He has spoken on the same platform as other civil rights activists such as: Bernice King, Roland Martin, Gina Belafonte, Michael Eric Dyson, Tamika D. Mallory, and many others. Terence’s unique approach combines storytelling and digital media to help illustrate social justice issues with practical approaches to solving these ailments. In 2019, Terence launched the first museum in the U.S. that represents homelessness out of a shipping container called, “Dignity Museum”.
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Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about The Sacrifice to End All Sacrifices.
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Shane Claiborne begins a three part series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this special episode, he discusses what "Fulfillment of the Law" means.
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Shane Claiborne begins a three part series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this special episode, he discusses what it means to realize "The Full Revelation of God."
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In this BONUS special episode, Shane Claiborne speaks with Reverend William H Lamar IV who sued the Proud Boys and won a $1 million lawsuit after they vandalized his church.
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Shane Claiborne continues the series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this special episode, he discusses what it means to see sin in a new way.
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Shane Claiborne begins a three part series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this special episode, he discusses what it means to see "The Image of God in Every Person."
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Shane Claiborne begins a three part series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this special episode, he discusses what it means to be "Championing Life from Womb to Tomb."
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Mark Beckwith is the retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. While there, he co-founded the Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace, a network of religious leaders committed to reducing gang violence in the city. He co-founded Bishops United Against Gun Violence, which has grown to a network of 100 bishops from across the church. Since retirement, he has become part of the leadership team for Braver Angels, a movement that seeks to depolarize America by convening equal numbers of conservative and progressive people in workshops and actions that honor political and ideological difference and seek to find common ground.
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Andy Raine who together with John & Linda Skinner founded the Northumbria Community joins Shane Claiborne to discuss the community and Celtic Daily Prayer.
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Terence Lester (PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, Union Institute and University) is a minister, speaker, community activist, author, and founder of Love Beyond Walls, a not-for-profit organization focused on poverty awareness and community mobilization. His campaigns on behalf of the poor, including #LoveSinksIn, have been featured in USA Today, Black Enterprise Essence, and Reader’s Digest. They have been viewed by millions of people globally on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS News, NBC, Upworthy, and “The Bright Side” with Katie Couric. His books include When We Stand, I See You, Getting Past Stuck, Simple Prayers for Hurting People, and Identity Theft.
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Dr. Ash Barker has spent over 30 years living and serving on the front line of urban poverty and has a passion to release the unique potential of urban people & places through Jesus. Since 2014, the Barkers have been based in Winson Green, inner city Birmingham, UK. They founded Newbigin House which started two new local congregations as well as innovative organisations such as Newbigin Community Trust, Red Letter Christians UK & Urban Shalom Society now led by others. Currently, Ash leads Seedbeds (the new name for Newbigin School for Urban Leadership which merged with the Community for Reconciliation) focusing on growing leaders & communities into fullness of life. This includes 'School for Urban Leadership' accredited programmes (UrbanLeadership.org.uk) and 'Change Makers' emerging leaders programmes (UrbanChangeMakers.org).
No Wastelands: How to grow seedbeds of shalom in your neighbourhood.
In No Wastelands Ash Barker shares his odyssey of serving on the front line of urban poverty on three continents. Through stories, scriptures, and challenging insights, Ash inspires readers to release the unique potential of their local communities.
“Whoever you are, ‘No Wastelands’ will help you learn what I have been learning from Ash over the years: that making a difference is neither as simple as we think nor as impossible as we think.” Brian McLaren
Launching at Greenbelt - August 2023
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Sharon Tubbs began her professional career as a newspaper reporter and editor. In a career that spanned seventeen years, she worked briefly for the Philadelphia Inquirer then for the Tampa Bay Times. As a journalist, she covered various beats that included small-town government, local crime, and national religious issues. Today, Sharon Tubbs is a writer, inspirational speaker, and the director of a nonprofit organization that empowers under-resourced residents in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to live healthier lives.
This book, They Got Daddy: One Family’s Reckoning with Racism, has been called “an unforgettable journey through racism and faith across the generations.”
January 15, 1959—a day that changed one family forever. White supremacists kidnapped and severely beat rural Alabama preacher Israel Page, nearly killing him because he had sued a White sheriff’s deputy for injuries suffered in a car crash. After “they” “got Daddy,” Israel Page’s children began leaving the Jim Crow South, the event leaving an indelible mark on the family and its future. Decades later, the events of that day fueled journalist Sharon Tubbs’s epic quest to learn who had “gotten” her mother’s daddy and why.
They Got Daddy follows Tubbs on her moving journey from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to the back roads and rural churches of Alabama. A powerful revelation of the sustaining and redemptive power of faith and unflinching testimony to the deeply embedded effects of racism across the generations, it demonstrates how the search for the truth can offer a chance at true healing.
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In this bonus episode, we celebrate with the Pentecost Party episode from May 2021. Join Shane and friends as they celebrate Pentecost with music, conversation, and Jesus.
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From April 27th's RLC Book Club | Many Christian leaders use their fame and influence to great effect. Whether that popularity resides at the local church level or represents national or international influence, many leaders have effectively said to their followers, “Follow me as I follow Christ.” But fame that is cultivated for its own sake, without attendant spiritual maturity and accountability, has a shadow side that runs counter to the heart of the gospel. Celebrity – defined as social power without proximity – has led to abuses of power, the cultivation of persona, and a fixation on profits.
In light of the fall of famous Christian leaders in recent years, the time has come for the church to reexamine its relationship to celebrity. Award-winning journalist Katelyn Beaty explores the ways fame has reshaped the American church, explains how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical movement, and identifies many ways fame has gone awry in recent years. She shows us how evangelical culture is uniquely attracted to celebrity gurus over and against institutions, and she offers a renewed vision of ordinary faithfulness, helping us all keep fame in its proper place.
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From May 1, join Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, and special guest, Dr. Vonnetta West, for morning prayer! They discuss the recent action in Nashville and reflections on what’s needed to build The Beloved Community in this moment. Morning prayer takes place at the beginning of each month based on the book, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.
Dr. Vonnetta West is a cultural consultant, leadership strategist, nonviolence trainer, and good neighbor. As the principal owner of Go West Consulting LLC, she facilitates experiences and produces content, inclusive of social media, podcast, website, training, and speech content, purposed to connect, transform and engage people for good. She leads Go West Consulting in providing trainings on Creating Cultures of Honor, Culture Matters, Inside/Out, Eradicating Racism, The Bias Challenge, Leadership That Grows, The Language of the Beloved Community, Your Justice Footprint: Evidence of Love In Action, and other sessions aimed at building and sustaining community, including in professional spaces.
She is also the host of the Let Your Life Be Your Sermon podcast, pastor of Our Neighbor’s House, and Senior Nonviolence Instructor for The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center). Dr. West is a leader with the Interfaith Response to White Supremacy, a National Center for Civil and Human Rights initiative, and has 20+ years of leadership experience in the metro Atlanta non-profit sector. In her most recent non-profit professional staff role, she was Director of GenerationOn (Youth Division) at Points of Light in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Conversation about the high number of executions in Oklahoma, the role of Christians in abolishing the death penalty, and the case of an innocent man on death row despite the Attorney General asking the sentence be vacated due to his innocence. Shane Claiborne talks to Adam Luck, former chair of Pardons and Parole, and Abe Bonowitz, of Death Penalty Action.
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"Author of The Road Away from God, How to Survive a Shipwreck, and Prototype. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Spiritual Life and Associate Chaplain at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN. He holds degrees from Gardner-Webb University, Pentecostal Theological Seminary (MA) and Duke University (ThM). He speaks at conferences, universities, seminaries, retreats, and churches. His work and/or words have been featured in places like the New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, Newsweek, Vox, Sojourners, The Huffington Post, Relevant Magazine, and The Journal of Pentecostal Theology." [from http://jonathanmartinwords.com/]
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Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) is a network of Christians committed to seeing people and communities experience God’s shalom. We believe that God wants to restore a right relationship between us, our families and our communities – spiritually, emotionally, physically, economically and socially. In the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, “we work and pray for the well-being of our city [or neighborhood],” trusting that if the entire community does well and prospers, then we will prosper also. CCDA started as a longing in the hearts of just a few people-you can read more about our history here. [from https://ccda.org/]
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Special guest Tim Whitaker of the New Evangelicals community joins Shane to discuss the protest outside the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee to address gun reform laws after another mass shooting.
