eating and drinking damnation
What communion is, why it matters, who it is for...who is qualified for it. This is everything I most deeply believe about the mystery of the table, and why I still believe this is the invitation that changes everything.
seven miles
What in your life has ever worked out exactly the way that you've planned it? On this seven mile journey, maybe a seven day journey, or maybe it feels like you start this road all over again every seven minutes...we explore the pattern of the mystery that sustains us.
The story God tells about you, with Joel Everson
I don’t know quite what to tell you about this, since we had not felt anything or said anything quite like what we felt and said before. What I can say, is that the story God is telling about you, may be very different from the story they tell about you. And if they can’t tell the truth about the woman in John 4, WELL…also: hear us freak out at our real-time encouragement from John P. Kee :)
grace also to you, John MacArthur
MEAAAANNN...by God, GENE!!! On this Zeitcast, we are talking about how people can think they are culture-free, but everybody else is shaped by "the culture," inglorious ways of defining the "glory of God," how it's possible to take Revelation literally but not the Sermon on the Mount (!?), the relationship between Jesus and Paul, "the world," "the flesh," and Shusaku Endo's epic novel, Silence. WOOOOO!!!
Who is TRULY marginalized? (also, do you have to be married to know what it really means to be loved? Do you need to be a sheep to know God as good shepherd?)
Does theology exist to set boundaries and parameters for how we think/speak about God--or blow them up?
when the house is swept
What is the difference between finding Jesus, losing religion, finding crystals or tarot cards, or coming into money? Apparently sometimes...not all that much.
growing deeper across difference: an interfaith conversation with Imam Ahmed Alamine, Rabbi Bruce Pfeffer, & Rev. Dr. Maureen Knudsen Langdoc
It does seem like a bit of missed opportunity not to just call this "a rabbi, an imam, and two pastors walk into a bar," even though we weren't in a bar! I am so excited to introduce you to my wonderful spiritual friends and colleagues, and I love the vulnerability at the heart of this conversation--where we all talk about something unique our tradition brings to the table...but also something we have struggled with within our own respective traditions!
the one where I tell everything I really think about Scripture interpretation
Okay maybe not all that hot, but spicy for me?! Why I think Christians oftentimes overstate the case in making the first testament sound incomplete, when in fact everything we need (from mercy and justice to death and resurrection) was all THERE even before Jesus…and also how strange it is to hear people wrangle with the “problematic” things in the Bible—who love Game of Thrones? It’s all in how you read, and it is illiteracy perhaps rather than any texts that is ultimately killing us.
The Criminal Injustice System: on death, faith, and black history, pt. 1--with Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III and Shane Claiborne
In this historic Mendenhall lecture, from the campus of DePauw University and Gobin United Methodist Church, our favorite preacher in America, Rev. Otis Moss III and author/activist Shane Claiborne come together to bring a unique narrative of the kind of faith that leads to death—and the broader faith story/history that leads to life. With full lectures from each of these amazing guests and a Q and A after, prepare yourself for a feast on this one!
In this historic Mendenhall lecture, from the campus of DePauw University and Gobin United Methodist Church, our favorite preacher in America, Rev. Otis Moss III and author/activist Shane Claiborne come together to bring a unique narrative of the kind of faith that leads to death—and the broader faith story/history that leads to life. With full lectures from each of these amazing guests and a Q and A after, prepare yourself for a feast on this one!
The Sound of God Revisited, with Otis Moss III
On this Martin Luther King Day, we revisit one of our favorite conversations with one of America’s most needed prophetic voices—Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, who just released a brand new book which we highly recommend—Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Turbulent Times. He is a preacher, poet, activist, author and filmmaker with an eye toward justice and equality, as evidenced through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Dr. Moss preaches a theology of liberation rooted in a Black Spirituality of love and justice. His passion for African American culture and history combined with a deep appreciation for jazz and hip hop, have culminated in a unique message of hope and healing through a jazz narrative on American democracy. Dr. Moss was identified by the Baylor University George W. Truett Theological Seminary as one of the 12 most effective preachers in the English language in 2018.
on preaching: preaching as suspense, otherness, and tenderness
Okay so maybe you didn't exactly ask me for a "master class" on preaching, but if I was asked to do one...and only had about an hour to do it...this is everything I would say. And of course I would take an extra ten minutes, because I am, in fact, a preacher.