Love Feasts and Food Fights

Tom Webster and I met at Theology Beer Camp 2024 in Denver, CO. Tom and his friends at the Theology on the Rocks podcast did the Hot Wings Challenge with theological questions from the audience. During that encounter, Tom made a comment about his theology of the Eucharist, about what is happening around the Holy Table. As this has been an ongoing area of theological inquiry for me, I later asked T...

On this episode of Love Feasts and Food Fights I visit with Dr. Dwight Zscheile , the VP for Innovation at Luther Seminary and Professor of Congregational Mission and Leadership. Dr. Zscheile and his wife, the Rev. Blair Pogue, have written a book called “ Embracing the Mixed Ecology: Inherited and New Forms of Christian Community Flourishing Together. ” This book is set to come out in June of thi...

This was such a fun conversation with Matt Mikalatos and Kathy Khang, co-authors of “Loving Disagreement: Fighting for Community through the Fruit of the Spirit.” During the conversation you may notice a faint buzzer in the background. This episode was recorded at the local public library, which shares space with the high school library, and the buzzer rang a couple of times as classes switched. B...

This week I got to speak with the amazing Sally Kohn about her 2018 book, The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing Our Humanity . Sally has three TED talks under her belt and is quite humble about being a former talking head on both CNN and Fox. In this episode Sally shares what led her to write the book, the role of human connection in breaking down walls of hate, as well as her hopes for...

Hello all. This week’s podcast post is a short sermon from November 2021. We were still in the midst of a lot of Covid-related stuff then (still are, I suppose), so you will hear some references about that. It’s not a prefect sermon—much of it is seems more like prologue to the actual message of the sermon. But, I send it out into the world anyway, imperfect as it is. The occasion of the sermon wa...

“Building a better world one conversation at a time” is the motto of Living Room Conversations. Check out this amazing organization and learn how you, too, can be part of this movement: livingroomconversations.org . You’ll learn about the six conversation agreements—such as being purposeful and to the point, showing respect and suspending judgment, as well as being curious and listening to underst...

Elmarie and I met at a Presbytery gathering in Cut Bank, MT in June of 2024. This conversation was held the first week of August, before things really ramped up with the war in Lebanon. The Rev. Dr. Elmarie Parker has been serving in the Middle East since 2013. Find out more about her work here: Elmarie Parker . The link to the full “We Choose Abundant Life” document mentioned in the conversation...

I am so excited for you to meet my friend, Patti Bartlett. We start off by learning a bit about Patti’s initial teaching journey and then talk about the importance of human connection and messy food. You’ll hear some local history, how messy food can chill out a school board negotiation, how fostering connection can sometimes happen over shared simple practices, and about a cool group of fly-fishi...

We’ve all got crazy-making things in our lives: the news, family, jobs, politics, religion, board meetings…etc. You are invited to gather around a liminal table of grace. The table is rich in symbol and mystery in my religious tradition (mixed Christian). While I’ll draw on my own religious tradition, conversations will feature folks from other traditions as well. We’re going to have beautiful and...