Subversive Spiritualities: Dalit Theology Month

Grace Beyond Boundaries: Why I Voted for Online Holy Communion What happens when the Church meets people where they are, rather than asking them to cross boundaries that many simply cannot? In this episode of Subversive Spiritualities , I reflect on why I voted in favour of online Holy Communion at the Methodist Conference in Britain. Drawing on my own journey from a Lutheran upbringing, where the...

In this episode of Subversive Spiritualities , I reflect on football through a decolonial political theology lens and ask a simple question: What can the beautiful game teach us about Christian discipleship today? Drawing from my own experiences of playing football as a schoolboy in India and living in Manchester, I explore how football can teach us that Christian discipleship is a team sport. I r...

What does it mean to gather for worship while the world still bleeds outside our sanctuaries? In this episode of Subversive Spiritualities , I invite listeners into a prophetic and unsettling reflection on worship, justice, and public life. Journeying through Isaiah’s cry for justice, Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman, and decolonial visions of liturgy, this episode asks: Whom do we really...

Who gets to stand in the pulpit, and who gets silenced? Who speaks in the name of God, and what happens when we dare to push back? In this episode, I take us on a journey through the politics of proclamation: from a revival poster in India that erased the human preacher, to Jesus preaching himself to the edge of a cliff, to the troubling arrival of the AI sermon generator. Drawing on Francis of As...

In this episode, “We Pray Till the End of the Day,” we journey into the deep and often unsettling question of prayer. Inspired by Coldplay’s song “We Pray,” this episode reflects on what prayer means in a world marked by war, injustice, displacement, loneliness, and exhaustion. Is prayer merely speaking to God? Or is it also listening, waiting, resisting, grieving, hoping, and allowing ourselves t...

In this episode, “What Does It Mean to Be Christian Today?” , we reflect on the meaning of following Christ in a world marked by growing secularism, nationalism, inequality, war, migration, and religious extremism. What does Christianity look like beyond empire, beyond cultural dominance, and beyond performative religion? What might it mean to follow the Jesus who stood with the oppressed, crossed...

What does it mean to imagine the Church from the margins rather than the centre? In this episode, Reimagining Church from Below , we explore how faith, community, and theology take on new meaning when shaped by the lived experiences of Dalit communities. Drawing from the heart of Dalit theology, this conversation challenges dominant structures of power within the Church and invites us to listen de...

Today’s episode, “Caste Beyond Borders,” invites us to confront a difficult but urgent truth: caste is not confined to one geography—it travels. Across diasporas, institutions, and even faith communities, caste continues to shape lives, relationships, and access to dignity. In this conversation, we explore how caste persists beyond South Asia, how it adapts in global contexts, and how Dalit theolo...

In a world filled with noise, expectations, and constant movement, it can often be difficult to pause… to listen… and to truly discern what is calling us. But what if God’s call is not distant or abstract? What if it is already stirring within you, in your thoughts, your questions, your restlessness… even in those moments that feel like a gentle tingle in your spirit? In today’s episode, “When God...

In this episode, “Incarnation as Migration,” we explore the deeper parallels between physical migration and personal transformation. This podcast invites you into a reflective journey, one that touches on identity, belonging, change, and the unseen shifts that shape who we become. Through thoughtful storytelling and calm, immersive sound, this episode creates space to pause, reflect, and reconnect...

Today, I speak of a book, not distant, not silent, but alive with cries and questions. The Bible. A book of dust and divinity, of broken bodies and stubborn hope, where God is found not in power, but among the oppressed. Here, stories do not rest quietly, They rise, they resist, they remember. This is not just my favourite book. It is a companion in struggle, a witness to pain, and a whisper of li...

This is my story about the growing Dalit consciousness in me.

What is the taste of caste? It is the taste of exclusion disguised astradition. It is the taste of hierarchy packaged as purity. It is the taste of silence around labour and suffering. But Dalit theology invites us to cultivate adifferent taste. A taste for justice. A taste for dignity. A taste for a world where food is no longer a marker of division, but apractice of liberation.

The reading for Maundy Thursday this year is from John’s gospel 13:1-11, where Jesus, at the festival of Passover, instead of getting busy in the preparation of the meal for his disciples, ties a towel around his waist and washes the feet of his disciplesand wipes them with his towel. For me, three words, Exodus, Eucharist and Example are interwoven in the act of foot-washing with a towel in themi...

This podcast is based on the reading from John 13:21-32, which is the prescribed text for Wednesday in the HolyWeek. Jesus, having been troubled in his spirit, declares to his disciples at the Last Supper that one of his disciples would betray him. The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of who this person was whom Jesus was speaking. It helps us to turn away from betrayal to honesty, hope...

This is a reflection on John 12:20-26 for Tuesday in Holy Week, focusing on Bestowing a New Community, Birthing a New Community, and Becoming a Loving Community.

A Reflection on John 12:1-11