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Shane Claiborne talks about the tragedy of mass shootings and the place of Christian faith and gun control.
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"A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl’s shocking crime—and its extraordinary aftermath
On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of racial tensions and white flight, the girl, Paula Cooper, is Black, and her victim, Ruth Pelke, is white and a beloved Bible teacher. The press swoops in.
When Paula is sentenced to death, no one decries the impending execution of a tenth grader. But the tide begins to shift when the victim’s grandson Bill forgives the girl, against the wishes of his family, and campaigns to spare her life..." from https://alex-mar.com/seventy-times-seven/
Alex Mar is the author of Witches of America, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times Editors’ Pick. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Wired, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian, among many other outlets, as well as The Best American Magazine Writing. She has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. She is also the director of the feature-length documentary American Mystic. She lives in the Hudson Valley and New York City.
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Book Club episode with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and special guest, Lerone A. Martin, for discussion of his book, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
Lerone is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.
Taking readers from the pulpits and pews of small-town America to the Oval Office, and from the grassroots to denominational boardrooms, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover completely transforms how we understand the FBI, white evangelicalism, and our nation’s entangled history of religion and politics.
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Claudio lives in Curitiba, Southern Brazil and has been working with urban poor, young people and communities for 25 years. In 2011, Claudio and others launced an International Learning Community based on spirituality, organic farming, dialogue and mentoring on a small farm.
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Shane Claibone and Diane Oestreich discuss the 'shock and awe' campaign bombings in Iraq that started the invasion - 20 years ago.
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Rev. Rob Schenck is president of a non-profit organization named for Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He shares the impact of Bonhoeffer with Shane Claiborne and discusses his upcoming visit to Oxford.
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"Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality." [from https://faithgateway.com/products/rethinking-life-embracing-the-sacredness-of-every-person?variant=40613231722632]
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Twenty years after they were in Baghdad together with the Iraq Peace Team, Kathy Kelly, Peggy Gish, and Weldon Nisly join Shane and Jonathan for morning prayer to talk about the way of peace in a time of war and what a commitment to peacemaking can look like today. Morning prayer takes place at the beginning of each month based on the book, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.
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"Jason Porterfield has made his home in places abandoned by society, from Canada’s poorest neighborhood to the slums of Indonesia. His passion is to cultivate God’s shalom wherever it is painfully absent and to help churches embrace their peacemaking vocation.
In 2007, Jason joined Servants (servantsasia.org), an international network of Christian communities living and ministering among the urban poor. He was a founding member of the Servants team in Vancouver, started a new team in Indonesia, and directed operations in North America through 2015. Jason holds a master in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and now lives in his riskiest location yet: next door to his in-laws." [from: https://jasonporterfield.com/fight-like-jesus/]
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As the Revival at Asbury University continues, Shane Claiborne is joined by friend Clint Baldwin who shares his testimony from the Asbury Revival.
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In this exciting episode, Shane Claiborne has special guests from Asbury University in Kentucky sharing their experience and testimony at the ongoing revival that started February 8th and has been going eight days straight for 24 hours a day as of this publishing (February 16, 2023.)
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The very special and influential Reverend Canon Stephanie Spellers, the presiding bishop’s canon for evangelism, reconciliation and creation care, discusses white supremacy in the church and the need for diversity.
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Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove discuss “Reconciliation” on this month's Morning Prayer joined by special guests, Rev. Nelson and Joyce Johnson, founders of the Beloved Community Center and the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Morning prayer takes place at the beginning of each month based on the book, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.
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Roxanne Stone is a managing editor at Religion News Service and podcast host Saved By the City. She's appeared to provide her journalistic perspective in the Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed documentary series.
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Author Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III joins Shane Claiborne and Katie Jo Brotherton for a discussion of Rev. Dr. Moss’ just released book, Dancing in the Darkness
Dancing in the Darkness is a life-affirming guide to the practical, political, and spiritual challenges of our day. Drawing on the teachings of Dr. King, Howard Thurman, sacred scripture, southern wisdom, global spiritual traditions, Black culture, and his own personal experiences, Rev. Dr. Moss instructs us on how to practice spiritual resistance by combining justice and love. This collection helps us tap the spiritual reserves we all possess but too often overlook, so we can slay our personal demons, confront our civic challenges, and reach our highest goals.
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In this special episode, Shane is joined by his partner/wife Katie Jo Brotherton to discuss - joy! Why it is important and how they find it in the work they do together with RAWtools, enjoying music, and reading.
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In this special episode from 2021, Shane discusses Dr. King's Riverside Speech and the "spiritual death" a nation could face in chasing their "addiction to violence."
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Recorded January 2, 2023, Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove to kick off the new year. Morning Prayer takes place at the beginning of each month based on the book, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. They are joined by special guest Amanda Tyler, the Executive Director of BJC (Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty). BJC leads and coordinates Christians Against Christian Nationalism
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In this episode recorded in December 2022, Shane Clairborne discusses the work our UK team is doing, led by Dave and Sally Mann and Faith Van Horne and the ongoing concerns in Ukraine.
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"IT ALL STARTED WHEN… in 1995, dozens of homeless families had moved into an abandoned Catholic church building in North Philadelphia. They were told by the Archdiocese that they had 48 hours to move out, or they could be arrested. With nowhere to go, these courageous mothers and children hung a banner on the front of the building that said, “How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday, and ignore one on Monday?” The families held their own press conference and announced that they had talked with the real “Owner” of the building (the Lord Almighty!) – and God said they could stay until they found somewhere else to go.
That was the spark that lit the fire of The Simple Way." from https://thesimpleway.org/
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This episode is from June 2022's monthly Morning Prayer where Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove discuss the language and impact of Christian Nationalism.
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Shane reflects on the work of the RLC community, the support of all co-conspirators, and the vision we hope for in 2023.
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This Faith Forum episode is from April 2021, where Shane Claiborne discusses faith and immigration with Jenny Yang and Alexa Salvatierra. Special musical guest Rosa Cándida Ramírez.
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"Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality.
Diana’s passion is sharing great ideas to change lives and the world—a passion that ranges from informing the public about spiritual trends, challenging conventional narratives about religious practice, entering the fray of social media with spiritual wisdom and smart theology, and writing books to help readers see themselves, their place in history, and God differently. She does this with intelligence, joy, and a good dose of humor, leading well-known comedian John Fugelsang to dub her “iconic,” the late Marcus Borg to call her “spontaneous and always surprising,” and Glennon Doyle to praise her “razor-sharp mind” and “mystical heart.”" [from https://dianabutlerbass.com/]
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In this special book club episode, guest host Diana Oestreich speaks with author Osheta Moore on her book Dear White Peacemakers.
"Dear White Peacemakers is a breakup letter to division, a love letter to God’s beloved community, and an eviction notice to the violent powers that have sustained racism for centuries.Race is one of the hardest topics to discuss in America. Many white Christians avoid talking about it altogether. But a commitment to peacemaking requires white people to step out of their comfort and privilege and into the work of anti-racism. Dear White Peacemakers is an invitation to white Christians to come to the table and join this hard work and holy calling. Rooted in the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus, this book is a challenging call to transform white shame, fragility, saviorism, and privilege, in order to work together to build the Beloved Community as anti-racism peacemakers.Written in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Dear White Peacemakers draws on the Sermon on the Mount, Spirituals, and personal stories from author Osheta Moore’s work as a pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota. Enter into this story of shalom and join in the urgent work of anti-racism peacemaking." [from mennomedia.org]
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In this episode, we discuss the book by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery.
