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We're trying to follow Jesus in the 21st-century. It ain't easy.

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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The AC3 sit down to discuss the upcoming lectionary texts, where we hear one of Jesus' greatest hits: "Where two or three are gathered, I am among them." But here's the thing: the context for this verse is often lost. Not that THAT'S ever happened before! Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/hd63r4n
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Post-Constipation Reality (feat. Pentecost 15)
The AC Three discuss the context of the oft-cited "where two or three are gathered" quote from Jesus coming up in the lectionary this week, how critical it is to confront things head on (especially in...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The AC Three are talking Pentecost 14, how Peter can be so right and then subsequently so wrong, and what it means to have a criminally narrow view of Jesus. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/zw22wqm
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Take Up Your...Cross (feat. Pentecost 14)
The AC Three are in-house to talk Pentecost 14 – how Peter can be so right and then so wrong (so quickly), what it means to take up our cross in a world addicted to swords, and how Jesus doesn't confo...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The AC Three are talking Pentecost 14, how Peter can be so right and then subsequently so wrong, and what it means to have a criminally narrow view of Jesus. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/zw22wqm
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Take Up Your...Cross (feat. Pentecost 14)
The AC Three are in-house to talk Pentecost 14 – how Peter can be so right and then so wrong (so quickly), what it means to take up our cross in a world addicted to swords, and how Jesus doesn't confo...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The AC Three are back in-studio to talk about the upcoming ecumenical Season of Creation – why should we care about the earth in the first place, and what does that care say about God? Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/cg3hbct
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Feast of Creation (feat. the AC Three)
Pastors Jason, Tuhina, and Tim are back in-studio to talk about the upcoming Season of Creation, an ecumenical liturgical opportunity which starts in September. Why should we care for creation in the ...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@tvrasche.bsky.social and @crazypastor.bsky.social sat down with lay leader Emma Northcott to talk about how important it is to view the work of church through an intergenerational lens. How Jesus-like it is, you might say. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/dd5svpp
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An Intergenerational Lens (feat. Emma Northcott)
Tuhina and Jason sit down with lay leader extraordinaire, Dr. Emma Northcott, to talk about what it means to bring an intergenerational focus to the work of being church together. How seriously do we ...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Pastors Tim and Tuhina sat down with newly-elected Bishop of the North Carolina Synod of the ELCA, the Rev. Emily Hartner, to dive in deep on preaching in an Easter season still rife with the markings of Good Friday. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/bqskjbm.
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Preaching Easter When It Still Feels Like Good Friday (feat. Emily Hartner)
Pastors Tim and Tuhina sat down with newly-elected Bishop of the North Carolina Synod, the Rev. Emily Hartner, to talk about how to preach in an Easter season still rife with the markings of Good Frid...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Pastors Tim and Tuhina sat down with newly-elected Bishop of the NC Synod, ELCA, the Rev. Emily Hartner, to dive in deep on preaching in an Easter season still rife with the markings of Good Friday. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/bqskjbm – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.
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Preaching Easter When It Still Feels Like Good Friday (feat. Emily Hartner)
Pastors Tim and Tuhina sat down with newly-elected Bishop of the North Carolina Synod, the Rev. Emily Hartner, to talk about how to preach in an Easter season still rife with the markings of Good Frid...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This week, Hashcast is back in biblical storytelling mode. Here we find disciples hiding away in a locked room, Jesus showing up anyway, and a Thomas who trusted enough to come back and see for himself. It's a story meant to be told. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/dsnb3fg.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Tuhina and Jason sat down with Professor Caryce Chepchirchi Tirop to talk about what we all need to hear from the pulpit...whether or not we regularly preach. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/tmdtzbt – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.
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What We Need to Hear from the Pulpit (feat. Caryce Chepchirchi Tirop)
Tuhina invited her good friend and professor of African history, Caryce Chepchirchi Tirop, to talk about sermons from the point of view of someone in the pews. What needs to be heard by those who serv...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Tim, Tuhina, and Jason – the AC Three – got together in-person to dive head-first into the lectionary for a few weeks. How can we encounter these stories anew, especially if they suffer from that deadly theological malady called Familiarity? Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/djkght6.
