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Last Word 4 with Eve Poole and Golibe Omenaka and friends

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Last Word 3 with Rachel Howell

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Last Word 2 with Lisa Weaver Swartz and Amanda Holm Rosengren

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Last Word 1 with Brad Jersak, Natasha Beckles and friends

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Representation Politics: Finding the Middle with Claudine and Kuda

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Representation Politics: Finding the Middle with Chine and David Gyasi

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Representation Politics: Leaning Right with Sunday, Peter, and Adrian

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Representation Politics: Leaning Left with Nee, Richard, and Nova Reid

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A Christmas Tent Talk with Emily Hunter McGowin

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Bonus: Tolkien and Nonviolence? with Austin M. Freeman

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Bonus Episode: Rachel Wilhelm on Singing the Words of Jeremiah

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Bonus Episode: "Nutrition With Love" with Clare Backhouse

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Disagree 5: Danielle Shroyer & Thomas Jay Oord on Facing Tough Issues With a Calm Presence

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Disagree 4: Ryan Walker Professional Lobbyist

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Disagree 3: Anika Prather on Addressing Racism

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Disagree 2: Pete Wehner on Jesus, patriotism and killing

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Disagree 1: Simon Croft on Nonviolent Communication

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Interrupting Serious Youth Violence 4:Church and Community

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Interrupting Serious Youth Violence 3: Privilege and Power with Leroy Logan

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Interrupting Serious Youth Violence 2: Education & Belonging With Rachel Clarke

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Interrupting Serious Youth Violence 1: The Big Picture, Birth & Bereavement

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Out of the Embers 4: Judith Moses talks with Brad Jersak

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Out of the Embers 3: Felicia Murrell talks with Brad Jersak

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Out of the Embers 2: David Hayward (the NakedPastor) talks with Brad Jersak

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Out of the Embers 1: Brian Zahnd talks with Brad Jersak

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Love 5: Food of Love with Clare Backhouse

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Love 4: God is Love with Thomas Jay Oord

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Love 3: How to Love an Enemy with Melissa Florer-Bixler

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Love 2: The Spirit of Love with Chris Green

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Love 1: The Beloved Community with Tinasha LaRayé

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Women in Church Leadership 4: The Future

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Women in Church Leadership 3: Femininity and Motherhood

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Women in Church Leadership 2: Scrutiny

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Women in Church Leadership 1: Disrespect

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Coventry Carol and bonus Christmas Songs conversation

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On the Importance of Sad Christmas Songs: A Christmas Tent Talk

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White Tears #4: With Mark Charles, Rachel Clarke, and Golibé Omenaka

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White Tears #3 with Sara Moslener and Lisa Sharon Harper

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White Tears #2 with John Goodfellow, Bradley Onishi, and Sara Moslener

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BONUS Kester Brewin, Pirating the Pirates Zoomposium

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White Tears #1 with Terry Wildman, Sheyi Martins-Allen and Golibé Omenaka

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Translation and Interpretation #4: Richard Beck

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Translation and Interpretation #3: Daneille Shroyer

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Translation and Interpretation #2: Neil Douglas-Klotz

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Translation and Interpretation #1: Adam Hansen

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The Future of Tent Talks

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Pop Quiz

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Bob Ekblad, prophets in a time of paranoia and patriotism

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Richard Beck, on our hope sick world

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Rabbi Avi Finegold, exploring the hyphen in Judeo-Christian

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David A. Ritchie on the origins of nationalism and naming our idols

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Jemar Tisby, the greater work of racial justice for children, adults and everyone in between

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14. Sermon on the Mount : False prophets, happy hometowns and shifting sands, Matthew 7:15-23

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Louise Davies, party politics without partisan puerility

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13. Sermon on the Mount : Golden Rules, Broad Ways and Narrow Paths in Matthew 7:12-14

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Eve Poole, the s**t we taught at business school

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12. Sermon on the Mount : Ask and it shall be given. Really? (Matthew 7:7-12)

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Preview: Guns, God, America

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Christena Cleveland, sacred black female spaces and liberty from whitemalegod

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Re-release: Abortion, Adoption and Down Syndrome Part 2

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Re-release: Abortion, Adoption and Down Syndrome Part 1

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11. Sermon on the Mount : Judging Swine in Matthew 7:1-6

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Natalia-Nana, decolonisation, disability and misogynoir

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10. Sermon on the Mount : Anxious? Matthew 6:25-34

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Curtis Holtzen, the God who Trusts

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Guns. Again.

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9. Sermon on the Mount : Wealth vs Riches, Matthew 6:19-24

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Norman Wirzba, food, land and this sacred life in a wounded world

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8. Sermon on the Mount : The Lord's Prayer and Knowing God's Will, Matthew 6:7-15

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Kelly Brown Douglas, wonderful womanist hope and the renewed imagination

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7. Sermon on the Mount : Be perfect? Matthew 5:48-6:9, 16-18

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Rotten Institutions, A YoHo Journal Symposium

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Stephanie Drury, shadowbanned by theobros

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6. Sermon on the Mount : Turning the Other Cheek and Loving Our Enemies. Matthew 5:38-48

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Sara Billups, courage for orphaned believers

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5. Sermon on the Mount : Swearing Oaths, Telling Truths, Killing Kids and Flying Flags. Matthew 5:33-37

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Chris Marchand, guest of the century

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4. Sermon on the Mount : Lust, Adultery, and Divorce Matthew 5:27-32

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This War and The Way, a Tent Walk and Talk

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Selina Stone, pentecostals and the politics of the body

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3. Sermon on the Mount : Christ Fulfills the Law Matthew 5:17-26

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Mohammed Girma, finding peace and goodness in zones of conflict

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2. Sermon on the Mount : The Beatitudes Matthew 5:1-16

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Jared Byas, how not to be an authentic jerk

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1. Sermon on the Mount: Beginnings, Endings and Matthew 4

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Carolyn Mackie, resources for resistance

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Jason Byassee, reinvigorating zombies

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Lisa Sharon Harper on Fortune, a book thirty years in the making

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Mark Charles: you cannot discover what was not lost

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What Child is This?

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Nontombi Naomi Tutu and Malcolm du Plessis on praise and protest

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Brian Doerksen, on music, politics and his song "215"

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Resting at Christmas (Christmas Tent Talk)

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Black Magic in White Houses with Backhouse and Beck

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Danielle Strickland, power, peace, diversity and tiny homes

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Why I Don't Wear a Poppy

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Sean McCoy, listening to understand, not to react.

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Laura Barringer and Scot McKnight on forming a goodness culture in A Church Called Tov

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Chris Green and Kenneth Tanner thrashing it out

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Terry M. Wildman and the First Nations Version of the New Testament