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This episode, we get to know and talk to a new friend: Kenneth Tanner. Kenneth Tanner is pastor of Church of the Holy Redeemer in Rochester HIlls, Michigan. His writing has appeared in many outlets, including HuffPost, Sojourners, Mockingbird, National Review, Christianity Today, and more. He and his wife, Debbie, have seven children and four grandchildren. Look for his book The Vulnerable God wherever books are sold.

This week I get to talk to two good friends, Mat and Micah, about what it means to be a father, what it means to have a father, and what it means for God to be our father. Mat: Church of the Affirmation. Micah: The Word in Black and Red.

Friends, welcome back to All Things Made New. This week, I'm talking about some personal changes that are going on with my relations to Christianity, Jesus, and myself. Aaron J. Smith is a poet, a spiritual director, and a post-Christian theologian. He lives in the pacific Northwest with his wife, two kids, and he loves cheesecake. Aaronjsmith.net The Cluttered Mouth The Book of Common Words

This week, we are talking to our new friend, Mae Forrest Barnes. A former United Methodist pastor and now Episcopalian laity lady, Mae is a worker, a writer, and a PhD candidate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.  In her precious spare time, Mae writes on her blog about theology, culture, politics, and anything that captures her attention, really. With a bachelor’s in English, a master's degree in divinity, she hopes to one day make her desire to teach in a university a reality, but in the mean time, podcasting and blogging will do quite nicely.  Socials:Substack: https://maeforrestbarnes.substack.com/BlueSky: @dr-maeforrestX.com: @dr_maeforrestInstagram: junebug_writerThreads: @junebug_writer

This week, we are talking to long time podcaster Tripp Fuller. Tripp recently moved back to North Carolina and started as Visiting Professor of Theology at Luther Theological Seminary after three years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theology & Science at the University of Edinburgh. He recently released Divine Self-Investment: a Constructive Open and Relational Christology, the first book in the Studies in Open and Relational Theology series. For over 15 years Tripp has been doing the Homebrewed Christianity podcast (think on-demand internet radio) where he interviews different scholars about their work so you can get nerdy in traffic, on the treadmill, or doing the dishes. Last year it had over 4 million downloads. It also inspired a book series with Fortress Press called the Homebrewed Christianity Guides to... topics like God, Jesus, Spirit, Church History, etc. Tripp is a very committed and (some of his friends think overly) engaged Lakers fan and takes Star Wars and Lord of the Rings very seriously.

This week we are talking to our friend Marc Alan Schelske about the second edition of his book Journaling for Spiritual Growth. Marc is a thinker and speaker who has served as a full-time pastor since 1995 and is currently the teaching elder of Bridge City Community Church in Portland, Oregon. He also hosts The Apprenticeship Way podcast and is the author of The Wisdom of Your Heart and Discovering Your Authentic Core Values. “In my writing, I focus on what it takes to nurture a healthy inner life, something found at the intersection of grace and growth,” Marc says. “I write and speak to help people find belonging, redemption, and growth as they discover the life God has designed for them.” https://marcalanschelske.com/

Friends, welcome once again. This week, we're talking to Elle Dowd. Elle Dowd (she/they) is an author, activist, and pastor.She is currently PhD student at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  Elle has pieces of their heart in Sierra Leone, where their two children were born, and in St. Louis where they learned from the radical, queer, Black leadership during the Ferguson Uprising.  She was formerly a co-conspirator with the movement to #decolonizeLutheranism and served as a board member of the Euro-Descent Lutheran Association for Racial Justice, does community organizing in her city as a board member of SOUL, serves on the Clergy Advocacy Board for Planned Parenthood, and facilitates workshops in both secular conferences and Christian spaces. In 2021 she published a book with Broadleaf, Baptized in Teargas, about her conversion from a white moderate to an abolitionist is available now in print, e-book, or audiobook.  To get in touch with Elle and to keep up with updates,  you can visit their website www.elledowd.com and subscribe to their newsletter. You can also see her online ministry via Facebook.com/elledowdministry  or follow her on Twitter/SnapChat/Insta @hownowbrowndowd  or on TikTok @elledowdministry and @ELCAYoungAdults  And order their book Baptized in Teargas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist  here  https://bit.ly/2YICjBf Or download the audiobook here https://christianaudio.com/baptized-tear-gas-elle-dowd-audiobook-download

Hello friends! This week, we are talking to a new friend, Ell. Ell is a co-host for The Word in Black and Red podcast, a member of the IWW, and a board member at her church. She was raised Presbyterian, sent to catholic school as an atheist, and then graduated with a BA in anthropology and classics. She’s worked in various industries and is a passionate advocate of intersectional workers rights and building community solidarity.TWIBAR

