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Rohadi Nagassar
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When We Belong
Reclaiming Christianity on the Margins
If you’ve been searching for language to describe a faith and community where you can live out your whole being…I’ve got a couple ideas. Step into a journey toward liberation, belonging, and a faith that makes you whole again.
We need belonging to survive and thrive. For Christians who know the pain, isolation, and loss of identity that comes with the ongoing struggle to be seen in churches and institutions full of barriers to belonging, you are not alone. Sometimes it can feel easier to walk away from faith completely. But there is another way. When it feels as though there’s no place left to belong, Jesus invites us into a love that knows no bounds and a community that truly liberates.
“Well researched and passionately argued, this should be required reading for justice-minded churchgoers.” – Publishers Weekly
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Podcast Episodes
#54 – Rose J Percy on Rest, Vocation, and Storytelling for Liberation
Season 8 continues with Episode #54 featuring the voice of Rose J. Percy. Listen in as the rain falls and the thunder hits in the background as Rose and I discuss all pieces decolonizing faith. We start off with a "get to know you" through a conversation on food, then...
#53 – The Hero and the Whore, Feat. Camille Hernandez
Season 8 opens featuring author Camille Hernandez. Currently located in California, Camille is a writer and public educator pursuing an abolitionist world by dismantling systems of oppression created by settler colonization. Her forthcoming debut book is entitled,...
Faith in a Fresh Vibe Season 8 Trailer
Welcome to another season of the Faith in a Fresh Vibe podcast! Season 8 picks up where Season 7 leaves off--deconstructing and decolonizing Christianity. To do so, we include a number of different guests who offer important insight on the Christian faith that you may...
Advent 2022 – Advent’s Liberation
Advent is countercultural to the typical pageantry of many contemporary church routines that crescendo into Christmas Day. Instead of skipping directly to stories of Jesus’ birth, Advent holds our attention to the way Jesus intercedes in the history of humanity and...
Advent 2022 – Love Thy Self
Thank you for listening to this season's Advent reflections on resistance, decolonization, and lingering in the dark. Welcome new listeners too. Here is a short reflection on this week's Advent theme: love. Two curious things strike me when I think about love....
Advent 2022 – Ye of Little Faith
Questioning your faith is often about questioning malformed ideas someone added on top of the foundations Jesus built. A "crisis of faith" can happen when we notice the ways embodying expansive love and inclusion are rejected in thought, word, or deed. In this way,...
Advent 2022 – Hope & Protest
You ever notice whenever there's a protest of some kind that upsets the "norm", people tend to reply with, "I believe in protest, but not like that…." It's as if there's a certain threshold of "protest" that protest can't cross because it will be to "protesty". But...
From the Blog
Stop Mass Shootings: Fix American Gun Culture, Fix the Gun Problem – From Canada with Love
Reposted from February 20th, 2018. It's been noted on social media: When children in Sandy Hook were massacred by semi-automatic fire, America had a choice to do something. And they did. They did nothing. The implications are grave. To do nothing after school children...
White replacement theory is not fringe
Ok, here goes. A post from a thread I recently wrote in light of recent violence (yet again) out in Buffalo. It pertains to replacement theory, or as I describe it here, white replacement theory. This idea is not fringe. It is an embedded cultural understanding most...
“When We Belong” Endorsements
I just got a first look at the voices who endorsed my book and I'm not only filled with joy, but am honored these folks would take the time to read and leave a note about this work. Check them out below. "When We Belong captures Jesus' core message of belonging. The...
Biblical Freedom is Setting the Oppressed Free
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rohadi (@rohadi.nagassar) In our current pandemic world there's an accumulation of confusion, disarray, and maybe feelings of being scared. Many are hurting from pandemic life and now grieve the loss of...
Jesus and John Wayne – A Brief Review
So a year ago Charlotte Donlon (you can find her episode on the Faith in a Fresh Vibe podcast here)asked me for my take on Kristin Dumez's book, "Jesus on John Wayne", as a Canadian who grew up in white evangelicalism. First off, Dumez's book is a must read. It's up...
10 Questions to Ask Before Embarking on Short Term Mission Work
***Update*** Consider my latest article on "The 3 Reasons to Embark on a Short Term Missions Trip" as another resource to help guide your decision. Short-term missions are/have a dubious distinction of being more 'volunteer tourism' than actual reflections of...
2 Causes of Deconstructing Faith
As many of you know, I'm somewhat of a connoisseur of deconstruction. My next book will include a deep dive into deconstructing faith. Deconstruction is so hot right now that white thought leaders are finding ways to monetize it, and fundamentalists are finding ways...