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The Word Is Resistance — 326 episodes
TWAR 8.2.26 Angels of Grief and Bread
TWAR 7.26.19 Small, Outcast, Essential
TWAR 7.19.26 Seeds and Weeds and Fields of Questions
TWAR 7.12.26 Sowing Seeds for Dignity and Belonging (Year A)
6.22.26 Summer 2026 Teaser: Matthew, Jesus, and the Land ( Year A)
TWAR 4.5.26 Easter: Claiming Jesus, Claiming Each Other
TWAR 4.3.26 Good Friday: No Kings, No Crucifixions
TWAR 3.29.26 De-Cloaking as Disarmament (Lent 2026)
TWAR 3.22.26 A Weeping That Unbinds Us (Lent 2026)
TWAR 3.8.26 Where Every Body Is Met With Dignity (Lent 2026)
TWAR 3.1.26 Lineages of Wells and Waters (Lent 2026)
TWAR 3.1.26 Conversations of Extravagant Love (Lent 2026)
TWAR 2.22.26 Tempted by The Great Confuser (Lent 2026)
We Are Building Up a New World
TWIR 12.24.23 Parting Gifts: Magnificat
TWIR 12.17.23 Parting Gifts: Grief and Community
TWIR 12.10.23 Parting Gifts: Unlearning, Wrestling, and Paying Attention
TWIR 12.3.23 Parting Gifts: Choices and Power and Community
TWIR 11.19.23 #CeasefireNow: Keeping Our Resistance Vigil and Rejecting Christian Zionism
TWIR 11.12.23 Readying Ourselves
TWIR 10.29.23 The Path to the Water
TWIR 10.22.23 Everything Belongs to Love
TWIR 9.21.23 BONUS CONTENT! #WrestlingWithRomans: Reflections from the Colosseum
TWIR 9.17.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Solidarity Forever
TWIR 9.10.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Dear Rome, We Belong To Each Other. Love, Paul
TWIR 7.2.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Grounded Grace
TWIR 9.3.2023 #WrestlingWithRomans: We Are Building Up a New World
TWIR 8.27.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Radical Tenderness
TWIR 8.20.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Trees and Mysteries
TWIR 8.13.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: A Better Proclamation
TWIR 8.6.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: The Anguish of a Love Song
TWIR 7.30.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Finding "Us" for Collective Liberation (doubleposting)
TWIR 7.30.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Finding "Us" for Collective Liberation
TWIR 7.23.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: The Redemption of Our Bodies
TWIR 7.16.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Flesh Beyond Whiteness as Revolt Spirituality
TWIR 7.9.2023 #WrestlingWithRomans: 'Who Will Rescue Me From This Body of Death?'
TWIR 6.25.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Live Recording at NCNCUCC Annual Gathering
TWIR 6.18.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Finding Our Share
TWIR 6.11.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Participants In the Promise
TWIR 6.4.23 Trinities and Loyalty Oaths
TWIR 5.28.23 What If the Spirit
TWIR 5.21.23 #FailureLab: Bearing Witness As Repair
TWIR 5.14.23 #FailureLab: Held in a Collective of Love
TWIR 5.7.23 #FailureLab: Failing Gracefully
TWIR 4.23.23 #FailureLab: On (Not) Recognizing Resurrection
TWIR 4.16.23 #FailureLab: Show Me Your Wounds
TWIR 4.9.23 Waiting and Weeping on Easter
TWIR 4.7.23 Holy Week Through the Voices of Women
TWIR 4.2.23 Putting our Asses on the Line this Palm Sunday
TWIR 3.26.23 Do You Believe This?
