The Surge Network Podcast

What does it look like to love our neighbors when they're at their most vulnerable? In this episode, Katie O'Dell of AZ127 joins the Surge Network Podcast to explore the realities of foster care in Arizona and the role the Church can play in changing the story for children and families. Katie shares why children in foster care are often the most invisible members of our communities, how caring for...

What does it mean to see immigrants not as outsiders, but as essential contributors to the Kingdom of God? In this powerful conversation, Aaron Daly sits down with Deenbo Kidane, leader of the Daniel Initiative, pastor, mother, and advocate for immigrant communities. Together, they explore the unique gifts immigrant churches bring to the American Church—including resilience, prayer, faith, generos...

In this episode of the Surge Podcast, John DelHousaye introduces Surge School’s new Ardor curriculum by exploring one of the three transcendentals: goodness. Joined by artists Travis Mullen and Jyll Ethier-Mullen, the conversation dives into the intersection of art, faith, and the creative process. Together, they reflect on how goodness is expressed not only in finished artwork, but in the rhythms...

In this episode, we flip the script as John Talley III joins us on the other side of the mic to share his story and vision for the Church in our city. John, a pastor, professor, and self-described “servant trying to tell everybody about somebody who can save anybody,” invites us into the heart behind Neighbor’s Table, an initiative of Surge Network focused on mobilizing believers to love their nei...

In this episode of the Surge Network podcast, Aaron Dailey sits down with longtime pastor and leader Caleb Campbell to talk candidly about friendship, faith, and the fractures many churches and leaders have experienced in recent years. Caleb shares his personal journey through pastoral burnout, political polarization, and the loss of community, including how those experiences led him to write abou...

Hosted by Dr. John DelHousaye, Director of Surge School+, this episode explores one of the three transcendentals— beauty —and why it may be the most compelling doorway in our current cultural moment. Joined by guests Charith and Michael Denson, the conversation examines how truth, goodness, and beauty are deeply connected, and why beauty has a unique power when a culture grows resistant to argumen...

Our vision begins and ends in prayer. In a time when polarization runs deep, we continue to pray that the Church — in all its diverse expressions — would stay anchored in Christ and committed to one another. Our first All-Surge Gathering centered on vision and prayer. We revisited our shared commitments and launch into a guided season of prayer for our city, our churches, and our communities — bot...

History is clear: Whenever the church has aligned itself with worldly, coercive power, it ends up on the wrong side of important justice issues. But when the church cooperates with God's power through his presence among the least powerful, its witness for Jesus transforms the world into a better place. Every quarter Surge Network holds a gathering for anyone in Phoenix to attend. This quarter, we...

Every quarter Surge Network holds a gathering for anyone in Phoenix to attend. This quarter, we had the honor of hearing from John O. with Dennae Pierre on the essential practice of solidarity.

We wanted to get under the hood of what we mean when we say Jesus Centered. Dr. Meghan Good and missiologist Alan Hirsch join Gavin in a discussion on this, and much more.

On September 28th, 2024, Surge hosted an All-Surge Lunch featuring special guest speaker Ronnie Lillard, also known as Reconcile. Ronnie delivered an inspiring presentation about We the Revolt and the impactful work they are doing in South Florida to drive criminal justice reform. He challenged us here in Phoenix to not only engage in this critical movement but also to mobilize together as a unite...

Surge had Renee Worcester Speak at the All surge event this podcast is a recap and a recreation of the event. Renee is a Spiritual Coach and has a heart for developing people and cultures. She is a retreat speaker and mentor to men and women in leadership positions.

On January 11, 2023 Robert Guerrero shared a powerful message to our all Surge event.  It was speaking to the power of the spirit to confront the powers of this world.  Asking How do we do life and mission in the midst of the powers of this world? 

This episode is the recording from our All-Region gathering in the first week of May 2022 when Dr. Christina Edmondson shared with us on Disciplining the Church: The Bottom Up Perspective of Accountability. Christina holds a Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology from Tennessee State University, an M.S. degree from the University of Rochester in Family Therapy, and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from H...

Winn Collier from the Eugene Peterson Center The road before us is beautiful, yet treacherous. Though there will be many joys and graces, we will inevitably face vexing questions, oppressive enemies, and unexpected seductions. We will be assaulted by suffocating shame and hidden fears---and when things go well, we will tangle with oversized ego and the allure of success. What words do we need for...

Our world has been torn asunder by racial, ethnic, and ideological differences. It is seen in our politics, felt in our families, and ingrained in our theology. Sadly, the church has often reinforced these ethnic and racial divides. To cast off the ugliness of disunity and heal our fractured humanity, we must cultivate spiritual practices that help us pursue beautiful community. In this webinar, R...

Teena Dare is joined by Aaron Dailey and Warren Williams to discuss how the pandemic has changed the conversation around faith and work especially related to marginalized communities.

Covid-19, economic uncertainty and reckonings with race and justice are pressing big questions of life upon us all. People are asking questions that really matter. And Christians must be ready to listen and to engage our neighbors in ways that serve them and point to Jesus. Join Jennifer Chan from Redeemer City to City for a discussion on how to cultivate and sustain spiritual conversations in suc...

As followers of Christ, we are unified in Jesus and who he is. We are part of the multiethnic family of God. What does it look like as multiethnic family to live out what Dr King and the Fellowship of Reconciliation called the Beloved Community? Join us for a time of learning and discussion on the multiethnic family of God and Beloved Community.  Pastor Efrem Smith is an internationally recognized...

By this point in 2020 it’s become almost cliche to say that we are in a divided country. Americans have split into various groups and tribes, more zealously attached to their selected group and tribe and more hostile to those outside their group or tribe than ever before. Christians too often have been complicit in contributing to this growing polarization. This seminar will lay out different path...

Join us for a conversation with Dennae Pierre & Gavin Linderman about praying together and processing our conversational life with God in midst of this historic moment.

Join Elisa & Caleb Mitchell ( Phoenix Counseling Collective ) in this episode to learn how we can attempt to parent our kids more generously and lovingly as well as find the grace for our own selves in the process.

Kimberly Deckel interviews Dr. Esau McCaulley about his book Reading While black.

This talk was by Biola's New Testament Theology Professor, Michelle Lee-Barewall, based on her book Neither Complementarian Nor Egalitarian .   Michelle Lee-Barnewall Biography - Trained in New Testament studies, Dr. Lee-Barnewall's desire is to help students develop their relationship with Christ through an informed and application-oriented understanding of Scripture. She is an Associate Professo...

Kit Danley  Kit Danley is the founder and president of Phoenix, AZ based Neighborhood Ministries, Inc. – a comprehensive, holistic outreach that combines evangelism and church planting with many forms of community development and social justice engagement. Kit has a sociology degree from Northern Arizona University, continued her education with Fuller Theological Seminary and finished her DMIN wit...