Welcome to "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, where Word meets flesh. Rev. Starlette Thomas of Good Faith Media is your podcast pastor, hosting multiple seasons and special series, sharing stories of where that word, race, met our own, when its meanings were rubbed into our skin, why it gets under our skin, how current events fit in and what the Church in North America can do about it.
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Season 5 Episode 7: Balance the Books
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It's season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, and this time it's "A Love Offering" -- an examination of the North American church's questionable relationship with money and an excoriation of flock-fleecing shepherds and modern-day money changers who turn a dollar into health and wealth and call it ministry. Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of t…
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Season 5 Episode 6: Pick Up the Tab
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It's season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, and this time it's "A Love Offering" -- an examination of the North American church's questionable relationship with money and an excoriation of flock-fleecing shepherds and modern-day money changers who turn a dollar into health and wealth and call it ministry. Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of t…
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Season 5 Episode 5: Flat Broke
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It's season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, and this time it's "A Love Offering" -- an examination of the North American church's questionable relationship with money and an excoriation of flock-fleecing shepherds and modern-day money changers who turn a dollar into health and wealth and call it ministry. Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of t…
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Season 5 Episode 4: Highway Robbery
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It's season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, and this time it's "A Love Offering" -- an examination of the North American church's questionable relationship with money and an excoriation of flock-fleecing shepherds and modern-day money changers who turn a dollar into health and wealth and call it ministry. Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of t…
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Season 5 Episode 3: Quick Buck
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It's season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, and this time it's "A Love Offering" -- an examination of the North American church's questionable relationship with money and an excoriation of flock-fleecing shepherds and modern-day money changers who turn a dollar into health and wealth and call it ministry. Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of t…
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Season 5 Episode 2: Money Talks
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It's season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, and this time it's "A Love Offering" -- an examination of the North American church's questionable relationship with money and an excoriation of flock-fleecing shepherds and modern-day money changers who turn a dollar into health and wealth and call it ministry. Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of t…
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Season 5 Episode 1: Cash Cow
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It's season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, and this time it's "A Love Offering" -- an examination of the North American church's questionable relationship with money and an excoriation of flock-fleecing shepherds and modern-day money changers who turn a dollar into health and wealth and call it ministry. Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of t…
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It's season five of "The Raceless Gospel" podcast, and this time it's "A Love Offering" -- an examination of the North American church's questionable relationship with money and an excoriation of flock-fleecing shepherds and modern-day money changers who turn a dollar into health and wealth and call it ministry. Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of t…
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“Your ‘Kin-dom’ Come” is an Advent podcast series from Good Faith Media and a proclamation of the "kin-dom" that is coming. It's hosted by Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of the Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast. Episode 4. "Walk Together Children." Lectionary Text: Luke 1:26-38. Favored by God…
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“Your ‘Kin-dom’ Come” is an Advent podcast series from Good Faith Media and a proclamation of the "kin-dom" that is coming. It's hosted by Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of the Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast. Episode 3. "I Got My Ticket." Lectionary Text: Luke 1:46b-55. Sing Mary! But this …
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“Your ‘Kin-dom’ Come” is an Advent podcast series from Good Faith Media and a proclamation of the "kin-dom" that is coming. It's hosted by Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of the Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast. Episode 2. "Take Me to the Water." Lectionary Text: Mark 1:1-8. John the Baptist i…
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“Your ‘Kin-dom’ Come” is an Advent podcast series from Good Faith Media and a proclamation of the "kin-dom" that is coming. It's hosted by Rev. Starlette Thomas, director of the Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast. Episode 1. "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize." Lectionary Text: Mark 13:24-37. When the…
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“Your ‘Kin-dom’ Come” is an Advent podcast series from Good Faith Media and a proclamation of the "kin-dom" that is coming. It's hosted by Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas, director of the Raceless Gospel Initiative at Good Faith Media and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast. Four episodes are coming -- one for each Sunday of Advent -- on the Fridays of…
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Season 4 Episode 5: Body/Building
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Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 5 with Tamice Spencer-Helms, Thomas explores the following: A body of believers, we are flesh and bone — not brick and mortar. Still, too many Christians def…
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Season 4 Episode 4: Toes