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Lent 4 (feat. the AC Three)
The AC Three (Pastors Tuhina, Tim, and Jason) met up (in-person!) and waded knee-deep into the lectionary. What does the story of the man born blind have to teach us? How can we approach these long...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We sat down with Abbie Haug to talk about how religious pluralism is at the bedrock of what this country has always strived for (yet rarely achieved), and how it surrounds us today even if we don't recognize it. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/vbksnz3.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We sat down with the brilliant Dr. Allison Ralph to talk about how we're more like starlings than you might think, and how God is more like compost than we might assume. Life is as messy as it is holy. And it's worth staying in. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/pb6xzb3
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Tuhina, Tim, and Jason – the AC Three – are back to discuss how epiphanies are still happening amidst the dumpster fire of today, and what it means for preachers who seek a word in the midst of it all. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/vhfpcmc – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.
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On Epiphanies (feat. the AC Three)
The Revs. Jason, Tuhina, and Tim wrap up the Season after Epiphany by taking the 500-foot view. How do we take a posture of both grace and defiance as preachers of the Word in the midst of the dumpste...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@crazypastor.bsky.social and @tvrasche.bsky.social sat down with brilliant poet-author, speaker, and soul, @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social, to talk about liminal spaces, generational resilience, and how everything is a story. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/8w4wyhw.
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Everything Is A Story (feat. Kaitlin Curtice)
Jason and Tuhina sit down with brilliant author, poet, speaker, (and soul), Kaitlin Curtice, to talk about liminal spaces, staying in the fire, and what it means to create beauty in a world spiraling.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We live among far too many worlds which were built doomed from the start. Consider all the systems held together only by nightmares. We deserve more. New dreams of hope deserve to breathe free. If only we can care for all of us, not just some of us.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
In this throwback episode (one of our first!), the AC Three (Pastors Tim, Tuhina, and Jason) talk about this high holy day (err...night), and how we can look at it anew. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/cndyggc – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.
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Christmas Eve (feat. the AC Three) [Classic]
Throwback to an early in-house conversation (circa 2022) to talk about this high holy day (err...night), and the stories surrounding it – many of which can easily suffer from familiarity. How can we l...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It's the end of the world as we know it, and we feel....conflicted? The AC Three go off-lectionary to talk about this faith-filled topic – to wrestle with it and explore how facing it head on offers a new way of seeing the world *today*. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/883ft8h
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The End of the World (feat. the AC Three)
Pastors Jason Chesnut, Tuhina Verma Rasche, and Tim Brown go off-lectionary to talk about the end of the world – how it's more common than you might think, how it's happened before, and what seriously...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The incomparable James Baldwin again reminds us that we're all caught up with one another. We are profoundly intertwined, whether we like it or not. Whether we recognize it or not. Whether we believe it or not.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Love does many things. It is the "greatest of these," according to St. Paul. It also guards our hearts against the bottomless abyss – leave it to a musician to speak so poetically on love.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The AC Three – Pastors Jason, Tuhina, and Tim – talk about the Lutheran high holy day of Reformation, how its liberating focus often gets lost, and why "All Panic, No Disco" is not at all a bad title for the day. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/shcxznk
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Reformation Day (feat. the AC Three)
Pastors Jason, Tuhina, and Tim sit down to talk about the high holy day in Lutheran churches the world over – Reformation Day – how reformation is indistinguishable from liberation; and how "All Pani...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
In a new segment on Hashcast, Pastor Jason goes on a story journey through the Gospel text this week – Jesus and the Ten Lepers – with the inspiration of the incomparable Tom Boomershine (and his seminal work). Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/spnfcqg
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Story Journey: Ten Lepers
In a new segment on Hashcast, Pastor Jason Chesnut – with the inspiration and aid of the incomparable Tom Boomershine – takes a journey through the story of Jesus and the Ten Lepers. Listen in as we d...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Goodness is more complicated than evil – it takes conscious dedication to embrace the former instead of succumbing to the latter.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Tim, @crazypastor.bsky.social, and @tvrasche.bsky.social talk about citizenship, especially considering we live in a time when birthright citizenship is under assault. What are we called to do as citizens of the commonwealth of God? Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/cqnj5tf
