Pentecost and Social Justice: What the Celebration Skips Pentecost and social justice are not two separate conversations, and this Season 3 finale makes the case that they never were. Every year the church celebrates Pentecost. But this episode goes back to the room before the wind came, the locked one, full of frightened, grieving, failing […]
Mental Health in the Church: What the Church Is Unprepared For, and Why It Matters Mental health in the church is one of the most underprepared and underacknowledged gaps in Christian community, and for families living inside a mental health crisis, that gap has real and sometimes devastating consequences. This episode is personal. Kristen reads
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Women in Church Leadership: What the Bible Actually Says Women in church leadership is not a new conversation, and it is not a closed one. The biblical record is clear. The ambiguity has been manufactured. In this episode of Jesus, Justice + Mercy, we go deep into the text to meet the women who were
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Grief in Scripture: The Women Who Showed Us How Grief doesn’t arrive alone. It brings everything you’ve ever lost with it, every trauma, every old wound, every loss you thought you were over. All of it surfaces at once. And the church has rarely known what to do with that. This episode was born out
Romans 12, James 1 and the Mirror of Spiritual Formation What if the most dangerous thing happening in American Christianity right now isn’t happening in Washington, it’s happening in us? In the slow, quiet drift toward a faith that knows all the right words and has yet to be formed by any of them. In
season 3: episode 16 | Undressed: Are we unwittingly the emperor? Read More »
Centering Prayer, Contemplative Faith, and What It Means to Stop Performing for God What if experiencing God has less to do with the right prayers and more to do with who you’re willing to sit with? That’s the question at the heart of this conversation with Kieawnie Clar, a minister, spiritual director, Executive Director of
Trauma-informed faith with Conscious Coore Trauma-informed faith is not a buzzword; it’s a lifeline. And for too many people, the church has never offered it. What happens when the church can’t hold your pain? When the language offered is “everything happens for a reason,” and the practice is rushing straight to forgiveness without ever pausing
Resurrection Meaning – He Knows Your Name Resurrection meaning is not settled by a sunrise service or a social media post. He is Risen is true, the most important sentence in human history, the hinge of everything the Christian faith claims. But we have sometimes treated it as a triumphant conclusion, the part where everything
Holy Week Lament and the Sacred Space of Saturday Holy Week lament is the theology the church forgot to teach. We know Good Friday. We know Easter Sunday. But Holy Saturday, the day of silence, grief, and not-knowing, is the day we skip. And in skipping it, we have left an entire generation of weary,
Scripture used against women: What the Church Got Wrong Scripture used against women has been one of the most damaging tools in evangelical culture, and today we’re naming it directly. What if the church didn’t just get it wrong, what if it used scripture to make sure you blamed yourself? In this episode of Jesus,
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