Gravity Commons Podcast
Gravity Commons
Conversations to help us develop a Christian spirituality rooted in love that fosters resilient faith in everyday life
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Nov 1, 2020 • 52min
A Pastor’s Struggle With Whether to Vote and Who to Vote For
Okay we jammed one more episode into our Being Christian in America series! This conversation with Justin Wallace, a Gravity coach and pastor in North Carolina, was originally only going to go out to our Patreon supporters, but it fit really well into our current series, so here it is. Justin and Matt have […]
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Oct 29, 2020 • 42min
A Swedish Evangelical’s Perspective on American Evangelicalism
In this bonus episode of our series Being a Christian in America, we talk with Joel Halldorf, a Swedish evangelical, who gives us some outside/inside perspective on American evangelicalism. Joel Halldorf is currently an associate professor of church history at Uppsala University. He works as a senior lecturer at the Stockholm University of Theology, and […]
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Oct 27, 2020 • 44min
Justin Giboney on Maintaining Compassion AND Conviction in Political Engagement
Attorney and political strategist Justin Giboney joins us for a conversation in our series on Being a Christian in America, on how faithful political engagement for followers of Jesus must be filled with both compassion AND conviction. Justin Giboney is the Co-Founder and President of the And Campaign, which is a coalition of urban Christians […]
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Oct 20, 2020 • 46min
The Sermon on the Mount as Jesus’s Political Manifesto
Our series on Being a Christian in America continues with a discussion about how the church that Ben Sternke and Matt Tebbe co-pastor (The Table in Indianapolis) is speaking about our current cultural moment: by preaching through the Sermon on the Mount, not as pie-in-the-sky idealism or private moral instruction, but as Jesus’ political manifesto. […]
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Oct 13, 2020 • 50min
Lee Camp on How the Politics of Jesus Disrupt Partisan America
Professor and author Lee Camp helps us continue our series on Being a Christian in the USA with a generous and honest discussion around the themes of his new book Scandalous Witness: A Little Political Manfiesto For Christians. Lee talks about the ditches Christians fall into when trying to live out their faith in public: […]
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Oct 6, 2020 • 59min
David Swanson on Rediscipling the White Church
Our series on Being a Christian in the USA continues with an invigorating conversation with pastor and author David Swanson about how many white Christians across America, when waking up to the deep-rooted racial injustice in our society, insinctively scramble to add diversity to our churches. But David argues that before white churches can pursue […]
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Sep 29, 2020 • 59min
Alan Noble on Speaking Disruptive Truth to Distracted People
Our series on Being a Christian in the USA continues! We talk with author and professor Alan Noble about the difficulties of speaking truthfully and graciously in a “secular age” where ultimate things are so easily pigeon-holed as consumer preferences. This is the topic of his book Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age. […]
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Sep 25, 2020 • 52min
Jared Byas: Why We Don’t Have to Choose Between Truth and Love
Why does “speaking the truth in love” so seldom lead to the life Jesus modeled for us? Biblical scholar and popular podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, Jared Byas talks with us about a vision for the Christian life that’s built not on having all the answers, but on the risk of love […]
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Sep 22, 2020 • 47min
D.L. Mayfield on How Christianity Challenges the American Dream
In this installment of our Being a Christian in the USA series, we talk with D.L. Mayfield about the ways we have conflated the values of God’s kingdom with the values of America, and how Christianity actually challenges much of the “American Dream.” This is the topic of her book The Myth of the American […]
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Sep 15, 2020 • 54min
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on Reclaiming a Public Christian Faith
In this installment of our Being a Christian in the USA series, we talk with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove about reclaiming a Christian faith that is public and political, without being subject to the partisan ideologies of the American political binary, which is the subject of his most recent book Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for […]
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