The Social Jesus Podcast
A podcast where we talk about the intersection of faith and social justice, and what a first-century, Jewish, prophet of the poor from Galilee offers us today in our work of love, compassion and justice.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Hating One’s Family
Luke 14:25-33
“Luke’s context is not choosing one’s religion or faith over loving and affirming a family member. The context is choosing justice and inclusion even when your privileged family reject…
00:15:46 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Humility, Inclusion, Power and Privilege
Luke 14:1, 7-14
“What I do appreciate about our reading this week is Jesus’ admonishment to be inclusive. These are the people who, in his social context, would have been excluded and marginalized. …
00:18:53 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Christianity, Liberation and Justice
Luke 13:10-17
“Our reading this week is about the tension between a person’s liberation and the way a religious institution (the Sabbath) was interpreted to oppose that liberation. The Christian fai…
00:19:53 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
When Justice Means Division
Luke 12:49-56
“The challenge, then, is to understand that we cannot build real unity on the denial of justice. Authentic unity emerges not from avoiding conflict but from walking through it together…
00:18:21 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Bending Our World’s Moral Arc Toward Justice
Luke 12:32-40
“That famous arc of justice requires deliberate and courageous efforts from those who choose to stand on the side of equity, compassion, and truth. Choosing to bend that arc toward jus…
00:18:15 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
The Moral Dilemma and Challenge of Wealth
Luke 12:13-21
“Faith traditions, moral philosophies, and humanitarian values all speak to the sacred responsibility that comes with wealth. Jesus taught that to love one’s neighbor means to meet the…
00:19:01 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
A Prayer For Liberation
Luke 11:1-13
“Our reading closes with a story about shameless persistence in prayer. I will be the first to admit that I don’t understand how prayer works. But it helps me in reading this passage to…
00:15:42 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Mary, Martha and Gender Equality
Luke 10:38-42
The Bible and gender equality is a subject of ongoing theological debate within many Christian communities. This debate draws passionate voices from both complementarian and egalitaria…
00:18:45 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Who Is My Neighbor
Luke 10:25-37
“Ultimately, seeing others as neighbors is a choice. It is a spiritual and ethical discipline that transforms how we relate to those with whom we share our world. It invites us into a …
00:17:05 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
Dependency and the Community of Justice
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
“This passage reminds us today to focus on justice work here and now. Not to focus on supernatural realms, but on our own present reality. Luke’s Jesus anchors his disciples’ joy…
00:16:53 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Caring for Those Outside the Tribe
Luke 9:51-62
“Where does this leave us today? Not belittling family ties, but working for economic justice. Wealth inequality continues to widen globally. Many workers struggle to earn a living wage…
00:17:17 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
The Gerasenes and the Current Migrant Crisis
Luke 8:26-39
“The present immigration crisis is driven by a complicated intersection of violence, poverty, and environmental factors, and we need cooperation, compassion, and long-term solutions for…
00:19:29 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
I Have Much More to Say to You
John 16:12-15
“Today, we can build on Jesus’ work, with these themes as our foundation too. Literalists among us have often cited passages like this and only been concerned with those who are liter…
00:19:37 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Pentecost and Social Justice
Acts 2:1-21
Pentecost reminds us that Christians should be deeply concerned with social justice because it reflects the heart of God’s love for humanity. Throughout the Bible, there is a clear empha…
00:17:33 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Carrying on the Work of Love and Justice
Luke 24:44-53
“Repentance for the forgiveness of sins that they taught had a quality that began with John the Baptist in Luke 3. John’s repentance was not for personal, private, individual sins. Joh…
00:18:06 |
Thu 29 May 2025
The Jesus Story and Living with Disabilities
John 5:1-9
“Healing or removing a disability as Jesus did for so many in these stories is not an option for many if not most of us today. But we can take a cue from the narratives and challenge theo…
00:18:59 |
Thu 22 May 2025
Loving One Another and Distributive Justice
John 13:31-35
Before I became an ally to trans people, and before falling out with many of our early followers, I had spent years speaking, writing, and teaching on the universal love of God for eve…
00:19:17 |
Mon 19 May 2025
A Shepherd Restoring Paradise
John 10:22-30
The good shepherd imagery in the synoptic gospels is referencing verses like these in Ezekiel where the leaders were censured for becoming an oligarchy that fed themselves off of the s…
00:16:17 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Justice Work is Holy Work
John 21:1-19
The needs of the people are holy. Their needs were holy for Jesus, and they must be holy for Jesus followers today, too. Working for people’s material, physical, concrete daily needs (l…
00:18:46 |
Thu 01 May 2025
So Send I You
John 20:19-31
“The reality is that those who bear Jesus’ name in the world often represent him to those around them whether they want this burden or not. Over the last four decades so many evangelic…
00:15:19 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
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