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The Brown Line Church Podcast — 302 episodes
Mother's Day Reflection
The All-Empowering God vs. The All-Powerful Ruler
The Master's Money: Provoking Participation in Justice
The Good Samaritan: Provoking Participation in Justice
Parables: Provoking Participation in Justice
Make Easter Democratic Again
Liberation for Lent: Nonviolent Resistance
Liberation for Lent: Pain
Liberation for Lent: Time and Attention
Liberation for Lent: Bodies
Liberation for Lent
Ash Wednesday Devotional
Rockiness in Friendship
Friendship in a Technological Age, Q&A
Friendship in a Technological Age, wk 1
How (not) to pray for God's will to be done
How (not) to pray with someone
How (not) to have an inner life
Christmas Reflection
Hope, Cost, & the Illusion of Cost
Incarnation in 2025 America
Annual Meeting Sunday
Studying the Bible from a progressive starting point
A Reflection for Veteran's Day: From Self-Justification To Responsible Action
How do we stay sane right now?
Longing & Lament
We are NOT hiding from existential angst
Where do we ask our questions from?
Loneliness (Shoulds & Coulds, wk 3)
Battling shoulds without inflaming coulds
Shoulds & Coulds
The Solidarity Economy & Church
Sorrow & Consolation (Lectionary for August, wk 3)
Truth-Tellers, Justice, Hope (Lectionary for August, wk 2)
Calls to ”Something More” (Following the Lectionary for August)
Baptism Q&A
Vince's journey with Baptism
Pride, wk 2
Pride, wk 1
Family & Commitment
Pentecost Sunday
Attachment With God, wk 5 (The Nurturant God)
Attachment with God, wk 4 (Question & Response)
Attachment with God, wk 3 (Shame-filled Attachment)
Attachment with God, wk 2 (Anxious Attachment)
Attachment with God, wk 1 (Shut-down Attachment)
Easter Reflection
Give up Nihilism For Lent
Give up "Pure" Community for Lent
Give up "it all comes down to me" for Lent
Give up Performing Your Self for Lent
Give up the “Just World” Theory for Lent
Ash Wednesday Devotion
Good Doubt / Better Theology (wk 4: Spirit & Flesh)
Good Doubt / Better Theology (wk 2: Jesus died for your sins)
Good Doubt / Better Theology (wk 1: Household Codes)
Community Organizing
Beloved Community
Responsibility For vs. Responsibility To
How do I know when to help and when not to?
Christmas Reflection: A Thrill of Hope
The Advent Stories
What is and what could be (Advent)
Annual Meeting 2024
Mutual Aid, Neighboring, Solidarity
Election Season, Wk 4 (Deep breaths everybody, deep breaths...)
Election Season, Wk 3 (Kinship and Belonging)
Election Season, Wk 2 (A Listening Heart)
Election Season, Wk 1 (Love your enemies)
A Sabbatical Reflection from Vince
Witness and Beliefs
Faithfulness and Beliefs
Mystery and Beliefs
Music and Beliefs
Growing Beliefs
Some pastoral encouragements for the summer
Rooted & Open
Pride Sunday
Father’s Day Reflection
Solidarity, charity, and guilt
Solidarity & Prayer
Mother's Day Reflection
Is God a land owner or a day laborer?
Solidarity & Community
From Charity to Solidarity, Wk 1
Reflecting after Lent
Persuasion vs Force: Jesus vs Caesar (Easter Reflection)
Give up "Retributive Justice" for Lent
Give up "Christian Supremacy" for Lent
Give up "Hell" for Lent
Give up Self-Punishment for Lent
Give up unhelpful & incomplete beliefs for Lent
Miracles, Imagination, & Regret (Suffering, wk 6)
Suffering & Prayer
Suffering & Perspective
Questions about Suffering
Responding to suffering: Lessons from Dr. King
Suffering: To alleviate or to embrace?
Christmas Reflection: Birthing God in Uncertainty
Going home by another way (Advent, wk 3)
Does our longing make a difference? (Advent, wk 2)
Light shines in darkness (Advent, wk 1)
Celebrating 10 Years (Annual Meeting 2023)
Rest is Resistance (Burnout, wk 8)
Countering the Tyranny of Acceleration (Burnout, wk 5)
A therapist, a chaplain, & a pastor walk into a bar... (Burnout, wk 4)
What can save us from busyness? (Burnout, wk 2)
Burnout, wk 1: It's not just you!
Forgiveness: Conflict Resolution (Wk 2)
Conflict Resolution (Wk 1)
Flashlights & Mental Furniture: Listening Prayer
A back to school prayer
Get behind the waterfall: Contemplative Prayer
Notice the Gorilla: Acknowledging God in all things
Neighboring Sunday
Spiritual Pathways
God of the Gut Check (Psalm 139)
God who celebrates all
God, who liberates (Psalm 146)
God, our Song (Psalm 150)
On coming of age (Graduation Sunday)
God of Downcast Souls (Psalm 42)
God, our Mother Refuge (Psalm 91)
Baby Dedications - Spring 2023
Should I pursue joy or meaning?
