This week we wrap up our series with an old friend, Ki Martinez. Ki is a coach and facilitator for anti-oppression at Both/And, based in NYC, in the areas of identity exploration and somatics. They break it down and really anchors this 3-week series. Check it out!

Profane Faith

S.5 E.22 Latinx Faith and Theology Influencers: Ki Martinez

!!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! This week I welcome Emily Joy as she talks about her new book #Church Too: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing. Yo...this is DEEP! Buckle up!

S.5 E.25 Church Too: Emily Joy

!!!EXPLICIT!!! This week I get to talk with 3 of the authors from this new and amazing book, Liberating Church. This text is focused on Afrocentric theology and a liberating perspective. Listen on in! Profane Faith is a Dauntless Media Collective podcast. Visit dauntless.fm for more content.

S.6 E.23 Liberating Church A Hush Harbor Manifesto with the Authors

Easter 2023. Some reflections on that, what its meaning is in an era of discontent, and I also get to talk with Bekah McNeel on her new book...so, good stuff! Listen in.

S.7 E.5 Bringing up Kids when Church lets you down: Bekah McNeel

I get to sit down with a filmmaker, artist, and visionary this week. Craig Brown is doing his thing while trying to push into difficult yet meaningful conversations around race and racism. Check it out!

S.7 E.11 Black Filmmaking and Racial Dynamics: Craig Lamar Brown

You know him, you love him, THE great J.R. Forasteros is back for his seasonal appearance on the show! Go on, listen in.

S.7 E.12 Processing Theology, Pastoring, and this Era: J. R. Forasteros

We're back! The 2nd half of season 7 is on right and now with guest Tamice Spencer-Helms! Her new book is out and she goes in on the colonization within so much theology. Check it out.


Tamice Spencer-Helms (she/they) is a published author, speaker, and theologian based in Richmond, Virginia.  

 

At 20 years old Tamice was drawn to full time ministry. After 15 years, Tamice went on to found Sub: Culture Incorporated, a nonprofit that provides holistic support and crisis relief for Black College Students. 

  

In addition to their Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and Copywriting (Virginia Commonwealth University), Tamice has a Masters of Arts in Contextual Leadership and a Masters of Arts in Theology.

S.7 E.13 Faith Unleavened: Tamice Spencer-Helms

!!!EXPLICIT!!!! How we gonna disagree and still be friends? For real? What if you hate Black folk...oh dear!!! Let's dig in fam, Kathy is back and brings with Matt on their new book. Listen in!!

S.7 E.14 Loving Disagreement in an Era of Chaos: Kathy Khang and Matt Mikalatos

You know them you love em, The Many! Back on the show talking about their new song and all the nuances of being an Xtian band in this era. Listen in!

S.7 E.15 We Are Enough: A Conversation with The Many

We back! After the 2023 Thanksgiving holiday its time for some conspiracy theories, QAnon, and religion! It's on now. Joining me this week are Drs. Michael Austin and Gregory Bock who have edited a great volume getting into all this, yeah! Check it out.

S.7 E.16 QAnon, Chaos, and The Cross: A Conversation with Drs. Michael Austin and Gregory Bock

As we enter into the Holiday season I get to sit down to talk with my good friend from AAR, Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres, finally! He talks about being a Latine male in the academy, the variants between the thrown and the grave, and his new book, out now. Listen in!

S.7 E.17 Wonder as a New Starting Point: Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres

!!!!EXPLICIT!!! We're back and ready for 2024! I met my guest this week soley online when she posted and amazing thread regarding her termination with Fuller Seminary. Shoo-wee, this is good! Listen up!

S.7 E.18 Pushing Through the Evangelical Mess: Ruth Schmidt

Black History Month is on!! This week I talk with Rev. Trey Ferguson who just put out an amazing book looking at relationships, race, and religion! Yeah, come on listen in!

S.7 E.19 Theologizin' Bigger: Rev. Trey Ferguson

!!!!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

S.7 E.20 Surviving Fighting and Restorative: Justice Bree Yoo-Sun

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!

S.7 E.21 Our Trespasses: Rev. Greg Jarrell

!!!!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.

S.7 E.22 A Case Against Eternal Damnation: Derek Ryan Kubilus

!!!!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.

S.7 E.23 Following Jesus into a New Kind of Family: Rev. T.C. Moore

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.

S.7 E.24 Learning to Disagree and Navigating Differences: Dr. John D. Inazu

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/

S.7 E.25 The Hope in our Scars: Finding God in Disillusionment: Aimee Byrd

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

S.7 E.26: Beyond Ethnic Loneliness The Pain of Marginalization: Prasanta Verma

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/

S.7 E.27: Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism: Elizabeth Neumann

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


S.7 E.28: Seen Fire and Seen Rain: The J.R. Forasteros

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/

S.7 E.29: Fighting On and On: Rev. Allyn Maxfield-Steele

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

S.7 E.30: Discussing the Book The Summer of 2020: with Andre Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar

S.7 E.30: Discussing the Book The Summer of 2020: with Drs. Andre Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar

The Complex Ministry Podcast is a place of solidarity for those struggling with current issues in faith and theology that are otherwise taboo in the church and Youth Ministries. These are in-depth interviews and conversations with those wrestling with faith and self, and professionals in their respected fields. We don’t provide answers, as topics are too complex but rather a realization that the narrative is multi-faceted and worthy of discussion. 

Episode 1: Complex Ministry: Introduction into The Field of Complexity

Yup, we go in this week on racial reconciliation theologies. To back me up, I brought with me Daniel Camacho and together we team up on critically interrogating one of the most popular theological constructs around. This conversation is needed and before you go and get all sentimental on me, take a listen. Check out the arguments and listen to the break down. We don't throw the baby out with any dish water. But, we do examine a construct that we both believe is holding a lot of us, POC, back. So, as always, check it out!

S.2 E.10 The B.S. of Racial Reconciliation: Daniel José Camacho

(EXPLICIT) Childish Gambino dropped a bomb on us all. His video portraying life for Black people in America is stunning. There is so much going on in that video that it takes at least 20 takes to pick up on subtle things he is presenting on. On this weeks special issue, I bring on two guests to help me break down this video. Jeanelle Austin and Dr. Jon Gill. These two break it down. We dive deep and begin to deconstruct this powerful transmediated art. As always, let's dig in!

S.2 E.14 This is AmeriKKKa: Perspectives on Gambino

Kate is back y'all! And, this. Is. DEEP! And an intersectional approach to atheism and the issues with religion; oh yeah. And, FYI, if you have sensitive ears, consider this a sensitive ear warning.

S.3 E.30 Atheism While Woman and Latinx: Kate Sanchez

Story is crucial. In all things! This week, I get a chance to hear Sabrina Reyes-Peters tell hers and wow...uh-may-ZING! Check it out and hear all the nuances.

From Sabrina's Blog:
I’m a bibliophile, MDiv, and gentle agitator, working on dismantling the kyriarchy.

I have a passion and knack for shepherding people toward the information they need, due to my years of experience in libraries and bookstores. Vocationally, this has me starting on the long path toward ordination (or chaplaincy?). You can join me as I attempt to chronicle this journey, think through theology, dismantle the kyriarchy, and read books.

S.4 E.6 The Story is Central: Sabrina Reyes Peters

Part 2 of this riveting conversation! If you haven't checked out part 1, just go back to next week. Enjoy!

S.4 E.9 Method as Identity in Religion and Kendrick: Dr's Monica Miller and Chris Driscoll Pt.2

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