aijcast

Host Marthame Sanders reflects with playwright/scholar Amina McIntyre about aijcast coming to an end, the lessons and joys of the last eight years, and what will endure.

Marthame shares his sung version of the Lord's Prayer in Arabic as a reminder of the unity of faith beyond language and boundary.

Marthame and Fahed Abu-Akel preached on Sunday, May 11, at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Atlanta on God's surprising hope, even in the most desperate of times.

Watch the full worship service here.

Marthame recently appeared on the Ministry Collaborative's podcast with their Program Director Adam Borneman and ⁠Terrence Smith⁠ (⁠Kill Pride Club⁠), where we got a chance to talk about our current perspective as "lay people", the need to move away from seeing ministry through the lens of "return on investment", and why traditional and non-traditional ministries need each other.

Marthame recently appeared on the Ministry Collaborative's podcast with their Program Director Adam Borneman and  Terrence Smith (Kill Pride Club), where we got a chance to talk about our transition from congregational pastors to alternative forms of ministry, the connection between intuition and disruption, and how the institutional church cannot contain the fullness of the gospel.

Marthame shares a reflection on navigating Israeli checkpoints in Palestine. This was recorded on the most recent Atlanta Pilgrimage for Palestine.

Following Dr. Mansour's message at ⁠⁠North Decatur Presbyterian Church⁠⁠, the congregation followed up with some questions to dig deeper. We close out the episode with Dr. Fahed Abu-Akel's prayer.

⁠Watch Dr. Mansour's message and the Q&A⁠

⁠Watch the full worship service⁠

Dr. Lamma Mansour preached at North Decatur Presbyterian Church on Sunday, March 16, 2025. On this episode, we share her reflection on the Biblical character Rizpah and how it connects to the world we live in today.

As Advent approaches, Marthame shares a reflection written on Christmas Eve in 2001, with a hope that we might not follow the scripts written for us.

Read the original reflection here.

An extended remix of the song “Gaza (Under the Rubble)” which blends together both the original song and the hip hop version by A+ (AKA Albert Russell).

Listen to our past aijcast conversation with Albert.

Listen to the song.