Season 4

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Bonus: Becoming More Whole In Our Faith with Jimmy McGee

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Jimmy McGee talks about how our faith comes from a context that is different from our current one. A context that is circular and connected, instead of linear and fragmented.  What are some ways that the fragmentation of colonialism has infiltrated your theology? Where have you seen God remind you […]

When Spiritual Formation Anchor Us To Jesus and Each Other with Sara Billups.

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Sara Billups talks about the spiritual and cultural dynamics of being an orphaned believer. Spiritual orphaning happens when people who are pursuing Jesus can’t seem to square their reading of the gospel with what they see in the American church. Cultural orphaning happens when followers of Jesus feel a sense […]

When Being Collective Helps Us Flourish with Dina Martinez

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Dina Martinez reflects on taking a sabbatical, creating healthy patterns of work and rest, and the cultural dynamics that may have made it more difficult to implement physical, emotional, and spiritual rest. Does her journey of creating rhythms of work and rest resonate with you? How have you been trained […]

Embracing a Biblical Vision of Flourishing for All with Timothy Isaiah Cho

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Timothy Isaiah Cho shares a bit of his story about how he was a bit of a latecomer to the Christian racial justice space and how he had to wrestle with an internalized narrative that looked down on his own ethnic and racial background.  Have you ever stopped to think […]

How the Histories of Black Christians Help Us Hold On to Truth with Jasmine L. Holmes

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Jasmine Holmes provides compelling reasons to learn the stories of Black Christians who came before us, especially in the light of the hypocrisy of Christians who claimed to follow Jesus while oppressing people made in the image of God. How familiar are you with stories like these? What does it […]

How To Hold On to a Living Hope with Rasool Berry

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Rasool Berry provides us helpful steps for fostering a living hope in the midst of despair. Did you know that it is dangerously possible to have faith without hope? There are ways in which we may not doubt the existence or goodness of God, but we aren’t expectant that God […]

Reclaiming the sacred spaces of our lives

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Kat Armas turns many of our assumptions on their head. What if the greatest Christian theologians the world has ever known were those whom the world wouldn’t consider theologians at all? What if we realized that a divided life is what’s preventing us from experiencing wholeness? What if the wilderness […]

Presenting Perfection and Other “Christian” Norms We Need To Ditch

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Drew Hyun sheds light on the importance of an “integrated life” and brings us back to seeing the heart of Jesus, especially when our Christian experiences are filled with disappointment and pain. Do you yearn for a life of integrity, where your public and private life are working together toward […]

Carrying Traditions of God’s Goodness: An Indigenous View

Episode Reflection Invitation to Explore Renee Kylestewa Begay invites us to bring our full selves before Jesus and recognize the ways in which our Creator God has revealed himself to our unique communities.  Take some time to think about the ways in which God has uniquely revealed himself in the values you live by or […]