Dear Refugee, (Documented and Undocumented) Immigrant, Muslim & African-American: This is a letter to tell you you are loved. I love you and many others do as well. Recently some have spewed hate in your direction. They’ve scrawled it on bathroom walls, spray-painted it on dugouts and have told you to go back to “where […]
Shane Claiborne, Author & Activist – Episode 29 – #GoPublic against the death penalty, celebrityism as idolatry, speaking the truth in love, and how to engage in being an ordinary radical if your spouse isn’t into it
Noah Filipiak interviews Shane Claiborne about how to engage churches in helping the poor, activism and justice issues. They talk about celebrityism within popular Christianity, about what can be done to stop the death penalty (Shane’s latest book is Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us), and about how […]
Interview with World Relief’s Matthew Soerens on a biblical response to illegal immigration and Muslim refugees (with poetry by Jacob Mau)
You can listen to Noah’s interview with Matthew Soerens below via the Podbean Player or you can subscribe to all “The Flip Side” episodes on iTunes Matthew Soerens is the US Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief. Noah Filipiak interview Matthew about a biblical response to undocumented immigrants, the Mexican border, Syrian and other […]
How to Live a Purposeful, Not-Boring Life
How to Live a Purposeful, Not-Boring Life: Don’t spend all your money on yourself, your kids and your grandkids. If you tithe / give to your church, don’t act like the rest of your 90% is meant for you to hoard. Like it’s all yours because you earned it. (Where did this mindset ever come from?) Make […]
North Miami Police Shoot a Black Therapist Helping His Patient; What to Pay Attention to from Here #CharlesKinsey
Whether the rest of America wants to admit it or not, black people have to fear for their lives every day living in this country. They’ve been trying to tell us this for years now. I do hope we start listening soon. Please watch this 4-minute video of Charles Kinsey, a black therapist helping a […]
Why Don’t More Evangelicals Do Justice Ministry?
I’m pretty sure I’m an evangelical. I think what this means is that we believe Jesus and his grace are the only way to heaven, that we want others to know Jesus and that the entire Bible is inerrant and authoritatively from God. If this is what it means, then I am definitely an evangelical. […]