Concerned Clergy Podcast

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: With Indiana’s voter registration deadline and early voting landing within days, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. devote the full show to a get-out-the-vote push. They walk listeners through the Indiana voter portal (checking registration, finding a polling place, previewing a sample ballot), flag several Marion...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Rev. Alexander and Pastor Greene use central Indiana’s school bus driver shortage as a jumping-off point for a wider critique of the “school choice” system in Indianapolis. Their core argument: choice is meaningless if a family can’t get their child to school in the first place, and the shift away from stable, neighborhood-based c...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: On Pastor Greene’s birthday, he and Rev. Tony Alexander dig into two connected fronts: the fallout from Indy’s Flock camera controversy and a devastating new report on Indiana’s early childhood education system. Following Chief Terry’s new policy requiring an active case number before officers can access Flock (automated license p...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Rev. Alexander and Pastor Greene spend the hour dissecting a chaotic City-County Council Public Safety Committee meeting happening the same night, where IMPD Chief Terry presented her department’s budget request of roughly $400 million while facing pointed questions about the Dalys Jett case and the department’s use of Flock camer...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. spend the hour on two fronts: ICE’s active presence across every side of Indianapolis this week, and continued Northwest Indiana flood recovery. On ICE, both hosts press local leadership — particularly Mayor Hogsett — to speak out publicly the way Democratic leaders did in Minneap...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Rev. Alexander and Pastor Greene spend the hour on a single, urgent story: Gary, Indiana went 14 days without power after the August flooding — one of the longest outages of its kind in recent U.S. history — and neither the state nor NIPSCO said a word about it until a Saturday press conference nearly two weeks in. Both hosts admi...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: With central Indiana still reeling from record flooding, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. open with the question that will frame the entire hour: does our government actually care for the people? To answer it, Rev. Alexander plays a clip from a recent Senate Banking Committee hearing in which Sen. Rev. Raphael Wa...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Pastor Greene is back after several weeks away, and he and Rev. Tony Alexander spend a dense hour on Indiana’s education crisis — framing it as the convergence of federal gutting, state Republican policy, and local structural power grabs. The show opens with a brief update on the Dalys Jett case: as of airtime, the family was sche...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Solo again without Pastor Greene, Rev. Tony Alexander devotes the first two-thirds of the hour to the police-involved shooting death of 21-year-old Dalys Jett on July 22nd, bringing in Pastor Davanta Scruggs — Jett’s cousin and family representative — to lay out what the family knows, what they’ve been told, and what keeps shiftin...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Rev. Tony Alexander flies solo again — Pastor Greene is traveling in Kentucky — for an hour-long argument that ties three seemingly separate threads into a single thesis: discrimination is not a relic of the past but an openly admitted, court-documented policy of the current federal government. He opens with condolences for the fa...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Back together after a week off, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. spend a dense, wide-ranging hour on two connected fronts: the gutting of minority business opportunity in Indiana and the parallel dismantling of Indianapolis Public Schools. On the business side, Governor Braun’s elimination of the Disadvantaged Bu...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Pastor Greene is traveling, so Reverend Alexander goes it alone — anchoring a focused, data-driven hour around a single thesis: DOGE, officially declared dead this week, was itself the most significant example of waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. Opening with the announcement of DOGE’s dissolution, Rev. Alexander...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: On the eve of the Fourth of July holiday, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. anchor the hour around two converging crises in Indianapolis: the Metropolitan Development Commission’s refusal to place a moratorium on data center development, and the severe understaffing of the city’s park ranger corps at a moment when...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: With the Indiana Republican state convention just concluded and Stacey Abrams’ Urban League keynote fresh in mind, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. open a dense, politically charged hour with two interlocking arguments. First, they contend that the Republican Party has ceased to exist as a coherent institution —...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Broadcasting through a summer storm, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. open with a brief celebration: last week’s advance warning about the planned Northwestway Park takeover worked, and the park had a safe, family-friendly weekend. That good news is immediately paired with a new alert — a social media-organized t...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: With summer underway and a Democratic state convention just behind them, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. open this week’s program on two urgent fronts: the state of the Indiana Democratic Party in the aftermath of the Secretary of State convention vote, and a gathering threat to public safety at Northwestway Par...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: In a dense, two-topic hour, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. open with a sharp response to Indiana Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith's public call to normalize hate speech and his characterization of Islam as a "demonic death cult." Pastor Greene details a press release issued jointly with the Baptist Ministries Allian...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Back after a one-week technical hiatus, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. anchor the hour around a double-barreled critique of racial disparity in how youth misbehavior is covered and prosecuted in Central Indiana. The first half examines a Mill Stream (Noblesville High School) article about Hamilton County fight...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: In this week’s edition of the Concerned Clergy Radio Show, hosts Reverend Tony Alexander and President Pastor David W. Greene Sr. dive into a timely and wide-ranging conversation about Christian nationalism versus true Christian discipleship, anchored by Pastor Greene’s recent article for Voices for Democracy examining how Christi...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: The night after the May 5, 2026 Indiana primary, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. take stock of what the results mean for Indiana Democrats heading into November. Pastor Greene, himself a Senate candidate in the primary, reflects candidly on the experience of running a campaign before the conversation turns to th...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Six days out from Indiana’s May 5 primary, Rev. Tony Alexander and Pastor David W. Greene Sr. open the program by responding to the day’s Supreme Court ruling allowing Louisiana to redraw its congressional maps and undoing major parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a decision both hosts frame not as a legal matter but as a mor...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Rev. Tony Alexander opens the program with a wide-ranging discussion of data center proliferation across Marion County townships, pressing lawmakers for the guardrails they declined to put in place months earlier. Pike Township Trustee Annette Johnson joins to explain the trustee office’s emergency assistance role and her reelecti...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: Rev. Tony Alexander opens the hour with two threads running in parallel: the ongoing fallout from DOGE’s dismantling of USAID, anchored by newly public deposition testimony and a whistleblower memoir, and a preview of Indiana-focused topics — education funding under attack at both the state and local levels, Governor Braun’s about...

https://concernedclergy.org https://progressiveindiana.net SUMMARY: On this edition of the Concerned Clergy Radio Show, Revs. Alexander and Greene welcomed George Hornedo, a Democratic primary candidate challenging incumbent Congressman Andre Carson in Indiana’s 7th Congressional District, with the May 5, 2026 primary now underway. Hornedo outlined his background — from a WIC-assisted childhood in...

https://progressiveindiana.net https://concernedclergy.org On this week’s Concerned Clergy Radio Show, Rev. Tony Alexander and Concerned Clergy President Rev. Dr. David W. Greene Sr. welcomed Denise Abdul-Rahman and Jordan Geiger of Black Sunlight Sustainability to discuss the environmental and economic stakes of AI data center development in Indianapolis’s Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood — inc...