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Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Kristen A. Brock
44 episodes
1 week ago
Advent Week Two centers on Peace, but not the thin, polite version we often settle for. Kristen guides listeners through Isaiah 2:1–4, where peace is not the absence of conflict but the reshaping of violence into nourishment. Isaiah imagines a world where people choose formation over fear, learning new instincts that unmake the cycles of harm. From there, we turn to Joseph in Matthew 1, often overlooked, rarely celebrated as the first person in the New Testament to embody this peace. He holds...
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Advent Week Two centers on Peace, but not the thin, polite version we often settle for. Kristen guides listeners through Isaiah 2:1–4, where peace is not the absence of conflict but the reshaping of violence into nourishment. Isaiah imagines a world where people choose formation over fear, learning new instincts that unmake the cycles of harm. From there, we turn to Joseph in Matthew 1, often overlooked, rarely celebrated as the first person in the New Testament to embody this peace. He holds...
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Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
2026: The Year the Planner Didn’t Save Us
Christian discipleship and spiritual formation are not about resolutions, self-improvement, or fixing yourself at the start of a new year. In this New Year mini-episode of Jesus, Justice & Mercy, Kristen offers a different invitation, one rooted in humility, formation, and becoming more like Christ. This is not a resolution episode. Instead, we reflect on Christian discipleship and spiritual formation as a slow, faithful process shaped by God, not productivity tools. Drawing on the biblic...
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6 days ago
15 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
The Advent of Justice: Love Comes to the Margins | God With Us
Advent of Justice God With Us invites us into the heart of Advent’s final theme: love, not romantic or Hallmark movie love, but the justice-rooted, presence-filled love Isaiah proclaimed, and Jesus lived. In this Christmas Eve episode of Jesus, Justice & Mercy, Kristen explores Isaiah 7 and Isaiah 11, tracing how Emmanuel, God with us, was first a sign of real hope for people in crisis, and later became fully visible in Jesus. This episode reflects on: Emmanuel as God’s commitment to pres...
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2 weeks ago
28 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
The Advent of Justice: Joy for a Weary World
In the third week of Advent, we turn toward joy, but not the surface-level version we’re often handed. Isaiah 61 and Jesus’ first public declaration in Nazareth reveal a different kind of joy: joy rooted in liberation, healing, and God’s restoring presence among those who carry the heaviest burdens. Kristen explores: Isaiah’s vision of joy as God lifting what crushes the poor and the brokenheartedWhy Jesus chose Isaiah 61 to declare His mission and why it nearly got Him thrown off a cliffHow ...
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2 weeks ago
24 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
The Advent of Justice: Peace that Disarms
Advent Week Two centers on Peace, but not the thin, polite version we often settle for. Kristen guides listeners through Isaiah 2:1–4, where peace is not the absence of conflict but the reshaping of violence into nourishment. Isaiah imagines a world where people choose formation over fear, learning new instincts that unmake the cycles of harm. From there, we turn to Joseph in Matthew 1, often overlooked, rarely celebrated as the first person in the New Testament to embody this peace. He holds...
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3 weeks ago
28 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
The Advent of Justice: Hope in the Dark
In this episode of Jesus, Justice & Mercy, Kristen opens the season with “The Advent of Justice: Hope in the Dark,” an invitation to the kind of hope Isaiah and Mary proclaim, honest, grounded hope that rises in the very places where injustice tries to suffocate us. Kristen explores the surprising history of Advent and Epiphany, then walks through Isaiah 9:1–7, including the beloved lines, “For to us a child is born…” a radical promise spoken into a world under empire. She then turns to M...
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1 month ago
20 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Truth With a Side of Potatoes: Thanksgiving Bonus Episode
In this Thanksgiving Bonus Episode, “Truth with a Side of Potatoes,” Kristen tells the more truthful story of Thanksgiving, one that honors Indigenous history, names the myth of the Pilgrims, and makes room for complicated families, shifting faith, and gratitude that doesn’t require pretending. We’ll explore: • The real history behind Thanksgiving and why the myth persists • Why telling the truth is an act of Christian faithfulness • How to hold grief and gratitude in a world that feels on fi...