TWIR 3.19.23 Real Talk With John
TWIR 3.12.23 I'm Thirsty Again
TWIR 2.26.23 Bonus Episode! A Richer Cosmos
TWIR 2.26.23 Readying for the Work
TWIR 2.22.23 In the Context of Ashes
TWIR 2.19.23 Ancestral Fears and Hopes
TWIR 2.12.23 Protective Fences
TWIR 2.5.23 Remembering Our Saltiness
TWIR 1.29.23 Blessed Are Those Who Refuse
TWIR 1.22.23 Perfectly United
TWIR 1.8.2023 Write A New Story
TWIR 1.1.2023 The Power of Our Choices
TWIR 12.18.22 Love Ruptures In
TWIR 12.11.22 Disruptive Joy
TWIR 12.4.22 Repent or On Becoming Medicine
TWIR 11.20.22 Trans Day of Remembrance
TWIR 11.13.22 Election Reflections: Keep Turning Towards Our People
TWIR 11.6.22 Remembering The Ancestors
TWIR 10.30.22 Zacchaeus, Hurry Down
TWIR 10.16.22 #DisabilityJustice: On How We Don't Lose Heart
TWIR 10.9.22 #DisabilityJustice: On Wellness and Belonging
TWIR 10.2.22 #DisabilityJustice: Your Life Is Not A Debt To Be Paid
TWIR 9.25.22 #DisabilityJustice: The Chasms
TWIR 9.18.22 #DisabilityJustice: Unreasonable, Voluptuous Accommodations!
TWIR 8.21.22 #DisabilityJustice: Binding Ableism, Loosing Our Full Potential
TWIR 8.14.22 #Disability Justice: Not Keeping the Peace or Sometimes Justice is Divisive
TWIR 8.7.22 #Disability Justice: Reclaiming the Body
TWIR 7.31.22 #DisabilityJustice: Take Care.
TWIR 7.24.22 #DisabilityJustice: Lucky Fins & Disability's Construction Workers
TWIR 7.17.22 #DisabilityJustice: Mary's Spoons, Martha's Scarcity, and Jesus' Solidarity
TWIR 7.3.22 #DisabilityJustice: Interdependence Day
TWIR 6.26.22 #DisabilityJustice: No "But Firsts" in the Kin-dom
TWIR 6.19.22 #DisabilityJustice: Getting Liberated from Legion, Again
TWIR 6.12.22 Trinity, Mystery, & Wonder: What We Cannot Bear
TWIR 6.5.22 #MutualInterest: Pentecost Miracles and the Turning of the Era
TWIR 5.22.22 #MutualInterest: When You're Safe, I'm Safe
TWIR 5.15.22 #MutualInterest: True Belonging for All Creation
TWIR 5.8.22 #MutualInterest: Invest In Each Other's Flourishing
TWIR 5.1.22 #MutualInterest: Conversion or Calling? Paul on the Damascus Road
TWIR 4.24.22 #MutualInterest: No Prisons Post Resurrection
TWIR 4.17.22 Easter, Sexuality, and Self-Determination
TWIR 4.15.22 Good Friday: The Seven Last Words
TWIR 4.10.22 Date Palm Seeds
TWIR 3.27.22 Family Dynamics
TWIR 3.20.22 Psalms from the Wilderness and Decolonizing Empathy
TWIR 3.13.22 Reject the Deflection
TWIR 3.6.22 What Lenten Sacrifice? And To Whom?
TWIR 3.2.22 Ashes and Weeping and God's Love
TWIR 2.27.22 Glory: The Antidote to Supremacy
TWIR 2.20.22 Reorienting to Grace
TWIR 2.13.22 Clock of the World
TWIR 2.6.22 Yet If You Say So
TWIR 1.30.22 No Prophet Is Accepted
TWIR 1.23.22 Paul's Weird Anatomy Lesson
TWIR 1.16.22 Let's Liven Up the Party!
TWIR 1.9.22 Speaking to the Heart of Pain
TWIR 12.25.21 The Shepherds Were Essential Workers
TWIR 12.19.21 The Silence of Solidarity
TWIR 12.12.21 Messy Worthy Fruit
TWIR 12.5.21 Suddenly!
TWIR 11.28.21 The World Is Turning
TWIR 11.21.21 On Questions and Kings
TWIR 11.14.21 Don't Get Distracted
TWIR 11.07.21 Once and For All
TWIR 10.17.21 Are You Able to Drink the Cup?
TWIR 10.10.21 Autumn and the Economy of Life
TWIR 10.3.21 We Are Not Meant to Be Alone
TWIR 9.19.21 James is Done
TWIR 8.29.21 The Drug War Defiles
8.23.21 TWIR Dispatch from Treaty People Walk for Water
TWIR 8.22.21 The Whole Glitter of God
TWIR 8.15.21 The Land Had Rest
TWIR 8.8.21 Another Execution
TWIR 08.01.21 Midwifing Each Other Into Maturity
TWIR 7.25.21 God of the Leftovers
TWIR 7.11.21 Justice and Peace Shall Kiss (Episode 200!)
