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Interfaith dialogue with Rabbi Seth Goldstein on the God Squad Pod
American Christians generally speaking have a lot to learn about Judaism, antisemitism, and the differences in the two faith traditions. With that in mind, we asked Rabbi Seth Goldstein to join us on this week's episode of the God Squad Pod for an interfaith dialogue about the role of faith in standing up for those …
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Highlights from this week’s episode of the God Squad Pod
God Squad Pod highlights from May 2, 2025 episode.
Grab your pruners, we’re overwhelmed by brambles
The Trance Regime has been in place for just over 100 awful days now. The current felonious occupant of the presidential mansion has seen his approval ratings drop to historic lows as the fallout begins from the regime's disastrous economic policies. The unimaginably cruel immigration policies, the brainchild of arch-xenophobe Stephen Miller, are finally starting …
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Creation care and honoring Pope Francis
"Give us this day our daily bread." - Jesus of Nazareth "But let justice roll down like water and righteousness from an ever-flowing stream." The prophet Amos Creation care is a theological imperative because we can not love our neighbors, either next door or across the globe, by polluting the biosphere. Jesus' prayer for enough …
Save us!
The story of the tortoise and the hare turns the idea of a race completely on its head. The speedy hare should of course finish first, but shockingly does not, because the slow and steady tortoise maintains focus and triumphs over the arrogant and haughty hare. In like fashion, the four Gospel accounts of Jesus' …
A Tale of Two Creations
Fundamentalists do not like it when Biblical scholars and theologians point out Biblical truths which contradict their conservative readings of biblical texts. As a theologian who grew up fundamentalist, and now recognizes the intellectual bankruptcy that under-girds American fundamentalism, on social media, I often point out passages that refute those conservative readings of the Bible. …
The Trance Regime
For many years now, I have been trying to understand why anyone who claims to be a Christian, that is someone who follows Jesus, could vote for someone as antichrist as Donald Trump. I have tried without success to get any Trump voting Christian to explain one teaching of Jesus that Trump actually advocates for, …
A Lament for today
Yesterday's sermon at the church I recently started to attend was about lament and several verses from different psalms were read. One thing that the pastor said that struck me was something she had recently read about hope and lament -- our hope can only go as high as our lamentations go deep. She went …
The Tattooed Theologian 