Decolonizing faith and the liberating gospel of Jesus are the themes of Fr. Joash p. Thomas' wonderful book The Justice of Jesus. Fr. Thomas sat down with us on the God Squad Pod to talk about his book and how we can enact the justice of Jesus by decolonizing Christianity. His book is thought provoking …
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Leaving MAGA with guest Jerry Koch
Jerry Koch was deep into the MAGA movement, but slowly had an epiphany that MAGA and all it stands for is wrong. He sat down with the God Squad Pod to talk about his journey away from MAGA to a much better way of being. https://youtu.be/Gns-l49nnKI https://youtu.be/cF0cGXncR34 https://youtu.be/-zse8WTQ0w8 https://youtu.be/NTjMx7OAVU4 Full audio episode: Jerry Koch on …
Major league irony and cognitive dissonance
I always find it interesting when professional athletes who are also Christian start talking about their faith. Sometimes they dedicate a win or offer praise to God for a victory for their team as if God has a vested interest in the outcome. I’m pretty sure God has better things to do than rooting for …
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Knock at the Sky: Liz Charlotte Grant on the God Squad Pod
Author and columnist Liz Charlotte Grant sat down with me on the God Squad Pod to talk about her book Knock at the Sky: Seeking God in Genesis after Losing Faith in the Bible It's a wonderful look at Genesis through a creatively interpretative lens. Full episode: Liz Charlotte Grant on the GSP Video highlights: …
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Sick.
I went to bed on the night of Friday May 15 feeling fine. At about 1:30 in the morning, I was awakened with painful abdominal cramps and a sinking feeling came over me. My digestive health has not always been optimal. Mental health can play a big role in this with stress and anxiety being …
Rev. Dr. Elle Dowd on the God Squad Pod
Rev. Dr. Elle Dowd sat down with me on the God Squad Pod to talk about her must read book Baptized in Teargas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist. Every white Christian in America should read this book. Full Episode: Baptized in Teargas with Rev. Dr. Elle Dowd Video highlights: https://youtu.be/O3Agzh-g8co?si=B8y5rqCmFKUTKtyQ https://youtu.be/O1jVscf8xe4?si=GeFSiPp6S9HnDfsd https://youtu.be/2XQOz3Veb8M?si=hM03RRSTmToKHSXF https://youtu.be/0yPz9COZMRo?si=0jpfflGk-q0AdZ0C
Celebrate love like Heated Rivalry does
People who know me know that I am a completely hopeless romantic. My favorite movie is Love Actually. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen the Collin Firth - Jennifer Ehle version of Pride and Prejudice, but I cry every single time I watch it when Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett finally get together. …
Our collective nightmare
Last week, the incompetent and woefully unqualified Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth went on a firing spree as he fired top generals in the Army. Last night, the Predator in Chief threatened to commit genocide against the Iranian people. Clearly these two things, the mass firing and the threat of genocide, are related. Hegseth wants …
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on the God Squad Pod
I started following Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on Twitter years ago and immediately became an enthusiastic reader of her tweets. Later, in an essay entitled “Crimes Against Humanity” in Theological Musings: Collected Essays of a Tattooed Theologian Volume 1, I quoted a piece Rabbi Ruttenberg wrote about reproductive freedom from a Jewish theological perspective in my …
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Accountability and justice are what I want for my birthday
It’s my birthday week and instead of celebrating so far, I’m reliving the GenX anxiety of an impending nuclear war because Donald Trump decided to bomb Iran. Years ago, Epstein made a prediction that Trump would bomb Iran if he “was cornered like a rat.” That prediction seems to be coming to fruition this week …
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