This week I talk with Justin McRoberts who is an author, speaker, and thought leader living out in the Bay Area. We cover some ground on this one! Justin's perspectives as a White male is good to engage with. His own resistance and journey has been an interesting one and this was a good conversation to have this week. As always, check it out. Oh, and we say shit a few times. So, there’s that.
Yup, we go in this week on racial reconciliation theologies. To back me up, I brought with me Daniel Camacho and together we team up on critically interrogating one of the most popular theological constructs around. This conversation is needed and before you go and get all sentimental on me, take a listen. Check out the arguments and listen to the break down. We don't throw the baby out with any dish water. But, we do examine a construct that we both believe is holding a lot of us, POC, back. So...
We have overlooked the importance of what those labeled villains in the Bible can teach us. This week JR is back! He breaks down his new book's main premise, to explore the nuances of the bad folks throughout the Christian Bible. This is another solid theological episode, so, get your notebooks out, JR takes us on an overview of the missed aspects of those devilish characters.
EXPLICIT What happens when you get a missionary with some sarcasm, tattoos, lives in California, and could hold her own in an MMA ring...well, you get Jamie Wright. Jamie and I sit down to talk that wonderful machine called the mission field; where race, gender, money, colonialism, more money, and socio-economics all come to play themselves out. Jamie's experience as a missionary exposed her to a lot, and, now she's not only talking about it, she even wrote a book about it. This episode gon' be ...
Activism is a long, difficult, and often times lonely road. However, this week on Profane Faith, we have two folks who have been working together for the betterment of the community. Andre Johnson and Earle Fisher are two of Memphis' good ones. Working hard to bring down a racist monument, this conversation gets in on race, religion, Whiteness, and the complexity of racist monuments. This is a conversation long overdue but it is a great victory in an era where we're not seeing many wins. Go on c...
Well, I figured it was about time we did a review on the film Black Panther. So, I brought my good friend Tamisha Tyler, soon to be Dr Tyler, and we go in. We talk religion, race, Killmonger, and how violence is shaped within the film. After the week a lot of us have had as POC we needed a trip to Wakanda and a non colonized embracement of Blackness. So, take a listen, Tamisha got them theology of culture skills!
This was a tough week. The colonizers getting on my last nerve. That's why I had to bring my good friend and brilliant mind, Kenji Kuramitsu. We're talking race, Christianity, de-colonizing minds, and what it means to be a conscious socially engaged POC in this here era. Kenji has an amazing story and one that is unique in that he is eager to push well beyond the borders of the colonized state of space. Kenji's uncanny way of placing theology and mysticism makes him a contemporary cultural theol...
EXPLICIT! Well Theopoetics is finally here! I had a chance to sit down with two dynamic, amazing, brilliant, and theologically savvy women, Tuhina Rasche and Maya Camille'. This conversation covers race, gender, class, zombies, and a wit only these two women can bring. Check it out. But note, this is not for the faint of ear! We do go in!
The conversation seems to have stalled on DACA and undocumented peoples here in the U.S. What's up with that? How has a historical unwillingness to address systemic inequality created the mess we're in now? Well, I can't say I have the answers, but this week on Profane Faith I have Sarah Quezada to speak on her new book which looks at this issue of immigration from a narrative perspective. Join in and check out this timely convo.
Star Wars is such a grand universe. But, a universe that big surely has to have some POC...right? I mean, maybe a purple alien or two? Well, this week I bring back Kate Sanchez to discuss race, gender, and socio-politics in the new episode of the Star Wars saga. Kate's genius insight brings to the surface some of the long standing racial issues the saga has struggled with. Hold on, our hyper-drives are warming up!
Dr. David Congdon and I sit down to discuss his faith journey, universalism, salvation in the trumpster era, & how race factors into our own theological lens. This a seminary class session y'all! So, go on and get those notebooks out and take some notes. Season 2 opens up with a solid bang!