"Mark Charles is a dynamic and thought-provoking public speaker, writer, and consultant. The son of an American woman (of Dutch heritage) and a Navajo man, he teaches with insight into the complexities of American history regarding race, culture, and faith in order to help forge a path of healing and conciliation for the nation. He is one of the leading authorities on the 15th-century’s Doctrine of Discovery and its influence on US history and its intersection with modern-day society.
Soong-Chan Rah (ThD, Duke Divinity School) is Robert Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Previously, he served as Milton B. Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Prophetic Lament, The Next Evangelicalism, and Many Colors, as well as coauthor of Unsettling Truths, Forgive Us, and Return to Justice." [from https://www.ivpress.com/unsettling-truths ]
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Shane Claiborne discusses the death penalty, faith, and justice from a Jesus perspective with special guests who share their stories. This week’s "Faith Forum" episode includes Derrick Jamison and SueZann Bosler. Derrick was wrongfully-convicted and spent nearly 20 years on death row for a crime he had nothing to do with. And Sue Zann is the survivor of a violent crime that took her father's life.
John Reuwer is Treasurer and a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is a retired emergency physician whose practice convinced him of a crying need for alternatives to violence for resolving tough conflicts. This led him to the informal study and teaching of nonviolence for the last 35 years, with peace team field experience in Haiti, Colombia, Central America, Palestine/Israel, and several US inner cities. He worked in South Sudan with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, one of the few organizations practicing professional unarmed civilian peacekeeping. He also serves on the Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons with Physicians for Social Responsibility educating the public and politicians about the threat from nuclear weapons, which he sees as the ultimate expression of the insanity of modern warfare, so blatantly displayed in the current war in Ukraine. John has been a facilitator for World BEYOND War’s online courses “War Abolition 201” and “Leaving World War II Behind.” - from https://worldbeyondwar.org/johnreuwer/
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A special morning prayer with the staff of Red Letter Christians!
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Co-authors Chris Haw and Shane Claiborne discuss updates to their influential book Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radials -Jesus for President stirs the imagination of what the church could look like if it placed its faith in Jesus instead of Caesar. A fresh look at Christianity and empire, Jesus for President transcends questions of "Should I vote or not?" and "Which candidate?" by thinking creatively about the fundamental issues of faith and allegiance." Special brief appearance by guest Dr. Chris Hall.
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Don Golden from Just Capital Quotient explores Revolutionary Capitalism and what it means to use the blessing of resources to change capitalism into a "life-giving" economy.
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Michael Roth is an award-winning educator and principal in Philadelphia who has worked across public and charter schools to address issues concerning accessible education.
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Bryson is the CEO of The Akron Leadership Foundation. He has been serving in various leadership roles for 13 years. Learning from his own experiences of poverty and loss, he has transformed his disadvantages into advantages for others. His passions are youth, leadership development, race & culture, and economic development. Bryson is passionate about seeing men and women, young and old, live into the abundant life that Jesus lived and taught about. [from https://www.akronlf.org/]
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Josh Buck is a church planter, filmmaker, teacher, and faith-based entrepreneur. With undergraduate degrees in biblical studies and ministry, J.W. has his PhD in intercultural studies, with a focus on the problem of racial violence. He is a cofounder of Pax, a Christian organization designed to inspire and equip the next generation through slow, beautiful, Jesus-centered content created by people of color.
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Let’s talk about joy and wonder and why they are good for our souls. Join us for this special faith forum on “The Science of Joy” with neurotheologian, Dr. Jim Wilder and astronomer, Dr. David Bradstreet.
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"A second-generation Latino, Daniel Montanez is a PhD student at Boston University, a professor of theology and ethics, and the director of the Migration Crisis Initiative for the Church of God. Daniel is committed to empowering immigrant communities through ministry, scholarship, and social engagement." [from https://www.mygrationchristianconference.com/about]
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Miles McPherson is the pastor of the Rock Church in San Diego, former defensive back for the San Diego Chargers, author, actor, motivational speaker, and founder of DoSomethingChurch.org. Miles is a unifier who makes the hope of the gospel real, relevant, and accessible, to empower people to make a difference in the world.
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Join Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, and special guest Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes for a discussion on the monthly theme of “Nurturing a Common Life” recorded on November 1st. Morning prayer takes place at the beginning of each month based on the book, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.
Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and ecumenical minister whose work focuses upon healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression. A professor of practical theology and pastoral care at Columbia Theological Seminary, Dr. Chanequa is the author of I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation, Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength, as well as nearly two dozen journal articles and book chapters in theology and psychology.
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Shane Claiborne and Lisa Sharon Harper have an important discussion with Amy Kenny on her book, My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church recorded on October 27th.
“Written by a disabled Christian, this book shows that the church is missing out on the prophetic witness and blessing of disability. Kenny reflects on her experiences inside the church to expose unintentional ableism and cast a new vision for Christian communities to engage disability justice. She shows that until we cultivate church spaces where people with disabilities can fully belong, flourish, and lead, we are not valuing the diverse members of the body of Christ.”
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A special episode with Shane Claiborne and friends as they reflect on the continued impact of Rich Mullins after his death 25 years ago. There’ll be music and stories celebrating Rich’s life taken from the live stream on October 22, 2022
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Dr. Anthea Butler is the recipient of The 2022 Martin E. Marty Award and in this conversation from our Book Club in August 2021, Dr. Butler joins us for conversation about her book White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
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Kate Bowler discusses the how loss, health, and circumstance can challenge the Christian cliches many accept as part of their faith. Kate is the author of the best-selling memoir EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
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Alan Miller was scheduled for execution via gas chamber in Alabama on September 22, 2022 for the 1999 shooting deaths of Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis. Learn more and get involved with Death Penalty Action here
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Join Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, and special guest Angela Denker for a discussion on the monthly theme of "Formation in the way of Christ." Angela is a Lutheran pastor and veteran journalist. She often shares her research on politics and Christian Nationalism in the U.S.
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In this episode, Shane Claiborne speaks with Lea Wilkening about church planting, being a clown and comedic improv, and holding onto joy. Lea discusses what it means to open a church in friendship.
"Lea lives in Oakville, Ontario with her husband, John, and sons, Jack and Josh. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Calvin Seminary, an Accounting degree from University of Illinois, and is a graduate of the Improvisation Conservatory Program at Second City, Toronto. She has served justice and reconciliation ministries since her youth and started out community organizing at a young age. She thinks that when given the right tools and support, young people have the vision and capacity to lead the rest of us in the next era. She loves to laugh and thinks communities of faith have plenty of reasons for joy." [from https://www.thecottagechurch.com/about-us]
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In this episode, Shane Claiborne speaks with Lea Wilkening about church planting, being a clown and comedic improv, and holding onto joy. Lea discusses what it means to open a church in friendship.
"Lea lives in Oakville, Ontario with her husband, John, and sons, Jack and Josh. She holds a Master of Divinity degree from Calvin Seminary, an Accounting degree from University of Illinois, and is a graduate of the Improvisation Conservatory Program at Second City, Toronto. She has served justice and reconciliation ministries since her youth and started out community organizing at a young age. She thinks that when given the right tools and support, young people have the vision and capacity to lead the rest of us in the next era. She loves to laugh and thinks communities of faith have plenty of reasons for joy." [from https://www.thecottagechurch.com/about-us]
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With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Alexia Salvatierra has developed a model of social action that is rooted in the values and convictions born of faith. Together with theologian Peter Heltzel, this model of “faith-rooted organizing” offers a path to meaningful social change that takes seriously the command to love God and to love our neighbor as ourself. Join Shane Claiborne and Alexia Salvatierra for a discussion of her book, Faith-Rooted Organizing.
