Continuing on with part 2 of our season finale double header! Long time friend Dr. Andre Johson is back to talk about his new book with co-author Dr. Amanda Nell Edgar. Be sure to listen to the 1st of the two as well! See you all in Season 8! In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests broke out in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the United States. National unrest led to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and added to calls for justice in other American cities, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Tulsa, and Louisville, Kentucky, where only months earlier, Breonna Taylor was killed by police. By some estimates, BLM protesters numbered between fifteen million and twenty-six million in the US and abroad. http://www.aejohnsonphd.com/ https://x.com/aejohnsonphd https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Summer-of-2020 https://x.com/amandanelledgar https://pageandpodium.com/ https://a.co/d/dnxjeeo

Here we are, good people, at the end of season 7! But not without a double header! First up, Allyn Maxfield-Steele. What a name!! A newfound friend and fellow anti-racist Allyn is a co-executive director at Highlander Research and Education Center. He's been fighting the good fight and has some good things to say about it. Join me in listening in! https://highlandercenter.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/allyn-maxfield-steele-0888b017/

You already know who this is! There is a lot to talk about and get into these days! Having the always unique and intriguing J.R. Forasteros is so great and refreshing! Come on now! https://jrforasteros.com/jr-bio/ https://sojo.net/biography/jr-forasteros https://www.arthousedallas.com/stories/2018/6/19/jr-forasteros-author https://soundcloud.com/whitehodgepodcasts/s5-e32-god-must-be-a-conservative-rev-jr-forasteros?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=6e3ab0110eb04fecb461ce508d691c5f

This week ya'll! Remember when I said there was an alarming amount of White racists joining law enforcement, the military, and government agencies....yeah...well, this week, we talk to the expert who's been monitoring domestic terrorists here in the U.S. Elizabeth Newmann joins me to discuss her latest book. Listen in! Elizabeth Neumann served as the Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Neumann is an ABC News contributor and the chief strategy officer at Moonshot. She is based in the Denver, CO area. https://elizabethneumann.org/book/ https://elizabethneumann.org/ https://x.com/NeuSummits https://www.instagram.com/neusummits/

Oh, this a good one right here! As a BIPoC have you ever felt like you were the only one and the only one doing the damn thing....yeah, me too! This week I get to talk with my new friend, Prasanta Verma. She was born under an Asian sun, raised in the Appalachian foothills in the South, and now resides in the Upper Midwest. Her essays and poetry have been published in Sojourners, Propel Women, (in)courage, Inheritance Magazine, the Indianapolis Review, Barren Magazine, and the Mudroom blog. She served as a speech and debate coach for over ten years. When she's not writing, speaking, or working, she's drinking chai, walking, or reading. Prasanta lives with her family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. https://prasantaverma.com/ https://www.ivpress.com/beyond-ethnic-loneliness https://www.instagram.com/prasantaverma/ https://x.com/vermaprasanta

This week I talk with a newfound friend who has gotten the holy crap beat out of her from toxic churches and evangelicals. Goodness. Unfortunately, her story is not unique, but she also holds in tension the hope within this type of theological disillusionment! Join us this week & listen in with Aimee Byrd. Aimee Byrd is a former coffee cafe owner who now uses her conversational barista skills as a writer and speaker. Her latest books blend contemplative thought with biblical theology. She lives in her hometown in Frederick, MD with her husband, Matt, and three young adult children who are in and out of the house. Aimee is the author of The Hope in Our Scars, The Sexual Reformation, Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Why Can’t We Be Friends?, No Little Women, Theological Fitness, and Housewife Theologian. She is a former cohost of Mortification of Spin podcast for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, and currently cohost of Birds of a Feather YouTube cast with Mike Bird. Aime has articles published in Table Talk, Modern Reformation, First Things, By Faith, New Horizons, Ordained Servant, Common Good, Harvest USA, Credo Magazine, and was interviewed and quoted in Christianity Today and The Atlantic. https://twitter.com/aimeebyrdPYW https://www.instagram.com/aimeebyrdlife/ https://aimeebyrd.com/

This week we going into some pragmatics on disagreement, conflict, and basic dignity when we do disagree. Dr. John Inazu is my guest discussing his new book and a whole lot more! Check it out!! John Inazu’s scholarship focuses on the First Amendment freedoms of speech, assembly, and religion, and related questions of legal and political theory. His books include Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale University Press, 2012) and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016; paperback 2018). Inazu is the special editor of a volume on law and theology published in Law and Contemporary Problems and co-editor (with Tim Keller) of Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference (Thomas Nelson, 2020). His articles have appeared in a number of law reviews and specialty journals, and he has written broadly for mainstream audiences in publications including the Atlantic, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Prior to law teaching, Inazu clerked for Judge Roger L. Wollman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and served for four years as an associate general counsel with the Department of the Air Force at the Pentagon.

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! Oh, this week we get to hear from a cat doing some great work inside the Church! Rev. T.C. Moore comes on and also talks about his new book, c'mon now and listen in. T. C. Moore is a pastor, graffiti artist, writer, and theology nerd. He serves as lead pastor of Roots, a Moravian community in St. Paul, Minnesota, and works with court-involved youth and young adults, applying restorative-justice practices. Since Jesus liberated him from gang life as a teenager, he has developed mentoring programs, planted churches, and served in community-based nonprofits for over two decades. He is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's Center for Urban Ministerial Education in Boston. And he’s the author of Forged: Following Jesus into a New Kind of Family. He lives in St. Paul with his spouse, Osheta, and their three children. Find T. C. online at tcmoore.net.

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! Oh yeah...you read it right...hell might not be eternal, or even a place to go! Check this weeks conversation out with my new friend Derek! Derek Ryan Kubilus is an ordained elder serving in the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. He is also a member of the Order of Saint Luke and an amateur podcaster. He currently serves the First United Methodist Church of Ashland, Ohio, where he lives with his wife, Maggie Astrino, and their two Great Pyrenees dogs, Beowulf and Fenris.

This week I talk with author, pastor, and historian, Greg Jarrell. He breaks down some of the inequities that have happened in our cities, towns, and communities over time; red lining was just the beginning. Check it out fam!

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! Yeah, you gon' wanna take a minute to listen to this story and the work Bree is doing here in Chicago. An amazing story of survival and fight, but, it doesn't end there...Bree is doing the damn thing! Check