We talk a lot about deconstruction on the personal/individual level, but does the Church itself need to deconstruct in order to evolve into something better? In this episode, Joe talks about how decolonizing, declassifying, and decentralizing could hold the keys for a more just, equitable, and liberationist future for the institutional church.
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Sadly, our cowardice is sanctified by faith traditions which value niceness over truth-telling and elevate false peace over the discomfort of disrupting the status quo, which always favors the oppressor
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Language matters, and the way we talk about people matters the most.
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Deconstruction is all about asking questions. In this episode, Joe asks whether the biblical story of the “fall” from which the doctrine of original sin emerges should be considered less about disobedience than about exploitation.
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As we continue to prepare for our upcoming third season, we revisit one of our favorite episodes from Season 1 where Joe interviewed social justice activist and author Shane Claiborne in a wide-ranging conversation covering issues from the Sermon on the Mount to gun violence and the death penalty to the Christian response to injustice in the world.
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