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The Social Jesus Podcast
A podcast where we talk about the intersection of faith and social justice, and what a first-century, Jewish, prophet of the poor from Galilee offers us today in our work of love, compassion and justice.
Episodes
- The Social Jesus Podcast
Preferential Options and Patriarchy
Mark 5:21-43 It initially looks like this story will affirm the social assumption that if we take care of those considered less than in our society then there…
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When the Wind and Waves Threaten Justice
Mark 4:35-41 It seems like, no matter what area of justice we are working for, whenever we take three steps forward the winds and waves push us two steps back…
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Hope Despite Appearances
Mark 4:26-34 Just as we don’t have to understand how seeds work in order to plant the seeds, we don’t always have to understand how our world is going to be…
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Labelling Social Justice as Dangerous
Mark 3:20-24 “The Beelzebul controversy makes me think of how certain Christians have feared the women’s liberation movement, opposed the abolition of slavery…
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The Sabbath and Social Justice
Mark 2:23-3:6 “Are there times when we have interpreted our own Jesus following in ways that have become death dealing for our society? Is our practice of…
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Reuniting the Material and the Spiritual
John 3:1-17 “This division between the flesh and the spirit, between the physical, material world and the spiritual has born seriously destructive fruit…
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Pentecost as Connectedness and Distributive Justice
John 15:26-27; 16:4-15; Acts 2:1-4 “In the synoptic Gospels and the book of Acts, we see a fruit of the Spirit included the restoration of social justice. In…
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Sent to be Socially Life-Giving
John 17:6-19 “Although we may be different, we belong to each other. What affects one affects us all. We either thrive together or decline and wither together…
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Loving One Another and Social Justice
John 15:9-17 “Whatever we say about love, the Jesus of the gospels, and the Divine, these beliefs about love must transform us into more loving human beings…
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Different Kinds of Christianity Produce Different Kinds of Fruit
John 15:1-8 “Today, it is no secret that many kinds of Christianity are failing to produce the kind of fruit that makes this world a better place. We can, if…
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The Good Shepherd and a Socially Just World
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Resurrection as Injustice Undone
Luke 24:36-48 Whatever we make of the resurrection stories today, reading them through much more scientific lenses, we cannot ignore the fact that nowhere in…