Justice. Mercy. Faith.

Thank you to this week’s guests, the Rev. John Zehring, the Rev. Daniel Headrick and the Rev. Dr. Greg Johnson.

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison. 

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean. 

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit our website, ChristianCitizen.us.

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison. 

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean. 

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit our website, ChristianCitizen.us.

Mandate from heaven? A brief primer in political theology by Claire Hein Blanton

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison. 

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean. 

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit our website, ChristianCitizen.us.

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison. 

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean. 

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit our website, ChristianCitizen.us.

Thank you to this week’s guests, Jennifer L. Sanborn, Laura Alden, Dr. Laura Miraz, the Rev. Dr. Eddie Cruz, and the Rev. Kadia A. Edwards.

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by myself, Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison. 

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean. 

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit the website ChristianCitizen.us.

That concludes our first full year of the Justice. Mercy. Faith. Podcast. We thank you immensely for your support as we figure out this new medium for our decades-old publication. All of us at The Christian Citizen and American Baptist Home Mission Societies wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We’ll be back at it, producing more episodes of Justice. Mercy. Faith. In the coming weeks. 

Thanks for listening.

Thank you to this week’s guest the Rev. Margaret Marcuson.

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison. 

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean. 

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit the website ChristianCitizen.us.

Justice. Mercy. Faith. will be back with a new episode next week.

Thank you to this week’s guests, the Rev. César R. Maurás Torres, Abigail Medina Betancourt and the Rev. Salvador Orellana.

The American Baptist Home Mission Societies is currently in the process of raising $300,000 to help transform and bring healing in Puerto Rico. 

A gift to the Passionary Fund today will help replace a blue tarp with a sound, dry roof. 

Tens of thousands of residents of Puerto Rico are still living under blue tarps – and it’s been two years since Hurricane Maria stormed the island.  Progress is being made but many still wait for a peaceful night’s sleep. 

One hundred percent of your gift is applied directly to rebuild and restore Puerto Rico and will provide additional support above and beyond denominational offerings. Please give to American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ Passionary Fund today to support our neighbors in Puerto Rico!

More information can be found and gifts can be made at abhms.org/givehope

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison. 

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean. 

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit the website ChristianCitizen.us.

We’re releasing two episodes of Justice. Mercy. Faith this week, so check your podcast feed for even more! We’ll also be back with a new episode next week.

Thank you to this week’s guest, Dr. Cassandra Carkuff-Williams. Her story, Returning to Sunday School, can be read at christiancitizen.us

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by myself, Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison. 

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean. 

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit the website ChristianCitizen.us.

Justice. Mercy. Faith will be back with a new episode next week. 

Thanks for listening.

Brian Kaylor is editor and president of Word&Way. He joins the podcast this week to discuss “reclaiming the historic understanding of religious liberty for all.” More from Rev. Dr. Aidsand Wright-Riggins III can be heard in Kaylor’s interview with him in episode 69 “Baptist Without An Adjective,” on the Word&Way podcast.

Eden Carlton leads the Language Arts Ministry at St. Paul’s Baptist Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania, she joins the podcast with her essay, “Love your neighbor, learn their language.”

David W. Peters served in the United States Marine Corps and in Iraq as an Army chaplain. Currently, he is a church planter in Pflugerville, Texas with the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. He is the author of “Post-Traumatic God: How the Church Cares for People Who Have Been to Hell and Back” from Morehouse Publishing. He joins us this week with his essay, “The moral injury of a Baptist accidental killer.”

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by myself, Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison.

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean.

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit the website ChristianCitizen.us.

Justice. Mercy. Faith is off for the next couple of weeks to prepare new stories. We’ll be back in June, including our first live show from the American Baptist Churches Biennial Mission Summit in Virginia Beach. Follow us on social media for upcoming details on how you can join us.

The Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon is the executive director of Churches for Middle East Peace and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church. She is the editor of A Land Full of God: Christian Perspectives on the Holy Land and author of Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps for a Better World as well as other books and publications. She joins us this week with her piece, “Blessed are the peacemakers, but what about the troublemakers?”

The Rev. Dr. Corey Fields is senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Newark, Deleware. He returns to the podcast with his essay, “Like a Parent’: Thinking critically about anit-Semitism and Isreal today.”

The Rev. John Zehring has served United Church of Christ congregations for 22 years as a pastor in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine. He is the author of more than 30 book, his most recent is “Get Your Church Ready to Grow: A Guide to Building Attendance and Participation,” and is available from JudsonPress.com, he returns to the podcast this week with his essay, “Let ruin come on them for their mean behavior.”

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show, website and newsletter are produced by myself, Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos. Our Art Director is Danny Ellison.

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean.

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit the website ChristianCitizen.us.

We’ll be back with a new episode of Justice. Mercy. Faith. On May 21st.

Curtis Ramsey-Lucas is editor of The Christian Citizen and in honor of May being Mental Health Awareness Month, he brings us his latest piece, “Faith, mental health, and the rumor of grace.”

Claire Hein Blanton is an ordained Baptist minister in Houston, Texas. She is currently studying for her PhD in systematic theology and ethics from the University of Aberdeen. This week, she joins the podcast with her contribution: “Welcoming new mothers and making space for postpartum mood disorders in our churches.”

The Rev. Margaret Marcuson helps ministers do their work without wearing out or burning out, through ministry coaching, presentations and online resources, which can be found a MargaretMarcuson.com. She joins the podcast this week with suggestions on “Six ways to connect across difference.”

Our theme music is “Believable 2” by Peter Sandberg

The Christian Citizen is edited by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas and is a publication of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies. The show and website are produced by myself, Joshua Kagi. Stories are copy edited by Hannah Estifanos.

The Christian Citizen editorial board is: Dr. Jeffrey Haggray, Laura Alden, Susan Gottshall, Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, the Rev. Sarah Strosahl-Kagi, the Rev. Salvador Orellana, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Turner-Triplett and Rev. Cassandra Carkuff Williams, and our advisors are Cherilyn Crowe, the Rev. Kimberlee Payton Jones, the Rev. Steven D. Martin, the Rev. Marvin A. McMickle and the Rev. Harold Dean.

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit the website ChristianCitizen.us.

We’ll be back with a new episode of Justice. Mercy. Faith. on May 14th.

Tanner Bean administrates a Facebook discussion page, Protecting Religious Liberty, for people of faith curious about current events and the fundamentals of religious liberty.

Rev. John Zehring is the author of more than 30 books, his most recent is “Get Your Church Ready to Grow: A Guide to Building Attendance and Participation."

To learn more about The Christian Citizen, visit our website ChristianCitizen.us.

Christian Citizen contributors, Dr. Jeffrey A. Johnson on “Approaching politics, religion, money like Jesus;” Rev. Alan R. Rudnick asks, “What's so good about Good Friday?,” and Rev. Dr. Greg Johnson on “Preaching the resurrection of Christ.”