What good can come from Nazareth?
Jesus always comes from Nazareth…from the marginal places decentered from power and privilege
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Season 3 Episode 11: Jeanne Peters of OutMOV
Jeanne Peters, a founding member and current vice president of OutMOV, joins Joe for this episode to talk about why events and activities are critical to community building, the importance of intersectionality in advocacy and liberation, and Pride in the Park, the organization’s keystone annual event coming up in June 2022.
Read moreHolistic Healers: The Church as Missional Community
The world doesn’t need more escapist religion promising a more tolerable heavenly future, but radical followers of the radical Jesus actively participating in God’s move to right the present, bringing a holistic approach to being the church that encompasses every aspect of life…spiritual and physical needs alike.
Read moreForgiving the past
One of the challenges of deconstruction, especially the deeper one experiences it, is to learn to forgive our former selves.
Read moreSeason 3 Episode 10: 5 Things the Church Needs to Know About Deconstruction
It’s pretty clear that most churches and church leaders really don’t understand spiritual and religious deconstruction. They tend to either vilify it on the one hand or try to co-opt and mollycoddle it on the other. In this episode, Joe lists the top 5 things he (as a pastor) wishes the church understood about deconstruction and how embracing deconstruction would be good for the church.
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Accidental Tomatoes 