Have you even been faced with the decision to live on the street? Or considered what your home life would have to be like to make that choice? This powerful conversation with Dr. Terence Lester will give many of us a perspective we’ve never even considered - what it’s like to experience homelessness - and why not everyone finds home on the other side of the street.

This episode will help us see how we can work together to develop and support impoverished families in our local schools and neighborhoods. Because even if you believe you’re unaffected by the disparity of educational inequity, you could still be the one to make it better for one person.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Grab “From Dropout to Doctorate: Breaking the Chains of Educational Injustice” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!

Terrence’s other books: I See You, All God’s Children, When We Stand, Zion Learns to See

Get involved in Love Beyond Walls in your local community.

Follow: @imterencelester | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

What was Jesus like as a kid? What about Peter, James, John and Andrew? Have you every wondered how the personalities of the disciples led to them becoming the men we read about in the gospels?

Light of the World is a new animated film that helps fill in some of these gaps as the story of Jesus is told through the eyes of the apostle John - in his youth! Brennan McPherson, the director of the movie, is here to explain how this perspective came to be. Plus you’ll hear real time reactions from my daughters on what they thought of this new movie by The Salvation Poem Project.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Watch the Light of the World trailer

Light of the World resources + free children’s ministry curriculum

Follow: @lightoftheworldmovie | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

Women have a hard time liking - or trusting - other women, even in the church. There are narratives that declare women as competitive, catty, drama queens, jealous, controlling and emotional. When you pair those popular cliches with lived experiences of mean girls, it can be hard to believe in the possibility of healthy female friendships. Natalie Runion believes that not only is there a better option available to us but that, as Christian women, it’s part of our Godliy mission to change it for future generations.

The episode will help you advance your Christian love past tolerance, learn how to rewrite the words that have stuck to you, and continue abiding in Christian community when it’d be easier to walk away.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Grab “I Don’t Even Like Women: And Other Lies that Get in the Way of Sacred Sisterhood” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!

Sign up for Kristin’s newsletter to get reflection questions for podcast episodes.

Resources on flipping the script of words that have been spoken over you:

Flip the Script by Brittany Estes

Becoming Church 39: Flip the Script

Glow Up: A Teen’s Guide to Flipping the Script by Brittany Estes

Becoming Church 115: It’s Time for your Glow Up

Follow: @raisedtostay | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

How did you have fun as a kid? And what convinced you to stop doing it?! Today, Kari Esmail will be our Fun Coach to help us find our play personalities and remember the importance of connection and creativity. You don’t have to wait until you earn enjoyment, it may actually be the answer to your spiritual exhaustion.

This episode will help you reignite the light of God’s spirit within you so you can live life to the fullest as Jesus said we were created to do. Fun isn’t something you have to clear your calendar for or add to your to-do list when you learn how to incorporate fun into what you’re already doing.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Grab “Fun Because” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!

Find your Play Personalities with this quiz.

Episode 119: Now You Can Stop Running with Terry Crist

Watch Kristin’s sermon on recognizing the signs of spiritual exhaustion.

Sign up for Kristin’s newsletter to get reflection questions for podcast episodes.

Follow: @karithefuncoach | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

Many of the world’s issues could be solved with a willingness to listen and learn from other people about their culture, experiences and story. Jenn Suen Chen is inviting you to the table with an eagerness to help you figure out what to say and how to share through shaping, undoing, awakening and reshaping.

“Dim Sum and Faith” will help you examine where God has been present in every joy and trial of your personal narrative as you courageously trust in the spiritual formation of your journey.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Grab “Dim Sum and Faith: How our Stories form our Souls” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!

Work with Jenn as a Spiritual Director.

Follow: @jennsuenchen | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

No one truly has a Biblical Perspective. We read scripture through the lenses of our own culture, experience and education - which means we often interpret through individualism, patriarchy and even exclusion.