This week, we get to talk to Micah.Micah is a queer leftist minister who was raised in a fundamentalist cult, read the Bible for themselves, and realized they had to choose between the religion they were raised in or a radical new faith. You can join their alternative church for folks left on the outside at The Llama Pack or listen to them on the leftist Bible study podcast The Word in Black and Red.Podcast: The Word in Black and RedLlama Pack Discord: https://discord.gg/SzvGVXf4yTWIBAR Discord: https://discord.gg/gubtf4QF

Hello Friends. This time, we are talking to Adam Ericksen. Adam Ericksen is....The Pastor Clackamas United Church of Christ in Milwaukie, Oregon who is always posting provocative church signs calling out injustice, rebuking police brutality, standing up for rights of refugees, the humanity of Muslims, and the dignity of trans people...you know, like Jesus would.Bluesky: Pastor Adam Instagram: Adam Ericksen

This week we get to meet a new friend, Char Mansfield. Char Mansfield, co-founder of the public theology podcast Barefoot to Emmaus, is a Princeton Seminary MDiv and soon to be Rutgers University MSW. They plan to use the two master's to pursue a bivocational ministry of pastoral leadership and psychotherapy. Char is an anarchist in the style of the first church, with their deepest convictions surrounding the centrality of interdependent community and renunciation of private property to the Christian calling.  https://barefoot2emmaus.weebly.com/ https://www.instagram.com/barefoot2emmaus/ [email protected]

This week we get to talk to the delightful Jennifer C. Martin. Jennifer C. Martin is a writer, editor, and speaker living in Richmond, VA, with her two partners and two children. She writes, reads, and speaks about religion, politics, polyamory, sexuality, culture, entertainment, and more. When she's not trolling on social media or updating her Substack blog, Dirtbag Christian, she's in the kitchen making baked goods, doing yoga, editing, writing, gaming, gardening, or going to therapy. Raised in the Church of God denomination in a conservative home, she is now a member of the United Church of Christ and a communist. website: https://jennifercmartin.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/notreallyjcm.bsky.social Substack: https://dirtbagchristian.substack.com/

This week we are talking to my friend Aaron Epperson. Aaron Epperson is a writer, social services worker, and a lover of Oregon's wild places. He has a BA in Conflict Resolution from Portland State and spent years working in the tech industry before pivoting to social services where he helps families through difficult circumstances. aaronepperson.com Bluesky: @tacojolly

This week on All Things Made New, we're talking with Marc Alan Schelske about his new book, Walking Otherward. Marc Alan Schelske is a happily recovering fundamentalist praying for the restoration of all things. He writes and teaches about spiritual maturity, emotional growth, and the other-centered, co-suffering way of Jesus. He is a small-church pastor nearing thirty years of experience as a big design and technology geek and sometimes musician. Marc earned a Bachelor's in Theology at Walla Walla University and a Master’s in Theology and Culture at St. Stephen’s University. He is the author of several books, including The Wisdom of Your Heart and Journaling for Spiritual Growth. Marc serves as the teaching elder at Bridge City Community Church in Milwaukie, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, where he lives with his nearly-adult children, Emerson & Lucas, his partner, Christina, as well as an aging mutt, Jackson, and a vindictive once-feral cat named Bellatrix, who demands affection at knife-point twice a day. Preorder the book here.

Friends, today we goet to talk to Byron Borger. Before opening the Hearts & Minds Bookstore, Byron worked in college ministry for the CCO (Coalition for Christian Outreach), working on staff of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in McKeesport, PA, as well as working on various peace and justice issues while being an Associate Director of The Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh. In 1982 he and his wife, Beth, opened Hearts & Minds, an independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA. Besides managing the small town shop, he has served congregations, denominations, and organizations as conference booksellers, has spoken extensively about relating Christian faith to society (and the role of reading) at clergy convocations, colleges, church retreats, and events such as the Calvin Festival of Faith & Writing. He has worked in social change organizations and has written for several print and on-line journals, including Sojourners, Comment and CPJ's Capitol Commentary. They have set up large book displays at conferences for CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts), Evangelicals for Social Action, The Redeemer Center for Faith and Work, Q,  Bread for the World, The Christian Legal Society, the C.S. Lewis Institute, and the CCOs annual Jubilee Conference, although most days they labor in the world of small businesses. He has edited a book for college graduates called Serious Dreams: Big Ideas for the Rest of Your Life (Square Halo Books) and has a chapter (about working in retail) in Ordinary Saints: Living Everyday Life to the Glory of God (edited by Ned Bustard, published by Square Halo Books.) Byron reviews books regularly at BookNotes, the almost weekly newsletter of Hearts & Minds. (www.heartsandmindsbooks.com.) He attends First Presbyterian Church, York, PA.