TWIR 7.4.21 The Exceptional Character of the Woo
TWIR 6.27.21 Healing and Building Community
TWIR 6.20.21 Peace, Be Still
TWIR 6.13.21 Petrosomatoglyphs
TWIR 6.6.21 Reckoning With the Reckoning (Special Guest!)
TWIR 5.23.21 Pentecost: Disrupting the Impulses of Empire
TWIR 5.20.21 Special Episode: Rejecting Hell on Earth
TWIR 5.9.21 Abiding in Love
TWIR 5.2.21 This Is A Wilderness Road
TWIR 4.25.21 The Verdict of the Good Shepherd
TWIR 4.18.21 Witness or Whiteness
TWIR 4.11.21 Witnessing the Crucifixion, Witnessing the Resurrection
TWIR 4.4.21 It's Easter, and God Is Rolling Away the Stone
TWIR 4.2.21 Signposts In The Wilderness: Good Friday Signposts
TWIR 3.28.2021 Signposts In The Wilderness: Normalize Talking About Reality
TWIR 3.21.21 Signposts In The Wilderness: The Hard Work of Dying to Whiteness
TWIR 3.11.21 Signposts In the Wilderness: Love For Our People
TWIR 3.7.21 Signposts in the Wilderness: A Beauty That Will Break You Open
TWIR 2.28.21 Signposts In the Wildnerness: Divine Attention
TWIR 2.21.21 Signposts In The Wilderness: Wisdom in the Wilderness
TWIR 2.17.21 Signposts in the Wilderness: Lent Self-Reflection(Ash Wednesday)
TWIR 2.7.21 The Urgency of Healing
TWIR 1.24.21 Claiming the Good News: Together, We Can End White Christian Nationalism
TWIR 1.17.21 Love For President
TWIR 01.10.21 The Antidote to Terror Is Community
TWIR 12.24-25.2020 #AbolitionAdvent: I'm With You. I Need You.
TWIR 12.20.20 #AbolitionAdvent: Turning the World Around, Starting With Ourselves
TWIR 12.13.20 #AbolitionAdvent In the Midst of Ruin, the Longing
TWIR 12.06.20 #AbolitionAdvent: Demolition Time
TWIR 11.29.20 #AbolitionAdvent: Tear Open the Heavens
TWIR 11.22.20 Stir-Up Sunday
TWIR 11.08.20 Voice From the Past Calling Us Forward
TWIR 11.01.20 River Crossing
TWIR 10.25.20 Some of Us Did Not Die
TWIR 10.18.20 Freedom and Intimacy
TWIR 10.11.20 Proper Attire and Imprecations
TWIR 10.4.20 The White Supremacy Covenant Sucks
TWIR 9.27.20 Moving Towards The Promised Land
TWIR 9.20.20 Trust God, Not Dividends: Let's Talk about Money
TWIR 9.13.20 Freedom Songs
TWIR 9.6.20 Get Ready to Move
TWIR 8.30.20 Be a Redwood
TWIR 8.16.20 Before Reconciliation, There's Grief
TWIR 8.9.20 This Little Light of Ours
TWIR 8.2.20 Limping Into Freedomland
TWIR 7.26.20 Freedom or Erasure? On Editor's Choices
TWIR 7.19.20 Push Back On the Master Narrative
TWIR 7.12.20 Origin Stories
TWIR 6.28.20 God's Peace is Not White Calm
TWIR 6.21.20 Stories White People Would Rather Ignore
TWIR 6.14.20 We Are Unstoppable! Another World is Possible!
