THE UN-SILENT CHURCH
The church was established as a society of people representing the person, work and character of Jesus; his voice to the powerful and the powerless, his presence with insiders and outsiders, and his identity as the representation of God, the reconciler of all things, and the…
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Are Multi-Ethnic Churches dead? (opens the original)
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Is the multiethnic church still worth fighting for? If you ask Dr. Efrem Smith, he would say it’s needed now more than ever; but only if the church becomes honest about whose culture is being treated as “normal.” In this conversation, Efrem joins the Un-Silent Church Podcast to talk about why a diverse church that still centers whiteness isn’t enough, and why Black Christianity is a gift to the whole church rather than something Black pastors should suppress, as we all should seek to understand
Why Churches Can’t Replace SNAP (opens the original)
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Could churches replace SNAP if government food assistance disappeared? The 2025 reconciliation law changed SNAP eligibility, work requirements and state cost-sharing. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that its SNAP provisions will reduce federal spending by $187 billion relative to previous projections through 2034. In this episode of The Unsilent Church, we ask what Jesus’ command to care for “the least of these” requires from Christians, churches AND government. We discuss: - The real
The real problem with Lecrae idolizing John Piper (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Unsilent Church, we discuss Lecrae's recent video about his experience and what he called "idolatry" along his journey. A lot of people could frame Lecrae's video about John Piper as a deconstruction story; but in this episode we contend that the wall he hit was built by the theology handed to many in Christian hip-hop and young, black and reformed circles often felt more revisionist than reformed—especially in cases where it involved social issues. Drawing from an article
The God of Christian Nationalism is not Jesus (opens the original)
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Most people treat Christian nationalism as bad theology to argue against and defeat. Caleb reframes it as a tribal culture that authoritarianism exploits, and the key that most people are missing is that the god underneath it all is Mammon (i.e. Money). What we talk about in this episode is realization that the response is not competition, but mission.
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