**CONTENT NOTE**In this episode Jon and I talk about the gender politics in the Barbie movie, and our conversation touches briefly on eating disorders, body image, sexual violence, harassment, and purity culture. Please be aware of t...

Quotes today from the books 

Quotes in this episode taken from I W...

Quotes this week taken from the documentary Crip Camp, which you can stream on Netflix. Blessed are you who wait for tomatoes. Who water and weed and pray for rain and sun.Blessed are you building a highw...

Quotes and information this week drawn from Anna Case-Winters' commentary on

It's Advent y'all! Each week during Advent I'm ending the episode with a blessing I wrote, text is included below for reference: When the World is Ending...or Beginning Blessed are you who sit in stunned silence i...

Quotes this week from the Luke commentary of the Belief series, by Justo González and Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. 

Quote taken from Justo González's commentary on Luke from the Belief Commentary Series. Also, a few impact words toward the end of this episode, so be mindful if you're listening at work or with young children around.

I'll be on Instagram live this coming Thursday evening (October 6th) at 7pm Central with Kelley Nikondeha talking about her new book The First Advent in Palestine. 

Sources cited in this episode:

This week I gleaned a lot from the notes in my New Oxford Annotated Bible, which is my favorite study Bible. Highly recommend if you're not quite ready to buy a bunch of commentaries, but you'd still like more background info on the text as you...

Sources engaged in this episode are The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann,

Sources mentioned in this podcast include, Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder's commentary on Luke contained in True to Our Native Land and concepts from Dr. Scot ...

In this episode I reference quotes from Dr. Soong-Chan Rah's book

Referenced in this podcast are (again) Justo González's

Referenced in this episode are the BRILLIANT commentary by Justo González on Luke and

JustTexts discussed in this episode are from Proper 14 in the Revised Common Lectionary. Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Psalm 50: 1-8, 22-23; Genesis 15:1-6; Psalm 33:12-22; Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16; Luke 12:32-40.Sources engaged and uplifted: ...

The Podluck is back! We're going to be walking through the Revised Common Lectionary. Megan maps out why the change and what she hopes we can do together in this audio space. 

Check out Dr. Alexander John Shaia's work with Quadratos on the Quadratos website.  You can also follow him on Facebook,