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1 month ago
18 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Fault Lines: When Religion Fails Us and God Shows Up Anyway
What do you do when the ground shifts beneath your faith? When the system that taught you about God starts to crack? When the people meant to protect the vulnerable instead protect their own power? This week, we turn to Jeremiah, the prophet who didn’t command attention or seek power. He wept. Jeremiah steps into a collapsing world: corrupt leaders, religious rituals masking injustice, a nation convinced the temple would save them even as everything fell apart. He names what’s broken and teac...
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1 month ago
37 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Weapons Down: What God Requires for a Faith at War with Itself
When faith fights for power instead of people, it stops looking like Jesus. In this episode of Jesus, Justice + Mercy, Kristen unpacks Micah’s call to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly alongside Isaiah’s daring vision to beat swords into plowshares. Set against the backdrop of empire, fear, and misplaced trust, these prophets reveal what God requires in a faith that’s forgotten its purpose. From Christian nationalism to performative religion, Kristen explores how humility and imaginatio...
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1 month ago
36 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Noise Complaint: When Worship Gets Loud but Justice Goes Silent
In a time of booming worship and deep injustice, Amos steps into the crowd and says, “God isn’t impressed.” This episode explores the book of Amos and the prophet’s critique of a nation that sings songs while silencing the poor. Kristen unpacks what God’s justice (mishpat) and righteousness (tzedakah) really mean, why systems matter as much as hearts, and how faith that never leaves the sanctuary can’t change the world. Amos wasn’t condemning music or devotion; he was exposing a faith t...
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2 months ago
36 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
The Gospel According to Empire: And the Jesus Who Refused to Preach It
Many Christians say, “The church shouldn’t be political.” But Jesus and politics were never separate. His ministry directly confronted empire, exposing how faith rooted in love and justice will always challenge systems built on power and fear. In this episode, Kristen confronts the myth of a neutral, apolitical faith and exposes how empire-shaped Christianity has confused control for holiness. Drawing from Obery M. Hendricks Jr.’s The Politics of Jesus (2006), Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the D...
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2 months ago
35 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Prophet? Please.: Rethinking prophecy, courage, and how to follow love’s voice in fearful times
The word prophet can make us squirm. For many of us, it’s loaded with baggage, misuse, mystery, or even manipulation. In this episode, Kristen names that tension and reclaims the word from fear and hype. What if being prophetic isn’t about predicting the future but echoing God’s heart in the present? Drawing from Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Bonhoeffer’s After Ten Years, Kristen explores how faithful discernment moves us from fear to courage, from judging to showing up with love. She unpacks what S...
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2 months ago
29 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Reread, Repent, Repair: Exegesis for Everyday Disciples
How we read Scripture shapes how we live it. In this episode, Kristen walks through exegesis, learning how to think with the Bible, not just what to think. We start with why names and narratives matter (think Columbus Day → Indigenous Peoples’ Day), then watch Jesus reframe a weaponized text in John 8. From there, Kristen equips you with the 6 C’s (Context, Characters, Canon, Christ, Community, Consequence), quick skills, red flags, and a 60-second demo on Jeremiah 29:11. The invitation: rere...
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2 months ago
38 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Jesus Isn’t Running for Office: Because God Doesn’t Need Political Power to Bring His Kingdom
How did a young theologian in 1930s Germany see what so many others missed? In this episode, Kristen revisits Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s question, “Who is Jesus Christ for us today?” and boldly traces the unsettling parallels between Hitler’s “playbook” and the ways Christian nationalism shows up now. She talks about fear-driven policy, silence disguised as unity, cheap grace versus costly grace, and why Jesus isn’t running for office, because God doesn’t need political power to bring His Kingdom....
