The Common Good Podcast

Doug Pagitt sits down with Dr. Obery Hendricks Jr. to talk about his new book Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith. 

Dr. Obery Hendricks, Jr, who Cornel West calls, "one of the last few grand prophetic intellectuals," is a lifelong activist and arguably the most influential African American Biblical scholar writing today.

 

In the wake of the deadly insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol, Christians Against Christianity is a clarion call to stand up to the hypocrisy of the evangelical Right, as well as a guide for Christians to return their faith to the life-affirming message that Jesus brought and died for. What Hendricks offers is a provocative diagnosis, an urgent warning that right-wing evangelicals’ aspirations for Christian nationalist supremacy are a looming threat, not only to Christian decency but to democracy itself. What they offer to America is anything but good news.

 

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt

 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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Robb Ryerse and Dan Deitrich discuss the conflict in Ukraine and are joined at the 30-minute mark by Navy veteran and voting rights lawyer Chris Deluzio to hear why he is running for congress in Pennsylvania. 

Chris Deluzio is a Pittsburgh native, Iraq War veteran, U.S. Naval Academy graduate, and voting rights attorney. As a lawyer, Chris worked to protect voting rights and our elections in his current role as the policy director at Pitt Cyber and previously at the Brennan Center for Justice. He was part of the Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee with the United Steelworkers, fighting successfully for a union. Chris lives with his wife, Zoe, three young children, and their dog, Yankee Doodle, in Allegheny County.

Chris received a Bachelor of Science degree with merit from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Following graduation from the Naval Academy, he was commissioned as an active-duty surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. Chris’s military service included three deployments, including a tour of duty as a U.S. Army Civil Affairs Officer in Iraq.

 

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse

 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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The website GiveSendGo claims to be the #1 Christian Crowdfunding Site" but in reality, it is the center of funding misinformation and lies including the Truck Blockade in Canada.  

 

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt

 

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse

 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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Doug Pagitt sits down with Jana Riess to talk about her new book The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church and how her faith compels her to work toward the common good.

 

Jana Riess is a writer and editor who has focused on American religions. She earned a bachelor’s degree in religion from Wellesley College, a master’s degree in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a PhD in American Religious Studies from Columbia University. She was the religion book review editor for Publishers Weekly from 1999 to 2008. She then blogged for Beliefnet, and since 2012 writes a blog called “Flunking Sainthood” for Religion News Service.

 

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse discuss recent comments by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez about just how broken and dysfunctional congress really is. At the 30-minute mark, they're joined by Army Veteran Marcus Flowers who shares what motivated him to run for congress in Georgia against Marjorie Taylor Greene, and why extremism and disinformation are such a threat to America.

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"Marcus Flowers has spent his entire career defending the United States. First – he served as an active duty member of the US Army, followed by more than 20 years as a contractor or official for the State Department and Department of Defense.

Marcus has spent a decade in combat zones around the world and has worked on four continents. He has seen first hand the damage done by extremism and disinformation, and he WILL NOT let Marjorie Taylor Greene take us down the same path here in America. Her conspiracy theories may have made her famous, but they haven’t done a thing to help the people in this district."

 

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt

 

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse

 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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Doug Pagitt and Dan Deitrich discuss recent headlines and events through the lens of the common good including the Super Bowl Halftime Show, how Covid exposed vulnerabilities in our healthcare system, and the far-right trucker convoy that shit down a US/Canada border bridge.

 

Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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Resident Astrophysicist Pastor Paul Wallace stops by the show to talk about the wild new discovery that some black holes emit massive amounts of magnetic energy. Plus, an update on the James Webb Space Telescope, how crypto currency tycoons are jacking up the price of meteorites from Mars, and more.

 

Paul Wallace, Ph.D is an astrophysicist, professor, pastor, and avid birder. He writes and speaks at the intersection of faith and science and holds a Ph.D in physics from Duke University and an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.

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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director of Vote Common Good and is a pastor, author, and social activist.    

 

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The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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Spoiler Alert: it's white supremacy.

Doug Pagitt sits down with author and activist Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to discuss the recent wave of "anti-woke" protests and book-banning efforts.

A well-funded network of rightwing organizations (many of the same groups trying to make it harder to vote) is trying to use the fears white people have about the pandemic and calls for racial justice to cosolidate political power. They will say it's about "freedom" and "patriotism." They say it's about "traditional values," as they have for four decades. But it's a cynical campaign to misinform. The school board fights are a manufactured controversy to fuel America's on-going culture wars.

 

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a celebrated spiritual writer and sought-after speaker. A native of North Carolina, he is a graduate of Eastern University and Duke Divinity School.

He lives with his family at the Rutba House, a Christian community and house of hospitality, in Durham, North Carolina. He directs School for Conversion and serves on the Steering Committee of the Poor People’s Campaign. Follow him on Twitter @wilsonhartgrove.

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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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Doug Pagitt talks with Jacques Berlinerblau about common misperceptions about the separation of church and state and how secularism is "the guardrail that protects democracy." His new book, Secularism: The Basics, is available now.

 

Jacques Berlinerblau, Ph.D, is Professor of Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Berlinerblau has published on a wide variety of issues ranging from secularism, to religion and politics, to Jewish-American fiction, to African-American and Jewish-American relations, to American higher education.

 

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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt

 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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Doug Pagitt and Robb Ryerse sit down with Dr. Annie Andrews to talk about how her work as a pediatrician and gun violence prevention activist compelled her to run for congress. In the second half of the show, Doug and Robb marvel at the RNC declaring the January 6 Insurrection, "legitimate political discourse."

 

Dr. Annie Andrews is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston and has been a pediatrician at MUSC since 2009. She cares for children and adolescents from all over the Lowcountry at the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. There she also developed and directed the Advocacy Curriculum for the Department of Pediatrics.She is a gun violence prevention researcher and community advocate working to reduce the frequency of pediatric firearm injuries with a focus on secure storage counseling and gun safety education in the community.  She is an active volunteer with Moms Demand Action, the largest grassroots gun violence prevention organization in the country.

 

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Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist.  @pagitt

 

Robb Ryerse is a pastor, author, and Political Organizer at Vote Common Good. You can find his book about running for congress as a Progressive Republican in Arkansas here: Running For Our Lives  @RobbRyerse

 

The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich

Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic

 

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