What to Say (and Not to Say) to People Who Are Suffering
Why does God allow suffering? It's one of the oldest and most urgent questions in human experience, and Dr. Rolf Jacobson has lived inside it. Diagnosed with bone cancer at 15 and losing both legs, th...
23 Apr 35min
A Crowd Is Not a Community
What does real church community cultivation require? The Rev. Dr. Eun Strawser, physician, author, and pastor of Ma Ke Alo'o, a network of multiplying missional communities in Honolulu, Hawaii, has sp...
16 Apr 34min
The Two Things That Have Always Renewed the Church
Why is Christian community so hard to cultivate in contemporary culture? In this episode of Pivot Podcast, host Dwight Zscheile continues his conversation with Dr. Jennifer Wojciechowski, a professor ...
9 Apr 30min
The Easter Word That Doesn't Expire feat. Jennifer Vija Pietz
"Your labor is not in vain." It's one of Paul's most direct declarations in 1 Corinthians 15, and Dr. Jennifer Pietz, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, believes it has everythin...
2 Apr 9min
The Roots of the Crisis of Community in the West
Cultivating Christian community can feel really hard today, but the reasons run deeper than most church leaders realize. In part one of this two-part conversation, Luther Seminary professor Dwight Zsc...
26 Mar 30min
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 eig...
19 Mar 29min
Most Americans Still Believe in God. So Why Aren't They in Your Church?
What does Ryan Burge's research on religious nones reveal about the Americans sitting just outside your church doors? In part two of this two-part conversation, Dwight and Alicia continue their discus...
12 Mar 32min
When Did Politics Become More Powerful Than Faith?
What happens when political identity becomes stronger than faith identity? Dr. Ryan Burge is a data scientist, professor, and pastor who watched his own 150-year-old congregation close its doors in 20...
5 Mar 32min
