When Fear Became Normal, the Church Got Real
Pivot Podcast19 Maalis

When Fear Became Normal, the Church Got Real

What does Christian community look like when a city is in crisis? In this first episode of Season 6 of the Pivot Podcast, Faith+Lead scholars Dwight Zscheile and Alicia Granholm go inside the last eight months in the Twin Cities, a period marked by targeted violence, a school shooting, and a large-scale federal immigration enforcement operation that left communities shaken and afraid. The church showed up quietly and persistently across every theological tradition, delivering food, organizing legal assistance, moving worship into living rooms, and rallying around members who were detained and flown out of state without warning.

This episode explores what crisis reveals about the difference between Christian community and mere membership, and why genuine belonging looks nothing like a program. It also launches a season-long conversation about why cultivating Christian community is so hard right now and what a faithful response might look like. If you've ever wondered whether the church still has something irreplaceable to offer a fractured world, this episode is your answer.

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(191)

A Solo Reflection on Prayer, Longing, and an Australian Movie from the 90s

A Solo Reflection on Prayer, Longing, and an Australian Movie from the 90s

This week's episode breaks from the usual format. Pivot producer Joey Goodall steps in for a solo reflection on what prayer practices are actually for, and what happens when we lose sight of that. He ...

3 Syys 7min

Leadership for a Diverse Church

Leadership for a Diverse Church

Eastminster Church has been in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood since 1856, and for most of that history it worshiped and looked like a fairly typical Presbyterian congregation. Aaron Teter, the...

27 Elo 43min

What Sunday Morning Teaches People About Monday

What Sunday Morning Teaches People About Monday

Katie Roelofs has spent years thinking about the space between Sunday morning and the rest of the week. A pastor in the Reformed Church in America and managing director of the Worship for Workers Proj...

20 Elo 28min

Ministry That Doesn't Rush Toward Results

Ministry That Doesn't Rush Toward Results

For twenty years, Johnny Sertin has practiced a kind of place-based ministry built on staying put. He and four other families started the Earlsfield Friary in southwest London, committing to live with...

13 Elo 39min

Augustine Was a Pastor First

Augustine Was a Pastor First

For most of his afterlife in the Christian imagination, Augustine has been a theologian first, a philosopher second, and everything else a distant third. What tends to get lost is that he spent nearly...

6 Elo 33min

A Different Kind of Strength

A Different Kind of Strength

Second Corinthians is one of the strangest letters in the New Testament: a leader defending himself, a community in open doubt, and in the middle of it, some of Paul's clearest writing on power in wea...

29 Heinä 43min

The People in Your Church Don't Belong to You

The People in Your Church Don't Belong to You

"The church as we know it is calibrated for a world that no longer exists." That's how Dr. Scott Cormode opens his book, and it's the starting point for this conversation about Christian leadership wi...

23 Heinä 37min

The Church With No Budget, No Staff, and No Sunday Service

The Church With No Budget, No Staff, and No Sunday Service

Ten years ago, JR and Amy Rozko planted a two-hundred-year-old congregation in Canton, Ohio, only to discover that what their city needed wasn't another program but a rule of life: a shared rhythm of ...

16 Heinä 36min

Suosittua kategoriassa Koulutus

rss-murhan-anatomia
psykopodiaa-podcast
aamukahvilla
adhd-podi
voi-hyvin-meditaatiot-2
rss-rahamania
rss-vapaudu-voimaasi
rss-niinku-asia-on
rss-liian-kuuma-peruna
rss-koira-haudattuna
rss-keskeneraiset-aidit
kesken
koulu-podcast-2
ihminen-tavattavissa-tommy-hellsten-instituutti
rss-uskonto-on-tylsaa
rss-arkea-ja-aurinkoa-podcast-espanjasta
rahapuhetta
puhutaan-koiraa
rss-varapare
rss-duodecim-lehti