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Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 4 with Miguel De La Torre, Thomas asks: With prophets and apostles as its foundation, the North American church should have solid footing, right? In this epi…
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Season 4 Episode 3: Knees
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Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 3 with Justin Fung, Thomas asks: Does the North American church have bad knees? In this episode, we’ll examine why Christians struggle to support each other,…
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Season 4 Episode 2: Shoulders
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Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 2 with Ben Boswell, Thomas asks: If the body has a good head on its shoulders, here being Christ, then why do questions remain? In this episode, we’ll addres…
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Season 4 Episode 1: Head
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Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," delivers five weekly episodes. In episode 1 with Bren Dubay, Thomas asks: Is the church in over its head? We’ll discuss Christ’s position as head of the body and how the church loses its own in turbu…
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Rev. Dr. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. Season four, "Body/Building," will release five weekly episodes, starting Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Followers of Jesus joined a body — not a building. “Members of one another,” we are head, shoulders, knees, and toes. A body of b…
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47. White Womanhood and Everyday Antiracism with Jenny Booth Potter
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On this episode, I have an incredible conversation with Jenny Booth Potter, a creative producer, storyteller, and co-host of The Next Question, a web series about expanding our imagination for racial justice. She has co-led racial justice trainings across the country for churches and organizations, and is the Chief Content Officer of HerSelf Media,…
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It’s the final episode in the Lenten series. Cursed and left to die, Jesus is left out on a limb, left high and dry. Three years of Jesus’ life, how quickly his disciples forget his messages, his miracles, his Messiahship. Not one volunteers to be a character witness, to testify to his goodness. With the religious elite, the government and crowd pa…
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46. Faith in Transition with Natalie Drew
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I'm excited to introduce you to Natalie Drew, a Christian who is also a transgender woman. Trigger Warning: Suicide is discussed at several points in this episode. Please do skip this episode if that could be a trigger for you. <3 Connect with Natalie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/natgrace79 Click here to help fund Natalie's upcoming gender-affir…
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We are inching closer to the cross in this Lenten journey. With it comes the darkness of the disciples’ dirty deeds, the painful awareness that even those closest to Jesus would distance themselves from him to save their skin, that Judas would throw away Christ’s ministry for money. Pencils down. Between Mary and Judas, this is a test of loyalty. R…
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The crowd wanted Jesus to be the Savior they had in mind. “Save us like this, Jesus. Step right up, Jesus. Come right this way, Jesus. You must be on our side.” But watch the hands. Before Jesus is left out on a limb, he will be greeted with palm branches. “Jesus is coming!” How we prepare the way for Jesus in our lives is its own entrance examen. …
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From couching-surfing homelessness to mountaintop experiences, ministry has its ups and downs. On a mountain now and after Jesus’ dress change [translation: transfiguration], Peter, James, John, and Jesus meet Moses and Elijah. God face to face, Peter reduces the meeting to rocks, to well-organized, neatly placed rubble to be visited and not immedi…
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Satan gives Jesus a look behind door number three. “All the earth’s kingdoms could be yours. Just bow down and worship me.” In episode three of this Lenten series, the devil wants Jesus on his knees. Jesus reminds the devil that there is a supreme reality and a “kin-dom” that is not of this world. The “kin-dom” of God is not within the city limits.…
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“Don’t play with God.” A childhood reminder to reverence God goes a long way and finds its way in the second episode of this Lenten series. Satan questions Jesus’ identity, challenges his divine connection and, in turn, tests God. Salvation is not a performance, or the leap of faith Satan tempts Jesus to make. Rev. Starlette Thomas is your podcast …
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Fresh from the waters of baptism and just before he starts his public ministry, Jesus meets his one-person welcome committee: Satan. Satan not only tests the humanity of Jesus but is also testing the water of baptism. Satan is poking at Jesus’ flesh to see if Jesus has really died to self, to see if divinity will prematurely reveal itself. Satan wa…
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast series from Good Faith Media. This Lenten podcast will release seven Wednesday episodes starting February 22, 2023. “Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3,” the series is named for the three temptations of Jesus in the wilderness: bake sale for Satan, sky dive if you are who…
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45. Unsilencing Our Stories to Silence Sexual Shame with Jessica Harris
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Welcome to Sanctuary Woman, a place that invites women to show up with their whole minds and their whole bodies rather than suppress that which the church may have told us is shameful. Many Christian women have nowhere to turn and are looking for the brave spaces, the safe spaces, where their sexual shame can be spoken, set free, and can finally be…
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44. Peace, Love & The Body of Christ with Sara Billups
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Sara Billups is a Seattle-based writer and cultural commentator who is completing her Doctor of Ministry in the Sacred Art of Writing at the Peterson Center for the Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary. She works to help wavering Christians remain steadfast through cultural storms and continues to hope for the flourishing of the Ch…
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43. Let Me Be Hopeful With You