Pastor Zach Lambert has new lenses that will help us understand the Bible better: Jesus, context, flourishing and fruitfulness. Even if you’ve been kicked out of youth group or church multiple times - like Zach! - you can increase your Biblical literacy to engage with curiosity and learn to stop using out of context verses as Bible bombs you throw to end a conversation.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Grab “Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm into a Tool of Healing” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!

Additional Tools for Biblical Literacy:

Bible Project videos

The Bible Recap by Tara-Leigh Cobble

The Bible App with different translations

The Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible

How Can I Believe the Bible sermon by Pastor Kristin

Surprised by Scripture by N.T. Wright

Inspired by Rachel Held Evans

Marty Solomon’s episode: Asking Better Questions of the Bible

How the Bible Actually Works by Pete Enns

Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes by Brandon O’Brien

Follow: @zachwlambert | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

Let’s face it: a beautiful, shiny, happy life sometimes feels more lackluster, dull or unfulfilling. When the world is frightening and the mental load is too much, when working to fulfill the needs of others leaves you without time to take care of yourself or when the hope you had for that particular prayer goes unanswered… it can be hard to love your life.

Rachel Awtrey, host of the “Real Talk with Rachel” podcast is bringing her bestie energy to the show today. This episode will help you redefine joy so you can find it in the messy, mundane and magnificent moments in life. God really is present in the details and by the end of this conversation, I hope you’ll be able to see him there more clearly.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Grab “Love Your Life (Even when you Don’t Like it All the Time)” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!

Sign up for Kristin’s newsletter to get reflection questions for each episode.

Follow: @rachel.awtrey | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

When a 90s church kid from an immigrant family finds herself accidentally speaking out against mainstream church ideologies, the natural path to advocacy is comedy…right?! It was for Kristina Hart, who has learned to use humor as an open door to conversations that really matter.

This episode breaks down dating as a single adult, deconstructing traditional gender expectations, what happens when you stumble into political activism and the importance of choosing to see someone else’s humanity.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Get your own “I’m a love your neighbor” shirt

Kristina’s favorite Iranian + Persian creators to follow:
Nazanin Nour + Nazanin Boniadi

Sign up for Kristin’s newsletter to get reflection questions for podcast episodes.

Follow: @itskristinahart | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

While others call him a prophet, he calls himself a poet. He’s also now a published author, here to talk all about the poems and essays in “A Rebellion of Care,” his moving manifesto that will invite you to embrace your humanity and live fully alive.

David and I talk about sustainability, social change, hyper-capitalism, pervasive loneliness, the epidemic of social isolation and mental health in men, as well as the exhaustion many Christians feel trying to cling their faith in this politically divisive timeline.

If you’re ready to use your cynicism for good and join in the rebellion against struggle and suffering, the wisdom of David Gate if waiting for you.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Grab “A Rebellion of Care” from our Becoming Church resource list on Amazon!

Sign up for Kristin’s newsletter to get reflection questions for each episode.

Read more from David on his Substack, A Rebellion of Care.

Follow: @davidgatepoet | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt

Immigration news is changing as quickly as we change the channel. It’s hard to keep up with accurate information, especially when misinformation spreads just as quickly. And does it really even matter? Should we care about what’s happening at the United States/Mexico border if we don’t live anywhere near there? Do we need to be informed about refugee policy if it doesn’t affect us?

Liliana Reza, the director of Border Engagement for World Relief, believes that it’s the responsibility, and the call, of all Christians to care about immigrants. This episode will provide information, correct terminology, resources, additional education and advocacy options. I pray you walk away with insight into who the people are that are coming into the USA, what the experience of crossing the border is like and what the Bible has to say about immigrants.

RELEVANT LINKS:

World Relief Information on Immigration Policies

How to be an Advocate for Immigrants

Resources + Advocacy with Women of Welcome (including Border Immersion Experiences)

An introductory conversation on immigration with Bri Strensrud

Perspective Poem: Home by Warsan Shire

Follow: @lilireza | @kristinmockleryoung | @mosaicclt