Subversive Spiritualities: Dalit Theology Month

What does it mean to gather for worship while the world still bleeds outside our sanctuaries?In this episode of Subversive Spiritualities, I invite listeners into a prophetic and unsettling reflection on worship, justice, and public life.Journeying through Isaiah’s cry for justice, Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman, and decolonial visions of liturgy, this episode asks:Whom do we really serve at our worship services?When worship becomes performance, faith risks losing its soul. But when worship spills into compassion, solidarity, resistance, and truth, liturgy becomes life.Perhaps the real service begins after the service.Perhaps before Holy Communion, we are first called to build social communion.Join the conversation. Listen, reflect, question, and engage as we reimagine worship beyond performance and rediscover it as the work of justice, community, and liberation in our world today

Who gets to stand in the pulpit, and who gets silenced? Who speaks in the name of God, and what happens when we dare to push back?In this episode, I take us on a journey through the politics of proclamation: from a revival poster in India that erased the human preacher, to Jesus preaching himself to the edge of a cliff, to the troubling arrival of the AI sermon generator.Drawing on Francis of Assisi, John Wesley, the Apostle Paul, and the wisdom of Dalit Christian communities, I offer five marks of a preaching from below, and close with a question that might just stay with you longer than any sermon you've ever heard.This one is for anyone who has ever sat in a pew, or stood at the margins, and thought: something is missing here. And it's an invitation to listen differently, to who and what might already be preaching around you, without a pulpit in sight.#SubversiveSpiritualities#TalkingBackToThePulpit#Podcast#LiberationTheology#PublicTheology#DalitTheology#DecolonialTheology#PropheticVoices#FaithThatQuestions#VoicesFromTheMargins#TheologyFromBelow#PreachWithYourLife#SpiritualityThatLiberates#JusticeAndFaith#ChurchAndPower#ReimaginingChurch#QuestionReflectAct#RajPatta#SpotifyPodcast#ChristianPodcast

In this episode, “We Pray Till the End of the Day,” we journey into the deep and often unsettling question of prayer. Inspired by Coldplay’s song “We Pray,” this episode reflects on what prayer means in a world marked by war, injustice, displacement, loneliness, and exhaustion.Is prayer merely speaking to God?Or is it also listening, waiting, resisting, grieving, hoping, and allowing ourselves to be transformed?Drawing from decolonial and liberationist spiritualities, this episode explores prayer not as an escape from the world, but as a courageous engagement with it. Prayer becomes a cry from the margins, a song of survival, a protest against despair, and a longing for justice, healing, and peace.Together, we reflect on the spirituality of Jesus, the prayers of oppressed communities, and the ways prayer can reshape both our inner lives and our public witness today.I warmly invite you to listen, reflect, and journey with me.What does prayer mean to you today?How has prayer sustained, challenged, or transformed you?Let us pray — and keep praying — till the end of the day.#SubversiveSpiritualities #Prayer #DecolonialTheology #LiberationTheology #DalitTheology #PublicTheology #FaithAndJustice #SpiritualResistance #TheologyFromBelow #ChristianPodcast #ProgressiveChristianity #PrayerAndJustice #PostcolonialTheology #FaithInPublicLife #ListeningToGod #SpiritualJourney #ChristianSpirituality #PropheticVoices #PodcastCommunity #RajPatta #ColdPlay

In this episode, “What Does It Mean to Be Christian Today?”, we reflect on the meaning of following Christ in a world marked by growing secularism, nationalism, inequality, war, migration, and religious extremism. What does Christianity look like beyond empire, beyond cultural dominance, and beyond performative religion? What might it mean to follow the Jesus who stood with the oppressed, crossed borders, challenged power, and proclaimed justice?Drawing from my migrant experiences and decolonial thought, this episode invites listeners to rediscover Christianity not as a badge of power but as a radical way of compassion, resistance, solidarity, and hope.🎧 Listen, reflect, question, and journey with us.#SubversiveSpiritualities #DalitTheology #DecolonialTheology #ChristianityToday #FaithAndJustice #Podcast #TheologyFromTheMargins #RajPatta

