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Rohadi Nagassar

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Book on Deconstructing Christianity

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

#53 – The Hero and the Whore, Feat. Camille Hernandez

#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,...

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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...

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Advent 2022 – Advent’s Liberation

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...

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Advent 2022 – Love Thy Self

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....

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Advent 2022 – Ye of Little Faith

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,...

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Advent 2022 – Hope & Protest

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...

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From the Blog

Helpful Tips to Publish and Write Your Book

Helpful Tips to Publish and Write Your Book

Posted in 2019 and reposted. Writers will tell you they just have to write. That's why we do it. My mind, body, and soul compel me to write. It's not only a cathartic release and a form of therapy, but it's a craft I've committed to. Some days writing beats me,...

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When churches try to be too cool

When churches try to be too cool

One day, I was walking in a cool and artsy inner-city neighborhood and was handed a little flyer card not once, not twice, but thrice, in a span of a block by dudes from a church promoting their monthly 'parachute into the neighborhood' service. I knew who it was so I...

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What the ‘Billy Graham Rule’ Says About Leaders

Originally posted in April 2017 and reposted. The Billy Graham rule is sexist. Full stop. And reveals deeply seated problems in evangelical formation surrounding patriarchy and the devaluing of women. The United States Vice-President Mike Pence, is in the middle of a...

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More On the Model Minority Myth

As we wind down Asian Heritage Month (AAPI History Month in the USA), I am republishing a short thread on the model minority myth that I recently posted on Twitter. I have written on this subject before, noting the "terms and conditions" Asian folks need to adhere to....

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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...

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“When We Belong” Endorsements

“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...

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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...

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