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Episode 89 – Drew Colby: I’m a Racist (And So Can You!)
In all the commotion of Holy Week, I forgot to push our latest conversation from Crackers and Grape Juice. In Episode 89 (we’ve been at this almost a year now and we’re nearing #100!), Teer Hardy and I...
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Inviting Richard Spencer to Church
Here in Alexandria this week the local gym made news by canceling the membership of Richard Spencer, leader of the Alt-Right (racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic) movement. Identified by a Georgetown...
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Unite the Right(eous): Live Cross-Podcast Conversation on Charlottesville
Our friend of the podcast, Dr. Jeffrey Pugh, was present this Saturday for the counter-demonstration to the alt-right Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. We thought it was important to hear from...
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Ash Wednesday Every Day
I preached this Sunday at my good friend Todd Littleton’s church, Snow Hill Baptist, outside Oklahoma City. Todd followed the same schedule through Romans this summer as my church. My text was Romans...
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Episode #111 – Praying with Your Feet: The One Thousand Minister March
It turns out Teer Hardy is good for more than just Orioles stats and an alt-right side-part. Speaking of the alt-right, Teer scored us press passes for Monday’s One Thousand Minister March in...
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Episode #118 – Ruben Rosario Rodriguez: Witness and Violence
Back in the day, Ruben taught Jason Barth, Luther, and Calvin for the first time. Now, they’re both black sheep, closet Reformation guys in Catholic and Wesleyan folds respectively. Ruben Rosario...
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Hammer Time
Ash Wednesday – Matthew 6 I want to thank you all for coming out tonight instead of staying home and watching the Charlie Brown Ash Wednesday Special with your kids. There is a Michael Bolton Big...
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Why Our Dialogue on Race Needs More Gospel
During the recent Day of Service at the Virginia Annual Conference of United Methodism, some clergy and laity took part in an in-service on racial reconciliation sponsored by a commission of the larger...
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Episode 173 – Natasha Robinson: A Sojourner’s Truth
Natasha S. Robinson joins the podcast to talk about her new book, ‘A Sojourner’s Truth.’ Natasha is a Naval Academy graduate, served in the United States Marine Corps, was the Senior Diversity...
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The Bottomless Glass
John 2.1-11 Were you all paying attention? Jesus responds to Mary’s alarm that the already drunk guests have run out wine by making more wine for them to drink. Listen to the story again: Jesus...
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To be a Virginian
This one comes from my friend and colleague, Reverend Drew Colby. There’s an anonymous quote which gets recited on occasion in Virginia that goes like this: “To be a Virginian either by birth,...
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A White Liberation Theology
The latest in a series from my brother from a different mother, Rev. Drew Colby: “The white person entered the voting booth burdened by the load of guilt for having enjoyed the fruits of oppression and...
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Episode #215 — Joel Goza— America’s Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our...
“Racism is the ideological building block of our nation. Our current politics, our prisons, our inner cities— our system produces exactly the results it seeks by design.” As we celebrate Independence...
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After El Paso: They Looked Like My Kids (Or: Mr President’s Christians— Words...
In his Letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul mixes his metaphors when he writes about the already but still not yet character of the New Creation. Paul uses both the language of adoption and...
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The Way of the Son in the Far Country
Luke 15.11-32 St. Luke reports the motive. The Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling, Luke writes at the top of chapter fifteen. They were outraged: “This Jesus welcomes sinners— tax collectors,...
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