A Matter of Faith: A Presby Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This week, we bring you an interview that was recorded last year in conjunction with the former Presbyterian Peacemaking Program. The interview centers the voices of Palestinians and how we may bring more awareness to the occupation in Palestine. Special Guest: Zoughbi Zoughbi, Founder & Director, Wi'am: Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center Wi'am: Palestinian C...

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Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Author of Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality Question of the Week: What does decolonizing mean? And how are we to decolonize church leadership? Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for us? Send them to faithpodcast@pcusa.org!...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guests: Rev. Anne Dunlap & Rev. Liz Kearny, Liberating Lineages Collective Question of the Week: How do we live into spiritually rooted organizing? What does this look like for you and your work? Liberating Lineages Collective Building Up a New World  Congregational Organizing for Transformative Impact For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for us? Send them...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Kathy Escobar, Author of Turning Over Tables: A Lenten Call for Disrupting Power Question of the Week: How do Jesus’ actions and teachings challenge systems of privilege and oppression? How can we incorporate that into our own lives? Turning Over Tables: A Lenten Call for Disrupting Power For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for us? Send them to faithpod...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Dr. Eric Vanden Eykel, Associate Professor of Religion at Ferrum College & Author of The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate Question of the Week: How is epiphany relevant to our current social and political context? How does the story of the Magi coming to Jesus apply to our lives? The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Anna Fitch Courie, Author of Walking with God: The 40-Day Fitness Program and Biblical Journey Question of the Week: What is the relationship between physical and spiritual wellness? How can the church play a role in the physical wellness of our lives? Walking with God:The 40-Day Fitness Program and Biblical Journey For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question f...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Marilyn McEntyre, Author of Midwinter Light: Meditations for the Long Season & Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies Question of the Week: Some people really love winter while others really do not. Regardless of our own feelings about winter, what opportunities does this season provide for us in terms of reflection and contemplation? Midwinter Light: Meditations...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Shantell Hinton Hill, Author of Love, Auntie: Parables & Prayers for Sacred Belonging Question of the Week: In a time of deep loneliness and deep fear, how do we cultivate a sense of belonging in our spaces and what does that look like? Love, Auntie: Parables & Prayers for Sacred Belonging For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for us? Send them to...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt, Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies & Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College, Author of The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today Question of the Week: How is Mary Magdalene a good example of discipleship for us as Christians, especially i...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Rev. Dr. Niveen Ibrahim Sarras, Pastor, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Neenah, WI Question of the Week: How does Advent call us into a time of justice work especially during this time of great uncertainty? Boundless: An Anti-Colonial Advent Devotional For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for us? Send them to faithpodcast@pcusa.org! A Matter of Faith website

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Tiffany Bluhm, Author of The Women We’ve Been Waiting For: A 40-Day Devotional for Self-Care, Resilience, and Communal Flourishing, & Author, Speaker, and Executive Director of a private foundation offering mentorship and vocational development to Christians of Color Question of the Week: Women have so many expectations and pressures put on them by society. It c...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guests: Mark Elsdon, Co-Founder, Rooted Good & Presbyterian Pastor & Corey Schlosser-Hall, Deputy Executive Director, Presbyterian Mission Agency Question of the Week: How can innovation and reimagining the use of church property help address these challenges while staying true to the church's mission and fostering vibrant ministry in changing times? With the...

Send us Fan Mail Rvda. Dra. Marielis Barreto y Rvdo. Dr. Dan González ¿Qué es Red Crearte? | www.redcrearte.org.ar For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for us? Send them to faithpodcast@pcusa.org! A Matter of Faith website

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Ed Loring, co-founder of The Open Door Community This week, we spend time with Ed Loring, founder of the Open Door Community. Ed tells us about the founding of the Open Door, his journey toward a life of discipleship rooted in activism, and how we may learn from those activists that came before us.  https://opendoorcommunity.org/ For Listening Guides, click here! Go...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Robert G. Callahan, II, Author of: Fire in the Whole: Embracing Our Righteous Anger with White Christianity and Reclaiming Our Wholeness Question of the Week: White Christians struggle with truly acknowledging complicity in perpetuating systems of racism and oppression. This is problematic in terms of accountability and also is very damaging to Black and African Ame...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Professor Ian Haney López, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law and Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley | Author of Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America; Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class Question of the Week: How are we to unders...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Dr. Dale Allison, Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary Question of the Week: Does belief in the historic resurrection of Jesus as traditionally maintained as a primary Christian dogma promote the social and moral concerns of progressive Protestants, or detract from them? For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for u...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Rev. John Cleghorn, Author of Building Belonging: The Church's Call to Create Community and House Our Neighbors , & Pastor of Caldwell Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC Question of the Week: What can churches do to address issues of affordable housing? How can we leverage the resources we have to make in impact in our communities? Building Belonging:The Ch...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Kreg Yingst, Author of Everything Could be a Prayer: One Hundred Portraits of Saints and Mystics Question of the Week: Many people close their eyes when they pray. But there other types of prayer and reflection that involve looking at something. What is “visio divina” and how does it invite us into a unique form of prayer? Everything Could be a Prayer: One Hundred P...

Send us Fan Mail Breve reseña de la 226ava. Reunión de Asamblea General PC(USA) Co Moderadora Vilmarie Cintrón Olivieri Confronting Christian Zionism webinars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcQBuKwWhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqnTnEj162w   226th General Assembly in Brief https://www.pcusa.org/site_media/media/uploads/oga/pdf/ga226_inbrief_lettersized.pdf For Listening Guides, click here!...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guests: Rev. Larissa Romero, Dr. Francisco Herrera, Rev. Darren Utley Question of the Week: Why is the work of community engagement so hard? If I am a Christian in building power and capacity in my congregation and community, particularly for those that are marginalized, where do I start? Vanderbilt Divinity School's Solidarity Circles Program For Listening Guides, cl...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Rev. Samantha Gonzalez-Block, Christian Spiritual Leader, Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington (IFFP) Question of the Week: Tell us about your experience in interfaith work, particularly related to multifaith and multicultural families. What are the challenges and blessings you have seen people encounter in navigating these dynamics? Interfaith Families...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Katie Seigenthaler, Managing Partner, Finn Partners, Editor of The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home & Niece of Father Charles Strobel Question of the Week: What is the “kingdom of God”? What does it look like here on earth? The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for us? Send them to faithpodcast@pcusa.org! A...

Send us Fan Mail Special Guest: Dr. Andrew Peterson, Associate for Peacemaking, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program Question of the Week: What is the difference between peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping? Presbyterian Peacemaking Program For Listening Guides, click here! Got a question for us? Send them to faithpodcast@pcusa.org! A Matter of Faith website