!!!!!EXPLICIT!!! Oh yeah, we continue on with our series here! This week, Dr. Christopher Driscoll, religious studies scholar, joins me and digs right in on the convo. Check it out! Christopher M. Driscoll is assistant professor of religion studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Driscoll is a scholar of race, religion, and culture, and historical and contemporary white U.S. and European religious, philosophical, and theological thought and traditions, hip hop culture, and existentialisms...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 28 min
!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! A new series dealing with the ontological and cultural essence of God idealogy. This week we kick off with my good friend, Sean Watkins. Check it out!
Jun 27, 2021•1 hr 23 min
!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! This week will be worth the wait! The great and wise Alicia T. Crosby is on the show this week, and, wow...is this a barn burner!!! Check it fam! Alicia T. Crosby (she/hers) is a justice educator, activist, and minister whose work addresses the spiritual, systemic, and interpersonal harm people experience. Through her teaching, writing, speaking, and space curation, Alicia helps individuals, communities, and institutions explore and unpack topics related to identity, justice, j...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 28 min
!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! This week in honor of pride month I get to talk with a new friend, whom I know will be a long-time one, Leo Wolters Tejera. We go in on race, religion, human sexuality, and our current era. Check it!
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Wow. What a treat! My long-time friend Dawn Finch and I finally get a chance to have a conversation about her amazing work with youth and young adults in L.A. A true O.G.!
May 31, 2021•1 hr 12 min
This week the amazing Tamisha Tyler hijacks the show to turn the tables and interview me! We get into my 2nd book, The Soul of Hip Hop. Can you believe it? It's been 10 years! Well, 11 if you count 2021. And the episode is under an hour! How about that!
May 24, 2021•53 min
!!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! This week I welcome Emily Joy as she talks about her new book #Church Too: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing. Yo...this is DEEP! Buckle up!
May 16, 2021•1 hr 30 min
!!!!EXPLICIT!!! So here you have it...an array of voices talking about their thoughts and reflections regarding the George Floyd trial. This one is long but so worth the time. Dig in!
May 03, 2021•1 hr 45 min
!!!!EXPLICIT!!! So here you have it...an array of voices talking about their thoughts and reflections regarding the George Floyd trial. This one is long but so worth the time. Dig in!
May 02, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Oh, you don't want to miss out on this conversation! The great and amazing Rosa Clemente is with me this week and we talk politics, gender, Hip Hop, and the work she's been doing for equity. Listen in!
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 27 min
This week we wrap up our series with an old friend, Ki Martinez. Ki is a coach and facilitator for anti-oppression at Both/And, based in NYC, in the areas of identity exploration and somatics. They break it down and really anchors this 3-week series. Check it out!
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 21 min
The 2nd part of our series has me talking with my family friend Pastor Mayra Macedo-Nolan. She's doing some amazing work out in Pasadena and as a woman doing work in a male-dominated context, she's helped create space to engage more with gender, race, and ethnicity. She's doing the damn thing! Check it out.
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 16 min
This week we start a 3 week series on exploring Latinx faith workers in a variety of contexts. This week, my dear friend The Rev. Werner Ramirez is on to talk about his life as a Guatemalan immigrant and how that also informs his faith work. Listen in! Werner is a Guatemalan immigrant who grew up in Long Beach, CA. He jokes that he did not get into much trouble growing up because he has great parents who got him cable television and took him to church. Werner is an ordained minister of word and ...
Apr 05, 2021•1 hr 16 min
I finally get to have a convo with my good friend and mentor, Dr. Craig Detweiler. Craig is an amazing thinker on religion, theology, pop culture, and film. We get a chance to talk on all that plus the new work he's into. Check it....especially you haters listening! CRAIG IS A LOS ANGELES-BASED AUTHOR, FILMMAKER, AND CULTURAL COMMENTATOR. HE WRITES ABOUT CULTURE, THEOLOGY, AND TECHNOLOGY. HE ALSO WRITES SCREENPLAYS AND PRODUCES FILMS. HE RECEIVED AN MFA IN CINEMA-TV PRODUCTION FROM THE UNIVERSIT...
Mar 28, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Having been fired myself I know firsthand what that entails when you work inside of Xtian orgs. This week, my guest is a good friend Heather Haginduff who talks about navigating those areas along with aspects of race and gender. Another good episode!