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On Citizenship (feat. the AC Three)
The AC Three – Jason, Tuhina, and Tim – talk about citizenship, especially considering we live in a time when birthright citizenship is under assault. What are we called to do as citizens of the commo...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@tvrasche.bsky.social and @crazypastor.bsky.social sit down with the thoughtful, deliberate, brilliant professor Travis West to talk about his striking new book – and how Sabbath breaks all our rules around capitalism, possession, ownership, and beyond. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/y67gxyt
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The Sabbath Way (feat. Travis West) – Part I
Pastors Tuhina and Jason sit down with the thoughtful, deliberate, wise professor Travis West to talk about his striking new book – The Sabbath Way – and how Sabbath breaks all our rules around capita...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
@crazypastor.bsky.social and Tim Brown sit down with writer, filmmaker, podcaster, speaker, and educator @derricklweston.bsky.social to talk about how God is a terrible shepherd (but an amazing savior). Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/srvdn3n
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Pentecost 14 (feat. Derrick Weston)
Tim and Jason welcome 21st-century Renaissance man, Derrick Weston – author, filmmaker, podcaster, speaker, and educator – to talk about the parable of the lost sheep and the lost coin: how God is bot...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) reminds us that truth isn't malleable based on our own whims. In other words: facts don't care about our feelings.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@tvrasche.bsky.social, Tim, and @crazypastor.bsky.social go off-lectionary to discuss Luther's theology of the cross. What does it mean to trust the evidence of your eyes and ears in a world which sometimes encourages suspicion of both? anamcara.subspla.sh/gr7d5tq
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Calling a Thing What It Is (feat. the AC Three)
Tim, Tuhina, and Jason go off-lectionary to discuss Luther's theology of the cross (found in his classic moment of defense, the Heidelberg Disputation) – in other words, we're talking about calling a ...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
@crazypastor.bsky.social and @lovebigcoach.bsky.social sit down with the Rev. Joann Lee to talk about a God who loves food, a God who topples any rigid structures we might create, and what it means to stay awake in a world committed to keeping people asleep. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/p5g7t3x
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Pentecost 12 (feat. Joann Lee)
Jason and Rozella sit down with Pastor Joann Lee to talk about a God who loves food, a God who topples any and all rigid structures we might create, and what it means to stay awake in a world committe...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"What is to give light must endure burning." Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), Austrian neurologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, naming a deep truth for all times.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The AC Three are back, off-lectionary, to talk about all things resiliency, and what it means to embrace the meme, "This is fine." Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/h9c2wx3
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On Resiliency (feat. the AC Three)
The Anam Cara Three (the Revs. Tim Brown, Tuhina Rasche, and Jason Chesnut) sit down (in the same space!) to talk about resiliency, enough-edness, and how the Holy Spirit consistently shows up despite...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
bell hooks coming in with her trademark honesty, cutting to the heart of the matter.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
May we open our ears and eyes – our hearts, even – to the world around us, while trying our best to abstain from judging that very same world. May we be led with curiosity instead of contempt. For observation on its own is a powerful, holy thing.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Human ingenuity and technology has given us better weapons and more inventive ways to kill each other – but still we wait for similar upgrades when it comes to how we relate to each other.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
May tomorrow's sunrise find us doing the work we've always been called to.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets. –Philip Berrigan Christianity has failed every test when it comes to the poor and the prophets. We can do better. We MUST do better.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
True story: if you understood fascism and began to resist it *before* the U.S. entered the Second World War against Nazi Germany, you were designated by the government as being "prematurely anti-fascist." Because it's only appropriate to be against fascism when the U.S. wants to be against it.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We sat down with the Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters to talk about the multifaceted, multilayered story that often suffers from familiarity: the Day of Pentecost from Acts 2. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/6p2y8nx.
