What Would Jesus Pod? Ep 29 – “No More Deaths” Rep Speaks Out After Volunteers Arrested for Giving Food, Water to Immigrants
Volunteers place water-bottles in the desert In this episode: Interview with a representative of the "No More Deaths" organization, who had 4 volunteers arrested and charged with misdemeanors for giving humanitarian aid to immigrants. Over 100 human beings died in this part of the desert in 2017, yet
What Would Jesus Pod? Episode 28 – Interview with Jacob Martinez: GOP Teen Activist-Turned-March for our Lives Organizer-Turned-Dem Candidate
Jacob Martinez at March for our Lives booth, Phoenix In this episode: Interview with the teenage Republican-activist-turned-March for our Lives coordinator-turned-city council candidate, Jacob Martinez "Dear God, don't let the President be a Russian agent!" The Trump/McConnell Shutdown GOP drawing a line at Steve King's White Supremacy? Churches
What Would Jesus Pod? Episode 27: Conversation with John Pavlovitz – the Real “War on Christmas” Is Not What You’ve Heard It Is
Order the new book: "Hope and Other Superpowers" at JohnPavlovitz.com In this episode: Conversation with Pastor, author, speaker John Pavlovitz What we learned in our trip to the San Diego border - Caravan of Compassion update The real meaning of "Merry Christmas" See you next year! More on
What Would Jesus Pod? Episode 26 – The “Politics” of the Opioid & Suicide Crisis: Interview with author of “Saving Jenny”
In this episode: In-depth interview with "Vivian Percy" - a Manhattan attorney who wrote a scathing expose' of the current state of the rehab/drug treatment industry -- including Big Pharma's role in the now widespread Opioid crisis facing our country. She used this nom de plume to protect both her daughter's
What Would Jesus Pod? Episode 25: What Author Brian McLaren Thinks is “A Better Way to be a Christian”
https://brianmclaren.net/ In this episode: In-depth interview on current issues/news, theology and what it means to "seek a better way to be a Christian" with author, speaker and theologian Brian McLaren UPDATE on The Caravan of Compassion Project and news on refugee/border crisis: "the suffering is right at our door"
What Would Jesus Pod? Episode 24: “I Say Unto You…Tear Gas the Children?”
In this episode: "I Say to You: Tear gas the children, pepper-spray the stranger"...? Caravan to Meet the Caravan: The Caravan of Compassion Project Thanksgiving in America, 2018 Reaction to Franklin Graham selling pro-Trump t-shirts at the Billy Graham bookstore in our Religious Right Roundup Closing Remarks: What does Jesus
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