HeyJaredJesus After Christianity
What if the things Jesus was doing and saying before Christianity—before the creeds, the power structures, the purity codes—are the same things that provide a path out of this critical, chaotic moment we're in now - As Christianity collapses?
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Jesus After Christianity. - Episode 16 (opens the original)
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Episode 16: The Coming of the KingdomThe final episode of Block Four. Religious leaders had the answer to "when will the kingdom come" locked down for centuries: someday, so keep watching for signs. Jesus says something completely different — the kingdom isn't coming with signs to observe. It's already among you. It's not a future event. It's a present practice.Ben and Jo dig into the mustard seed parable, what it actually means for the kingdom to grow "from below" instead of descending from abo
Jesus After Christianity - Episode 15 (opens the original)
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The time is fulfilled" wasn't a prophecy. It was a threat. Jesus watched Rome claim eternal power, the temple claim divine permanence, and religious leaders preach patience — and he said all of it was collapsing, now. Not someday. Not when God finally decides to fix things. Now.Ben and Jo Collins get into why urgency itself was revolutionary — why naming a system's collapse is more dangerous than any theology — and what that means for us, living through our own version of that same crisis. Jo br
Jesus After Christianity - Episode 14 (opens the original)
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Episode 14: The Kingdom and PrestigeLast time Jesus went after wealth. This time he goes after status. Ben and Jo Collins dig into prestige, rank, and religious hierarchy — the whole system of who's above and who's below, who gets the good seat, who gets ignored.Jesus's answer is blunt: whoever wants to be first must be last of all, servant of all. Not humbler leadership. Not kinder hierarchy. No hierarchy. Ben and Jo talk through what that actually costs — Jo pushes back hard before coming arou
Jesus After Christianity - Episode 13 (opens the original)
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Episode 13: The Kingdom and MoneyJesus didn't ask for generous charity. He demanded redistribution. In this episode, Ben and Jo Collins dig into one of the most uncomfortable things Jesus ever said: you cannot serve God and wealth. Not "be generous." Not "give when you can." Give it away — all of it.They walk through the rich young ruler, the camel and the eye of the needle, and a line from the Gospel of the Hebrews that never made it into your Bible but hits just as hard. Along the way, Jo pull
Jesus After Christianity - Episode 12 (opens the original)
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Episode 12: Political DiscipleshipIf Jesus wasn't political — if his kingdom was just "spiritual" — why were all the charges at his trial political and economic? Ben and Jo close out this block by naming what's been true all along: economic sharing, solidarity with the oppressed, and resistance to domination aren't personal spiritual practices. They're political acts.This episode traces how "my kingdom is not of this world" got mistranslated into permission to stay safely uninvolved — when what
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