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With so many injustices, small and great, across the world and right at our doorstep, what are people of faith to do? Alexia Salvatierra has developed a model of social action that is rooted in the values and convictions born of faith. Together with theologian Peter Heltzel, this model of “faith-rooted organizing” offers a path to meaningful social change that takes seriously the command to love God and to love our neighbor as ourself. Join Shane Claiborne and Alexia Salvatierra for a discussion of her book, Faith-Rooted Organizing.
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"Anderson hosts RealTalk with Dr. David Anderson on WAVA 105.1fm in the Washington, DC, area,the most listened to Christian talk station on the east coast and the 2nd most listened to in the nation. Dr. Anderson creates a safe, uncommon platform to dialog with his followers and give them guidance and leadership on how to be a “Gracist” (extending positive favor on other humans based on color, class or culture) and build bridges of unity and reconciliation." [from https://andersonspeaks.com/real-talk/]
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"Anderson hosts RealTalk with Dr. David Anderson on WAVA 105.1fm in the Washington, DC, area,the most listened to Christian talk station on the east coast and the 2nd most listened to in the nation. Dr. Anderson creates a safe, uncommon platform to dialog with his followers and give them guidance and leadership on how to be a “Gracist” (extending positive favor on other humans based on color, class or culture) and build bridges of unity and reconciliation." [from https://andersonspeaks.com/real-talk/]
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Joel Simpson is a pastor in the United Methodist Church and believes language matters and that it is crucial to keep Christianity simple and rooted in love. He lives in western North Carolina and blogs at www.revjoelsimpson.wordpress.com
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Joel Simpson is a pastor in the United Methodist Church and believes language matters and that it is crucial to keep Christianity simple and rooted in love. He lives in western North Carolina and blogs at www.revjoelsimpson.wordpress.com
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"Rev. Brad Davis (he/him) is a provisional elder in the West Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church currently serving as pastor at Nighbert Memorial UMC of Logan, WV, and founder of The New Society, a grassroots Central Appalachian kingdom movement. A native of one of the nation’s most economically and socially exploited regions, Brad’s passion is connecting its people to a holistic, therapeutic, liberating message of salvation he calls the Holler Gospel." [from https://accidentaltomatoes.com]
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"Rev. Brad Davis (he/him) is a provisional elder in the West Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church currently serving as pastor at Nighbert Memorial UMC of Logan, WV, and founder of The New Society, a grassroots Central Appalachian kingdom movement. A native of one of the nation’s most economically and socially exploited regions, Brad’s passion is connecting its people to a holistic, therapeutic, liberating message of salvation he calls the Holler Gospel." [from https://accidentaltomatoes.com]
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Faith Van Horne is the new co-director of Red Letter Christians in the UK! She received her Masters of Divinity from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio in the United States. She is currently a postgraduate researcher in Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. Her thesis explores how perceptions of selfhood and the body influence theological visions of redemption for survivors of sexual abuse. She also blogs for Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice.
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Faith Van Horne is the new co-director of Red Letter Christians in the UK! She received her Masters of Divinity from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio in the United States. She is currently a postgraduate researcher in Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. Her thesis explores how perceptions of selfhood and the body influence theological visions of redemption for survivors of sexual abuse. She also blogs for Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice.
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This episode is from November 2021's Faith Forum on Creation Care & Colonization with special guests Randy Woodley, Sarah Augustine, Nicole Taylor Morris, and Avery Davis Lamb!
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This episode is from November 2021's Faith Forum on Creation Care & Colonization with special guests Randy Woodley, Sarah Augustine, Nicole Taylor Morris, and Avery Davis Lamb!
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"Sandra Maria Van Opstal is a second-generation Latina pastor, activist, author, and a powerful leading voice on the intersection of faith and justice.
She is executive director of Chasing Justice, a BIPOC-led movement that mobilizes Christians to live justly. Sandra’s distinctiveness comes from working in both local and global contexts as a practitioner and academic, which has solidified her calling to disrupt oppressive systems within the church and center marginalized voices. She has reached audiences around the world on topics of ethnic identity, reconciliation, global justice, and worship through international movements like Lausanne, The Justice Conference, and World Vision and Urbana Missions Conference. Her local influence is also palpable, having served as a pastor and activist in her local community.
She holds a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is currently pursuing doctoral work in Urban Leadership and Transformation. Sandra is the author of The Next Worship, as well as contributor to the New York Times bestselling book A Rhythm of Prayer." [[bio from http://www.sandravanopstal.com]]
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"Abraham J. Bonowitz has been one of the leading organizers in the death penalty abolition movement since he changed his mind on the issue in the late 1980’s. He has had a hand in each of the legislative repeal victories thus far, starting with when he served as the Field Manager for New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, which passed its bill in 2007. He then worked as the Director of Affiliate Support for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and was directly involved in the repeal victories in New Mexico, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland and Nebraska (since reversed via referendum)." - [from https://deathpenaltyaction.org/]
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"Mission and the Cultural Other is a decolonial critique of a too often failed missionary enterprise. Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley, a former missionary and missiologist, writes both as an insider and an outsider. As an Indigenous person, a missionary among Native Americans, and a decolonial theologian with over thirty years of experience in various missionary movements, he has seen the best and worst that American mission has to offer. Before change can be made in a guarded system such as Christian mission, the critique must be pervasive and cut to the core of the problem. To truly understand the weakness of modern mission, we need to hear from those who have been its casualties." - From WIPF and Stock Publishers
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"Pastor McBride's commitment to holistic ministry can be seen through his leadership roles in both the church and community organizations. Regarded as a national faith leader, active in the Ferguson uprisings and many subsequent uprisings, he helps bridge, train and support millennials and religious institutions working on racial justice and black liberation." [from https://www.pastormikemcbride.com/about]
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"Chris Haw is assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of Scranton, a speaker, and an author.
His books are Jesus for President (2008 w/ Shane Claiborne), From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart (2012), and Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics, with Cambridge University Press (2021).
Besides having cultivated the arts of carpentry, fathering, and husband-ing, Chris earned his PhD in theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. He researches and teaches on how human evolution, violence, scapegoating, Christianity, politics, and culture work--or don't. His teaching on Christianity often centers upon its intersection with racism, militarism, materialism, and the ecological crisis." [from https://www.chris-haw.com]
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Brueggemann’s primary method with the text is rhetorical criticism. Words matter to Brueggemann, and one can tell that by listening to him speak as he hangs on to particularly theologically significant words. His magnum opus, Theology of the Old Testament (1997), is a rhetorical-critical look at the Old Testament through the lenses of “testimony, dispute, and advocacy.”
Many have come to know Brueggemann through his book entitled The Prophetic Imagination, originally published in 1978.
[from https://www.walterbrueggemann.com]
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Chris Lahr helped run a mentoring program called Timoteo (Spanish for Timothy) that used sports to mentor and disciple urban youth (www.timoteosports.org). Chris is passionate about seeing Jesus manifested to people at the street level and seeing youth step into leadership roles in their community. His blogs mainly deal with the issue of racism and what we can do to live a more just and equitable lifestyle.
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In this special episode from July, Shane celebrates his 47th birthday at the White House and discusses progress being made in preventing gun violence.
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Shane Claiborne speaks with Seaux Chill and Vincent Charlow from Common Hymnal and what it means to make a difference as a Christian.
"Institutional Christianity is going through a great shaking. None of us know exactly what tomorrow holds, but one thing is sure - the church is changing. Escapism is being challenged by realism. Dualism by integration. Status quo by social activism. Judgmentalism by compassion. Exclusion by inclusion. Hierarchy by democratization. Colonization by the celebration of BIPOC leadership. In the process, praise and protest are becoming inextricably intertwined, and the spiritual underground is is giving us more and more clues as to what's around the corner." -- from https://commonhymnal.com/
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In this special two-part episode, we are celebrating the life and work of long-time RLC friend, Ron Sider, by sharing two older episodes fro 2018 and 2019 combined here in one. Ron passed away last week. He was the founder of Christians For Social Action (formerly Evangelicals for Social Action), and author of about 50 books including “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger” but most importantly, he was also a dear friend and part of RLC from the very beginning. We ask for you to keep Arbutus, his wife, and the rest of his family and friends in prayer during this time.