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 12 min
What happens when Joy, pain, suffering, and lament come together....well, find out when my guest Dr. Angela Williams Gorrell joins me this week talking about her new book and research. Angela is an assistant professor of practical theology at Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. She previously served as an Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 18 min
This week I talk with Anna Otaola artist extraordinaire! She also has quite the story being married to a spouse in an evangy org. Yeah...this is also part 2 from last week! Anna is an artist living and creating in the Denver Metro area in Colorado. She was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ and later went to college in Santa Barbara, CA where she received a Bachelors of Fine Art. Anna has been creating since she was a child, starting with wood and glue and later moving into charcoal, paint, and canv...
Feb 28, 2021•1 hr 28 min
I finally get to sit down with my long-time friend, soon to be Dr. Pablo Otaola. We talk about his journey in leaving an evangelical outreach org and just race and religion...all good stuff! As a LatinX global citizen and immigrant into the USA, Pablo has developed the agility to quickly understand complex systems and provide on-ramps of learning and development for employees with expertise in developing equitable structures. Through diligent professional and academic study, Pablo has come to un...
Feb 21, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Dr. Leah Payne joins me this week to talk about her work, pedagogy, podcasting, and the mess we still find ourselves in today. Good talk, check it out. Leah Payne (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is Associate Professor of Theology at George Fox University and Portland Seminary. She is also a senior fellow at the Louisville Institute and a Faculty Fellow in the George Fox Honors Program. Her first book, Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century (Palgra...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Welp, White Supremecy is at it again, figured I'd bring Kathy & Irene on to talk about this B.S. stinking up religious spaces. Related Topics: Profane Faith | More
Feb 07, 2021•1 hr 39 min
Dr. Kristin Du Mez joins me to talk about her new book and how Christian Evangelicalism is connected to hyper-masculinity and a host of issues that help make trump, trump. Kristin Kobes Du Mez is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for the Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, and Christian Cent...
Jan 31, 2021•1 hr 24 min
This one is dope AF! Skyer J joins me to talk all things Trans Embodiment and how it connects to theology...good deep stuff! Check it out.
Jan 24, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Oh, you gon want to listen in on this! The great Dr. Turman is on this week to talk on life, theology, Blackness, and even the Black body. Dang skippy...this is fire! The Reverend Eboni Marshall Turman, Ph.D. is the assistant professor of theology and African American religion at Yale University Divinity School in New Haven, CT. A first-career concert dancer and ordained National Baptist preacher, her research interests span the varieties of 20th century US theological liberalisms, most especial...
Jan 17, 2021•1 hr 29 min
Oooh wee! Leaving a religious flock is never easy...add in fundamentalism, strong cultural mores, and you have quite a mess. Check out this convo I have with an amazing spirit, Josue Calderón !!
Jan 10, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Back at it in the new year! And once again, the amazing and wise J.R. is back. This is a long one, so, feel free to break this one up into two...it's some good stuff. Make sure you check out the show notes too.
Jan 03, 2021•1 hr 58 min
G-wizz! Late again...but, look who's on...the great Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza! So, it was worth the wait. Check it out and happy holidays. Dr. Robyn's work focuses on connecting the dots between theory & action, helping folks within the dominant culture & white-passing folks – who are ready to confront their socialization – to identify the ways they have been conscripted into supremacy culture by leaning into connection and relationship and by composting existing hierarchies into the ...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 14 min
This was a recorded conversation with Jeanelle and Patrick along with a couple of other good people discussing what racial justice, end times, and race look like all together. Yeah, good stuff!
Dec 14, 2020•1 hr 41 min
The amazing Nikole Lim joins me this week on the show to talk about all things liberation, restoration, and film. The work she does lies between media and activism. Some deep, deep stuff! Check it out. Nikole is the Co-Founder and International Director of Freely in Hope, a nonprofit organization that equips survivors and advocates to lead in ending the cycle of sexual violence. Freely in Hope operates in Kenya and Zambia providing psychological counseling, health care and high school and univer...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 18 min
!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! Oh yeah, you already know this episode gon be fire! The awesome Irene Cho is on and we break shit down!!! Oops... I said shit....c'mon now! Irene is a national speaker, writer, consultant, and advisor, having served over 28 years in youth ministry. Her passion is for the misfits of the world and to bring the gospel message of joy and hope to the least, the lost, and the last. She holds a Master of Divinity from Talbot Theological Seminary and a BA in Christian Education from Bi...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 28 min
!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! Oh yeah, the great Angie Hong is back! We did an Instagram live, once I figured out the tech, and boy did we go in! Check it out and happy turkey day!
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 14 min
