Interviews with justice activists about the needs they are meeting and how redemptive personal relationships catalyze the transformation people need to experience justice personally and in community.
Our previous episode took us back to the beginning of our tragic story to explain how injustice was able to take over the world after what happened “in the beginning” to break God’s perfect peace and harmony. In this episode, we want to discuss how God responded to that catastrophe. We welcome your comments and […]
The hard truth is that today, as before, the Lord God must say of his people, “They pay me lip service, but their hearts are far from me.” God created a world of true peace and justice, but our selfishness destroyed the harmony and our bad choices allow injustice to flourish. God had to exile […]
After Episode 1 of this new season raised the question of how the gospel relates to social justice, Episode 2 plunges into a series organized around God’s command that his people search for peace, establish justice, and work to maintain it. This episode dives into the agenda by asking a question: “Why do so many […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this first episode of Season 3, host Mark Kelly raises the question of how the gospel relates to social justice. He dismisses those who insist the gospel does not require Jesus’ disciples to address injustice and points the way to a seamless biblical theology of gospel and justice. […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this stand-alone episode, host Mark Kelly introduces our new book from Kainos Press, entitled LO-AMMI: ‘Christians’ – but not God’s people. He explains how the book is rooted in his own experience growing up in church, how several Scripture passages helped him understand that the vast majority of […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this episode, we’re talking with Frank and Sherri Pomeroy of First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. You will recall that’s where, on Nov. 5, 2017, an armed man opened fire during Sunday morning worship services, killing 26 people, including nine members of one family. In the […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this episode, we’re talking with Tony Kitchens about the challenges he faced as a young man being released from prison — and how God used providential relationships with believing mentors to help him find lasting freedom. Tony struggled for years to escape the “second prison” of discrimination […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this episode, we’re talking with Glenn Barth, president and CEO of Good Cities, a community development initiative that advances the gospel of the Kingdom by working with local leaders toward the common good of the city. The mission of Good Cities is to discover, support, and serve […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this episode, we’re talking with four men of different ethnicities, ages, and backgrounds who are modeling a radically different approach to one of the most difficult issues facing our generation in the church: racial reconciliation. Instead of approaching reconciliation as a program that seeks to navigate political […]
Click below to listen to the interview. https://archive.org/download/S02E07PaulCoughlin/S02E07%20Paul%20Coughlin.mp3 In this episode, we’re discussing the thorny problem of bullying, a serious injustice that drives both the teen suicide and school shooting epidemics. We’re talking with Paul Coughlin, founder and president of The Protectors, a faith-based organization that provides comprehensive solutions to help families and communities combat the […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this episode, we’re talking with Russell and Megan Marshall, a young couple who heard God’s call to leave good jobs and a comfortable house in the suburbs to develop redemptive relationships with residents of an ethnically and economically diverse apartment complex in a transitional area of their city. […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this episode, we’re talking with Brad Brisco about a couple of the biggest barriers that keep Western Christians and churches from effectively sharing the good news of God’s kingdom. Brad, who is a longtime church-planting catalyst, breaks down our misunderstandings of what the Church is — and even […]
Click below to listen to the interview. In this episode, we’re talking with Sarah Koeppen and Emily Virkler, who lead a marvelous ministry called The Hope Box that is tackling head-on the desperate need in Georgia of infants who have been abandoned, abused, and neglected — including the increasingly horrific problem of sex trafficking babies. Sarah […]
Click below to listen to the interview. The Table on Delk offers friendship, resources, and hope for women, children, and even men oppressed by sex trafficking in NW Metro Atlanta. Ministry leader Tina Williford explains how God moved her — a stay-at-home mom with no special training — into a restoration ministry that gives trafficked people […]
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