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"A beautiful and gut-wrenching memoir, Waging Peace exposes the false divide between loving our country and living out our faith's call to love our enemies--whether we perceive our enemy as the neighbor with an opposing political viewpoint, the clerk wearing a head-covering, or the refugee from a war-torn country. By showing that us-versus-them is a false choice, this book will inspire each of us to choose love over fear." - from https://www.dianaoestreich.com/waging-peace
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"Greenpeace uses non-violent creative action to pave the way towards a greener, more peaceful world, and to confront the systems that threaten our environment." - from www.greenpeace.org/international/
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In this interview from October 2021, Shane Claiborne interviews Dr. Chris Haw. Chris Haw is assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of Scranton, a speaker, and an author.
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"Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra is the Academic Dean of the Centro Latino at Fuller Theological Seminary as well as the Assistant Professor of Integral Mission and Global Transformation. She is available for speaking, training and workshops in the areas of immigration, faith-rooted organizing, cross-cultural ministry and building vital holistic Christian community." - from http://www.alexiasalvatierra.com/bio.html
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This month's Book Club we have author of For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre, Sharon Risher.
"The instant her phone rang, Reverend Sharon Risher sensed something was horribly wrong. Something had happened at Emanuel AME Church, the church of her youth in Charleston, South Carolina, and she knew her mother was likely in the church at Bible study. Even before she heard the news, her chaplain's instinct told her the awful truth: her mother was dead, along with two cousins. What she couldn't imagine was that they had been murdered by a white supremacist. Plunged into the depths of mourning and anger and shock, Sharon could have wallowed in the pain. Instead, she chose the path of forgiveness and hope - eventually forgiving the convicted killer for his crime."
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Join Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove for a discussion on the dangers of Christian nationalism. You can follow along with the readings at commonprayer.net for free!
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From July 5, 2021 | Christian leaders from around the country read the words of Frederick Douglass from his 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
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In this episode from Across the Pond from February 2022, Shane Claiborne speaks with friend Jon Huckins. Jon focuses much of his writing and speaking on peacemaking, local/global engagement and activating the Church as an instrument of peace in our world.
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Many of you are familiar with the work of RAWtools (turning guns into garden tools), but the deeper part of our work involves restorative justice. The founder of RAWTools, Mike Martin, will join us along with Sharletta Evans who is at the forefront of the Restorative Justice movement in America. Sharletta’s three year old son, Casson, was killed in the cross-fire during a shooting by teenagers. Many years later, one of the boys sentenced to life without parole began to correspond with her. Join us for this special event to hear how they continue to work together to heal the wounds of violence.
RAWTools: http://rawtools.org
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David Gibbons is an activist and founder of Newsong in Cailfornia. Gibbons grew up biracial Asian-American in a segregated fundamentalist community. He went on to build a community of misfits, who zealously love God and the misfits of the world, even in the midst of suffering and pain.
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Dr. David P. Gushee (PhD, Union Theological Seminary, New York) is an ethicist, pastor, author, and advocate. Over a full 29-year career, he’s been a devoted teacher and mentor as Professor Gushee to college students, seminarians, and PhD students. He’s also led activist efforts on climate, torture, and LGBTQ inclusion, and continues to be a keynote speaker at churches, forums, and universities.
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Sam Heath of Charlottesville, Virginia, has been appointed the new manager of the EJUSA Evangelical Network, a platform for faith leaders across the political spectrum who seek to transform the justice system by promoting responses to violence that are rooted in the values of racial equity, redemption and healing.
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There is a lot going on in the world and the constant news of it can be difficult to manage. How do you reset and connect to the beautiful creations in this world given to us by God? This special episode features Shane's wife, Katie Jo Brotherton. Katie Jo is here to tell us about beekeeping, connecting to nature, and other fun conversation.
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On this episode from December 2021, Shane Claiborne is joined by friends in this Faith Forum to have a conversation about gun violence, what the Bible says, and statistics on guns and white evangelicals.
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Reality Winner is a former National Security Agency contractor who pled guilty to leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the United States 2016 elections. In this episode, she discusses what it was like to have the longest imposed sentence for a charge of this nature and dives into her Christian upbringing and faith journey.
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In this episode from Morning Prayer on June 1, 2022 we are joined by friends Randy and Edith Woodley from Eloheh. “Eloheh” (pronounced Ay-luh-hay) is a Cherokee Indian word meaning harmony, wholeness, abundance and peace.
Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley (PhD, Asbury Theological Seminary) is recognized as a Cherokee descendent by the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. Edith Woodley is a speaker/mentor on issues concerning Native American Spirituality and Creation. As a full-time mother, grandmother, and farmer, she has developed a unique relationship with the land and insights concerning how to raise a family on a small farm.
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On this episode, Shane speaks on the recent mass shootings and gun violence in Buffalo and Uvalde and the need for Christians to provide more than just thoughts and prayers.
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In this episode from May 2021, Shane and friends celebrate Pentecost with music, conversation, and Jesus.
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In this episode, Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, and Rev. Liz Theoharis discuss the Poor People's Campaign and the Moral March on Washington on June 18th in DC.
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Elisabeth Kraus is an advocate for women who have had challenging or miscarried pregnancies, and for mothers whose children have pervasive medical complications.
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Join Shane Claiborne, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and other friends from the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival as we discuss their book “We Cry Justice."
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In this episode, Shane Claiborne discusses faith and injustice with former prosecutor and executive director of Equal Justice USA, Jamila Hodge.
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On this Book Club episode, Brian Zahnd discusses his new book When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes
Full-time pastor. Occasional author. Would-be mountaineer. Brian Zahnd is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational Christian congregation in Saint Joseph, Missouri. https://brianzahnd.com
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Shane Claiborne discusses theology and brain science with neurotheologian, Dr. Jim Wilder. Dr. Wilder has extensive clinical counseling experience and is the chief neurotheologian of Life Model Works, a nonprofit working at the intersection of theology and brain science.
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This months theme is based on hospitality to immigrants and refugees. Special guest Jenny Yang.
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This Faith Forum episode is from April 2021, where Shane Claiborne discusses faith and immigration with Jenny Yang and Alexa Salvatierra. Special musical guest Rosa Cándida Ramírez.
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In this February episode of Across the Pond, Demetrius Minor discusses the meaning of what being pro-life means and how he takes this message into Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty. Minor previously worked as a White House intern during the George W. Bush administration.
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"Pete Greig is the increasingly bewildered founder of 24-7Prayer, an international, interdenominational movement of prayer, mission and justice which has been praying night-and-day for more than twenty years, and has reached more than half the nations on earth." from PETEGREIG.INFO
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From the Across the Pond series, author of "When Everything's on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes" Brian Zahnd joins us for conversation about a renovation of faith.
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A special episode with Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, Jeff Leach and Democratic member Texas Representative, Joe Moody to have a frank and vulnerable discussion on the case of Melissa Lucio and the effort to stop her execution.
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Join Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, and William Barber II for monthly morning prayer based on the book, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. The theme for April is "Submission to Christ's Body, the Church."
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In this episode from May 2021, Historian and author, Beth Allison Barr discusses how patriarchy contradicts Biblical truth in her book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth.
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From March 2021 Book Club this episode includes special guest, Kristin Kobes Du Mez - the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
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This episode is from January 2022's episode of Across the Pond. Special guest, author of A More Perfect Union and president of Sojourners, Rev. Adam Taylor, discusses the need for America to embrace a more radical and unifying vision as a country and what it means to be a "beloved community."
