The Resisters Podcast

Join us for a fascinating conversation with the one and only, Jemar Tisby. Dr Tisby is a New York Times bestselling author, national speaker, and public historian. His books include The Color of Compromise, How to Fight Racism, and his most recent release, The Spirit of Justice. He has also recently created a documentary called Jesus Was a Migrant, a Tisby Studios Production. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Join us for this insightful conversation with pastor and author, David W. Swanson, as we discuss how to move from cheap diversity to true solidarity in the church. Too often we have seen shallow diversity efforts that are outward and performative but that don't lead to true heart change. Pastor Swanson provides us with a different model, which he has laid out in his book, Rediscipling the White Church. Rather than focusing on surface level diversity, he encourages us as followers of Jesus to focus on discipleship and solidarity to reimagine what racial unity can look like in the Body of Christ.

Join us for an incredibly insightful conversation with Rev. Rob Schenck. After more than three decades as a leader in the anti-abortion movement, Rev. Schenck had a change of heart and began to see through the machinations of the Religious Right Movement. Most recently, he participated in the protests in Minneapolis against the brutal ICE invasion of the city, and you may have seen his viral video on Mother Jones. He has now dedicated his life to the work of repair, both in his own soul and in advocating for policies of justice and mercy in our nation.

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Warren Throckmorton as we discuss his new book, The Christian Past That Wasn't. For decades, Christian Nationalists have mythologized and romanticized our history while glossing over the darker and less palatable parts of the story in order to advance their political agenda. Our goal on the contrary is to bring the truth to light and to face it head on - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Join us for an insightful conversation with scholar Matthew D. Taylor about how the Christian faith has been hijacked and co-opted from as early as Constantine in 312 AD all the way to Trump and MAGA. Matthew is a visiting scholar at the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University and the author of The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy.

Meet Dr. Alan Godwin who wrote the book, Ties That Blind: Unraveling Stories That Keep Us in the Dark, which is a deep dive into the nature of Collective Deception. Dr. Godwin is a psychologist and expert on how individuals get pulled into false realities and the communities that perpetuate them.

The Podcast has a new name! We are now officially The Resisters Podcast. Join us for an incredible conversation with J Dwayne Garnett, who is the founder and CEO of Love is a Parable. Thanks for listening!

In this episode, Matthew and Pastor B discuss the absurdity of Donald Trump coercing the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Machado, to hand it over. And how the irony of the President of the United States bullying his way to a peace prize is such a fitting picture of the upside down world we find ourselves in today.

Joey Papa is the director and producer of The Sins of our Fathers: Race, Religion and the Rise of Trump, which is the inspiration for this podcast. In our conversation, we discuss the tragic shooting of Renee Good and how the tragectory we have found ourselves on as a country can be traced all the way back to our nation's founding.

In this episode, Matthew and Pastor B discuss how Trump's DOJ failed to comply with the order to release all of the Epstein files by Dec 19th, 2025. And how this refusal to comply reveals a much deeper pattern in MAGA and throughout American history of selective justice.