The Viscast: Recent Episodes
Josh Vis
This podcast explores the wonderful, difficult, and absurd realities of being human. We aim to give good faith analysis of current events, philosophy and religion, contemporary scientific research, our struggles with existence, and anything else we find helpful or fun.
Dr. Sanchez brings indigenous wisdom to Still Processing. She urges us to remember that we are all connected.
This is the first in a series of reflections that I will be having as I (and Chris) finish our work on Israel/Palestine with the RCA.
We briefly discuss Gaza and then turn to Ann’s history with the church and Christianity. Ann and I are in different places with Christianity and the church. Ann still has affection and hope. I have mostly skepticism. Does liberal Christianity have any chance against conservative Christianity, which we both see as dangerous?
Cynthia shares her life experience as a Latina who grew up in Holland, MI in the 1980s and 1990s, and her experience making a film about the Latino experience in Holland in the 2020s.
Lessons on recognizing and fighting tyranny from the likes of Timothy Snyder, Valarie Kaur, Ezra Klein, and more
We discuss the ideology of whiteness and its implications. Whiteness is real. It’s powerful. And it’s destructive. We have to face it and we have to reject it.
We discuss an intriguing idea from Peter Rollins and how it intersects with the emerging consensus around the stages of faith.
We have now lost over 500,000 lives to COVID-19 in the United States. We ruminate on how the United States and the world has coped with this pandemic and all that it has revealed. Finally, we think about what Lent might have to say about the human condition in this time of profound loss.
Republicans put party over country, again, and they did so with the support of the majority of white Christians. When will we see the Republican party for what it is and white Christianity for what it is? We can do better, and we must.
If we can’t start speaking the truths that we know, then we are in serious trouble. Things have to change or things have to die.
We discuss our thoughts and feelings on the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
It’s time to tell the truth about White Christianity in America and about the Republican Party. We offer our analysis with as much clarity and courage as we can.