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In this Across the Pond episode from November 2021, special guest and record company exec, Malcolm du Plessis, discusses the commodification of religion in worship music and modern churches. Malcolm has worked in prophetic Christianity and showbiz for forty years and "one of his priorities is his relentless call for the decolonization of the worship movement and for doors of dignity to be unlocked for more communities and ethnicities to contribute toward the ‘common’ hymnal." (From https://commonhymnal.com/malcolm-du-plessis)
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Welcoming refugees is one of the most Christian things a person of faith can do - so why don't we do it? In this episode, Shane and Dora discuss the dangers and misconceptions of helping refugees seek safety. Dora Rodriquez left a dangerous situation in El Salvador to try to start again in America. That journey was almost as dangerous. Now she helps others in similar situations and advocates for immigrants and refugees seeking safety for a chance to begin a new life.
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A special Faith Forum from August 21, 2021 on War and Militarism with guests Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. Diana Oestreich and Rev. John Dear. Special performance by poet and musician Micah Bournes.
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Pastor Erich Kussman shares his inspiring story about finding God in prison and the journey he's embarked on since then. Featured on A&E’s digital-exclusive documentary series "The Redeemed" - where the story of prison to pastor is told.
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A special episode on Melissa Lucio. Please listen and help. From the womb to the tomb, we Christians must be pro-life and fight the death penalty, especially for wrongfully convicted death row inmates. Hear from Melissa's family and advocates and find out how you can help.
"Melissa E. Lucio has spent over a decade on death row in Texas for a crime she did not commit and now faces an execution date of April 27, 2022. She has maintained her innocence ever since she was arrested for the murder of her two-year-old daughter Mariah in 2007."
Watch the documentary for free on March 7 & 8, 2022.
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This episode is from our March 2021 monthly morning prayer, hosted by Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove with special guest, Richard Rohr.
Join us: Each month on the first Wednesday of the month at 6am EST, we unite our hearts together in prayer using “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals”… and we pause for a little time of reflection.
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This episode is from our monthly morning prayer, hosted by Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove with special guest, Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil. Each month on the first Wednesday of the month at 6am EST, we unite our hearts together in prayer using “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals”… and we pause for a little time of reflection. Thank you for joining us.
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This interview is from the February 3, 2022 episode of Across the Pond with economist, sociologist, and artist Alan Storkey where Shane and Alan discuss disarmament and militarism.
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Robert P. Jones is the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won a 2021 American Book Award. Jones writes regularly on politics, culture, and religion for The Atlantic online, NBC Think, and other outlets. He is frequently featured in major national media, such as CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. He is also the author of The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
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Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson join Shane Claiborne to discuss reparations, racism, and the church's responsibility today.
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This episode features author Jemar Tisby on an "Across the Pond" episode from November 30, 2021. Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise and How To Fight Racism discusses white supremacy, Christian nationalism, and racism.
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This week's episode features a conversation with Shane Claiborne on policing, from July 2021's Faith Forum with guests Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart, Rev. David Couper, and Lionel Latouche.
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At Red Letter Christians, we desire to equip you, the reader, with first-rate content from speakers, authors, and practitioners around the world who are day-in and day-out living the “red letter” words of Christ. With that goal in mind, this episode is from January 2021 Book Club guest, Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise and How To Fight Racism. Join us for future Book Club episodes. You can join us on Facebook or YouTube LIVE! Let us know what other authors and books you recommend for the #RLCBookClub! Follow Jemar Tisby on Instagram & Twitter! Go to @jemartisby
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This two-part episode includes important conversations around the issue of abortion from the Red Letter Christians Townhall conversations in October 2020 and January 2021.
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Shane Claiborne discusses the death penalty, faith, and justice from a Jesus perspective with special guests who share their stories. This week’s "Faith Forum" episode includes Derrick Jamison and SueZann Bosler. Derrick was wrongfully-convicted and spent nearly 20 years on death row for a crime he had nothing to do with. And Sue Zann is the survivor of a violent crime that took her father's life.
Intro song: Blue Sky Moon - Western Vestibules
Lisa Sharon Harper is the founder and president of Freedom Road, a groundbreaking consulting group that crafts experiences that bring common understanding and common commitments that lead to common action toward a more just world. She has a new book coming out titled "Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All".
Lisa is a public theologian whose writing, speaking, activism and training has sparked and fed the fires of re-formation in the church from Ferguson and Charlottesville to South Africa, Brazil, Australia and Ireland. Lisa’s book, The Very Good Gospel was named 2016 “Book of the Year” and the Huffington Post identified Lisa as one of 50 Women Religious Leaders to Celebrate on International Women’s Day.
Intro Music: Spirit World (Instrumental Version)
Unfortunately, Christianity has split over the years due to doctrinal differences. Why can't we all be united in our love for Jesus? Tune in to hear Tony and Shane discuss how Red Letter Christianity and Richard Rohr both emphasize having a mystical, transformative relationship with the risen Christ that breaks down doctrinal barriers.
Tony and Shane discuss what is new with them and the Red Letter Christian Movement as well as their view on some of the violence taking place around the world.
Tony and Shane elaborate on the interplay between faith and practice in the Christian faith and describe why it is that Christianity is more than just believing.
Tony and Shane discuss the effects of technology in society today and why it is necessary to consider what technology is doing to us over time. They also examine the advantages gained by communities, such as the Amish, which limit their technological dependence in their day to day lives.
Tony and Shane discuss the death penalty, or in other words, state permitted killing. Tune in to hear them discuss their sadness over the fact that the death penalty does not allow God's grace to prevail. He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.
Tony and Shane discuss the importance of taking care of this earth that God has given us and why it is that we cannot ignore creation just because we expect Jesus to return and restore his creation.
Tony and Shane discuss how creation care relates to Christianity in light of the destructive forest fires in Brazil. Tune in to hear them describe how God so loved the WORLD and how Christians should therefore view His creation. He's got the whole world in His hands!
Tony and Shane interview professor of American Religious History at Dartmouth College, Randall Balmer, to discuss the history of Evangelicalism in America, how it has changed through the years, and the failings of its current message that makes Red Letter Christianity so necessary.
Tony interviews, Rev. Oreon Trickey, an ordained Free Methodist minister who has been involved in ministry to and with homeless folks for the past 20 years. Oreon recently joined Jesus People USA and describes some of the dedicated and creative ways this group is serving their community.
Tony interviews Molly Baskette and Ellen O’Donnell to discuss their latest book, “Bless This Mess: A Modern Guide to Faith and Parenting in a Chaotic World.” Tune in to hear the authors describe the ways that parenting has become uniquely challenging in our highly technologically world and provide specific tips and insights for facing those challenges.
Tony interviews podcaster, public speaker, and gay Christian spokesperson, Peterson Toscano, to discuss Peterson’s personal experiences in conversion therapy, the importance of storytelling and humor in communication and climate change.
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Tony interviews the president of World Vision Canada, Michael Messenger, to discuss the factors that contribute to creating the “fragile contexts” that become catalysts for human suffering. They also discuss the specific ways that World Vision is working to provide relief to and foster resiliency in those communities that exists within a fragile context.
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Tony interviews pastor and councilor, Rev. Jennifer Dawn Watts to discuss the ways that her unique faith communities are enabling people to discover their authentic selves and fostering honesty and openness so true transformation can occur.
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Tony and Shane interview, Kathleen Kelly, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, for a discussion on what "loving your enemy" looked like (and did not look like) during the Iraq War.
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Tony and Shane interview writer, speaker and Program Manager of the Racial Justice Institute at Evangelicals for Social Action, Andre Henry, for a conversation on non-violent resistance, anti-racism and the future of the church.
Tony and Shane interview the CEO of Habitat for Humanity and author of, “Our Better Angels”, Jonathan Reckford. Tune in for a conversation about the history, necessity, and accomplishments of Habitat for Humanity and for inspiration from everyday heroes living out virtue as described in Jonathan’s latest book, “Our Better Angels”.
Tony and Shane interview, Dr. Terry Webb, author of “Following Jesus In the Age of Trump”. Dr. Webb describes why she believes Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States and the conflict she sees in those Christians who support him.
