Donald Trump doesn’t believe in repentance and cannot ask for forgiveness. Given the centrality of forgiveness in Christianity (i.e., you know, salvation), how and why do conservative Christians continue to support him?

Raising children in America is difficult, so difficult that the US Surgeon General is raising concerns about the stress and mental health challenges of parenting. So why are Christian conservatives like JD Vance critical of people who decide not to have kids? We also discuss the Harris/Walz campaign hiring a National Faith Engagement Director, and we end with a discussion about how to be “very demure and very mindful.”

Stories we reference in the podcast:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/kfile-jd-vance-history-disparaging-people-without-kids/index.html https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/surgeon-general-addresses-growing-stress-and-mental-health-struggles-facing-parents#:~:text=As%20most%20parents%20can%20attest,health%20concern%20for%20the%20kids https://meidasnews.com/news/jd-vance-calls-women-without-children-psychotic-and-deranged https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/kfile-jd-vance-history-disparaging-people-without-kids/index.html

The speeches of Dough Emhoff, President Barack Obama, and Gov. Tim Walls gave us a very different portrayal of masculinity and, unsurprisingly, raised the alarm of some Christian conservatives. In this episode, we discuss what progressive Christian masculinity can look like, and we critique the toxic masculinity of “biblical patriarchy.”

The books we mentioned in the podcast were:

The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo

The persuasive power of the Black Church tradition has been center stage during the first two days of the Democratic National Convention. The speeches of Senator Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock and Michelle and Barack Obama found their footing in the black preaching tradition. In this episode we discuss the connections between the Black Church tradition and progressive politics.

Has Western Christianity weaponized marriage and made those who are single, especially women, feel as though they are “bad” Christians? What should progressive Christians think about the Harris/Walz ticket? And breakdancing at the Olympics - wow!

Funky Friday podcast featuring Kirk Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbTAUsXheyg

We are the love your neighbor kind of Christians, and not the storm the capital kind. So, if you're curious about what a socially and politically progressive Christianity looks like, this podcast is for you! In each episode we discuss politics, pop culture, and anything else we find interesting from the perspective of progressive Christianity.