My guest is Sunita Viswanath. She is a life-long organizer and activist, a founder of a nation-wide activist organization, and a Hindu. In New York City, you’ll always see Sunita in the demonstrations for immigration right’s, Black Lives Matter, & against climate change. And she is also a member of the Strategy Team for the […]

Love in a Dangerous Time

WE ARE ONE: Sunita Visnwanath [LDT107]

——————————————————– A month ago, I was in the San Francisco Bay Area for my sort-of-annual visit to the place where I lived for 37 years, to connect with lots of old friends. As usual, I attended the church where I had been a member for a long time before leaving for New York City, First […]

LDT106 - Nichola Torbette

—————————————————————————— All Rights for All, Without Boarders Last week, the Trump administration launched what they call a “deterrents” program, on the Mexican board, of separating children from their families as they process hopeful immigrants attempting to enter the United States. The entire world was shocked that this brutality was happening. Hundreds of angry denunciations came […]

ZERO TOLERANCE FOR RACIST CRUELTY!! – US Immigration System is Cruel and Immoral [LDT105]

  It’s still pretty early in the year and all over the country we’re seeing mayors and governors (and even the president) deliver very official “State of” speeches that take a look at the accomplishments of the past year and spell out what the major tasks of the new year will be. Here in New York […]

THE SPIRIT of THE CITY – New York Faith Leaders Offer a Different View the City’s Priorities [LDT104]

Have you ever felt that somehow you personally were responsible for repairing this crazy world we live it. That this world where kids are murdered in their school, where Nazis march around chanting hateful slogans, in this world where millions of refugees are refused help when they flee for their lives and the lives of […]

REPAIR THE WORLD? REALLY! – A Talk With Jewish Activist, Diane Steinman [LDT103]

I hope that everyone has listened, at least once, to last week’s program with historian and author, Dr. Nancy MacLean on her very important book, DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (episode 101). It’s a very scary book about the real world and I think it opens […]

WHY DOES A WHITE THEOLOGIAN HAVE TO COME TO AN AFRICAN COUNTRY TO TELL BLACK PEOPLE THAT GOD IS BLACK? – a talk with The Rev. Karyn Carlo, PhD, on her recent teaching stint in Liberia [LDT102]

—————————————————— As you Lovers certainly know, this podcast is focused on the apparent crumbling of what we have called for the last few hundred years, The Church. Congregations are shrinking, the influence of churches is ebbing, and churches are being shut down. The church that I’m a part of is going through that process now. […]

DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America – with historian Dr. Nancy MacLean [LDT101]

……. Russ talks with Tripp Fuller, host of Homebrewed Christianity, the podcast that started the whole progressive Christian podcast niche. His show is focused on real theology, and real theologians. What a way to celebrate the 100th episode of Love in a Dangerous Time? …….. Well, Lovers, we did it! This podcast has accomplished a […]

THE POD FATHER, Tripp Fuller, Helps Russ Celebrate Love in a Dangerous Time’s 100th Episode [LDT100]

Interfaith Work in New York, with The Rev. Dr. Chloe Bryer Hey, Lovers – This is Russ and I want to welcome you to Love in a Dangerous Time, where we look at The Church, and the profound changes it’s going through in these Dangerous Times. We’ve got a great program today, but first I […]

INTERFAITH IN THE CITY – with The Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer, executive director of The Interfaith Center of New York. [LDT099]

…………………………… (Music sections have been re-edited) In the past many years, almost every recording artist has sung Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. It’s an extremely poetic look at the mess the world that resolves at the end into an affirmation of hope in spite of it all: …. And even though it all went wrong I’ll stand […]

THAT’S HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN – Commemorating the Yahrzeit of Leonard Cohen with Dan Nadel & Shira Averbuch [LDT098]

This show was supposedto be released on October 23, but my computer has been completely out of commission for three days, and here I am, publishing this very important program (and it really is an important one) a week late on October 30. My apologies to all who have been waiting for it. I do […]

THEOLOGICAL DECLARATION ON CHRISTIAN FAITH and WHITE SUPREMACY – A talk with Rev. Trey Lyon & Writer/Activist, Lisa Sharon Harper [LDT097]

When a Christian truly feels that God want her to do something in particular, like become a minister, start a homeless shelter, become a tutor, paint a mural on the church playground wall, or read the Bible cover-to-cover, we say that we are “Called.” The idea is that we want to help God recreate the […]

TRUE CALLING – Kristen & Russ Look at this Christian Process and Kristen Has an Announcement [LDT096]

Our guests today are Rick Ufford-Chase, the author of Faithful Resistance: Gospel Visions for the Church in a Time of Empire (interviewed in episode 76 of  Love in a Dangerous Time) and Brian McLaren, most recently the author of The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World’s Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be […]

SAVE THE CHURCH? OR JOIN GOD IN SAVING THE WORLD? – A Conversation with Rick Ufford-Chase & Brian McLaren [LDT095] #Church2B

There’s a lot of church planting going on these days. And many of these plants are flourishing as alternative worshiping communities, made up of people who usually wouldn’t be caught dead in church. Kristen spoke with  the two leaders of this experiment. An unlikely partnership in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, where development-fueled gentrification is driving out […]

BUSHWICK ABBEY – Rev. Nell Archer & Rev. Vince Anderson about music, art, and gentrification in Brooklyn, NY [LDT094]

For the first time, Lovers, we have been invited onto another podcast. Our good friends, Charles Bretan and Chris Henson (the very Jew and Gentile who walked into that Bar …. Mitzvah) invited Kristin and me onto their podcast to have a rich and exploratory conversation about the biblical question: Is there a difference between […]

A Jew and A Gentile Walked Into a Bar …. Mitzvah – Co-hosts are special guests on our good friends’ podcast [LDT093]

A Conversation About Communities of Faith and How We Change The World

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