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Luc discusses with Mike Fleishman the topics of racism, justice, theology and church life. Mike unpacks his experience as an attorney as he learned about systematic racism and the Church's complicity with racism throughout American history.

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The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby

Pass the Mic Podcast

Luc interviews Paul and Julia as they share their journey following Jesus across borders and barriers. They share from their heart about the joys and challenges of learning to cross cultures in the way of Jesus.

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Luc interviews Josue and Jenny Hernandez as they share their experiences witnessing the kingdom of God advancing in Honduras. They share about cross-cultural marriage, ministry highs and lows and their journey of faith as they've learned to trust the leading of the Holy Spirit. What a beautiful story!

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Join us as Luc interviews Dave and Shannon Edmonson as they share their experiences crossing cultures. Their passion for loving the orphan is contagious. Dave and Shannon unpack the genesis story of One Generation Alliance and Rancho Hermosa and share the 'on the ground' stories of serving orphans. Their entire story is one miracle after another!

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Luc interviews Tiffany Gunneman as she reflects on years of ministry and how her journey to the nations has radically changed her life. Tiffany unpacks the joys and sorrows of ministry, the learning curves of following Jesus and how crossing borders has given her passions she never knew she had!

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Luc interviews Earl and Dana Kilgore as they share their talk about their experiences of ethnicity and culture. They unpack their moments of joy and sorrow learning to navigate race in the church and in their everyday lives.

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Luc interviews Luke Geraty who shares his journey pastoring, crossing cultures and the learning curves along the way. Luke describes the intersection of theology and missions and how thinking deeply in both areas has impacted him.

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Luc interviews Sequoyah Thornton as she unpacks her journey with Jesus and her discoveries regarding ethnic identity. She shares about the joys and challenges of coming from multiple cultural backgrounds and how that's impacted her faith along the way.

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Luc interviews Anthony and Erika Tate as they share their journey learning to forgive those that harm us. In beautiful vulnerability they expose us to the world from their eyes and the necessity of community as we learn to travel the narrow road of Jesus.

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Luc interviews Jenn Fors and Tony Chang as they share their story of marriage across cultural lines and what it's been like as their Cuban and Korean worlds collide.

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Well, we've had this episode on the calendar for months. Little did we know what a timely episode this would be as we launch this conversation in the midst of such racial tension in our nation. Join us as we ask some critical questions. What is race? What is culture? How do we talk about these terms? How do we love the nations? How do we love our neighbors of different ethnic backgrounds?

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Luc interviews Calvin Culverwell as they discuss Calvin's life in New Zealand learning to see the kingdom of God break in to the fringes of society.

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Luc interviews Dianna Bautista, leader of Shear Love International. Dianna shares vulnerably about the reality on the ground for those fighting human trafficking. Dianna also reflects on her journey following Jesus and describes how things like mental illness, abuse and broken family systems have impacted who she's become as an adult.

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Luc interviews Julianne Kowalski who serves full-time with Shear Love International. Julianne shares about her first encounters with Jesus, her wrestle with faith and anxiety and the ways we can unknowingly hurt the very people we are hoping to serve.

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How do we see the least of these? Are there those we would categorize as 'the other'? How does Jesus lead us in seeing and loving 'the other'?

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Luc interviews Dennis Liu as he shares about his Asian-American journey, his experience leading a Chinese community through COVID 19 and the shock of receiving racist slurs in your own neighborhood. This conversation is challenging and uplifting all at the same time!

Check out these great resources:

1) 'Beyond Colorblind: Redeeming Our Ethnic Journey' by Sarah Shin. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830845151/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_xEJSEbWDXZQA9

2) 'Beyond Colorblind' - YouTube by Dennis Liu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cvNnkxYbg8

3) 'Engaging Anti-Asian Racism Amidst COVID-19' webinar https://vineyardofharvest.org/webinar

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Do you know why you exist? How would you define yourself? When God sees you, what does he see?

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Radical Middle Conversation: Church, Immigrants & Food

Luc interviews cross-cultural church planter Ruben Quintero as they discuss church life, immigration and the journey of moving from Mexico to plant a church in America.

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Discover the role of the Holy Spirit as he equips us and leads us into mission. Can you hear his voice?

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Joshua Project

About Missions

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Radical Middle Conversation: Justice - Black or White?

Luc interviews Jasmine French as they unpack her journey of discovering her identity in Jesus, learning to live between two racial worlds and the joys and struggles of community.

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Radical Middle Conversation: Learning to Risk

Luc interviews Caleb Dyer as they discuss risk and the journey to follow Jesus along the narrow path.

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What part do you play in God's story? Whether a goer or a sender, we all have a part to play. Begin to discover yours!

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Radically Grounded

Luc interviews Jim Lewis as they discuss the radical tension one experiences learning to find ultimate allegiance in the person of Jesus Christ and the struggles that ensue along the way.

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The early church declared 'Jesus is Lord.' How do we talk about allegiance? Does my life communicate that Jesus is the King or that I am? Can we give allegiance to Jesus and our country at the same time?

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Barbers, Bakers & Freedom Fighters

Luc interviews Jamie and Stephanie Henderson who serve with Shear Love International. Listen in as they share their story of discerning the Lord's call to move overseas full-time to give themselves to fighting human trafficking!

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What is the thread that holds the story of the Bible together?

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Why does it matter that we are grounded in the storyline of the Bible? Why does it matter that we know the smaller stories in light of the grand story of God?

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Betsy Jackson shares the history and motivation behind Radical Middle Ministries.

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Luc unpacks the vision for RMM and why we are launching a podcast. 

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