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-maeforrest
X.com: @dr_maeforrest
Instagram: junebug_writer
Threads: @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.”
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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
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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
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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/
Barefoot2emmaus@gmail.com
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.
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.
This week, we get to talk to a long time internet friend Erin Jeane Warde.
The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. You can explore her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Chaos Land, which is a place where you're loved for your chaos, not despite it. In her free time you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville.
The Rev. Terry J. Stokes is an anarchist theologian who seeks to foster political and spiritual radicalization through his writing and speaking. He holds degrees from Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained by Park Avenue Baptist Church. They live on Munsee Lenape land (central NJ) and work with children and youth as a nonprofit director. Their latest book is Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People. He/they.
Jesus and the Abolitionists
Friends, this week we get to talk to a new friend and theologian, Stephen D. Morrison.
Stephen D. Morrison is a prolific American writer, ecumenical theologian, novelist, and literary critic. He is best known for the Plain English Series (Karl Barth in Plain English), which examines the work of modern theologians from the perspective of an amateur.
He is the author of fourteen books, including his latest, All Riches Come From Injustice. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Ketlin.
https://www.sdmorrison.org/
Friends, this time we get to talk to a new friend, W. Scott McAndless.
W. Scott McAndless is an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He lives and works in Cambridge, Ontario in Canada.
About a decade ago, Scott wrote and published the book “Caesar’s Census, God’s Jubilee,” which offered a new interpretation of the nativity story as told in the Gospel of Luke. As a part of promoting this book he started up a podcast. During the first season he told stories based on Luke’s nativity but he enjoyed that so much that he continued to retell Bible stores drawn from all over the book. The Retelling the Bible podcast is now in its eighth season and offers a rather unique collection of Bible stories, many of which you have likely never heard of before – like, for example, the stories of Rizpah or Sheerah warrior princess. It also includes many better known stories, but they are told in such a way to help you to see them in a new light.
Website: https: https://retellingthebible.wordpress.com/
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Today, we're talking to a new friend, Kerlin Richter.
Kerlin is a blue-haired ex-priest who talks about sex and other stuff too.
website: https://kerlinrichter.com/
Friends, We're talking to a new(ish) friend Matt Tebbe.
Matt Tebbe is an Episcopal Priest in Indianapolis where he co-pastors a church in Indianapolis (The Table). He co-founded Gravity Commons where he helps lead a Community dedicated to learning how to follow Jesus and take love seriously in a post-christian culture of the 21st Century.
He holds a Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and worked as an adjunct professor at Trinity College, both in Deerfield, IL. He has written for Leadership Journal, Shattered Magazine, and contributed to the book "What Pastors Wish Their Congregations Knew" by Kurt Fredrickson and Cameron Lee. He’s also been a featured writer at Missio Alliance and The V3 Movement, and writes regularly on his Substack newsletter, A Sanctified Ruckus. He co-authored the 2022 Reader’s Choice Award winning “Having the Mind of Christ” with Ben Sternke.
He and his wife Sharon live in the Indianapolis area with their children, Deacon and Celeste, and their affable golden retriever, Josie.
This week, we're talking to my friend, Marc Alan Schelske.
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. His books, including The Wisdom of Your Heart and Journaling for Spiritual Growth, and other writing can be found at www.MarcAlanSchelske.com. Marc serves as the teaching elder at Bridge City Community Church in Milwaukie, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, where we work to keep all things, even Christianity, a bit weird.
Website: MarcAlanSchelske.com
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@marcalanschelske
Friends, welcome back to All Things Made New. This episode, we get to hear from Chris EW Green.
Chris EW Green is professor of public theology at Southeastern University in Lakeland FL and Bishop of the Diocese of St Anthony. He's the author most recently of The Fire and the Cloud: A Biblical Christology, the second in a theological trilogy.
Substack: https://cewgreen.substack.com/