Expanding what we call experience of God
Everyday partnership with Jesus
Easter: What if, in the end, hope defeats cynicism?
Good Friday Meditation
Sinners in the hands of an angry God, pt 2 (Give up unhelpful beliefs for Lent, wk 6)
Sinners in the hands of an angry God, pt 1 (Give up unhelpful beliefs for Lent, wk 5)
Health, wealth, & prosperity (Give up unhelpful beliefs for Lent, wk 4)
White, bearded God up in the sky (Give up unhelpful beliefs for Lent, wk 3)
In-Out Mentality (Give up unhelpful beliefs for Lent, wk 2)
Certainty saves (Give up unhelpful beliefs for Lent, wk 1)
Composting beliefs
How to unlearn maturely
Belonging to one another (Belonging wk 5)
Small Groups (Belonging, wk 4)
Belonging, wk 3 (Feedback Sunday)
Alienation & Mentoring (Belonging, wk 2)
Belonging, wk 1
Prayer For Christmas Day
Good news of great joy for all people (Carols Service 2022)
Matthew's Christmas Story: A Subversive Drama
Luke's Christmas Story: A Protest Song
Economic Justice and the Bible's two Christmas Stories (1st Sunday of Advent)
Worldviews (Texts of Terror? wk 6)
Storytelling (Texts of Terror? wk 5)
Grief
Remembrance Sunday
Empathize vs. Minimize (Texts of Terror? wk 4)
Texts of Terror? (wk 3): Paul. LOL.
The Bible: Beautiful & Problematic
The Bible Beyond "Inerrancy"
Guilt, Limitations, and Grace (Guilt, wk 4)
Guilt, wk 3 (Feedback Sunday!)
Guilt in our relationships (Guilt, wk 2)
Guilt, wk 1
Religious language that's lost its meaning, wk 3 (Grab Bag, part 2)
Religious language that's lost its meaning, wk 2
Religious language that's lost its meaning, wk 1 (God has a plan)
Jesus on changing your mind
Critiquing Christianity and America like Jesus critiqued his tradition
Where is God when you pray?
Pride in the 21st century, Gender-bending in the 1st & 2nd centuries
Belonging
Are any of these missing from your experience of community?
A broad vision for community
A Lens of Love, Not Judgment, wk 4 (The Good Samaritan)
It's okay to not feel optimistic after mass shootings
A Lens of Love, Not Judgment, wk 2 (Fearfully and Wonderfully Made)
A Lens of Love, Not Judgment, wk 1
Some pastoral comments on disappointment and the month ahead for BLC
Easter Sunday reflection
Good Friday Meditation
Give up False Beliefs for Lent wk 6: Wrath & Punishment
Give up False Beliefs for Lent wk 5: Romance will complete you
Give up False Beliefs for Lent wk 4: Purity Culture
Give up False Beliefs for Lent wk 3: Christian Supremacy
Give up False Beliefs for Lent wk 1: The "God's Blueprint" View of Life
Ash Wednesday Guided Prayer
Unpacking False American Religion
Living ourselves into new ways of thinking (not the reverse)
Looking lovingly at our past selves
Celebrating our Co-Founding Pastor Kyle Hanawalt
"Turn the other cheek" as active resistance
Life is a garden (not a formula)
Jesus and the disinherited
It's okay if prayer doesn't feel like it's "supposed to"
Christmas Carols Service
Community Spotlight: Emmanuel Prayer
Helpful and harmful spiritual perspectives on waiting
First Sunday of Advent
Remembrance Sunday
Decolonizing Creation
Combining the Living God and the Loving God (Annual Meeting 2021)
Prayer as partnership (The "kin-dom" of God is like yeast)
Helping others be present (Lessons from a chaplain)
From productivity / prosperity to presence
Biblical lessons from a First Nations perspective
A Reflection on Insiders & Outsiders
The God of Latin American Liberation
Faith in Modern Life Film Club (Community Spotlight)
It's been 20 years since 9/11. Wow.
Celebrating students, teachers, and parents
BLC Family Conversations 2021
Adventures in therapy
Do I pursue the ideal or not?
Looking inward AND looking outward
Pushing yourself AND giving yourself grace
Humility & Self-Worth
Baby Dedication Sunday
Summer Recommendations for Finding Meaning
Prayers & Intentions for July 4th
What would be most life-giving?
