We sat down with Abbie Haug to talk about how religious pluralism is at the bedrock of what this country has always strived for (yet rarely achieved), and how it surrounds us today even if we don't recognize it.
Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/vbksnz3.
We sat down with the brilliant Dr. Allison Ralph to talk about how we're more like starlings than you might think, and how God is more like compost than we might assume. Life is as messy as it is holy. And it's worth staying in.
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/pb6xzb3
Tuhina, Tim, and Jason – the AC Three – are back to discuss how epiphanies are still happening amidst the dumpster fire of today, and what it means for preachers who seek a word in the midst of it all.
Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/vhfpcmc – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.
@crazypastor.bsky.social and @tvrasche.bsky.social sat down with brilliant poet-author, speaker, and soul, @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social, to talk about liminal spaces, generational resilience, and how everything is a story.
Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/8w4wyhw.
We live among far too many worlds which were built doomed from the start. Consider all the systems held together only by nightmares. We deserve more. New dreams of hope deserve to breathe free.
If only we can care for all of us, not just some of us.
In this throwback episode (one of our first!), the AC Three (Pastors Tim, Tuhina, and Jason) talk about this high holy day (err...night), and how we can look at it anew.
Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/cndyggc – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and we feel....conflicted? The AC Three go off-lectionary to talk about this faith-filled topic – to wrestle with it and explore how facing it head on offers a new way of seeing the world *today*.
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/883ft8h
The incomparable James Baldwin again reminds us that we're all caught up with one another. We are profoundly intertwined, whether we like it or not. Whether we recognize it or not. Whether we believe it or not.
Love does many things. It is the "greatest of these," according to St. Paul. It also guards our hearts against the bottomless abyss – leave it to a musician to speak so poetically on love.
The AC Three – Pastors Jason, Tuhina, and Tim – talk about the Lutheran high holy day of Reformation, how its liberating focus often gets lost, and why "All Panic, No Disco" is not at all a bad title for the day.
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/shcxznk
In a new segment on Hashcast, Pastor Jason goes on a story journey through the Gospel text this week – Jesus and the Ten Lepers – with the inspiration of the incomparable Tom Boomershine (and his seminal work).
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/spnfcqg
Goodness is more complicated than evil – it takes conscious dedication to embrace the former instead of succumbing to the latter.
Tim, @crazypastor.bsky.social, and @tvrasche.bsky.social talk about citizenship, especially considering we live in a time when birthright citizenship is under assault. What are we called to do as citizens of the commonwealth of God?
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/cqnj5tf
@tvrasche.bsky.social and @crazypastor.bsky.social sit down with the thoughtful, deliberate, brilliant professor Travis West to talk about his striking new book – and how Sabbath breaks all our rules around capitalism, possession, ownership, and beyond.
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/y67gxyt
@crazypastor.bsky.social and Tim Brown sit down with writer, filmmaker, podcaster, speaker, and educator @derricklweston.bsky.social to talk about how God is a terrible shepherd (but an amazing savior).
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/srvdn3n
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) reminds us that truth isn't malleable based on our own whims. In other words: facts don't care about our feelings.
@tvrasche.bsky.social, Tim, and @crazypastor.bsky.social go off-lectionary to discuss Luther's theology of the cross. What does it mean to trust the evidence of your eyes and ears in a world which sometimes encourages suspicion of both?
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@crazypastor.bsky.social and @lovebigcoach.bsky.social sit down with the Rev. Joann Lee to talk about a God who loves food, a God who topples any rigid structures we might create, and what it means to stay awake in a world committed to keeping people asleep.
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/p5g7t3x
"What is to give light must endure burning."
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), Austrian neurologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, naming a deep truth for all times.
The AC Three are back, off-lectionary, to talk about all things resiliency, and what it means to embrace the meme, "This is fine."
Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/h9c2wx3
bell hooks coming in with her trademark honesty, cutting to the heart of the matter.
May we open our ears and eyes – our hearts, even – to the world around us, while trying our best to abstain from judging that very same world. May we be led with curiosity instead of contempt. For observation on its own is a powerful, holy thing.
Human ingenuity and technology has given us better weapons and more inventive ways to kill each other – but still we wait for similar upgrades when it comes to how we relate to each other.
May tomorrow's sunrise find us doing the work we've always been called to.
The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be.
So we hide the poor and kill the prophets.
–Philip Berrigan
Christianity has failed every test when it comes to the poor and the prophets. We can do better. We MUST do better.
True story: if you understood fascism and began to resist it *before* the U.S. entered the Second World War against Nazi Germany, you were designated by the government as being "prematurely anti-fascist."
Because it's only appropriate to be against fascism when the U.S. wants to be against it.
We sat down with the Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters to talk about the multifaceted, multilayered story that often suffers from familiarity: the Day of Pentecost from Acts 2.
Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/6p2y8nx.
Pastors Tim and Jason go off-lectionary and sit down with the Rev. Kenneth Wheeler to talk about his book – US: The Resurrection of American Terror.
What would it look like if this country actively worked to dismantle its white supremacist foundations?
Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/j6n2cnz.
The question is: can we hold both together? Life IS death, but it's not only that.
Where have you found joy today?
Rest well, dear servant.
"As often occurs in periods of deep crisis which require bold decisions, we are tempted to think that what is happening is not entirely clear..."
Pope Francis I (1936-2025)