TWIR 6.7.20 Speak It Then Do It
TWIR 5.31.20 The New Wine of Intimacy
TWIR 5.24.20 Remembering the Meaning of 'We'
TWIR 5.17.20 Freeing Our Dreams of Freedom
TWIR 5.10.20 Making Way for Truth and Life
TWIR 5.3.20 The Gate of Abundant Life
TWIR 4.26.20 Hands Wide Open
TWIR 4.19.20 #Relatable Thomas
TWIR 4.12.20 Easter Hope on an Uncertain Road
TWIR 4.10.20 In The Time Of Trial
TWIR 4.9.20 Maundy Thursday is Canceled
TWIR 3.29.20 Can These Bones Live? On Divine Love for Bodies
TWIR 3.15.20 Discomfort in the Wilderness
TWIR 3.8.20 Born Anew
TWIR 3.1.20 The Temptation of Whiteness
TWIR 2.26.20 Ash Wednesday 2020
TWIR 2.23.20 The Power of the Ancestors is Love
TWIR 2.16.20 Transformation, Not Compliance
TWIR 2.9.20 Not As Spiritual As We Assume
TWIR 2.2.20 Super Sermon Sunday
TWIR 1.12.20 Baptized in Belovedness
TWIR 1.5.20 Is This Your King?
TWIR 12.29.19 The Resistance of the Magi
TWIR 12.22.19 Symbols That Unsettle
TWIR 12.15.19 Is This Really The Work?
TWIR 12.8.19 Freedom Waters and the Wrath of Rome
TWIR 12.01.19 Don't Miss the Ark for the Waves
TWIR 11.03.19 Bragging On Our Movements
TWIR 10.27.19 The Signs of the Seasons
TWIR 9.29.19 Speak, Lazarus, Speak
TWIR 9.22.19 No, Really
TWIR 9.15.19 Seek Until We Find It
TWIR 9.8.19 The Potter's House
TWIR 8.18.19 Becoming Fire
TWIR 8.11.19 The Promise of Things Not Seen
TWIR 8.4.19 The Teacher Teaches of Despair
TWIR 7.14.19 Do. Not. Prophesy. Here.
TWIR 7.07.19 Everything Must Change
TWIR 6.30.19 Be Changed Into Fire
TWIR 6.23.19 Getting Liberated from Legion
TWIR 6.9.19 Where Is the Bricklayers' Union?
TWIR 5.25.19 Come Thou Fount: What's Water Got to Do with Fighting White Supremacy?
TWIR 5.19.19 We Did Not Replace Anyone
TWIR 5.12.19 What Wondrous Love Is This?
TWIR 5.5.19 Do You Love Me?
TWIR 4.28.19 The Week After: Trust, Doubt, and Whiteness as Bad Faith
TWIR 4.21.19 Easter: Our Work Is Not Done
TWIR 4.19.19 It's Good Friday In America
TWIR 04.14.19 Grief and Praise (Episode 100!)
TWIR 4.07.19 Judas the Executive Director
TWIR 3.31.2019 Paul and Reparations
TWIR 3.24.2019 The Axe or The Pitchfork?
TWIR 3.17.19 Abraham, #AdmissionsGate, and Redeeming Our Ancestors
TWIR 3.10.19 The Pillars of Imperialism
TWIR 3.6.19 Ash Wednesday Special: On Stardust and Muck
TWIR 3.3.19 Transfiguration Not Disfiguration
TWIR 2.24.19 Creative Nonviolence and Turning the Other Cheek
TWIR 02.17.19 Of Courage and Curses
TWIR 2.10.19 Catching Our People
TWIR 2.3.19 Psalm 71 and calling 9-1-1
TWIR 1.27.19 Imagine, ALL the People
TWIR 1.20.19 Inviting In Our Gifts
TWIR 1.13.19 Renouncing White Supremacy
TWIR 1.6.19 Epiphany: A Theology of Safe Passage
TWIR 12.25.18 Christmas Special: Shepherds' Jubilee
TWIR 12.23.18 Magnify the Children
TWIR 12.9.18 Calling In to Community (not calling out in the wilderness)
TWIR 12.2.18 Everything's Coming Apart
TWIR 11.25.18 Taking Jesus Off the Throne
TWIR 11.18.18 Shifting From Resentment to Calling
TWIR 11.4.18 We Are Here
TWIR 10.21.18 Whiteness Does Us Wrong
TWIR 10.14.2018 God Is Not a Supreme Court Justice
TWIR 10.7.18 Atonement: Reckoning With the History of So-Called columbus Day
TWIR 9.30.18 What Is Our Resistance For?
TWIR 09.16.18 (2) Femme Wisdom
TWIR 9.16.18 What Does It Cost Us To Believe?
TWIR 9.9.18 What Will You Do?
TWIR 9.2.18 Don't Skip the Strike!
