In this first of a two-part episode, Pastor Kurt Poland talks with Dr. Edward Phillips, professor of Early Christianity and Worship at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, about the most dominant patterns of Sunday morning worship in the US....

In this episode Pastor Kurt Poland talks about how the internet is changing ministry with one of Southern California's most pioneering pastors, Rev. Bailey Brawner of Mission Hills United Methodist Church in San Diego. Rev.

The Rev. Kirkpatrick Tyler is an African Methodist-Episcopal Pastor and the director of Skid Row Outreach for Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Office. In this podcast Rev. Tyler helps me see Skid Row in a new light. We talk about how to fight homelessness in LA,

The second part of a conversation with a giant of American religious history that frames contemporary conflicts over racial justice and political polarization in a deeper historical context.

Part 1 of a conversation with Dr. E Brooks Holifield, professor emeritus of Church History at Emory University, and author of such definitive books as Theology in America and God’s Ambassadors: A History of the Clergy in America.

The second half of the podcast with Dr. Jennifer McBride and Dr. Kristopher Norris. In this half the conversation turns toward what Bonhoeffer can teach the white church in America about race, repentance, and resurrection.

A conversation with Dr. Jennifer McBride, the president of the Bonhoeffer Society and associate dean at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL, and Dr. Kristopher Norris, associate professor of public theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in W...

A conversation with Joss Tillard-Gates, policy director for the Los Angeles office of Enterprise Community Partners, a national non profit that connects people with affordable housing. We talk about what causes homelessness,

A conversation with Dr. Christopher Wesley Corbin, executive editor of Earth and Altar magazine, author of The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Return to the Church of England (out now with Routledge Press),