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
The Original Good News of Easter
Luke 24:1-12
“The cross has been the symbol of salvation in Christian history for two millennia. The apostle Paul was among the first to define the good news as being about Jesus’ death. Before Paul…
00:19:40 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Peace Through Justice Doesn’t Need A War Horse
Luke 19:28-40
What would our local communities look like if each person simply had enough to thrive and we all were committed to making sure we were taking care of each other? Today, as in the time …
00:16:15 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Mary, Christian Patriachy and the Existence of Poverty
John 12:1-8
Our story this week involving "Mary" was used to historically disparage women leaders within Christianity toward a purely patriarchal form. Characterizing Mary Magdalene as a prostitute …
00:23:42 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
We Won’t Be Great Until Everyone Is Great
Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
Today Christians pick something that triggers our own bigotry and attach moral value to it, describing it as sinful when intrinsically there really is nothing harmful or “wrong” i…
00:18:16 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Social Repentance Not Private Piety
Luke 13:1-9
Here in the U.S., we are witnessing the gutting of programs that help our society’s most vulnerable. All of this is so that, under the guise of concern for the national deficit, those in…
00:15:27 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
The Courage to Stand Up to Harm
Season 2 Episode 11: The Courage to Stand Up to Harm
Luke 13:31-35
All of this causes me to consider those today with the courage to speak out against harsh decisions and brutal acts being perpetra…
00:16:56 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
The Temptations and the Rise of Authoritarianism in America
Luke 4:1-13
The current political environment in the U.S. has given us a different lens to read Jesus’ temptations in the wilderness through as this text, once again, rolls by in the lectionary. Pre…
00:18:07 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Lessons of Justice from the Transfiguration
Luke 9:28-36
We are living in a time when systemic protections for the vulnerable among us are being dismantled. Collective sustaining aid is being slashed or terminated every day. All of this chann…
00:18:43 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
Insights on Turning the Other Cheek, Enemy Love, and Judging Others
Luke 6:27-38
“Pam McAllister expressed the tension well as she explain the teachings of Barbara Deming: ‘Barbara wrote about the two hands of nonviolence . . . With one hand we say to one who is ang…
00:18:22 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
The Blessing and Cursing of the Gospel
Luke 6:17-26
“Rather than the gospel being universal good news, the first shall be last and the last shall be first sounds quite the opposite. The equity that the sermon on the plain envisions is a …
00:17:14 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
Fishing for People and Speaking Truth to Power
Luke 5:1-11
“Fishing never works out well for the fish! and fishing for people instead doesn’t fix that. The examples in Jeremiah, Amos, and Ezekiel, give Jesus’ call to the disciples a very differe…
00:17:45 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
Confronting the Discomfort of Our History and Our Present
Luke 4:22-30
“Today we need to pay close attention to responses that answer justice and reparations movements with rage and responses that define these movements as good news. This week’s story remi…
00:16:55 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
A Gospel of Economic Justice
Luke 4:14-21
“Poverty is an indictment of the system it exists in, because that system creates and allows for poverty. A system of winners and losers will always have those who lose. But in Jesus’ n…
00:17:06 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
Water, Wine and Human Beings Fully Alive
John 2:1-11
“I like the image of turning water into wine. It reminds me of the saying in the womanist tradition of making a way out of no way. The story asks us to focus on the present, to do all we…
00:15:40 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
Spirit, Love, Justice and Truth
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
“Establishing justice on Earth is the result of the Spirit. In our reading, that Spirit descends in the bodily form of a dove, which many today take as the symbol of peace arrive…
00:18:47 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Wisdom and Understanding Give Birth to Social Justice
Luke 2:41-52
“Any Christian teaching, action, or movement that disparages, discourages or prevents adherents from caring about social justice rejects Jesus’ central wisdom and teachings on loving on…
00:15:19 |
Thu 02 Jan 2025
Mary’s Magnificat and the Intersection of Faith and Social Justice
Luke 1:39-55
“Few stories in the gospels’ narratives of Jesus’ birth demonstrate the intersection of faith and social justice as much as Mary’s Magnificat does. The social locations mentioned here m…
00:16:23 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Advent and Justice Toward One Another
Luke 3:7-18
“Advent isn’t about escaping to somewhere else or about escaping inward either. Advent is about the arrival of justice where we are. And that’s what we want to be about. We may have deep…
00:16:59 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
Salvation from the Margins
Luke 3:1-6
“This is the theological and political point of the “wilderness” in our narrative this week. Change, liberation, and social salvation has historically come from voices on the outside of u…
00:16:38 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
Advent of Us
Luke 21:25-36
“This Advent season I’m reminded that Advent is about something finally showing up. We are the ones, especially at this moment, who must show up. We are the ones we are mutually depend…
00:15:40 |
Thu 28 Nov 2024
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