Profane Faith

I know, I know, I'm late this week. Story of my life! But, this week is so worth the wait! I've got Lenora Rand and Darren Calhoun, on again, to talk about music, art, body shame, religion, race, gender, and even some talk about Kellogg cereal...oh yeah, wait for it. The Many is an amazing indie group based here in Chicago. I finally get a chance to talk with at least two of its members. Drawing o...

Thinker, scholar, activist, and author Mihee Kim-Kort and I sit down and cover the damn spectrum on topics. Mihee's new book, Outside The Lines (Fortress Press) gives us a must needed engagement with identity, theology, and queerness. Yup. Solid! Mihee's perspective is needed and we sit down in The Lab and just get down...and, as always, race comes up. Come on! Once again it's on!

Wow. This week was such a great conversation. I needed it too. With all the crap happening in culture and society, Elonda Clay brings some grounding with her new book on poetry. She also talks about her experience as a Black woman in Higher Education and the intersectionality of all that. Yeah, good. Be sure to check out her book, link is in the show notes. Let's keep pushing forward and keeping s...

Wow, I had the tables turned on me this week! Angie Hong comes in full effect as we sit down and I thought I was going to interview her, but, man, she had some deep questions for me. So, we both named it the Asian Invasion of Profane Faith. We talk race, gender, Hip Hop, religion, Korean culture, and have a lot of fun all the way through it. Angie's amazing and I really had a good time letting her...

Seminary while Black is a thing. A real thing. This week we go in, real deep. Let me say from the onset, I am not against institutions like Fuller Seminary. In fact, I have a lot of love for the school I graduated from. But, I am against the White Supremacy and White racism that places like Fuller have been rooted in for decades. And in love, we have to rebuke that in all forms. This week I bring...

This week I get to talk with an amazing artist who breaks down faith, theology, and the journey she's been on through race and gender lens'. SueAnn Shiah is simply amazing and a woman of many talents. As always, we go in. And be sure to check out her music in the show notes, she's an independent artist and can always use that support!

So, Kim and the don are up in the White House talking about prison reform. Wow. Ok. Well, let's talk with someone who has a bit more experience than them. Yeah. I said it...this week I have my man Rev. Dominique Gilliard on the show to talk about his new book and what prison reform really looks like from a PoC perspective. We go in. His new book, Rethinking Incarceration with IVP, digs deep and mo...

Wild Goose Festival is coming up and this year I'm partnering with them and Dr. Robyn Espinoza to put on this years Justice Camp. Sign up now! It's gonna be a good one for sure!

Dr. James Cone was legendary. He truly was. To create something like a Black Liberation Theology when there were very little Black theologians in the academy took not only guts, but, the power of God. Dr. Cone was a mentor to many and help create an ethos that is needed now more than ever. His legacy will live on. This weeks special edition has three perspectives on Dr. Cone. I have Dr. Velda Love...

(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 a...

Ever doubted God really exists... Yeah, me too. But, some have asserted that religion is actually an oppressor; it disguises the real issues while having people think all things are good. Well, this week I go in with these subjects and talk with the brilliant Dr. Anthony Pinn. Dr. Pinn has a unique perspective as it relates to religion, race, and humanism. This conversation is on point y'all. I've...

Austin is a brilliant thinker, activist, author, and speaker. I finally get to sit down with her and just talk. She talks about the exhaustion of White folk, Black bodies in these here United States, and the challenge to undo years of colonized theology. Austin's new book is getting ready to come out, so, we here at Profane Faith are here to help promote! This week, Austin dives in. Come on, give...

This week I talk with Justin McRoberts who is an author, speaker, and thought leader living out in the Bay Area. We cover some ground on this one! Justin's perspectives as a White male is good to engage with. His own resistance and journey has been an interesting one and this was a good conversation to have this week. As always, check it out. Oh, and we say shit a few times. So, there’s that.

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 d...

We have overlooked the importance of what those labeled villains in the Bible can teach us. This week JR is back! He breaks down his new book's main premise, to explore the nuances of the bad folks throughout the Christian Bible. This is another solid theological episode, so, get your notebooks out, JR takes us on an overview of the missed aspects of those devilish characters.

EXPLICIT What happens when you get a missionary with some sarcasm, tattoos, lives in California, and could hold her own in an MMA ring...well, you get Jamie Wright. Jamie and I sit down to talk that wonderful machine called the mission field; where race, gender, money, colonialism, more money, and socio-economics all come to play themselves out. Jamie's experience as a missionary exposed her to a...

Activism is a long, difficult, and often times lonely road. However, this week on Profane Faith, we have two folks who have been working together for the betterment of the community. Andre Johnson and Earle Fisher are two of Memphis' good ones. Working hard to bring down a racist monument, this conversation gets in on race, religion, Whiteness, and the complexity of racist monuments. This is a con...

Well, I figured it was about time we did a review on the film Black Panther. So, I brought my good friend Tamisha Tyler, soon to be Dr Tyler, and we go in. We talk religion, race, Killmonger, and how violence is shaped within the film. After the week a lot of us have had as POC we needed a trip to Wakanda and a non colonized embracement of Blackness. So, take a listen, Tamisha got them theology of...

This was a tough week. The colonizers getting on my last nerve. That's why I had to bring my good friend and brilliant mind, Kenji Kuramitsu. We're talking race, Christianity, de-colonizing minds, and what it means to be a conscious socially engaged POC in this here era. Kenji has an amazing story and one that is unique in that he is eager to push well beyond the borders of the colonized state of...

EXPLICIT! Well Theopoetics is finally here! I had a chance to sit down with two dynamic, amazing, brilliant, and theologically savvy women, Tuhina Rasche and Maya Camille'. This conversation covers race, gender, class, zombies, and a wit only these two women can bring. Check it out. But note, this is not for the faint of ear! We do go in!

The conversation seems to have stalled on DACA and undocumented peoples here in the U.S. What's up with that? How has a historical unwillingness to address systemic inequality created the mess we're in now? Well, I can't say I have the answers, but this week on Profane Faith I have Sarah Quezada to speak on her new book which looks at this issue of immigration from a narrative perspective. Join in...

Star Wars is such a grand universe. But, a universe that big surely has to have some POC...right? I mean, maybe a purple alien or two? Well, this week I bring back Kate Sanchez to discuss race, gender, and socio-politics in the new episode of the Star Wars saga. Kate's genius insight brings to the surface some of the long standing racial issues the saga has struggled with. Hold on, our hyper-drive...

Dr. David Congdon and I sit down to discuss his faith journey, universalism, salvation in the trumpster era, & how race factors into our own theological lens. This a seminary class session y'all! So, go on and get those notebooks out and take some notes. Season 2 opens up with a solid bang!

The final episode of season 1 2017. Dan breaks down a brief overview of the inaugural year of Profane Faith and looks forward to 2018. We will return here in January 2018. Stay tuned and subscribed!

The Alabama special election purged some very interesting issues. Patriarchy. Sexism. White Evangelical support of an accused pedophile. What does all that even mean? How might us as POC respond to the results in which Black women overwhelmingly voted against Roy Moore? Well, join me this week as my guests are Irene Cho, Tamisha Tyler, and Latina Williams. We'll be discussing all this, and more!