The final episode of season 1 2017. Dan breaks down a brief overview of the inaugural year of Profane Faith and looks forward to 2018. We will return here in January 2018. Stay tuned and subscribed!
The Alabama special election purged some very interesting issues. Patriarchy. Sexism. White Evangelical support of an accused pedophile. What does all that even mean? How might us as POC respond to the results in which Black women overwhelmingly voted against Roy Moore? Well, join me this week as my guests are Irene Cho, Tamisha Tyler, and Latina Williams. We'll be discussing all this, and more!
Often times we tend to think of our religious training focused around a specific pedagogy or spiritual community. At times, that can lead us to a place of not being able to see the other. This week Dr. Gray takes us on a journey of what it is like to teach religious studies from a Black philosophical perspective. Hold on, this one is on fire!
What is going to change with White people? What is going to change with White institutions in an era of trump? Is it possible to change or it it time for POC to leave the empire? This week, I go in on some of these questions and look at the story of King Nebuchadnezzar. Some love of empire and king is going on these days!
Well, why not put the whole family on, right? Well, not really, but, my kid is growing up in a much different world than I did and I wanted to start that conversation here on this show. This week Mahalia and I are talking the basics, nothing too deep, but just enough to give you some insight into this kids life. Check it out as we look into the mind of a 10 year old.
Gay. Christian. The two are rarely seen together and even more, many simply don't want to see them together. Come listen in on this much needed conversation with Darren Calhoun as we talk the intersections of faith.
What does a Quaker, White, cis, male have to say about allyship, the arts, race, and faith? Well, a lot actually. This week we go in again on what White allyship looks like with Callid Keefe-Perry. Callid takes a pragmatic and scholarly approach while still pressing on in the reality of racism.
White allies have been in the news and in peoples conversations a lot. So, what and who are they? Well, while this episode is not a pitch to make that case for someone, it is an insider conversation with someone I consider to be my ally, my wife. That's right, this week my wife, Emily White Hodge, go in on love, race, and faith! It's on now!
EXPLICIT. Why are certain Black people protesting the flag? Why does Colin take a knee? And how does Evangelicalism play into all this? Come join me in a conversation with an emerging post-soul theologian, Josiah Daniels to go in on all this and more
What is the journey of the Black scholar? How does race, class, & gender affect the process? This week we have a discussion about that and many other things with emerging scholar Travis Harris. We go in on faith, research, and of course, Hip Hop.
Doing the right thing is subjective. Moreover, doing the right thing often comes attached with race, gender, and historical ideologies regarding how to do the 'right thing' as a x-tian. This conversation goes in on what this all means being male, Mexican, and still pursuing Jesus.
What does it mean to be Latinx, trans, Christian, and a voice for justice in the trumpster era? Dr. Robyn Espinoza breaks that down and gets at the issues of race, gender, class, and faith.
Part 2 of this special edition of Profane Faith has me talking with Kathy Khang. Here, we go deeper into the Christian perspective on violence, race, guns, and what the "future" might look like when mass shootings have become a common place.
The tragedy that unfolded in Las Vegas was an act of terrorism. Yet, there are many more issues at stake here than meets the eye. Dr. Andre Johnson joins me in this special edition of Profane Faith to discuss those issues as they relate back to religious discourse and race.
What does an atheist really thing? Tell me that. And could they actually be of moral fiber? Hmmm. Well, this conversation is with a great thinker and atheist, Kate Sanchez. Check it out.
What does it mean when your theological highway runs out on you and you have cracks in your faith? Join me in this deep conversation with pastor, author, and good friend, JR Forasteros as we talk about when cracks show up in our faith.
Law and order. Something that many do not have a clue on and even more could care less about when it involved Black bodies. Come listen in on a conversation with former law enforcement officer, Mark Skiles.
Colonialism and faith go hand in hand in Western Christianity. Come listen in on Brandi Miller discuss her own de-colonizing journey and what she does to help folks de-colonize their own minds.
A conversation with Rev Efrem Smith on race, evangelicalism, White run mission organizations, and God.