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Pentecost Day (feat. Rebecca Todd Peters)
Pastors Tuhina and Jason sit down with scholar, teacher, and preacher – the Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters – to talk Pentecost Day: what does power mean and how do the disciples use it? What is the resp...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Pastors Tim and Jason go off-lectionary and sit down with the Rev. Kenneth Wheeler to talk about his book – US: The Resurrection of American Terror. What would it look like if this country actively worked to dismantle its white supremacist foundations? Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/j6n2cnz.
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US: The Resurrection of American Terror (feat. Kenneth Wheeler)
This episode we welcome preacher, author, and public theologian – the Rev. Kenneth Wheeler – to talk about his necessary, important book: US: the Resurrection of American Terror. What would it look li...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The question is: can we hold both together? Life IS death, but it's not only that. Where have you found joy today?
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Rest well, dear servant. "As often occurs in periods of deep crisis which require bold decisions, we are tempted to think that what is happening is not entirely clear..." Pope Francis I (1936-2025)
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We sat down with the fantastic Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow to talk about the entryway into Holy Week, what it means to usher in peace, and how Jesus consistently redefines things we thought we knew. Listen here – anamcara.subspla.sh/4k8bprj – or search "Hashcast" wherever you get your podcasts.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The AC Three discuss one of the more timely and relevant movies ever made, especially as it pertains to the church: Conclave (2024) – what does it say about power, about our leaders, about how we live in community with one another, and about where true authority lies? anamcara.subspla.sh/6tgwc4n
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We sat down with the brilliant Rev. @keatsmileswallace.com to talk about the wholly trans nature of the Transfiguration story. It's past time, liturgically, but the conversation still hits. Check it out: anamcara.subspla.sh/8rsrg35
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Transfiguration Sunday (feat. Keats Miles-Wallace)
We sat down with the thoughtful and engaging Rev. Keats Miles-Wallace to talk about that moment on the mountain, what it means to believe someone when they tell you who they are, and how foundationall...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
@tvrasche.bsky.social and @crazypastor.bsky.social finish up their conversation with Dr. James Hill, tarrying with this powerful scripture for the sixth Sunday after the Epiphany. anamcara.subspla.sh/6hq4z47
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Epiphany 6 (feat. James Hill) ∞ Part II
This week, in preparation for Sunday's texts, we finish our haunting conversation with Dr. James Howard Hill, Jr. Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany Luke 6:17-26
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@tvrasche.bsky.social and @crazypastor.bsky.social talk with Dr. James Hill about the haunting nature of Jesus' words on Epiphany 6. We're releasing this conversation in two parts – we need extra time to tarry with the good Doctor's words. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/78xpyc8
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A word from David Lynch (1946-2025) to all those who persist with ignorance and hate. As John the Baptizer would say: "Bear fruits worthy of repentance!" May your name be a blessing, good sir.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
As we honor the life of Dr. King this week, let us not be lulled into complacency with words of his taken out of context – one of the honored pastimes of white America – but instead, let us dive deeper into the unsettling wisdom he shared with us.
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
@crazypastor.bsky.social & @tvrasche.bsky.social sat down with @revtdanderson.bsky.social to talk about how Bible stories can be funny, the ontological Blackness of Jesus, & what it means that Jesus' first public sign is shown first to those on the margins. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/5hcs9xh
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Pastors Tim, Tuhina (@tvrasche.bsky.social), and Jason – the AC Three – discuss amongst themselves what it means to preach in perilous times, and how best to approach this sacred task in today's world. Listen here: anamcara.subspla.sh/c2ph243
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Preaching in Perilous Times (feat. the AC Three)
Pastors Tim, Tuhina, and Jason sit down to talk about the act of preaching in perilous times, and how best to approach this sacred task in today's world. Every once in a while, it's helpful to ditc...
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Anam Cara Community @anamcaracommunity.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In this Advent season culminating in Jesus' birth, we primarily hear stories surrounding his death. Life is full of change, and in every change we witness the death of a part of ourselves (however small, however hoped-for). Life, then, is full of death. We must hold both together.
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