Tony interviews professor, pastor, and author of, "The Church of Us Vs. Them", David Fitch. Tune in for a conversation on the role of the Church in dealing with cultural antagonisms and the ways that Christians, often times, exacerbate those antagonisms by falling into “banner-making” rather than discernment and reconciliation.
Tony interviews renowned broadcast journalist, author, producer and speaker, Mort Crim. Tune in for a fun and fascinating conversation about Mort's background and why he deliberately chose to emphasize all the good taking place in the world instead of providing his audience with a steady diet of the bad.
Tony and Shane interview the mother of decorated Air Force veteran and whistle-blower, Reality Winner (standwithreality.org). Reality has been incarcerated for leaking documentation about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Tune in to learn more about Reality's backstory, what is giving the family hope in these trying times of separation, and how you can show your support for Reality.
Tony and Shane interview pastor and author Brian McLaren to discuss climate change, current events, and Brian's book, "The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey".
Tony and Shane interview musician and songwriter John Fischer who was part of the spiritual revolution known as the Jesus Movement during sixties and seventies. Tune in to hear John Fischer discuss the evolution of Christian music from the time of the Jesus Movement to the present day.
There is a growing mentality in our individualized culture of doing what suits us. However, when it comes to things such as smoking, those choices not only negatively affect us, but also the people around us. In this episode, Tony shares his beliefs on how our choices regarding smoking affect everyone and how our ability to choose comes from God.
Tony and Shane discuss the need for the Church to bring about positive change in this world. Tune in to hear what people and organizations are already doing in this world to affect positive change for the Kingdom.
Tony and Shane interview the director of the Bethlehem Center for Global Peacemaking and Justice. Topics discussed in this episode: building peace in Israel and Palestine, common misconceptions, the Second Intifada, and the distinction between the Biblical promise to the children of Abraham and the descendants of Abraham.
Fellow Red Letter Christian, Phil Hoy, joins Tony and Shane to discuss the lost and forgotten stories of Northern Ireland. Topics discussed in this program include: "the forgotten stories of Northern Ireland", Protestant and Catholic relations, Mary Ann McCracken and the Irish influence on the abolitionist movement in the United States.
Tony and Shane are joined by Red Letter Christians UK trustee and spokesperson, Sally Mann, to discuss the launch of Red Letter Christians UK!
Tony and Shane are joined by Red Letter Christians UK trustee and spokesperson, Sally Mann, to discuss the launch of Red Letter Christians UK!
Tony and Shane are joined by Sally Mann to discuss the launch of Red Letter Christians UK! In this episode, they speak with, Ash Barker, the executive director of Red Letter Christians UK.
Tony and Shane are joined by Sally Mann to discuss the launch of Red Letter Christians UK! In this episode, they speak with, Mick Kane, Red Letter Christians UK trustee and spokesperson as well as the Chaplain and Coordinator of Spiritual Life at Nazarene Theological College.
Tony and Shane are joined by Sally Mann to discuss the launch of Red Letter Christians UK! In this episode, they speak with, Naomi Bennett, the operations director of Red Letter Christians UK.
Tony interviews Jennifer Farmer, the author of, "Extraordinary PR, Ordinary Budget: A Strategy Guide". Tune in to hear how Jennifer's determination to bring about social justice shines a light on what normally remains hidden in the dark.
Tony explores the beliefs that Red Letter Christians hold to which center on the teachings and lifestyle of Jesus. Tune in to hear Tony discuss how we believe in a Jesus that rocked the religious status quo and how we do a disservice to Jesus when we don't do the same.
Tony and Shane interview Rev. Rob Schenck, a Dietrich Bonhoeffer scholar who wrote, "Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love". Tune in to hear Rob Schenck discuss how Dietrich Bonhoeffer's experience with a highly politicized Christianity in Germany is relevant to our current religious, political saga in the United States.
Tony and Shane interview Rev. Rob Schenck, a chaplain to various political leaders on Capitol Hill. Tune in to hear them discuss a Netflix series called, "The Family" and how it may not accurately portray the story of a religious group of political leaders called, The Fellowship.
Tony and Shane interview Angela Denker, a sports writer turned Lutheran pastor who recently wrote, "Red State Christians: Meet the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump". Tune in to hear Angela discuss how Trump got elected by so many Evangelicals and how she tries to humanize them by telling their stories.
Tony interviews Timothy McMahan King, the author of, Addiction Nation. Tune in to hear Timothy discuss how addiction is not just an issue related to drugs and alcohol, but a brokenness that pervades our communities and humanity in general.
Tony discusses the Red Letter Christian views on some hot button topics in the Church. Tune in to hear Tony explain issues surrounding immigration, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the LGBTQ community and how the church should approach them. As a body of believers, how are we going to pursue love and peace in these areas?
Tony interviews the Founder and President of Sojourners, Jim Wallis, to discuss his new book, "Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus".
Sometimes, it seems as though our allegiance to our God and our country are interchangeable. However, is everything our country stands for what God stands for? In this episode, Tony and Shane explore how we can confuse our priorities and put more trust in our country than in our God.
The Early Church was able to resolve many of the challenges Christians faced by sharing in community. Tune in to find out how Shane Claiborne has been able to apply this same concept to health care through his organization, Common Change.
This Jesus whom we follow demonstrated to us how to live in a loving and obedient manner that gives up power, even to the point of suffering. Come along with Tony and Shane as they explore following a suffering Lord who gave up power in order to love us.
There is more than one way to preach Christ crucified and we don't always have to view Jesus' crucifixion as a penal substitution for humanity.
Tony and Shane talk about their friend, Richard Rohr, a Roman Catholic brother and fellow Red Letter Christian who is teaching people how to encounter Jesus sacramentally in others and in the world around us.
Tony discusses in depth what Red Letter Christianity looks like for the disciples of Jesus. Tune in to hear Tony explain how Jesus' disciples are transformed more and more into His likeness by doing what He asks.
In the book of Romans, Paul asks "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31). However, for years Christians have lived in fear of other people groups, whether it be people of other religions or people of different ethnicities. Tune in as Tony talks about how perfect love casts out fear, leaving no room for hate.
Tony interviews Dr. Peter Enns, a Biblical Studies professor in Eastern University's theology department. Tune in to hear Pete Enns explore the beautiful intricacies of the Bible, including one of the most beloved enigmas of all times.
Tony brings to light some disturbing current events regarding the persecution of 3,000,000 Muslims in China. Tune in to hear Tony's description of our call to follow Jesus which includes being concerned for those of a different background.
Tony and Shane interview Wendy Ryan, a missionary who has dedicated her life to working among women experiencing extreme poverty in Cape Town, South Africa. Tune in to hear how Wendy brings the hope of the Gospel to these women in a holistic manner using the Bible and some sewing machines.
Tony and Shane interview, Susan O'Carrol Drake, a public school teacher of twenty years who wrote a devotional for teachers entitled "Morning Meetings with Jesus". Tune in to hear Susan describe her passion for teaching and how the Kingdom of God can be displayed in the classroom.
Tony and Shane interview Steve Goddard, the man who just recently took over the Christian Resources Exhibition Program, a ministry based in the United Kingdom. Tune in to hear Steve Goddard explain some of the humorous and innovative things that he and his ministry are accomplishing to bring renewal to the church.
One of the groups that supported Donald Trump the most in the last election season were Evangelicals, and this probably will be the case again come November 2020. In this episode, Tony explores whether the economic benefits of having Donald Trump in office outweigh the importance of his values.
Tony and Shane interview, Diann Takens, a woman who has dedicated her life to ministering to inner city children through her organization Peace of the City. Tune in to learn more about the challenges facing many of inner city children and the work that Peace of the City is doing about it.
Tony and Shane interview Kent Annan, a co-founder and former co-director of the ministry, Haiti Partners. He is currently the director of the Humanitarian and Disaster Leadership of Wheaton College. Tune in to hear Kent discuss the mindset of learning that young missionaries should have as they go into the mission field.