Rethink Power
Spiritual imposter syndrome
God is in your new realizations
God in all things (week 1)
Neighboring our unhoused neighbors
Reintegrating Wisely
A Mother's Day Conversation - Cheryll Hanawalt & Kyle Hanawalt
Let experience show you what God is like
How do we reconcile violence in the Bible with an all-loving God? (3 Responses)
How can judgment be good news? (2 Responses)
There's more than one satisfying response to hard questions about faith - Hayley Larson, Vince Brackett, Kyle Hanawalt
The All-Parts Loving, No-Parts Punishing God - Vince Brackett
Lenten Prayer Guide: Holy Saturday, April 3
Lenten Prayer Guide: Good Friday, April 2
Lenten Prayer Guide: Maundy Thursday, April 1
Lenten Prayer Guide: Wednesday, March 31
Jesus' Revolution is Resilient - Kyle Hanawalt
Lenten Prayer Guide: Tuesday, March 30
Lenten Prayer Guide: Monday March 29
Lenten Prayer Guide: Saturday, March 27
Lenten Prayer Guide: Friday, March 26
Lenten Prayer Guide: Thursday, March 25
Lenten Prayer Guide: Wednesday, March 24
Enough Scapegoating - Kyle Hanawalt
Lenten Prayer Guide: Tuesday, March 23
Lenten Prayer Guide: Monday, March 22
Lenten Prayer Guide: Saturday, March 20
Lenten Prayer Guide: Friday, March 19
Lenten Prayer Guide: Thursday, March 18
Lenten Prayer Guide: Wednesday, March 17
Dreams are born in loss and challenge - Kyle Hanawalt & Hayley Larson
Lenten Prayer Guide: Tuesday, March 16
Lenten Prayer Guide: Monday, March 15
Lenten Prayer Guide: Saturday, March 13
Lenten Prayer Guide: Friday, March 12
Lenten Prayer Guide: Thursday, March 11
Lenten Prayer Guide: Wednesday, March 10
What to do when your beliefs are changing - Vince Brackett
Lenten Prayer Guide: Tuesday, March 9
Lenten Prayer Guide: Monday, March 8
Lenten Prayer Guide: Saturday, March 6
Lenten Prayer Guide: Friday, March 5
Lenten Prayer Guide: Thursday, March 4
Lenten Prayer Guide: Wednesday, March 3
Embracing Woundedness - Hayley Larson
Lenten Prayer Guide: Tuesday, March 2
Lenten Prayer Guide: Monday, March 1
Lenten Prayer Guide: Saturday, February 27
Lenten Prayer Guide: Friday, February 26
Lenten Prayer Guide: Thursday, February 25
Lenten Prayer Guide: Wednesday, February 24
How observing Lent might help you this year - Kyle Hanawalt
Lenten Prayer Guide: Tuesday, February 23
Lenten Prayer Guide: Monday, February 22
Lenten Prayer Guide: Saturday, February 20
Lenten Prayer Guide: Friday, February 19
Lenten Prayer Guide: Thursday, February 18
Lenten Prayer Guide: Ash Wednesday, February 17
Let’s relieve the pressure about needing romance to complete us
Creativity (Spiritual Practices for Winter Survival wk 5)
The Spiritual Practice of Being with Yourself (Spiritual Practices for Winter Survival wk 4) - Hayley Larson
Using memories to kickstart prayer (Spiritual Practices for Winter Survival wk 3) - Vince Brackett
Non-Reactive Reading (Spiritual Practices for Winter Survival wk 2) - Kyle Hanawalt
How do we respond to what happened in DC?
Spiritual Practices for Winter Survival wk 1 (Lectio Divina) - Vince Brackett
Leaving Behind 2020's Lies & Vows
Christmas Eve Carols Service
Hope while so many problems are systemic - Cara Carothers & Kyle Hanawalt
Hope when there's a long winter ahead - Erica Coates & Vince Brackett
Hope when divided America is your family - Christina Culver & Kyle Hanawalt
Hope vs. Optimism (recording of interactive chat)
Reflection for Remembrance Sunday - Elizabeth Bertrand
Spiritual Hygiene - Kyle Hanawalt
Your spiritual health, post-election week - Vince Brackett
Jesus is self-sacrificial love (Who is Jesus when most American Christians back Trump? Wk 5) - Abby Dye, Vince Brackett, Kyle Hanawalt
Who is Jesus when most American Christians back Trump? (Wk 4: Jesus, the Outsider) - Sami DiPasquale, Val Buchanan
Who is Jesus when most American Christians back Trump? (Wk 3: Jesus, the Revolutionary) - Leicester & Laura Mitchell, Vince Brackett, Kyle Hanawalt
Who is Jesus when most American Christians back Trump? (Wk 2: Jesus' Mission) - Joey Rodil, Vince Brackett, Kyle Hanawalt
Who is Jesus when most American Christians back Trump? (Wk 1: The God Who Became Human) - Hayley Larson, Vince Brackett, Kyle Hanawalt
BLC in Five Years
Who (not what) do I want to be in 5 years? - Kyle Hanawalt
From Reactivity to Spirituality - Vince Brackett
What can't you control? What can you control? - Kyle Hanawalt
What's really going inside you? - Kyle Hanawalt
Caring for one another through crisis or trauma - Vince Brackett
De-Centralizing the God of the Powerful, Part 2 - Vince Brackett, Kyle Hanawalt