What does it mean to imagine the Church from the margins rather than the centre?In this episode, Reimagining Church from Below, we explore how faith, community, and theology take on new meaning when shaped by the lived experiences of Dalit communities. Drawing from the heart of Dalit theology, this conversation challenges dominant structures of power within the Church and invites us to listen deeply to voices that have long been silenced or ignored.This episode reflects on what it looks like to build a Church rooted in justice, dignity, and liberation, where the excluded become central, and where faith is not abstract, but embodied in struggle and hope.As part of Dalit Theology Month, this episode is an invitation to rethink, unlearn, and reimagine: What would the Church look like if it truly stood with and was shaped by the oppressed?🎧 Listen now and join the conversation.

Today’s episode, “Caste Beyond Borders,” invites us to confront a difficult but urgent truth: caste is not confined to one geography—it travels. Across diasporas, institutions, and even faith communities, caste continues to shape lives, relationships, and access to dignity.In this conversation, we explore how caste persists beyond South Asia, how it adapts in global contexts, and how Dalit theology speaks prophetically into these realities. Rooted in lived experience and resistance, Dalit theology calls us to recognise oppression not just as a social issue, but as a theological crisis: one that demands justice, solidarity, and transformation.As you listen, we encourage you to reflect: What does it mean to stand in solidarity across borders? And how can faith communities become spaces of liberation rather than exclusion?

In a world filled with noise, expectations, and constant movement, it can often be difficult to pause… to listen… and to truly discern what is calling us.But what if God’s call is not distant or abstract?What if it is already stirring within you, in your thoughts, your questions, your restlessness… even in those moments that feel like a gentle tingle in your spirit?In today’s episode, “When God calls… it tingles,” we journey together through story, scripture, and lived experience to explore how God continues to call, not just into roles or professions, but into lives shaped by justice, dignity, and love.This is not just a message to hear, it is an invitation to discern.So wherever you are listening from, take a moment to be still,to be open, and to listen deeply.Because perhaps…God is already calling you.

In this episode, “Incarnation as Migration,” we explore the deeper parallels between physical migration and personal transformation. This podcast invites you into a reflective journey, one that touches on identity, belonging, change, and the unseen shifts that shape who we become.Through thoughtful storytelling and calm, immersive sound, this episode creates space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with your own experiences of transition.Whether you’re navigating change or simply curious about the human journey, this conversation offers something meaningful to take with you.

Today, I speak of a book,not distant, not silent,but alive with cries and questions.The Bible.A book of dust and divinity,of broken bodies and stubborn hope,where God is found not in power,but among the oppressed.Here, stories do not rest quietly,They rise, they resist, they remember.This is not just my favourite book.It is a companion in struggle,a witness to pain,and a whisper of liberation.Come, listen.

This is my story about the growing Dalit consciousness in me.

What is the taste of caste?It is the taste of exclusion disguised astradition.It is the taste of hierarchy packaged as purity.It is the taste of silence around labour and suffering.But Dalit theology invites us to cultivate adifferent taste.A taste for justice.A taste for dignity.A taste for a world where food is no longer a marker of division, but apractice of liberation.

The reading for Maundy Thursday this year is from John’s gospel 13:1-11, where Jesus, at the festival of Passover, instead of getting busy in the preparation of the meal for his disciples, ties a towel around his waist and washes the feet of his disciplesand wipes them with his towel. For me, three words, Exodus, Eucharist and Example are interwoven in the act of foot-washing with a towel in theministry of Jesus Christ.

This podcast is based on the reading from John 13:21-32, which is the prescribed text for Wednesday in the HolyWeek. Jesus, having been troubled in his spirit, declares to his disciples at the Last Supper that one of his disciples would betray him. The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of who this person was whom Jesus was speaking. It helps us to turn away from betrayal to honesty, hope and solidarity in our world today.

This is a reflection on John 12:20-26 for Tuesday in Holy Week, focusing on Bestowing a New Community, Birthing a New Community, and Becoming a Loving Community.

A Reflection on John 12:1-11