Red Letter Christians Podcast

Shane Claiborne on Rethinking Life: Championing Life from Womb to Tomb

Shane Claiborne begins a three part series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this special episode, he discusses what it means to be "Championing Life from Womb to Tomb."
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Bishop Mark Beckwith Discusses the Multiple Ways Gun Violence Must Be Addressed

Mark Beckwith is the retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. While there, he co-founded the Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace, a network of religious leaders committed to reducing gang violence in the city. He co-founded Bishops United Against Gun Violence, which has grown to a network of 100 bishops from across the church. Since retirement, he has become part of the leadership team for Braver Angels, a movement that seeks to depolarize America by convening equal numbers of conservative and progressive people in workshops and actions that honor political and ideological difference and seek to find common ground.
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Braver Angels
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Andy Raine of the Northumbria Community + Celtic Daily Prayer

Andy Raine who together with John & Linda Skinner founded the Northumbria Community joins Shane Claiborne to discuss the community and Celtic Daily Prayer.
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Dr. Terence Lester, All God’s Children: How Confronting Buried History Building Racial Solidarity

Terence Lester (PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, Union Institute and University) is a minister, speaker, community activist, author, and founder of Love Beyond Walls, a not-for-profit organization focused on poverty awareness and community mobilization. His campaigns on behalf of the poor, including #LoveSinksIn, have been featured in USA Today, Black Enterprise Essence, and Reader’s Digest. They have been viewed by millions of people globally on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS News, NBC, Upworthy, and “The Bright Side” with Katie Couric. His books include When We Stand, I See You, Getting Past Stuck, Simple Prayers for Hurting People, and Identity Theft.
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Dr. Ash Barker | UK: Red Letter Christians Across the Pond!

Dr. Ash Barker has spent over 30 years living and serving on the front line of urban poverty and has a passion to release the unique potential of urban people & places through Jesus. Since 2014, the Barkers have been based in Winson Green, inner city Birmingham, UK. They founded Newbigin House which started two new local congregations as well as innovative organisations such as Newbigin Community Trust, Red Letter Christians UK & Urban Shalom Society now led by others. Currently, Ash leads Seedbeds (the new name for Newbigin School for Urban Leadership which merged with the Community for Reconciliation) focusing on growing leaders & communities into fullness of life. This includes 'School for Urban Leadership' accredited programmes (UrbanLeadership.org.uk) and 'Change Makers' emerging leaders programmes (UrbanChangeMakers.org). 
 
No Wastelands: How to grow seedbeds of shalom in your neighbourhood.
In No Wastelands Ash Barker shares his odyssey of serving on the front line of urban poverty on three continents. Through stories, scriptures, and challenging insights, Ash inspires readers to release the unique potential of their local communities.
“Whoever you are, ‘No Wastelands’ will help you learn what I have been learning from Ash over the years: that making a difference is neither as simple as we think nor as impossible as we think.” Brian McLaren
Launching at Greenbelt - August 2023
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They Got Daddy: One Family’s Reckoning with Racism and Faith | Author Sharon Tubbs on RLC Book Club hosted by Chris Lahr

Sharon Tubbs began her professional career as a newspaper reporter and editor. In a career that spanned seventeen years, she worked briefly for the Philadelphia Inquirer then for the Tampa Bay Times. As a journalist, she covered various beats that included small-town government, local crime, and national religious issues. Today, Sharon Tubbs is a writer, inspirational speaker, and the director of a nonprofit organization that empowers under-resourced residents in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to live healthier lives.
This book, They Got Daddy: One Family’s Reckoning with Racism, has been called “an unforgettable journey through racism and faith across the generations.”
January 15, 1959—a day that changed one family forever. White supremacists kidnapped and severely beat rural Alabama preacher Israel Page, nearly killing him because he had sued a White sheriff’s deputy for injuries suffered in a car crash. After “they” “got Daddy,” Israel Page’s children began leaving the Jim Crow South, the event leaving an indelible mark on the family and its future. Decades later, the events of that day fueled journalist Sharon Tubbs’s epic quest to learn who had “gotten” her mother’s daddy and why.
They Got Daddy follows Tubbs on her moving journey from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to the back roads and rural churches of Alabama. A powerful revelation of the sustaining and redemptive power of faith and unflinching testimony to the deeply embedded effects of racism across the generations, it demonstrates how the search for the truth can offer a chance at true healing.
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BONUS: Pentecost Party!

In this *bonus* episode, we celebrate with the Pentecost Party episode from May 2021. Join Shane and friends as they celebrate Pentecost with music, conversation, and Jesus.
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Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church | Katelyn Beaty

From April 27th's RLC Book Club | Many Christian leaders use their fame and influence to great effect. Whether that popularity resides at the local church level or represents national or international influence, many leaders have effectively said to their followers, “Follow me as I follow Christ.” But fame that is cultivated for its own sake, without attendant spiritual maturity and accountability, has a shadow side that runs counter to the heart of the gospel. Celebrity – defined as social power without proximity – has led to abuses of power, the cultivation of persona, and a fixation on profits.
In light of the fall of famous Christian leaders in recent years, the time has come for the church to reexamine its relationship to celebrity. Award-winning journalist Katelyn Beaty explores the ways fame has reshaped the American church, explains how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical movement, and identifies many ways fame has gone awry in recent years. She shows us how evangelical culture is uniquely attracted to celebrity gurus over and against institutions, and she offers a renewed vision of ordinary faithfulness, helping us all keep fame in its proper place.
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May Morning Prayer with Dr. Vonnetta West

From May 1, join Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, and special guest, Dr. Vonnetta West, for morning prayer! They discuss the recent action in Nashville and reflections on what’s needed to build The Beloved Community in this moment. Morning prayer takes place at the beginning of each month based on the book, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.
Dr. Vonnetta West is a cultural consultant, leadership strategist, nonviolence trainer, and good neighbor. As the principal owner of Go West Consulting LLC, she facilitates experiences and produces content, inclusive of social media, podcast, website, training, and speech content, purposed to connect, transform and engage people for good. She leads Go West Consulting in providing trainings on Creating Cultures of Honor, Culture Matters, Inside/Out, Eradicating Racism, The Bias Challenge, Leadership That Grows, The Language of the Beloved Community, Your Justice Footprint: Evidence of Love In Action, and other sessions aimed at building and sustaining community, including in professional spaces.
She is also the host of the Let Your Life Be Your Sermon podcast, pastor of Our Neighbor’s House, and Senior Nonviolence Instructor for The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center). Dr. West is a leader with the Interfaith Response to White Supremacy, a National Center for Civil and Human Rights initiative, and has 20+ years of leadership experience in the metro Atlanta non-profit sector. In her most recent non-profit professional staff role, she was Director of GenerationOn (Youth Division) at Points of Light in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Call to Action | The Death Penalty, Richard Glossip, and the Ongoing Executions in Oklahoma

Conversation about the high number of executions in Oklahoma, the role of Christians in abolishing the death penalty, and the case of an innocent man on death row despite the Attorney General asking the sentence be vacated due to his innocence. Shane Claiborne talks to Adam Luck, former chair of Pardons and Parole, and Abe Bonowitz, of Death Penalty Action.
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