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3 months ago
35 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Holy Ghosting: Faithful but Left Behind
When faith begins to stretch toward the justice of Jesus, it can cost you belonging. Suddenly, the people who once prayed beside you pull away, and the table that once felt full grows quiet. In this episode, Kristen traces that ache through Jesus’ own story in Luke 4, naming the pain of being ghosted for the gospel and the courage it takes to keep walking awake. Along the way, she explores how labels, idols, and politics complicate our faith, and why forsakenness is never the final word...
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3 months ago
28 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Holy Sawdust: Because Building the Kingdom gets Messy
What if Jesus was a carpenter not just by trade, but by intention? What if his workshop was meant to show us how to build a kingdom table, one wide enough, strong enough, and welcoming enough for everyone? In this episode, Kristen explores what it means to stop guarding the table and start building it bigger. She unpacks the difference between inclusion and belonging, why DEI/DEIB exists, and how the kingdom vision goes even deeper, and who’s actually holding the tools of leadership in our ch...
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3 months ago
27 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Jesus Made Me Do It: The Spiritual Work of Unlearning
Episode 12: Jesus Made Me Do It: The Spiritual Work of Unlearning In a week marked by another school shooting, Christians lionizing a man who built his platform on hate, and the devastating news of two Black men found hanging from trees in Mississippi, deaths that many fear echo the terror of lynching, even as officials rush to call them suicides, Kristen reflects on why silence is not an option. What if the bravest thing you can do in your faith is admit you’ve been wrong? In this episode, K...
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3 months ago
22 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Half a Gospel Is No Gospel at All: Liberation for the poor, resisted by the powerful
Half a Gospel Is No Gospel at All: Liberation for the poor, resisted by the powerful Why do churches resist justice? In this episode, Kristen digs into the roots of resistance in our faith communities, beginning with James Cone and the birth of Black Liberation Theology. Cone’s bold claim that the gospel must be interpreted from the perspective of the oppressed still unsettles churches today. Through the voices of Howard Thurman, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Walter Brueggemann, Albert Raboteau, Susan R...
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4 months ago
31 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Tariffs of Faith: The Price of Justice-Rooted Discipleship
What does it really cost to follow Jesus? In this episode of Jesus, Justice + Mercy, Kristen explores the Tariffs of Faith, the price we pay when discipleship is rooted in justice, not cheap grace. From Moses’ mother and Esther to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Rosa Parks, we trace the stories of ordinary people whose faith demanded risk, courage, and sacrifice. Along the way, Kristen challenges us to confront erasure in our culture, resist the temptation of comfort, and embrace justice-rooted disci...
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4 months ago
17 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
When Faith Refuses to Whitewash: Candice Zakariya on Justice and Discipleship
In my very first interview on Jesus, Justice + Mercy, I sit down with my dear friend Candice Zakariya, a disciple-maker, Bible teacher, and business coach whose story is deeply rooted in faith and justice. Candice shares her journey growing up in the Black church, where justice was woven into discipleship, and reflects on the challenges and beauty of navigating predominantly white church spaces as a Black woman. From cultural tokenism to discipleship that misses justice, her stories shed ligh...
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4 months ago
43 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
"Choose This Day Whom You Will Serve: Faith at the Altar of Power"
From Constantine to Christian nationalism, the church has faced a choice: align with empire or follow Jesus. This episode traces moments when faith bent toward power—and the courageous voices that refused to bow. Episode Summary From the Roman Empire to modern politics, the church has faced a constant tension: Will we align with the power of the world, or with the way of Jesus? In this episode, we walk through key turning points in church history, from Constantine’s legalization of Christiani...
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4 months ago
36 minutes

Jesus, Justice + Mercy: Bold faith, radical love and justice for the church
Advent Week Two centers on Peace, but not the thin, polite version we often settle for. Kristen guides listeners through Isaiah 2:1–4, where peace is not the absence of conflict but the reshaping of violence into nourishment. Isaiah imagines a world where people choose formation over fear, learning new instincts that unmake the cycles of harm. From there, we turn to Joseph in Matthew 1, often overlooked, rarely celebrated as the first person in the New Testament to embody this peace. He holds...