The Ruins

In episode 35 we are joined by THE Brandi Miller and talking with her about white supremacy and spiritual formation. We’ll also talk about patriarchy, her podcast Reclaiming My Theology, and how we can create and form a community experience around faith deconstruction and reconstruction that isn’t led by white men.

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Reclaiming My Theology Instagram

Reclaiming My Theology Podcast

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Joseph and Nicole are living as bi-vocational pastors and leaders in Spokane, Washington. To find more about our story, visit www.thepetersons.cc.

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In episode 34, we are joined by Julia Feldman-DeCoudreaux and talking with them about what it looks like to be embody sex positivity and have access to helpful sex education. We’ll also talk about human development, what abstinence only sex ed gets wrong, and how we can learn to have more empowering, inclusive, medically accurate, and compassionate conversations about sex.

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Joseph and Nicole are living as bi-vocational pastors and leaders in Spokane, Washington. To find more about our story, visit www.thepetersons.cc.

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In episode 33 we are joined by Donna Burkland, and talking with her about patriarchy and women in church planting. We’ll also talk about interfaith marriage, deconstruction, toxic theology, and how white faith leaders and can de-center themselves and help facilitate communities of liberation, anti-racism, and inclusion.

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becomingpastor.com

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Safe Harbor Orange Country (Their new church plant name!!!)

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Joseph and Nicole are living as bi-vocational pastors and leaders in Spokane, Washington. To find more about our story, visit www.thepetersons.cc.

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EPISODE 31

Today, we are joined by Avery Arden, and talking with them about Trans Christianity. We’ll also talk about their podcast Blessed Are The Binary Breakers, the transness of Jesus, and how we can learn to center the perspective and experience of our trans siblings and see heaven come to earth.

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Blessed Are The Binary Breakers Podcast

Queer Nativity Podcast Episode

Avery’s Instagram

Avery’s Twitter

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www.blessedarethebinarybreakers.com

www.binarybreakingliturgy.com

The Kin-dom in the Rubble, by Avery Arden

Church Clarity

Queer Grace - Online Community

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Joseph and Nicole are living as bi-vocational pastors and leaders in Spokane, Washington. To support us financially or find more info about our story, visit www.thepetersons.cc.

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EPISODE 30

Today, I am joined by Greg Mason, and talking with him about how white supremacy shaped his view of God, faith, and theology. We’ll also talk about his podcast the Decolonized Christian podcast and how we can learn to do faith in a way that leads to the liberation of everyone.

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The Decolonized Christian Podcast

The Decolonized Christian Facebook Group

Black Theology of Liberation by Dr. James Cone

Sexuality and the Black Church by Kelly Brown Douglas

If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I? by Angela Parker

Indigenous Black Theology by Jawanza Eric Clark

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Joseph and Nicole are living as bi-vocational pastors and leaders in Spokane, Washington. To support us financially or find more info about our story, visit www.thepetersons.cc.

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EPISODE 29

Today, I am joined by Dr. Angela Parker, and talking with her about her new book, If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority. We’ll also talk womanist theology, hermeneutics, and how inerrancy is a tool of white supremacy and authoritarianism used to oppress and control people.

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Dr. Parker's Twitter

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If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I? Book

One Womanist's View Of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians Article

McAfee School of Theology | Mercer University

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Joseph and Nicole are living as bi-vocational pastors and leaders in Spokane, Washington. To support us financially or find more info about our story, visit www.thepetersons.cc.

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EPISODE 28

Today, I am joined by Sharifa Stevens, and talking with her about women in ministry, how we’ve mishandled Bible verses and used them to oppress women, and we as the church can reorient ourselves and learn to center women, specifically women of color, and build our theology from their perspective.

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www.sharifawrites.com

Abuelita Faith- Kat Armas

Dr. Wilda Gafney

The Protagonistas Podcast

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Joseph and Nicole are living as bi-vocational pastors and leaders in Spokane, Washington. To support us financially or find more info about our story, visit www.thepetersons.cc.

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EPISODE 26

We are joined by Nathaniel Green and having a conversation about his experience in and around mega-church evangelicalism. We’ll talk about the pitfalls of the mega-church, why people are leaving it, and what progressive Christianity has to offer us as we move into healthier and more liberating ways of doing faith, community, and theology.

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Nathanial's Instagram

Nathanial's Twitter

Q Christian Fellowship

Gracepointe Church

What is Progressive Christianity Sermon Series

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