The High Cost of Reconciliation with Joy Moore | BONUS

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-36u6d-15f5c52 In this bonus episode, I revisit an interview with Joy Moore, a professor of biblical preaching at Luther Seminary. We discussed reconciliation amid societal divisions. Moore shares stories illustrating the challenges of reconciliation and stresses the importance of finding common ground across racial divides. referencing instances like Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis working together...

Voting as a Moral Act with Bryan McGraw | Episode 176

Could your vote be an act of pure democratic expression or merely a move in a complex game of strategic power?

A Binary Choice-Again

Why are we here again? Why are Republicans opposed to Trump having to go through this all over again?

Episode 169: Death, Dying and Caregiving with Andrew Donaldson

Andrew Donaldson joins the show as he and Dennis talk about death and dying as well as being caregivers to their parents.

Episode 167: The Church As People and a Place with Loren Richmond Jr.

https://share.transistor.fm/s/cc93ae2a It's quite common for people to say that the church isn't a building, but a people - and this is true.  But that doesn't mean that church buildings are without any meaning.  Loren Richmond Jr. returns to the podcast to talk about his summer project taking pictures and learning the history of church buildings...

Church and Main 164: Mainline Church Growth

We can do more than just accept the decline of Mainline Protestant denominations.

Episode 159: Mainline Churches and Israel-Palestine with Todd Stavrakos

Reverend Todd Stavrakos discusses the stance of mainline churches on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Open, Affirming and Following

Why we need to move from affirmation to discipleship for LGBTQ people.

Sermon: All That Sparkles

How are we receiving each other? How are we welcoming each other? How do we treat strangers, especially those who don’t agree with us?

A Knock at the Door

When I think about the recent horrific shooting of young Ralph Yarl, a young black man who went to the wrong house to pick up his siblings and was shot by an elderly white man, my thoughts go to a similar experience I went through growing up and also to my late elderly father. Let me...