TWIR 8.26.18 On Being The Armor of God
TWIR 8.19.18 No More White Nationalist Bread
TWIR 8.12.18 What Sustains Us?
TWIR 8.5.18 The Ratio of Miracles to Labor
TWIR 7.29.18 Abundance Shows Up
TWIR 7.22.18 Get In The Boat
TWIR 7.15.18 Two Dances In The Lectionary
TWIR 7.8.18 Shake Off the Dust
TWIR 07.1.18 Right Power, Right Time, Right Action
TWIR 6.24.18 Throwing Stones
TWIR 6.10.18 Wising Up to Power
TWIR 5.27.18: Burning Lips: Meeting Isaiah After Pentecost
TWIR 5.20.18 Pentecost and the Skill of Transcendence
TWIR 5.13.18 Southland In The Springtime
TWIR 5.6.18 Showing Up When No One Is Watching
TWIR 4.29.18 They Already Knew They Were Sacred
TWIR 4.22.18 Whose Are You?
TWIR 4.8.18 Thomas: Observer Trainings, Security Culture, and Abolitionist Politics
TWIR 4.15.18 Bodies Matter
TWIR 4.1.18 Easter: Mary Magdalene's Grief
Lent Special 3.29.18 Holy Week: We Are Tired of Grieving
Lent Special 03.25.18 The Most Devious and Damaging Lie
Lent Special 03.18.18 The Coming Day
Lent Special 03.11.18 It's Personal
Lent Special 3.4.18 Whose Temple?
Lent Special 2.18.18 That Same Spirit
TWIR 2.4.18 Healing As Civil Disobedience
TWIR 1.21.18 Follow the Star
TWIR Special: The Snatch Back
TWIR 1.14.18 The Call
TWIR 1.7.18 In the beginning was water
TWIR 12.31.17 Joy at Christmas
TWIR 12.24.17 Special Episode: Revolutionary Lullabies
TWIR 12.17.17 Making Bethlehem Real
TWIR 12.03.17: Fear and Trembling
TWIR 11.26.17 Special Episode: Thanksgiving? Thankstaking?
TWIR 11.19.17 Called In To Fight
TWIR 11.12.17 The Song of the Divine Feminine
TWIR 11.5.17 Deacons to Movement
TWIR 10.29.17 Join the Conversation
TWIR 10.22.17 Say Unto Caesar: Whiteness is Not God
TWIR 10.15.17 Freedom and the Golden Calf
TWIR 10.8.17 The Supposedly Wicked Tenants
TWIR 9.24.17 The Meat Pots Of White Supremacy
TWIR 9.17.17 Healing The Diseased Imagination
TWIR 9.10.17 The Persistence of Our Resistance
TWIR 9.3.17 We Are All Going to Die
TWIR 8.27.17 Identity & Authority
TWIR 8.20.17 Jesus and the Performance of Wokeness
TWIR 8.13.17 On Fear and Walking on Water
TWIR 8.6.2017 Wrestling A Blessing
TWIR 7.30.17 What's More Than a Conqueror?
TWIR 7.23.17 Fighting With Jesus
TWIR 7.16.2017 Dirt Wisdom
TWIR 7.2.17 A Weight We Don't Understand
TWIR 6.25.17 Not Peace But A Sword: Stay Losing
TWIR 6.18.17 Freedom to Risk
TWIR 6.11.17: Love Trumps Doctrine: Resisting Trinity Sunday
TWIR 6.4.17 Pentecost
TWIR 5.19.17 There Is A River: For Dr. Vincent Harding
TWIR 5.7.17 Peter's Betrayal: Shepherd or Thief?
TWIR 4.10.17 Holy Week: Killing White Jesus
TWIR 4.9.17 Palm Sunday: Why Do We Tell This Story?
TWIR 3.26.17 Romans: The Wages of Whiteness
TWIR 3.12.17 Resisting Anti-Judaism in John
TWIR 3.1.17 Ash Wednesday: Give Up Whiteness for Lent
TWIR 2.26.17 Transfiguring Sanctuary
TWIR 2.12.17: Resisting the Story of Conquest
TWIR 1.29.17 Accountable Foolishness
TWIR 1.15.17: #ReclaimMLK: TWIR Inaugural Edition