The Raceless Gospel Podcast

Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 4 with Miguel De La Torre, Thomas asks: With prophets and apostles as its foundation, the North American church should have solid footing, right? In this episode, we’ll ruminate on what the North American ch...

Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 3 with Justin Fung, Thomas asks: Does the North American church have bad knees? In this episode, we’ll examine why Christians struggle to support each other, "to bear with one another in love"—for the sake o...

Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 2 with Ben Boswell, Thomas asks: If the body has a good head on its shoulders, here being Christ, then why do questions remain? In this episode, we’ll address shrugging shoulders and the importance of a fait...

Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 1 with Bren Dubay, Thomas asks: Is the church in over its head? We’ll discuss Christ’s position as head of the body and how the church loses its own in turbulent times. Release date: July 12, 2023. About sea...

Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," will release five weekly episodes, starting Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Followers of Jesus joined a body — not a building. “Members of one another,” we are head, shoulders, knees, and toes. A body of believers, we are flesh and bone — not brick and mo...

It’s the final episode in the Lenten series. Cursed and left to die, Jesus is left out on a limb, left high and dry. Three years of Jesus’ life, how quickly his disciples forget his messages, his miracles, his Messiahship. Not one volunteers to be a character witness, to testify to his goodness. With the religious elite, the government and crowd participation, they are all complicit. Jesus reveals...

We are inching closer to the cross in this Lenten journey. With it comes the darkness of the disciples’ dirty deeds, the painful awareness that even those closest to Jesus would distance themselves from him to save their skin, that Judas would throw away Christ’s ministry for money. Pencils down. Between Mary and Judas, this is a test of loyalty. Rev. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and ho...

The crowd wanted Jesus to be the Savior they had in mind. “Save us like this, Jesus. Step right up, Jesus. Come right this way, Jesus. You must be on our side.” But watch the hands. Before Jesus is left out on a limb, he will be greeted with palm branches. “Jesus is coming!” How we prepare the way for Jesus in our lives is its own entrance examen. Rev. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and h...

From couching-surfing homelessness to mountaintop experiences, ministry has its ups and downs. On a mountain now and after Jesus’ dress change [translation: transfiguration], Peter, James, John, and Jesus meet Moses and Elijah. God face to face, Peter reduces the meeting to rocks, to well-organized, neatly placed rubble to be visited and not immediately experienced. Unfortunately, in episode four,...

Satan gives Jesus a look behind door number three. “All the earth’s kingdoms could be yours. Just bow down and worship me.” In episode three of this Lenten series, the devil wants Jesus on his knees. Jesus reminds the devil that there is a supreme reality and a “kin-dom” that is not of this world. The “kin-dom” of God is not within the city limits. Satan repeatedly attempts to tests the limits of...

“Don’t play with God.” A childhood reminder to reverence God goes a long way and finds its way in the second episode of this Lenten series. Satan questions Jesus’ identity, challenges his divine connection and, in turn, tests God. Salvation is not a performance, or the leap of faith Satan tempts Jesus to make. Rev. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast s...

Fresh from the waters of baptism and just before he starts his public ministry, Jesus meets his one-person welcome committee: Satan. Satan not only tests the humanity of Jesus but is also testing the water of baptism. Satan is poking at Jesus’ flesh to see if Jesus has really died to self, to see if divinity will prematurely reveal itself. Satan wants to see if Jesus is fully committed to the role...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. This Lenten podcast will release seven Wednesday episodes starting February 22, 2023. “Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3,” the series is named for the three temptations of Jesus in the wilderness: bake sale for Satan, sky dive if you are who you say you are, and all these kingdoms can be yo...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body language.” In episode eight with Aidsand and Betty Wrigh...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body language.” In episode seven with Amy Butler, Thomas is l...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body language.” In episode six with Jamie Eaddy Chism, Thomas...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body language.” In episode five with Morgan Strehlow, Thomas...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body language.” In episode four with Willie Francois III, Tho...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body language.” In episode three with D. Danyelle Thomas, Tho...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body language.” In episode two with Alyssa Aldape, Thomas poi...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body language.” In episode one with Brian Kaylor, Thomas expl...

Rev. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. Season 3 of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast (TRG3) is eight episodes and starts dropping weekly on May 5, 2022.

Love, not that sappy romance novel stuff, comes in a vulnerable, dependent, needy infant. Love nurtured and supported by Mary’s two swollen feet is on the way. In this episode, Jesus is coming to show us an unconditional, no strings attached, nothing in it for me kind of love.

Joy is a person with a capital “p.” Faith in Jesus, this Joy, is handed down by way of a cute baby passed around. He has everyone singing. In this episode, Jesus is the joy of Mary, Eva Mae, you and me.

Despite a tantrum- throwing king, Jesus comes in peace. King Herod is piecing together a plan to thwart his defeat, but the fight is fixed. In this episode, we fasten our eyes on the baby who comes not as a member of the ruling class but as a member of the family.