During this year’s General Assembly, we hosted over twenty interviews. This week, we are featuring our conversation with: Subscribe or Livestream CBF’s podcast shares stories from across the Fellowship and innovative practices of those working to renew God’s world. The vision is to share ideas, stories, and innovations from ministers, authors, and practitioners. Join this … Continue reading
We live in a highly polarized time. You’ve probably heard it a thousand times, knowing we often discuss it on the Podcast. It is easy in our given times not to pull our heads above the mess to see that we have been here before. In other words, there have been other catalytic moments in … Continue reading
During this year’s General Assembly, we hosted over twenty inverviews. This week, we are featuring our conversation with: Subscribe or Livestream CBF’s podcast shares stories from across the Fellowship and innovative practices of those working to renew God’s world. The vision is to share ideas, stories, and innovations from ministers, authors, and practitioners. Join this … Continue reading
Is American democracy under threat from Christian Nationalists? David Gushee seems to believe so. When you are in a crisis, it’s hard to rise above it to see where we have come from, where we are, and where we need to go. It also can feel a lot bigger than it actually is. So, how … Continue reading
When Jesus said that unless we receive the Kingdom as a child, we can have no part of it, I always interpreted that as equal parts vulnerability, innocence, and curiosity. Kids ask lots of questions. Victoria Robb Powers and Cameron Mason Vickrey have coauthored a book about the many questions kids ask about God’s presence, … Continue reading
Deconstruction is one of those buzzwords. It’s either being used by those who have or are experiencing it or those that want to criticize it. The reality is that Jesus invites us to deconstruct. From a biblical perspective, isn’t Jesus’ invitation to follow him an act of ongoing deconstruction, leaving the old and discovering the … Continue reading
Boy, masculinity has been batted around by conservative Christians these days. It’s the stump talking point as yet another weapon in the arsenal of the mentality that the world is out to get Christians. Friend of the Podcast, Kristen Kobes Du Mez, has written extensively about the history of toxic masculinity within Evangelicalism over the … Continue reading
With the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, among many others, the country came to this flashpoint of awakening that racism is not a past but a lived experience of black and brown people. There was so much energy and moment around real change. And then, well then, White people struck back. … Continue reading
Long before chattel slavery dominated the American South, human subjugation had been perfected by the Spanish conquest of the Mississippi Delta. The Conquistadors’ colonization, displacement, and enslavement of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek laid the foundation for the later formation of chattel slavery, post-war terrorism by the KKK, the migration of Black Americas to places … Continue reading
As Cooperative Baptists, we know that there is a disparity among men and women pastors within many church traditions. Not only is the gender balance off, but the pay is even more inequitable. What can churches do about this? How can we begin to develop a more equitable culture through spiritual formation? This week’s episode … Continue reading