If you want to be able to fight injustice and experience hope, resilience, and joy in spite of it, you need a faith and a God that are acquainted with suffering and oppression. Continuing our series “God of the Oppressed”, we learned this week from BLC’s Barbara Cunningham about oppression and the God who responds to it from a Chilean perspective -- a story of dictatorship, political suppression, and being told what and how to think.
Read MoreIn honor of the weekend many would have been participating in Chicago’s Pride Parade if not for COVID-19, Rebecca Janvrin joins Vince & Kyle to discuss queer insights on God and faith. This kicks off our new series of discussion: God of the Oppressed. We’ll be immersing ourselves, one at a time, in various different marginalized perspectives on Jesus and faith and the Bible. Really, we can’t come to a proper theology and understanding of Jesus at all if we’re not trying to do that from marginalized perspectives, because Jesus was a marginalized person.
Read MoreIf we use oral health & hygiene as an analogy, becoming anti-racist isn’t taking your tonsils out, it’s brushing your teeth — we have to commit to ongoing, everyday work.
Read MoreHayley, Kyle, and Vince discuss “shoulds” and false “right” pictures of community, American metaphors vs New Testament metaphors for community, practical ways to do community right now in the midst of shelter-in-place, and obscure references from the show Friends.
Read MoreKyle and Vince get excited when they discover that certain Biblical references may not be about what they’re popularly thought to be about in American culture. Because, despite all of the damage that is done when the Bible is misappropriated, it is (properly treated) a treasure trove!
Read MoreWhere can we find God in the way COVID-19 is resetting society? Vince, Kyle, and guest Val Buchanan discuss.
Read MoreVince and Kyle continue the conversation of “Believing in God when bad thing happen” with a mailbag podcast responding to comments and question from last Sunday’s discussion.
Read MoreIn Harry Potter, Harry discovers the difference between “being dragged into the arena” of the hardship ahead of him and “walking into the arena with his head held high” — The same discovery is what made Jesus who he was — And the same discovery can transform us into all we’re meant to be.
Read MoreContinuing his series on becoming all we’re meant to, Vince shares how embracing the risks of journeying through Jesus’ Kingdom of God brings healing to our un-dealt with pain by unpacking the theology of the movie Moana, how Moana is a Christ figure, and how we are all Te Ka.
Read MoreOur ordinary world and lives are ruled by attachment to possessions and consumerism. But what if there is an alternative, unseen, spiritual reality (Jesus’ “Kingdom of God”) that we can choose to live in instead, which can free from us from the restlessness and comparison of being driven by consumerism, and can bring us purpose, transformation and a feeling that God is speaking to us?
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