The lovely and thoughtful storyteller-poet-minister, Sarah Agnew, sat down with Jason and guest interviewer Regina Heater to talk about the preacher as storyteller: what does it mean to root ourselves in story? To preach by story, yes – but also to lead by story, to teach by story? Stories don't usually give clear answers. They both require us to rest in mystery, and also inspire us to re-tell and reimagine .

In our first episode of Pentecost this year, we stay in the Easter texts of Acts in order to take a wider view with author, technical communicator, caregiver, intermediate weightlifter – not to mention lovely human being – Keisha McKenzie.

What does it mean to build a moral economy in a current economic system that is neither moral nor an economy which works for all?

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Books referenced in the episode:

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage (Fortress, 2024)

Amy-Jill Levine & Marc Zvi Zettler, The Jewish Annotated New Testament (NRSV) (Oxford UP, 2011)

H. Emilie Cady, Lessons in Truth (Unity Books, 1903/2007)

Ruha Benjamin, Imagination: A Manifesto (Norton, 2024)

Brian Blount, Gay Byron, & Emerson Powery (eds), True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary, 2nd ed. (Fortress, 2007/2024)

Tim and Jason sat back down with recent guest – and now, by definition, Friend of the Pod™! – the fantastic ecumenist, story-collector, and story-sharer, Regina Heater, to revisit our recent Lenten conversation and consider Easter in light of it.

In particular, we look to the rising cancer of white supremacy (especially in too many of our churches) and where we might find ways of anti-racism and racial reconciliation in the post-resurrection stories of Jesus and beyond.

A throwback to an episode from our outlaw Thoughtcast days. The AC Three discuss different ways to approach Easter 6, including how the Acts reading gives a powerful distinction between a pedestal and a cross – those who seek power often demand the former, while Jesus was crucified on the latter. And that's what real power is.

Sixth Sunday of Easter

John 14:1-14

Acts 17:22-31

The AC Three continue through middle John, trying our best to decipher what it is the Teacher is trying to teach us. (But, of course, there is no one single answer!) In this passage that includes verses often chosen for funerals, we can actually see a homemaker Jesus, apron on, hard at work to prepare to welcome anyone who may cross his threshold. Even if we (like the disciples) don't know much for sure, we know we're at home here. There's room for us. For all.

Fifth Sunday of Easter

John 14:1-14

The AC Three (otherwise known as the Revs. Tim, Tuhina, and Jason) stay in-house to pour a nice cup of lectionary. For this upcoming Good Shepherd Sunday (Easter 4), we talk about being sheeple for Christ, how 'aww' has overtaken 'awe,' and how our theological rose-colored glasses often blur the reality of sheep and shepherds.

4th Sunday of Easter

John 10:1-10

Psalm 23

Acts 2:42-47

Pastors Tim and Tuhina sat down with newly-elected Bishop of the North Carolina Synod, the Rev. Emily Hartner, to talk about how to preach in an Easter season still rife with the markings of Good Friday.

This week, Hashcast is back in biblical storytelling mode – with your humble storyteller, Jason.

The Gospel this week is no slouch, either: John 20:1-19-31. The one where we find disciples hiding away in a locked room, Jesus showing up anyway, and a Thomas who trusted enough to come back and see for himself.

It's a story meant to be told.

This week we're throwing back to an episode from our old Thoughtcast days – talking the ever-enigmatic Good Friday with the one and only Rev. Colleen Hetrick. Unfortunately, the topics we discussed two years ago are even more relevant today.

Tuhina invited her good friend and professor of African history, Caryce Chepchirchi Tirop, to talk about sermons from the point of view of someone in the pews. What needs to be heard by those who serve Christ from places other than the pulpit?