The Luthercostal: Recent Episodes
Leila M. Ortiz
Do you have a love/hate relationship with the Church? Does it inspire great joy and hope along with utter sorrow and frustration? Is it a place you cherish and also leaves you wanting for more? As a woman who holds near her Pentecostal formation and the word of grace presented to her in Lutheran theology, Rev. Leila M. Ortiz identifies as a Luthercostal pastor committed to threading messy, muddy waters of hard truths for the sake of theological and soul liberation for all. Join Leila each Wednesday as she boldly celebrates and critique the place she, and so many of you, love so dearly. The hope and purpose of this podcast is that we might engage in difficult conversations that lead to the co-creation of safe and sacred spaces our souls yearn for most.
Rozella Haydée White, author of "Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Change the World", joins us once more to close our Lenten Series and Season 1 of the podcast with the topic, "Awake, O Sleeper, to LOVE".
On this episode, we welcome Bianca Vázquez, social activist and community organizer, as we engage how God is inviting us to awake to our agency around issues of equity.
Do you struggle to see beauty in darkness? On this episode I welcome poet and creative, Joe Davis, to explore how God might be calling us to awake to beauty in the known and in the unexpected.
We continue our Lenten Devotional Series inspired by Eph. 5:14, “Awake, O Sleeper, arise from the dead, and Christ’s light will shine on you”. On this episode I welcome Rev. Jason Chesnut to talk about how God may be inviting us to awake from SILENCE.
On this episode, we continue our Lenten Devotional Series and talk about the isms that keep us blind to the expression of God that is in every member of the human family, including those that make us most uncomfortable.
Welcome Rozella Haydée White, The Love Big Coach and author of "Love Big" as we begin our Lenten Devotional Series: Awake, O Sleeper. This series is inspired by Ephesian 5:14, "Awake, O Sleeper, arise from the dead, and Christ's light will shine on you." In this episode we engage how God is inviting us to awake from fear.
On this episode we engage some insights from Samuel Guillermo. Sam is a church musician and worship leader whom has experienced and lead many forms of worship in different denominational settings.
Join me in welcoming Katie Simbala to the show. Katie identifies as a bisexual woman and is in a polyamorous relationship. And even while she has endured unrelenting words of rejection and damnation from the Pentecostal community that raised her, she remains passionate about Jesus, the church, and the move of the Holy Spirit.
Join me in welcoming Vicar Julia Boudrye as she shares her faith journey through multiple denominations and ultimately discerning her call to the Lutheran Church.
Discover the "Why?" behind this episode. Join Rev. Leila Ortiz as she shares her faith journey and conversion from Pentecostal to Lutheran and ultimately, into a Luthercostal Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).