In today's episode, journalist Bekah McNeel analyzes the narratives surrounding six hot-button issues—immigration, COVID, abortion, critical race theory, gun violence, and climate change. For each topic, she exposes how “us versus them” thinking leads us to turn a blind eye to injustice. She also offers an alternative perspective on each issue, based on a sensitive reading of the gospel.

In Consent, Donna Freitas delivers a forensic examination of the years she spent stalked by her professor, and uses her nightmarish experience to examine the ways in which we stigmatize, debate, and attempt to understand consent today.

In Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, Donna Freitas delivers a forensic examination of the years she spent stalked by her professor, and uses her nightmarish experience to examine the ways in which we stigmatize, debate, and attempt to understand consent today.

This is an old episode that couldn't be more pressing today, as we face a democracy being eroded by Christian Nationalism. In this episode, Katherine Stewart makes a probing examination demands that Christian nationalism be taken seriously as a significant threat to the American republic and our democratic freedoms.

For anyone who has felt left out or pushed out of the church, Jenai Auman invites you to find spiritual rest and belonging in a God who loves, restores, and blesses the outcast and the marginalized.

*note: there is something weird with the audio on my track where certain words cut out. Rather than rerecord the whole episode, I just went with it

Dr. Meredith Estevez guides artists at all levels and in all disciplines to build a creative life that resonates deeply with their core values, and to cultivate an artistic practice that is joyful and sustainable.

Amanda Udis-Kessler talks to us progressive Christian beliefs, feminism, true equality, justice, and inclusivity. We also completely rethink what salvation means in a Christian context.

Elizabeth Felicetti disputes the idea that motherhood is the highest calling for Christian women, holding up biblical figures, monastics, reformers, civil rights figures and more.