• notes on the wilderness

    You can watch this sermon above at 26:30. Advent 3AIsaiah 35Matthew 11:2-11All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Austin, Tex. Over the millenia, a consistent topic of inquiry in human thought has been the wilderness. What is it and what does that have to say about who we are? Is it a place of danger or a place…

  • tools for fools, and other provocations

    Faithful Christians, who follow Jesus to his logical conclusion, trust that violence ultimately has no real power. It is a tool for fools who don’t know any better. Death always consumes those who use it. But we proclaim Christ crucified, and lift up his cross as a reminder that we trust someone with more powerful…

  • surprised by love

    The language and imagery of Christian faith has always run thick with familial relationships… so when you rear children to view their parents as fundamentally people to be feared whose love needs to be earned by compliance, and then fuse this with the language of faith, that is a very potent mix indeed. 

The Hosts

Samantha and Olivia are both writers and activists.

Join the Community

We’re thrilled to have you here! Now, if you don’t want to miss an article or an episode, you can subscribe to our newsletter.

LISTEN ON
Apple Podcasts · Stitcher · Spotify