Faith in a Fresh Vibe Podcast

The FINAL episode of Season 10 arrives featuring Jenai Auman! Don't forget to rate the show and share it widely! In this episode.... This conversation revolves around themes explored in Jenai's book "Othered," focusing on her experiences navigating toxic church...

Prasanta Verma's debut book, Beyond Ethnic Loneliness, is the topic for our conversation. If you're not white then you have at some point or another, maybe even recently, have fielded the question, "so what are you?" or "where are you really from?" Trying to fit into...

One of the top books for Christian non-fiction in 2024, Lamar Hardwick joins Rohadi on the show to talk about his latest book and the topic: How Ableism Fuels Racism. This eye opening connection between disability and racism will shift paradigms for listeners. This episode is released as full hour long conversation. We begin the conversation surrounding the historical formation of white supremacy in America, tied to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and connect the dots to the root source of anti-Blackness: ableism. As soon as white supremacy becomes about bodies, something must be developed to build an understanding certain bodies (white) are more valuable than others (Black and Indigenous). What those factors are ranging from intellect to supposed inherent biological traits, are built on the ruse of “disability”. We interrogate not only historical formation but how the same factors remain at play in the present with the policing of Black bodies including other intersections like health and faith. This conversation ends with a cursory view on the theological underpinnings of ableist theology that not only look at contributing bodies of work from Black or brown traditions as inferior, but also how the disabled Christ is sanitized to accommodate white superiority and thought.

About Pastor Lamar Hardwick:

? Publishers Weekly starred review

“Marshaling fine-grained historical detail and scrupulous analysis, Hardwick persuades.”–Publishers Weekly

Lamar Hardwick lives in the Atlanta region and is a Black autistic pastor and disability scholar speaking and writing at the intersection of disability, race, and religion. How Ableism Fuels Racism engages Christian communities in critical conversations about race by addressing issues of ableism–the idea that certain bodies are better than others–and the disability discrimination fueled by this perspective are the root causes of racial bias and injustice in American culture and in the church.  He calls the church into action to address the deep-seated issues of ableism that started it all and offering practical steps to help readers dismantle ableism and racism both in attitude and practice.

Theologizin' Bigger: Homilies on Living Freely and Loving Wholly. Title pique your interest? Pastor Trey returns to the Faith in a Fresh Vibe podcast for the second time. His first interview was so nice that we had to do it twice. We discuss expanding our imagination...

Forged: Following Jesus into a new kind of family. That's TC Moore's book title. We talk about what it looks like to redeem the language around family given so many have bad experiences in their own families, and in churches that use that type of language. You may be...

Season 10 continues with a season of authors and their (mostly new) books. Rohadi invites author Tasha Jun to the show to chat about, Tell me the Dream Again. Reflections on Family, Ethnicity & the Sacred Work of Belonging. This episode discusses themes from her...