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Welcome back to Sanctuary Woman! More resources for women recovering from purity culture can be found at https://sanctuarywoman.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanctuarywoman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanctuarywoman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/morganstrehlow Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.…
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Season 3 Episode 8: On the Tip of My Tongue
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body langua…
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Season 3 Episode 7: Toe the Line
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body langua…
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Season 3 Episode 6: Sitting on Your Hands
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body langua…
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Season 3 Episode 5: Turn a Blind Eye
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body langua…
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Season 3 Episode 4: Food in Mouth
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body langua…
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Season 3 Episode 3: Keep at Arm's Length
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body langua…
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42. An (Un)Racialized Body of Christ with Rev. Starlette Thomas
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Reverend Starlette Thomas joins us to help us see our skin color for what it is and deconstruct what it is not as she pastorally and prophetically disrupts and dismantles the racialized body of Christ so that we can reconstruct and re-member a Church body that reflects Christ and his gospel. Learn more about Starlette's work at The Raceless Gospel …
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Season 3 Episode 2: The Cold Shoulder
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body langua…
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41. Someone Other Than a Mother with Erin S. Lane
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Our guest today is Erin S. Lane, author of the new book Someone Other Than A Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman's Purpose and Making Meaning beyond Motherhood. Erin is a writer, theologian, and someone other than a mother. That’s the name of her latest book, by the way. Erin has a master’s degree from Duke Divinity School with a focus on gende…
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Season 3 Episode 1: An Arm and a Leg
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is a womanist in ministry and the host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. In this ongoing conversation, Thomas and her guests talk about that taboo trinity — race, religion and politics – in the structure of a church service. Season three of the podcast focuses on the church in North America’s “body langua…
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40. Body Scan Meditation
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[Original airdate: Feb 8, 2021] On this episode of Sanctuary Woman, I want to invite you to reconnect your mind, with your body, through awareness of your body, listening to what your body is communicating to you. What God is communicating to you, through your body. This episode will lead you through a prayer body scan meditation and close with a r…
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Rev. Starlette Thomas is your podcast pastor and host of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast from Good Faith Media. Season 3 of “The Raceless Gospel” podcast (TRG3) is eight episodes and starts dropping weekly on May 5, 2022.Door Starlette Thomas
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39. Divine & Disabled Bodies with Dr. Amy Kenny
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Our guest today is Dr. Amy Kenny, who says that much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection. Dr. Kenny is a disabled scholar and a Shakespeare Lecturer whose research focuses on medical and bodily themes in literature. Her forthcoming book, My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in…
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38. Abundant Bodies and Faithful Fat Liberation with Amanda Martinez Beck
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Amanda Martinez Beck is a fat activist and body peace coach specializing in the intersection of human dignity, body liberation, and religion. She is the author of Lovely: How I Learned to Embrace the Body God Save Me and the forthcoming book More of You: The Fat Girl’s Field Guide to the Modern World. Amanda is also the co-creator and co-host of th…
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37. Disordered Eating Effects More Than Our Bodies with Isabel Garza, RDN, LD
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We're back to continue the conversation about our bodies. Here at Sanctuary Woman, we are intentional about making our spirituality an embodied one, and repairing the holy connection between our mind and our bodies. So we are going to explore what it looks like to pursue being at peace with our bodies. This episode features Isabel Garza, Registered…
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36. The Wisdom Of Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride
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This is the first episode of our Bodies series. Here at Sanctuary Woman, we are intentional about making our spirituality an embodied one, and repairing the holy connection between our spiritual and sexual selves. So we are going to explore what it looks like to pursue being at peace with our bodies. And there’s no one better to start us off on thi…
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35. Passing the Peace: A Guided Prayer for the New Year
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Episode transcript can be found at www.sanctuarywoman.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sanctuarywoman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanctuarywoman Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/morganstrehlow Music by Jameson McGregor of UBC Waco.Door Morgan Strehlow
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34. Mother Mystery: Mary, Decolonized and Dangerous with Kat Armas (Advent)
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Welcome to the fourth and final week of Advent. We’re almost there! HE is almost here! But… we keep waiting. We keep longing for things to be made right. For a little while longer. Today we are waiting with Kat Armas. Kat is a Cuban-American writer and podcaster from Miami, FL who holds a dual MDiv and MAT. Her first book, Abuelita Faith: What Wome…
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