Red Letter Christians Podcast

Contemporary Christianity + Connection | Reverend Joel Simpson

Joel Simpson is a pastor in the United Methodist Church and believes language matters and that it is crucial to keep Christianity simple and rooted in love. He lives in western North Carolina and blogs at www.revjoelsimpson.wordpress.com
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Faith in the Holler Gospel + Appalacia with Brad Davis

"Rev. Brad Davis (he/him) is a provisional elder in the West Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church currently serving as pastor at Nighbert Memorial UMC of Logan, WV, and founder of  The New Society, a grassroots Central Appalachian kingdom movement. A native of one of the nation’s most economically and socially exploited regions, Brad’s passion is connecting its people to a holistic, therapeutic, liberating message of salvation he calls the Holler Gospel." [from https://accidentaltomatoes.com]
 
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Faith Van Horne | Trauma, Atonement + Healing

Faith Van Horne is the new co-director of Red Letter Christians in the UK! She received her Masters of Divinity from the Methodist Theological School in Ohio in the United States. She is currently a postgraduate researcher in Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. Her thesis explores how perceptions of selfhood and the body influence theological visions of redemption for survivors of sexual abuse. She also blogs for Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice.
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Creation Care & Colonization | Randy Woodley, Sarah Augustine, Nicole Taylor Morris, and Avery Davis Lamb!

This episode is from November 2021's  Faith Forum on Creation Care & Colonization with special guests Randy Woodley, Sarah Augustine, Nicole Taylor Morris, and Avery Davis Lamb!
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Sandra Maria Van Opstal | The Pursuit of a Lifestyle of Faith + Justice

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"Sandra Maria Van Opstal is a second-generation Latina pastor, activist, author, and a powerful leading voice on the intersection of faith and justice.
She is executive director of Chasing Justice, a BIPOC-led movement that mobilizes Christians to live justly. Sandra’s distinctiveness comes from working in both local and global contexts as a practitioner and academic, which has solidified her calling to disrupt oppressive systems within the church and center marginalized voices. She has reached audiences around the world on topics of ethnic identity, reconciliation, global justice, and worship through international movements like Lausanne, The Justice Conference, and World Vision and Urbana Missions Conference. Her local influence is also palpable, having served as a pastor and activist in her local community.
She holds a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is currently pursuing doctoral work in Urban Leadership and Transformation. Sandra is the author of The Next Worship, as well as contributor to the New York Times bestselling book A Rhythm of Prayer."  [[bio from http://www.sandravanopstal.com]]
 
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Abe Bonowitz on the Death Penalty Action + the Increase of Executions

"Abraham J. Bonowitz has been one of the leading organizers in the death penalty abolition movement since he changed his mind on the issue in the late 1980’s. He has had a hand in each of the legislative repeal victories thus far, starting with when he served as the Field Manager for New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, which passed its bill in 2007. He then worked as the Director of Affiliate Support for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and was directly involved in the repeal victories in New Mexico, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland and Nebraska (since reversed via referendum)." - [from https://deathpenaltyaction.org/]
 
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Randy Woodley, author of Mission and the Cultural Other

"Mission and the Cultural Other is a decolonial critique of a too often failed missionary enterprise. Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley, a former missionary and missiologist, writes both as an insider and an outsider. As an Indigenous person, a missionary among Native Americans, and a decolonial theologian with over thirty years of experience in various missionary movements, he has seen the best and worst that American mission has to offer. Before change can be made in a guarded system such as Christian mission, the critique must be pervasive and cut to the core of the problem. To truly understand the weakness of modern mission, we need to hear from those who have been its casualties." - From WIPF and Stock Publishers
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Participating in the Dream of God | Guest Pastor Michael McBride

"Pastor McBride's commitment to holistic ministry can be seen through his leadership roles in both the church and community organizations.  Regarded as a national faith leader, active in the Ferguson uprisings and many subsequent uprisings, he helps bridge, train and support millennials and religious institutions working on racial justice and black liberation." [from https://www.pastormikemcbride.com/about]
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Dr. Chris Haw co-author of Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

"Chris Haw is assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of Scranton, a speaker, and an author. 
​His books are Jesus for President (2008 w/ Shane Claiborne), From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart (2012), and Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics, with Cambridge University Press (2021).
Besides having cultivated the arts of carpentry, fathering, and husband-ing, Chris earned his PhD in theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. He researches and teaches on how human evolution, violence, scapegoating, Christianity, politics, and culture work--or don't. His teaching on Christianity often centers upon its intersection with racism, militarism, materialism, and the ecological crisis." [from https://www.chris-haw.com]
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The Prophetic Imagination | Walter Brueggemann

Brueggemann’s primary method with the text is rhetorical criticism. Words matter to Brueggemann, and one can tell that by listening to him speak as he hangs on to particularly theologically significant words. His magnum opus, Theology of the Old Testament (1997), is a rhetorical-critical look at the Old Testament through the lenses of “testimony, dispute, and advocacy.”
Many have come to know Brueggemann through his book entitled The Prophetic Imagination, originally published in 1978.
[from https://www.walterbrueggemann.com]
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