Tony and Shane interview, Kent Annan and discuss his recently published book entitled, "You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us." This time around, Kent talks about two kinds of transformation; the transformation that comes from serving abroad and the transformation that comes from showing hospitality in our own countries to refugees.
Sometimes, it can seem as thought retribution is preferred to restoration for crimes committed. In this episode, Tony and Shane interview David Garlock, a previous convict, who now helps other past convicts enter back into society through restorative justice. Tune into hear the amazing work that God has done and continues to do in David's life through New Person Ministries, despite his past circumstances.
Tony and Shane interview Matthew Laidlaw, the author of How we Read the Bible: 8 Ways to Engage the Bible With our Students and co-founder of the Open Circle Community. Tune in to hear Matthew Laidlaw discuss how we can dive into the Bible in order to find out what God really has to say to us.
Tony and Shane provide an in depth description of Red Letter Christianity as a belief that not only has us looking forward to our future home, but a belief that challenges how we live in this world now. When you tune into this episode, you will be asked "What if Jesus meant what He said?"
In this episode, Tony interviews Shane who is currently on the front lines trying to stop executions of those on death row in Tennessee. Tune in to hear Shane's report of the moving testimony of the people on death row who are petitioning that the governor come and pray with them.
Are our thoughts, actions, and lifestyles more influenced by our materialistic culture or by the transformative Spirit of God leading and guiding us? Tune in as Tony and Shane discuss how Jesus has come to set the poor and the rich free from the economic systems we live in today.
In this episode, Tony and Shane share their experiences of the Red Letter Christian Tour in the United Kingdom. Tune in to hear what happened on this nine day journey as they got to witness the Kingdom of God unfold as people united to live out the red letters of the Bible.
In this episode, Tony and Shane interview Dr. Lindy Backues, who currently co-pastors St. John's Baptist Church with Tony in South Philadelphia. Tune in to hear Dr. Backues' powerful testimony of Incarnational ministry that started in Indonesia and still continues today among the Indonesian immigrant community of South Philadelphia.
In this episode, Tony and Shane go in depth about the issue of gun violence that has ravaged the heart of our country. Tune in to hear them explain why it is time that we Christians should say, "In the name of Jesus, stop!" to this violence that plagues our people.
In this episode, Tony interviews Robert Whitfield, the author of Around the World - The Kindness Journey: Words and Thoughts of Hope, Encouragement and Kindness while Backpacking Around the World. Tune in to hear Robert Whitfield's powerful mission of spreading kindness to everyone he meets.
What does the Bible have to say about the gun-violence rampaging our broken world today? Tony, Shane and Rex Harsin, of Rex Harsin films, explore this issue in his new documentary, Beating Guns, which they talk about in this episode. Tune in to hear Tony, Shane, and Rex discuss this country's love affair with guns.
In this episode, Tony interviews Reverend Dr. Chaz Howard, the chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania where Tony himself used to be a professor. Tune in to learn more about Liberation Theology, specifically, Black Liberation Theology and what Rev. Howard calls, "reconstructing the center."
Tony interviews John Frame for a conversation about the Christian response to poverty as well as John's book, "Homeless at Harvard".
In this episode, Tony and Shane explore how the American Evangelical Church has supported Donald Trump, and in doing so, how the Church has professed the name of Jesus, but not His lifestyle and morals. Tune in to hear Tony and Shane's thoughts on how Trump hasn't shaped Evangelicalism, but how he has revealed what their real values are.
In this episode, Tony and Shane interview Wes Granberg-Michaelson, the former General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America, about his new book, "Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century". This is a dynamic discussion about the church that is growing exponentially in the Global South.
Tony and Shane discuss their experiences in seeking to live out a Christian life and share some of the practices that they find most beneficial.
Rev. Dr. Amy Butler is the first female pastor of the Riverside Church in NY. In this interview, Pastor Amy shares some of the challenges associated with being a female pastor as well as her vision for the role of faith in politics and what the modern Church should look like.
One of the main issues that has been pushed to the forefront of today's society is immigration. In this episode, Tony and Shane discuss immigration with Rev. Luis Cortes, the president of Esperanza College. Tune in to hear Rev. Cortes' take on this issue in today's society and how we need to stop demonizing and actually start debating.
Tony discusses in depth a fire that is sweeping the Catholic Church and bringing good old revival. Listen as Tony reveals the amazing history and activities of a Catholic movement called The Way started by Francisco Arguello in 1954 in Madrid, Spain.
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein joins Tony and Shane for a conversation about anti-Semitism and the current state of Israel. Tune in to hear his opinions about the form of prejudice that should be most feared and what would finally bring peace between the three religious groups represented in Israel.
Many Christians believe that because of the Second Coming, they do not need to concern themselves with social or ecological issues such as poverty, war, or capital punishment. Where does this belief come from and how was it popularized? Tune in to find out.
The story of history is the struggle between two empires, the kingdom of God, and the kingdoms of the political leaders of this world. In this episode, Tony and Shane trace a historical path to the embrace of empires and worldly power that is so common in modern Christianity.
The former press officer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Harcourt Klinefelter, joins Tony and Shane for a conversation about non-violent resistance. Tune in to hear Harcourt’s invaluable firsthand accounts of Dr. King and the Civil Rights movement.
Tony and Shane talk about recent developments in their lives including Tony's taking over as co-pastor of St. John's Baptist Church in South Philadelphia, as well as Shane's "Beating Guns" tour, wherein he travels all over the US melting guns down in order to transform them into garden tools. They also discuss their upcoming tour of the UK with the new UK based chapter of Red Letter Christians.
Tony and Shane discuss the issue of gun and knife violence and the problems that consequently stem from this issue into the domestic sector of society, as well as Shane's "Beating Guns" tour, wherein he travels from city to city advocating against this culture of violence by transforming guns into garden tools.
Tony and Shane talk about the idea of Christian community as a reflection of the Kingdom of God on earth in light of the twentieth anniversary of the The Simple Way Ministry, which was founded by Shane, and which seeks to model the early church in living together in community and helping the poor.
Tony and Shane discuss what Biblical social justice activism looks like in today's political climate with the Executive Director of Sojourners Magazine, Adam Taylor, and talk about recent outreach initiatives that helped promote positive change and growth, while still adhering to Biblical values.
Tony and Shane discuss possible solutions within the evangelical sector to the issue of gun and knife violence in light of Shane's "Beating Guns" tour wherein he travels from town to town to transform weapons into garden tools.
Tony and Shane interview Marvin Rees, the Mayor of Bristol, UK. Together they discuss Bristol’s unique challenges and prospects, as well as how we might live out the life of faith in politics.
Tony discusses various hot topic issues revolving around today's political and social climate including Donald Trump's presidency, foreign affairs, the LGBT community, and nonviolent resistance, along with updates about the RLC Movement around the world.
Tony discusses the mission of the Reclaiming Jesus Movement in light of today's political climate, along with the message behind "The Chicago Declaration" and the topic of Biblical Pacifism with Rev. Dr. Ron Sider.
Tony and Shane discuss why many people who do not act in Christian ways still call themselves Christians, as explored in the book, "What's God Got To Do With It?" with its author, Reverend Trier.
Tony and Shane discuss the relevance of the Sermon on the Mount to living in today's world in light of current political issues such as immigration, militarization, and gun control, in addition to other social justice and evangelical issues.
Tony discusses some of the confusion created by the Pentecostal Movement within the Church today, and addresses some of the common problematic issues at hand.
Tony discusses the issue of homosexuality and the Church's response to this issue in current times.
Tony and Shane interview one of the first women to be ordained in the Church of England, Rev. Joy Carroll Wallis. Together they discuss some of the different perspectives related to ordaining women into the priesthood, as well the Greenbelt festival in the UK and Rev. Wallis' role in helping to found its American counterpart, the Wild Goose Festival.
Tony and Shane discuss entrepreneurship and the role of job creation in reducing poverty with president and CEO of Hope International, Peter Greer.