The C4SO Podcast with Bishop Todd Hunter

We continue our Leaders Unplugged mini-series by talking with the Very Rev. Dr. Kris McDaniel, C4SO’s Canon for Church Development, and the Rev. Dr. Brad Swope, C4SO’s Director of Church Planting. We discuss why C4SO focuses on planting churches, as well as how we seek to do so: not as “franchises” but as contextualized Anglican communities informed by a “costly identification” with each church’s...

We continue our Leaders Unplugged mini-series by talking with the Rev. Trish Nelson, C4SO’s Canon for Ordinations. We discuss what Anglican ordination is, how it relates to the priesthood of all believers and the ministry life of the whole church, and how it works in C4SO. Trish was also declared a one-woman super spreader event (for C4SO’s values), and the process of ordination was compared to a...

We start a new series today called Leaders Unplugged, where we will hear from leaders in our diocese about their role in C4SO. We hope it gives everyone a sense of the diverse life of our nationwide diocese. Today we talk with the Very Revs. Leon McKenzie and Drew Henley about their relationship as co-pastors of Redeemer Community Church in Atlanta, as well as their new role as Co-Deans of the Sou...

We kick off 2021 with a conversation about the recent manifestation of Christian nationalism we saw in the Capitol attack on Epiphany. Bishop Todd shares on how to notice the idolatry of Christian nationalism in the church, and resist it in the way of Jesus. Links from this episode: Download Bishop Todd’s “ Current Issues Facing Clergy, Vol 5: Christian Nationalism “ Esau McCaulley’s article: “ Tr...

As a final tag to our Advent Hope in Harsh Times series, Bishop Todd brings a Christmas message to C4SO, encouraging us to face the harsh realities of 2020, and also tend to the larger reality of the kingdom of God by worshiping Christ, the newborn King this Christmas. O come, let us adore him! Links for this episode: Bishop Todd’s Christmas Message can be found in article form here . Bishop Todd...

We finish our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Christine Warner, Executive Director of the Matthew 25 Initiative , an Anglican community of biblical justice and mercy contending for shalom on the earth. Christine shares her story of getting hit by a truck two and a half years ago, almost losing her life, and what the experience of recovery has taught her about hope. One...

We continue our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with another of our Canon Theologians, Rev. Dr. Dennis Okholm, professor of theology at Azusa Pacific University. Dennis shares some of the themes of a book he’s writing inspired by a Stanley Hauerwas comment that “hope must be schooled by patience.” Dennis shares practically on how to practice the virtue of patience to cultiva...

We continue our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Rev. Jon Odom, lead pastor at Cornerstone Church in Tulsa. Jon shares about the struggle to find hope in the midst of two tragic deaths they recently walked through: losing a baby and the murder of a beloved couple in their church. Links from this episode: Read what Jon shared about their baby here . Read what Jon shared a...

We continue our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Rev. Kimberly Deckel, associate pastor (and soon-to-be co-pastor!) at All Souls Phoenix . Kimberly shares her story of grief and loss in 2020, which includes the death of her father, launching their church the week before the pandemic started, and the complexities of leading a multi-ethnic church in pursuing racial justice...

We continue our series Advent Hope in Harsh Times this week by talking with Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley, one of our Canon Theologians and an Assistant Professor at Wheaton College, about what the Black church tradition can teach us about holding on to hope in harsh times. This is the theme of his book Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope. Links from this...

We begin a new series today called Advent Hope in Harsh Times , talking with clergy and theologians about the themes of Advent and their relevance to our current cultural moment. In this inaugural episode we talk with Rev. Dr. Emily McGowin, one of our Canon Theologians and an Assistant Professor at Wheaton College, about the traditional theme of the First Sunday of Advent: the second coming of Je...

In the wake of the most contentious election of our lifetimes, David Taylor, C4SO's Scholar in Residence for Arts, Media, and Culture helps us understand how to bless our enemies (as Jesus commanded) while also allowing ourselves to feel our pain and grief (as the "curse" Psalms teach us). David and his wife Phaedra also just published a new set of illuminated prayer cards called " Prayers for Lif...

We finish our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO with Bishop Todd reflecting on Sacrament as one of our five core values, unpacking the embodied assurance of God's presence in the sacraments, the connection between Eucharist and mission, and some advice for those weary of the ways the pandemic has limited our ability to participate in sacramental worship. Links from this episode: Jo...

We continue our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO with Bishop Todd unpacking Mission as one of our five core values. We reflect on the relationship between the church and the mission of God, as well as Thomas Cranmer's introduction to The Book of Common Prayer, 1549 , where he encouraged future changes in worship "according to the exigencies of the culture" as long as orthodoxy is...

We continue our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO with Bishop Todd unpacking Formation as one of our five core values. To be a disciple of Jesus is to undergo a process being formed as people who can live in God's kingdom. We talk about how formation is a partnership between God and us: God is the primary actor, but we must bring our cooperation to the relationship. We talk about w...

We continue our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO with Bishop Todd expanding on why we name "Spirit" as one of our core values. To be a disciple of Jesus is to rely on the power of the Spirit, because he calls us into ministry that cannot be accomplished in human strength alone. We dive into how the ministry of the Holy Spirit isn't confined within the "weird" manifestations that m...

We continue our inaugural series on the vision and values of C4SO in this episode, where Bishop Todd expands on what we mean by naming "Kingdom" as one of C4SO's core values. Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom is the only explanatory system that can carry both the entire purposes of God and the full needs of humanity. It's from this kingdom that we, as apprentices of Jesus, derive our life and power for...

In this episode, Bishop Todd talks about the mission of C4SO: to establish beachheads of Jesus' person, word, and power in the midst of a struggling humanity, to cultivate a family of churches that lives into God’s intention for the Church by finding our core identity as ambassadors who create outposts of the rule and reign of God, where we can foment the  "come-ness"  of followership and transfor...

Bishop Todd continues his story from last week, focusing on how he was initially attracted to the winsome posture of the Anglican leaders he knew, and eventually found himself called into Anglicanism. He also shares the story of the beginnings of C4SO as a West Coast Anglican church planting movement, and his lifelong fascination with the intersection of gospel, church, and culture. Links from thi...

Welcome to the C4SO Podcast! In this inaugural episode, Bishop Todd shares his story of coming to faith in the Jesus Movement, where he learned to value Scripture and evangelism, then leading in the Vineyard Movement, where he learned to value the kingdom and power and work of the Holy Spirit, then learning the rhythms [...]