The Dusty Needle Gospel

In this episode of Dusty Needle Gospel , Jamin sits down with Detroit-based rapper and long-time friend, Nique Love Rhodes for a conversation that moves between scripture and street poetry, lament and lyricism, protest and praise. Together they explore how hip hop—both secular and Christian—has long functioned as a prophetic art form, giving voice to suffering, systemic injustice, and personal gri...

What if justice isn’t just policy, protest, or personal virtue—but a cosmic deliberation? In this episode of The Dusty Needle Gospel , we explore the metaphysical architecture of justice. Scripture pulls back the veil to reveal a God who convenes a divine council, weighs the cries of earth, listens to angelic and human voices, and commissions prophets and angels to confront corrupt powers. Justice...

In this first episode of The Dusty Needle Gospel , Jamin Bradley explores James H. Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree to ask a dangerous question: what if Jesus is still being crucified in front of us—and we’ve trained ourselves not to see it? From lynching trees to the cross, from Jesus’ flight to Egypt to modern refugees, this episode confronts how Christianity has often been shaped to excus...