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 […]
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,
What Martin Luther King Jr. Said About White Moderates What King said about white moderates still confronts the church today. In this MLK bonus episode, Kristen reflects on being born in 1963, the same year Martin Luther King Jr. wrote Letter from Birmingham Jail, and what his words reveal about comfort, delay, and Christian resistance
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Prophet? Please…. The word prophet can make us squirm. For many of us, it’s loaded with baggage, misuse, mystery, or even manipulation. In this episode, Kristen names that tension and reclaims the word from fear and hype. What if being prophetic isn’t about predicting the future but echoing God’s heart in the present? Drawing from Jeremiah,
Reread, Repent, Repair: exegesis for everyday disciples How we read Scripture shapes how we live it. In this episode, Kristen walks through exegesis—learning how to think with the Bible, not just what to think. We start with why names and narratives matter (think Columbus Day → Indigenous Peoples’ Day), then watch Jesus reframe a weaponized text in John
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Jesus Isn’t Running for Office In Jesus Isnt running for office, Kristen asks, how did a young theologian in 1930s Germany see what so many others missed?In this episode, Kristen revisits Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s question, “Who is Jesus Christ for us today?” and boldly traces the unsettling parallels between Hitler’s “playbook” and the ways Christian nationalism shows up
Holy Ghosting Holy Ghosting explores how when faith begins to stretch toward the justice of Jesus, it can cost you belonging. Suddenly, the people who once prayed beside you pull away, and the table that once felt full grows quiet. In this episode, Kristen traces that ache through Jesus’ own story in Luke 4, naming
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Half a Gospel Is No Gospel at All: Liberation for the poor, resisted by the powerful Why do churches resist justice? In this episode, Kristen digs into the roots of resistance in our faith communities, beginning with James Cone and the birth of Black Liberation Theology. Cone’s bold claim that the gospel must be interpreted
Tariffs of Faith: The Price of Justice-Rooted Discipleship What does it really cost to follow Jesus? In this episode of Jesus, Justice + Mercy, Kristen explores the Tariffs of Faith the price we pay when discipleship is rooted in justice, not cheap grace. From Moses’ mother and Esther to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rosa Parks, we trace the stories
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When faith refuses to whitewash In my very first interview on Jesus, Justice + Mercy, I sit down with my dear friend Candice Zakariya, a disciple-maker, Bible teacher, and business coach whose story is deeply rooted in faith and justice. Candice shares her journey growing up in the Black church, where justice was woven into discipleship,
