Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director of four low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as “pretty terrible.” He is also an acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction and an artist with a loyal following of international collectors who own many of his paintings. Frank has been a frequent guest on the Rachel ..read more

This is David’s unscheduled talk with Barb Parmet, a “Recoverd Zionist” whom we hosted 3 months ago, but so much has happened since. Barb says, Before October 7th, Jewish Voice For Peace had spent a year reorganizing chapters throughout the country and talking to our community organizers and members, surveying what had been working and what had not been working and coming up with a new internal structure on how to organize. JVP was much smaller then and so a small conference of chapter leaders was planned up in Monterey at the Asilomar conference center. After October 7th, the membership ex ..read more

Christena Cleveland, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal which supports a more equitable world by nurturing skillful justice advocacy and the depth to act on it. An award-winning researcher and author, Christena is a Ford Foundation Fellow who has held faculty positions at several institutions of higher education — most recently at Duke University’s Divinity School, where she was the first African-American and first female director of the Duke Center for Reconciliation, and also led a resea ..read more

FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, DOUG PAGITT HAS BEEN LEADING THE CONVERSATION ON PROGRESSIVE FAITH AND POLITICS. Through creative, entrepreneurial and generative efforts, he works to enlist people to join in the hopes, dreams, and desires God has for a more beautiful world.  A proud, concerned and hopeful American, Doug Pagitt is a social activist. He is Co-founder and Executive Director of Vote Common Good, a national political non-profit dedicated to inspiring, energizing, and mobilizing people of faith to engage in civic life. He’s also the guy responsible, in a way, for this podcast. ABOUT ..read more

FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, DOUG PAGITT HAS BEEN LEADING THE CONVERSATION ON PROGRESSIVE FAITH AND POLITICS. Through creative, entrepreneurial and generative efforts, he works to enlist people to join in the hopes, dreams, and desires God has for a more beautiful world.  A proud, concerned and hopeful American, Doug Pagitt is a social activist. He is Co-founder and Executive Director of Vote Common Good, a national political non-profit dedicated to inspiring, energizing, and mobilizing people of faith to engage in civic life. He’s also the guy responsible, in a way, for this podcast. ABOUT ..read more

David Hayward, aka The Naked Pastor, is a pastor turned artist, engaging in painting, drawing, and contemplating the essence of true freedom and authenticity. For those intrigued by concepts such as deconstruction, spiritual exploration, freedom of thought, and the quest for one's genuine self, they are encouraged to join him on his journey of discovery. In clarification, his moniker, NakedPastor, may prompt curiosity, but it's not a literal representation. In other words, he’s not really naked. Rather, it symbolizes his commitment to uncovering and sharing the unfiltered truth, even when it e ..read more

Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA, the best way to introduce Kyle T. Mays is with a quote from the distinguished documentarian Raoul Peck, director of I Am Not Your Negro and Exterminate All the Brutes, who writes, "Only twenty years ago, Kyle Mays’s voice wouldn’t even have passed through academia’s and media’s gatekeepers. The fact that a voice like this can be heard today and tell his own story is unexpected great news for America . . . and it’s just the beginning.” Kyle T. Mays wrote "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United State ..read more

Celebrated Christian Children's author, Matthew Paul Turner, made waves in 2020 when he and his wife announced their divorce, and Matthew came out as gay. In this episode we talk about his journey and his faith. About Matthew: Matthew Paul Turner has made his mark as force in the Christian children’s book publishing world. With his unmatched gift for rhyme blended with deliberate messages of hope and empowerment, Matthew’s books When God Made You and When I Pray For You have become bedtime favorites for families across America. His latest anticipated release is I Am God’s Dream, which will deb ..read more

Kat Armas is a theologian and podcaster who loves to talk about her family’s migration from Cuba and her own experience as a Roman Catholic, then becoming dissatisfied and embracing the American evangelical experience, which eventually left her, if not empty, at least less than fulfilled and willing to take a second look at her religious roots. She wrote her story in a book she titled, “Abuelita Faith.” This book honors her faith in a more holistic way that can be especially helpful for people who are looking for more from their religious communities. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS: David Moore is a Univers ..read more

In this eye-opening episode, Kerry + David speak with the Rev. Rob Schenck, an American Evangelical clergyman who has ministered to elected and appointed officials in Washington, D.C. and serves as president of a non-profit organization named for Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He is the subject of the Emmy Award-winning 2016 Abigail Disney documentary, The Armor of Light. Schenck stated that he was part of a group that paid Norma McCorvey (also known as Jane Roe from the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision) to lie that she had changed her mind and become against abortion. In 2022, Schenck testif ..read more